tender a Rent seck upon the Land The Grantee cannot demand it upon the Land in the absence of the tenant that it ought to be to the person upon the land For what can the tenant do more than he hath done already And the Statute of Westminster 2. cap. 9. gives ease to the Tenant When the Lord distreins immoderately and unnecessarily For an immoderate distress may be the ruine of a tenant And therefore the Statute says Nec habeat Capitalis dominus potestatem distringendi tenentes in dominico suo dum praedict Tenens offerat ei servitia debita consueta 30. Ass Fitzher N. B. 69. G. If Cattel be distreined damage feasant and tender of sufficient amends is made The Distreiner is liable to damages for the detinue although not for the distress And to the same purpose is Cook lib. 8. 140. Carpenters Case 5. rep 76. Pilkintons Case c. The second question is whether a Bayliff without command of the Lessor when he had refused to take the Rent upon a Lawfull tender may distrein And it seemed that he cannot And the second resolution in Pilkintons Case came to that question That a tender of amends to a Bayliff amounts to nothing And the question upon a Herriot is Whether the Lessor may distrein without declaring his election and it seemed that he cannot For that is no Heriot which may be seized As the Case in one Woodland and Mantles Case there it is certain And because the Law vests it in him immediatly after the death of the tenant But so it is arbitrable and cannot vest before Election and also the Tenant does not know which he ought to provide before and declares his election And it was demanded for that it is not reasonable that he shall be lyable to a distress and cannot by any possibility prevent it 2 Rep. 36. Sir Rowland Howards Case I cannot finde any president where an Avowry is made upon a disjunctive reservation without allegation that he had declared his Election Although that the Lessor in that Case may distrein without declaring his election yet the Bayliff cannot for he cannot justifie as Bayliff for an Arbitrable thing without express command Acceptance of Rent by a Bayliff cannot alter the Tenancy For although that he had power in Law to receive the Rent yet he cannot by Law alter the Tenency by his acceptance without the Lords Command Dyer 222. A Bayliff may demand Rent but cannot enter for non-payment without express command And when he avows he cannot avow any thing which doth not appertain to his office And for that that it is an arbitrable thing which cannot be transferred from the person of the Lessor his Heirs or Assigns that distress is well taken c. If a Writ of Error was brought in this Court and the day of the return is long to delay the party as if it be more than the next Term the Court may award Execution quod nota c. Gammons Case ONe was obliged in the Ecclesiastical Court not to accompany with such a woman unless to Church or a Market overt And afterwards he was summoned to the Ecclesiastical Court to say whether he had broken his Obligation or not And Ayliffe moved for a prohibition which was granted For that that the forfeiture is a temporal thing And it does not become them in the Ecclesiastical Court to draw a man in examination for breaking of Obligations or for offences against Statutes Dame Chichley against Bishop of Ely DAme Dorothy Chichley brought a Quare impedit against the Bishop of Ely and Marmaduke Thomson And declared that Thomas Chichley was seized of the Advowson of the Church of Whiple in Cambridgeshire And presented Marshall and died seized and the Advowson descended to Thomas his son who by Indenture granted it to East and Angel and to their use and the use of the Plaintiff for life And he being seized of the Church it became void c. But Thompson pleads that he is Parson imparsonee ex praesentatione of the King And confessed that he was seized as aforesaid but that he was seized also of other Lands in Capite and dyed and that his son Thomas was and now is within age which is found by Office And so the King by his Letters Patents after avoydance presents Thompson who was instituted and inducted Absque hoc that Thomas Chichley granted by his Indenture to the use of his wife c. And the Plaintiff replies null teil record Vpon which the Defendant demurs Atthowe for the Defendant Although the Plaintiff may have a Writ to the Bishop when his Title is traversed And admit there be no Inquisition Yet the King may present before Office found 20 E. 4. 11. An Advowson being void is not but a Chattel and for that it is vested in the King without any Office And you may see many Cases to that purpose Richardson said If it be not by the Statute 32 H 8. The King may grant Wardship of Land before Office Atthowe Also there is Traverse upon Traverse which should not be Hendon argued for the Plaintiff And he says he is Parsona imparsonata and does not say before the purchase of the Writ For the Incumbent by the Statute of 25 E 3. cap. 7. cannot plead unless he be Incumbent ante diem impetratitrationis brevis unlesse he be Incumbent pendente lite he cannot plead c. Hutton If one be presented instituted and admitted before the Writ and inducted after and before his Pleader He may plead well And it was resolved by the whole Court That the pleading of the Parson was good without the words Ante diem impetrationis brevis And that all the Presidents are according to that But more afterwards c. Alice Readngs Case ALice Reading brought an Action upon the Case against I.S. And de-declared whereas she was a Maiden and had many Suitors the said I. S. said That Alice Reading was with childe and did take Physick to kill the Child Vpon which words divers men refused her And upon not guilty pleaded it was found for the Plaintiff Finch Recorder moved that those words were not actionable For that that it is not said precisely that she took Physick to kill the childe and that the Physick might have such an operation without her desire or purpose and also there is not any Suitor in special named And as it is in Anne Davyes Case 4 Rep. 16. 6. where it ought to be proved precisely to the Iury that such a one was Suitor and refused her But here there was no such proof And he alleged in the Case of Sell which was adjudged Where one declares that he endeavoured to mary a Woman and that she refused him upon slanderous words And it was adjudged against him For that that a Conatus is not sufficient but yet Iudgement was given for the Plaintiff without any reason alleged Cook lib. 4. 16. 6. The Lady Cockins Case The Case of a Recusant
from the Bishop to be confirmed They cannot but walk in the steps of the Bishop And a day was given to shew why a Prohibition should not be granted And so it was ruled Feakes against ONe was sued in the Councel of Marches upon a Bond of 500 l. to pay 40 marks per annum And he alleged that he did not intend to take the forfeiture of the Bond but to compell him to pay the 40 Marks per annum And a Prohibition was granted to the Court at the motion of Hoskins For that their instructions were not to hold Plea but for c. And if this should be permitted it is but a window to draw more within their Iurisdiction and also the King would lose his Fines But he ought to have an Action of Debt Harvy If an Obligation was to perform an Annuity of such a sum by another Deed. The party may bring his Action upon the Obligation or Annuity And Yelverton said If it were to perform a Collateral thing or if the Condition was all one with the Obligation they cannot sue for the performance there Quod nota Intra Mich. 3 Car. rot Banc. 633. Watson against Vanderlash VVAtson brought an Action upon the Case against Vanderlash for scandalous words and declares that whereas he was skillfull in the art of Chirurgery and that he made much gain of that Art of the Kings Subjects that now is c. Et colloquio tunc ibidem habito de peritia sua in arte Chirurg c. et de quodam Matthews nuper ante sub cura ejus who is now dead He spake these words Thou didst kill Mr. Matthews thou didst kill him And upon not guilty pleaded it was found for the Plaintiff and an hundred pound dammages given And now this was urged in arrest of Iudgement by Crew That he does not allege that he was a Chirurgean at the time of the words spoken So that his allegation to be a Chirurgean does not include the time c. that he spoke those words And then his profession is not discredited Secondly he does not allege thac he died under his cure but that he is dead For if those had been alleged it would have been more questionable And for that the words are not Actionable Now a man may kill a man divers wayes and justifie it As a Minister of Iustice 14 Eliz. in the Kings Bench Yates and Bostocks Case Thou wast the cause that I. S. did hang himself and that I. N. did cut his own throat And adjudged that they are not Actionable for he might have committed an Offence and because the other prosecuted him he might cut his own throat or hang himself and so this man might be under his cure and he doe his best endeavour to save him but yet he might dye And the Court does never extend words further than the Law directs them Coo. 4. 15. Stawloeps Case and Hexts Case fol. 20. Barhams Case The Court there does not supply that which the words doe not directly imply And here in this Case where the words may have a qualification they shall be taken in mitiori sensu Henden The word kill generally will bear an Action because that it shall be intended to be felonionsly as in the Lady Cockains Case Although it was not Felony in facto But here the words so spoken and particularly applyed they will not bear an Action They had a discourse of his skill in Surgery and of one Matthew who was sick of a dangerous disease Then that cannot to be intended it was Felony objecting the fayler of skill will not bear an Action As if I should say of a Lawyer He hath lost his Clients Cause And as it may be taken in mitiori sensu it cannot be strained to Perjury And so here there can never be intended a voluntary killing But Bramston and Finch on the other side That although there are not these words Tunc existenti Chirurgeon yet there are other words which supply them for it is That when Matthews was under his cure he was a Chirurgeon c. And the words are actionable without other reason for that he impeaches his credit and implies misbehaviour in his Art Hutton For the Exceptions we ought to intend that he continued a Surgeon and that his skill continued And also it is supplyed Then being speech of his skill c. Which proves that then he was a Sureon And Then ought to be intended that he is a Chirurgeon for it is not to be supposed that he laid aside his profession in the mean time And for the words if he had said For lack of skill of Chirurgery c. thou didst kill him will bear an Action for that is a slander to his profession And if one had said Goe not to such a one for he hath no skill in Chirurgery if he be a Chirurgeon if is actionable Or if of a Lawyer Goe not to such a one c. for he will deceive you And the Question will be whether it ought to be intended that he killed him for want of skill If one sayes Such a one was found dead and you killed him there it should be intended murderously And for the Case put by Crew I agree that a man may be a cause that another hangs himself by imagination But if one sayes You did kill such a one as hanged himself or cut his own throat that will bear an Action And so it ought to be intended also that when he sayes of a Chirurgeon c. That it was for want of skill Goe not to such an Inne the Plague hath been lately there These words are actionable for it drives away Guests Then these words were spoken to hinder him in his profession and benefit And because that he dyed under his hands it ought to be necessarily intended that it was for want of skill Harvey of the same Opinion Also there is sufficient matter to prove that he was a Chirurgeon at the time of the speaking the words c. When he came to the words it is saie that there was a speech between them c. and the speech was of his skill and of Matthews death If he had said Thou hast killed I. S. or murthered I. S. whereas he is living that will not bear an Action And so also it was that he dyed of his disease it must be by consequence that he did not kill him But it is said that he dyed that may be by killing And for that the word kill without doubt will bear an Action for if it be not murther it may be Man-slaughter And so it shall be intended if you cannot make a Iustification as a Minister of Iustice or se defendendo And then when he sayes that he killed him it shall be meant for want of skill which is actionable I. S. hath no more Law than a Horse If he had resembled him to any thing but a Beast it would not maintain an action But if he
three things were moved in arrest of Iudgement which Serjeant Barkely answered There was a covenant to enter into an obligation at Michaelmas and the Plaintiff shews that he entred before So he does not perform the consideration which he conceived to be a good performance For if a man be bound to doe an act or pay money at Michaelmas a payment before is good H. 7. 17. 2. pasc It is shewn that an action of Covenant was brought after And they say that upon his shewing covenant does not lie but debt but he said that the Plaintiff had his election here to have debt or covenant As in the Lord Cromwels case the words covenanted provided and agreed give advantage of a condition or covenant If a covenant had been sor 30 l. then debt only lyes But here it is to perform an agreement Thirdly that it appears within the declaration that the action of the case was 6 years before the action brought And so by the Statute of 21. Jac. the action does not lye I agree if the cause was 6 years before yet the breach was within the 6 years and that is the cause of action 6. rep 43. In a covenant there is the deed and the breach of the covenant and that is the cause of the action And therefore being matter in Deed an accord with satisfaction is a good plea to it 13. E. 4. Attaint is grounded upon matter of record but the false oath is the cause of it For that there also accord is a good plea So in our case the non performance by default was not at the time limitted which was before the 6 years but no action was brought against the Plaintiff untill within the six years And then he is not damnifyed untill within the six years 5 Rep. 24. Richardson For the two first exceptions he agreed with Barkley as to the third he said that there can be no action before the breach of the promise or covenant But the breach here is before the six years for the non performance of the agreement is a breach and a breach is a damnificationn In one Boughtons case the non payment is a damnification But all the question here was whether that ought to be pleaded but I conceive that it need not for by the Statute-law the action is taken away And it being a general law the court ought ex officio to taken notice of it For in that after verdict if it appears that there is no cause of action although the verdict be found for the Plaintiff he shall never have Iudgement And upon the matter that latches in time amounts to a release in law the proviso cannot ayd you For every man shall be intended without those disabilities for that that he would shew that he would have advantage of it And Crook of the same opinion for the reasons given before and said that although the Statute took away the Common law yet it is good law and done for the ease of the subject and for that shall be favoured as the Statute of limitations in all cases But he said the non performance was not a damnification before the action brought As if I be bound as for surety for A. who is bound to save me harmlesse Although he does not pay it at the day There is not a breach before the arrest or Iudgement For by the Iudgement the lands and goods are liable But for the arrest his body is troubled for that now the Scriveners put in such obligations that they save harmlesse the party and pay the money at the day But for the other matters in all he agreed and cited Richardson and Burroughs Case Where a payment before the day was adjudged a payment at the day Yelverton That is not found that there is any sufficient notice given to the Defendant by the Plaintiff of the agreement made which he ought to have And he agréed in omnibus with Richardson and said that Scriveners use things ex abundanti Richardson It is said habuit notitiam in the Declaration but does not say by whom Yet after verdict it shall be intended a good notice And although that Nichols had given the notice it is sufficient If there be a Lease for years upon condition that he doe not assign the other accepts the rent of the Afsignee before notice He shall not be bound by that acceptance before notice But if notice may be proved either by the Plaintiff or by any although it be by a meer stranger It is sufficient Yelverton denied that for he said That none but privies can give the notice of it as the case is Et adjournatur Denne and Sparks Case before RIchardson If a will be of lands and goods and that was the occasion of this will the revocation is only tryable at the Common Law But when the will is of goods only the occasion of it shall be tryed only in the Spiritual Court For it is incident to the probate of the will quod fuit concessum And he said that in the case before if the will be not revoked the devise is good at the time and the administration shall be granted as of his goods for the Law will not change the property of the residue after debts and legacies paid Crooke The case here is that the Testator makes his will of his lands and goods and devises the residue of his goods ut supra to his wise his Executrix who dies before probate Denne sues to be administrator as the goods of the first Testator and alleges revocation which because that his Proctor did not goe and swear that in fide Magistri sentence was given against him Vpon that he appeals in which there was the same Obligation and affirmed by the Oath of his Proctor Yet sentence was given against him And a prohibition ought to be granted for three reasons First For that the Will is of Lands and Goods and the occasion of that tryable here Secondly they offer injustice in giving the allegation Thirdly The Wife here dying before the probate the administration ought to be granted as of the goods of the Testator and not as of the wife And also they here would inforce Denne if he had the administration to take it cum testamento annex Which shall be an admittance by him that there was not any revocation Richardson for the first reason he agréed that the revocation shall be tryed by the common law But the goods here are only in question and all the usage and practice is that a prohibition shall be granted with a quoad the lands For the second That they will not allow the allegation If they will not pursue their rules and order of Iustice That is not a cause of a Prohibition but appeal for the third It is fit that there shall be an election if debts and Legacies are owing But it doth not appear here that there are any debts or Legacies to be paid but after Harvey agréed with Crook
and Yelverton And a prohibition was granted Holmes against Chime before PResidents were shewn that such actions were brought scil Hill 3. Car. Elwin against Atkins and Hill 1. Car. Cophin against Cophin both in this Court. And Richardson said although the book makes a doubt of it yet his opinion was that the action would lie For it would be a miserable thing that all things should be shewed precisely And so Iudgement was given for the Plaintiff Port against Yates IN a replevin the case was The Defendant was known as Bayliff to Thomas Kett and the land was Copyhold land And 10 Maii. 3 Car. When it was granted by the Lord of the Mannor to the wife of Thomas Kett. The Plaintiff confesses that the Land is Copyhold land but that the Lord granted 1 Iacob to Robert Salter in Fée who had two daughters the wife of the Plaintiff and the wife of Thomas Kett and dyed seised and that the land descended to them upon which they demurred Berkely The first grant shews that the Defendant was in of all and the descent to the wife but for the moyety whereupon the grant of the whole is not traversed nor confessed and avoided And he cited Dyer 171. Pl. 8. to be the same case in effect and so ruled But Hutton Harvey and Crooke held what difference there was betwéen this case and the case in question Hutton the descent here which is pleaded makes the second grant void But by Richardson although that it be avoided Yet it is not confessed And afterwards for that that upon the whole truth of the matter disclosed It appears that a Copartener cannot distrein the lands of another damage feasant and the matter of form in pleading ought not to be regarded by the Iudges upon the Statute of 21 Eliz. cap. 5. Iudgement was given for the Plaintiff Cockett against Delayhay COcket brought an action upon the case in Bristow against Delahay for these words Cockett hath forged a deed and because of that came out of his own Country And the Defendant justifies that he did forge a Déed in Middlesex of lands in Hartfordshire without that that he spoke in Bristowe Richardson said that that plea was naught either with traverse or without the Traverse Whereupon Henden altered his plea scil That he forged a déed of those lands at South Mimms in Middlesex where the lands lie By vertue of which he justified the words at Bristowe Richardson It is a good plea for now the other can plead nothing but de injuria sua propria And then the tryal shall be in Middlesex And by Crooke if there be a Demurrer there shall be a writ of inquiry of damages issue to Bristowe Issue IF the issue be not made up it may be tryed by Proviso But if the Plaintiff neglect that there may be called a non-sute upon the roll for there it shall be discontinued quod nota Page against Tayler PAge brought an Action against Tayler as Receiver c. which was found against him c. And Iudgement was given that he accounted and before the Auditors he pleaded that before the Action brought there was an arbirement that he should pay to the Plaintiff 11 l. in satisfaction of all accounts and demands which he had performed And it was ruled by the whole Court that that was not a good plea in discharge before Auditors but a plea in bar of the account And by Crooke an accord with satisfaction may be pleaded in Bar not in discharge Which the Court seemed to agree And by Crooke If the Defendant had any other matter to shew on the Declaration before Auditors it might be shewn c. Richardson Although that the Arbitrament was made after the action brought it cannot now be pleaded but he ought to have his Andita querela Manninghams case In Manninghams case The doubt was this A condition of an obligation made to Manningham was that he should pay after his death to his Executors after his death 10 l. per annum to the use of the Children of Manningham And Manningham dyed and there was no Executor whether the payment should be to the Administrator and so the obligation forfeited Berkly said that it ought to be payed to the Administrator for an Executor includes an Administrator And this money is as assets if not to satisfie debts yet to perform this case which is illsgal 5 H. 7. 12. 26 H. 8. 7. And also if a man limit a thing to be done to his Executors that may be done to his Administrators So that the nominating of the Executor is not but an expresse intention to whom the money shall be paid viz. to him who presents his person And he compares that to the case of 46. E. 3. 18. A rent upon a condition reserved to the Executors goes to the Administrators 15 E. 4. 14. Dy. 309. Cranmers case Where it seemed that if a lease be made to one for life and after to his Executors for years that the Executors shall not have the term as assets 32. E. 3. A quid juris clamat Fitzharb A Lease for life to his Executors for years in remainder Lessee for life atturns saving the term which proves that the Executor had that as privy not as strangers And he cited Chapmans and Daltons case the principall So that the Infant and the Executors shall have the money in right of the testator and therefore it goes to the Administrator Secondly The Executor extends to an administrator 8. rep 135. there kindes of Executors and an Administrator is an Excecutor datinus 3 H. 6. An action is brought against divers executors by the Statute when some appears upon the distresse it answers that extends to an Administrator although the Statute names only Executors Thirdly It does not appear here that Manningham made not Executors for it may be that he made Executors and that they dyed intestate or before probate And he cited 18. H. 8. And Shelleyes case 1. rep and 33. Eliz. If Executors dye before probate It is in Law a dying intestate Richardson Here is but meer trust and as it hath been said It doth not appear whether he had made Executors or not For if he dye and makes Executors and they dye before probate or refuse he dyes ab intestato but not intestate Nor shall it be questioned if the obligation had been to pay to Manningham only or to him and his Executors But it goes to the administrators But because that he had specially put his Executor Whether he ought to have the forfeiture of the obligation or whether he ought to have the sum to be annually payed to the Administrator Berkley the letters of administration make mention that he dyed ab intestaro Atthow That is matter de hors but by the declaration it is clear that he dyed intestate And the action brought by Administrator who who had not any cause of action Secondly admitt that there was an Executor and the money payed to him that
And at length it was adjudged that the Declaration was good Harding against Turpin IT was agréed by Hutton If a Copyholder makes a lease for years to commence at Michaelmas it is a forfeiture presently None gainsaid it Hutchinson against Chester AN action upon the case was brought against Chester And declares how the Plaintiff was in doing of certain businesse for the Defendant The Defendant said to him Do it and I 'll repay you whatsoever you lay out And shews that he had expended 4 l. and does not shew in certain and particular circa quid And for that cause it was held naught Read against Eaglefield IN debt by Read against Eaglefield and others who were Sheriffs of Bristowe The case being that they being Sheriffs took the Plaintiff by a Capias ad satisfaciend and detained him in prison untill the party Defendant and now Plaintiff paid the money to the Sheriff It was held that that was contrary to his warranty which is ita quod habeat denarios hic in curia And for that he did not so he is chargeable to him that was in Execution Stone against Walsingham STone libels against Walsingham in the spiritual Court and he pleads an agréement that for five years he ought not to set forth his tithes but to pay for them 6 s. 8 d. upon which matter a prohibition was granted Richardson you ought not to have a prohibition A lease for tithes ought to be by deed but by way of contract it is good for a year only without deed Vpon the Book M. 26 H. 6. But for 4 or 5 years by parol Such an agreement is not good Richardson May a Parson bargain and sell his tithes happening 4 years after by parols Yelverton It had been so adjudged in many Cases in the Kings Bench and the difference is where it is by way of demise and where by discharge Hutton The reason why it is good for years is for that that the contract moves severally But by way of deuise between Parson and Parishioner it is not good And Weston and Biggs case where it was resolved If there was an agréement made between Parson and Parishioner for discharge for tithes for years it was good without deed otherwise if it be for life Davenport not Richardson Then for more than a year that contract is void And you cannot bargain and sell the profits of beasts which a man hath not in his possession now but for those which he hath in his possession he may sell any profits Quod concessum Intr. 4 Car. rot 670 or 870. Litman against West LItman brought an action upon the case against West for words And he declared he being an Attourney c. and colloquio habito between them concerning his office The Defendant spoke these words He is a Cozener and hath cozened me of 20 s. And Serjeant Henden objected that the words were not actionable For that that they are too general And although they had Communication of his Office As Attorny Yet when the words were general and might be applyed as well to other things as such as touch his place yet for that c. As if one says of an Attorney Thou art a Common Barrettor Is not actionable And it was adjudged where one said to a Wheeleright Thou art a Cousener and hast cousened me of a pair of Wheeles Is not actionable And Sir Wil. Fleetwoods Case One said of him He is a Cousener and hath consened me in entring the Kings Accounts So here he might cousen him of 20 s. twenty ways and not as Attorny Richardson said the words were actionable Some words spoken of some men would bear an Action although the same words spoken of another would not As the Case of an Attorny especially as the Case is laid here And he had spoken of him as an Attorny Then it ought to be taken that he was a Cousener in his profession If one said of an Attorny Thou art a Cousener and hast delivered cousening Bills c. If it had been laid here that he had been an Attorny for the Defendant It would be actionable And this Case is more strong than Birchleys Case in Coo. lib. 4. One said of Chomely Recorder of London That he could not hear but of one side of his head And that was adjudged actionable And that being spoken of an Attorney there it would bear an Action One said in the North Country That one was a Daffidowndilly and adjudged actionable Because that the word there used expresses an Ambidexter being a flower of party colour Hutton said That the action would lye In one Gardleys Case who was an Attorny One said of him he was his Attorny and he had cousened him So of a Goldsmith Thou hast consened me and sold me a Saphire for a Diamond These words are not actionable because that the Goldsmith himself might be deceived in the stone And here these words spoken of an Attorny cannot be otherwise but to disgrace him in his profession An action in the Kings Bench. Thou art a cousening Knave Coroner and adjudged actionable One said of a Lawyer He hath no more Law than an Horse an action lies for both are applyed to his profession Yelverton agreed that the Iury had found that the words were spoken of him as Attorny For they have found the words in the Kings Bench. The Case was An Inne-keeper and an other were in communication and he said to him No man comes to thy House but thou cousenest him And adjudged actionable And so Iudgement was given for the Plaintiff Middleton against Sir Iohn Shelly MIddleton recovers in Debt against Sir Iohn Shelly and had Execution And afterwards Sir Iohn purchases the Land of the Plaintiff And long after the Execution was sued by Elegit and that land extended But before Livery by any the Plaintiff dies Yet the Sheriff returns that he delivered the Land Hutton We will not credit that he is dead But you bring a Writ of error Yelverton agreed The return of the Sheriff Richardson the return of the Sheriff does not prejudice a third person although it concludes the parties And if the Execution was made if the party brings an Ejectione firm Whatsoever the Sheriff returnes his proceedings ought to be proved legal See if the Sheriff deliver possession where the partie is dead if any thing lies It was urged to have a writ of restitution But where the Sheriff gives possession contrary to the rule of the Court. Coventries case IN Coventries case before Ashley brought a Copy of the sentence given in the high commission Court which was that the parties shall be excommunicated and be fined 30 l. and imprisoned Whereupon he prayed a prohibition Richardson If they had gone but to excommunication they had been well Yelverton Iustice they have power by fine and imprisonment in some cases but here where the party grieved may be fined at Common law not For if the party be fined in the high Commission and be
afterwards at another time he spoke these words of him That he was a Common Barrettor and a Villain and he would make him lose his practice And upon not guilty pleaded it was found that the Defendant spoke thâ—se words Thou art a Common Barrettor and a Judas and a Promoter But not the other words And 50 l. dammages was given to the Plaintiff Vpon which Ayliff moved in arrest of Iudgement because the words were too general And if they had béen spoken of another person they would not lye Hil. 30 Jac. Hawk against Moulton I will not leave thee any thing thou art a common Barrettor And there was demurrer joyned upon the Declaration but no Iudgement The words are here found without relation to his profession But if the last words had béen found it would have been questionable Mich. 41 Eliz. Hather an Attorney brought an action for these words Thou art a Flagging Jack and a Cousener and wouldst have cousened me And adjudged not actionable Because it does not appear that they were spoken with relation to his profession But Hitcham Barkley and Heidley of the other side And that the words were actionable being spoken of an Attorney scil to say he is a Common Barrettor For although there is a doubt if it be spoken of a Common person Yet these are scandalous to an Attorney for no man now will retain him in his Business If one had said of an Attorney That he is a Common stirrer up of Sutes and a disturber of the peace and so a mover of unjust actions without doubt it had been actionable And a common Barrettor comprehend aâ—l that Hil. 8. It was doubtfull whether a Thief were actionable without alleging when and what he had stoln But it was adjudged actionable For Thief intimates that he had done all that which might make him a Thief And so Banckrupt to a Merchant A Common Barrettor in 8 Coment is said to be a Common mover of strifes and there it is said that he ought to be fined and imprisoned if he be convicted Westminster 2. cap. 32. There it is ordained that a Sheriff shall not permit a Barrettor to remain in the County much less this Court will not permit him to be an Attorney For it is that an Attorney ought to be discréet and of honest behaviour 4 H. 4. cap. 18. 3 Jac. cap. 7. They ought to be men of sufficiency and honest disposition These words touch him in his honesty and disposition An Attorney ought to be a man of good conscience 20 E. 4. 9. There it is said that if a Clyent will put in a Plea which the Attorney thinks in his Conscience is not true He may plead non sum informatus and disceit does not lye against him then if the words should be true he touches him in his profession and he might never more be an Attorney In Birchleys Case 4 Rep. You are a corrupt man These are smaller words and more general yet actionable Yet such words make a man to mistrust him and trust next skil is most requisite in an Attorney 14 Jac. Com. Banc. Rot. 1753. Small an Attorney against Moon He is a forgeing Knave adjudged actionable yet to a common person they shall not be accomptable and the case before Distrey an Attorney brought an action against Dorrel in the Common Bench for these words Take heed of him for he is the falsest Knave in England and he will cut your Throat And judged actionable and that the words shall be understood false as an Attorney And a Common Barrettor is more infamous than any of these And the word Judas here ought to be accepted according to the usual understanding of it scil for a betrayer And what can be more scandalous to an Attorney than to be a Betrayor of his Clyents For which he prayed Iudgement for the Plaintiff Richardson said It is doubtfull whether the words will bear an action Barrettor is a notorious offender and if he be to be convicted he is to be fined and bound to his good behaviour And it is hard to make a definition of a Common Barrettor but a description may be made that he is a mover of Sutes and contentious in dispositions and practice But whether the words shall have relation to him as Attorney is the Question Birchleys Case A corrupt man This directly relates to his practice so of Cousener But such a thing which ought not to be applyed to him as Attorney is not actionable Common Brabler Swaggerer Breaker of the Peace which Barrettor comprehends being spoken of an Attorney are not actionable For they do not refer to him as Attorney And the Statute cited before of Westminster 2. It is to be intended if he be found to be a Barrettor And then he should be put out of the Court. And here if there had been a communciation of him as an Attorney then it would be actionable But it ought to be laid habens Collequium of him as Attorney For then of necessity it ought to be understood of his Office And so also the words Trust him not he will cut your Throat ought to be understood of him as Attorney he will cut the throat of your Cause Hutton and Harvey on the contrary And said the words here are as well applicable to his profession as if it had béen found that there was a Colloquium of him as Attorney For it is laid that he was an Attorney and that he lived by that profession and that the Defendant maliciously to hinder him in this profession spoke these words It hath been said what a Common Barrettor is and his punishment is appointed by 24 E. 3. Littleton also mentions speaking of Feoffments made to Barrettors scil Quarrellors then being spoken of an Attorney none but quarrelsome men will go to quarrelsome Attorneys For although he deals in Sutes yet his carriage and practice ought to be fair and peaceable And without Question if it be said Thou art a cousening Attorney an Action lies But by Harvey perhaps Cousening generally will not And if of a common person it be said He is convicted of common barretry It will bear an Action And by Hutton to say of an Attorney he is a Recusant convicted it will bear an Action If it be said of a Iudge that he is a Common Barrettor an action lies And if it be actionable for speaking so of a Iudge it is so of an Attorney For he is in an inferiour ranck a Minister of Iustice and he ought to be chosen of the most honest discreet and religious men and these words if true make him incapable of being Attorney here As in Smalls Case before it was held To say of a Bishop he is a Papist will bear an Action For then he cannot hold his Bishoprick If one said of a Merchant he is a poor man is not actionable But if he said he is worth nothing had been questionable Because that it tantamounts to a Banckrupt And by
all his Interest which he had before usurpation During the life of the Incumbent and non-age of the Infant the Vsurper had an Estate in fee. But after the death of the Incumbent and full age of the Infant the Estate of the Vsurper ceased And the reason is upon the Statute of Westm 2. Infans habeat candem possessoriam actionem qualiter antecessor And 33 H. 6. 42 is that an Vsurper puts an Infant out of possession Infans habeat eandem actionem possessoriam qualiter antecessor But that ought to be understood during the Infancy only Et adjournatur Rawlins's Case HE was Plaintiff in a Replevin and was non-suted after Evidence given to the Iury and the Iurors did not find Costs and Dammages And afterwards a Writ of Enquiry of dammages was granted And Ashley moved that the writ might not be filed Because that the Writ of Inquiry of dammages could not issue but awarded from the Court And the Plaintiff here being non suted was out of the Court and that nothing might be done against him And the Prothonotaries said That in Case of a Verdict where the Iurors omit to find dammages a Writ of Enquiry is many times granted Writ of Enquiry may be granted after a verdict when Jury omit the dammages But they were commanded to search for Presidents in Case of a non-sute Richardson cited one Grimstons Case in the Kings Bench. Which was one Plaintiff in Action upon the Case against an Inne-holder was non suted and the Declaration was insufficient And for that the Plaintiff might not have costs But by Henden It is ordinary now in the Kings Bench If the Defendant had a Verdict although the Declaration be insufficient Yet he shall have Costs Nurse a gainst Pounford NUrse a Barrester of Grays-Inne brought an Action upon the Case against Pounford And declares that he is a Counsellor and was of Councel with several Noble men and that he was Steward to the Lord Barkley of 20 Mannors and also the receiver of his Rents for those Mannors And that the Defendant maliciously intending to disgrace him to the Lord Barkley writ an infamous Letter against him to the Lord Barkley Which Letter was here recited and it was to this effect briefly ut sequitur scil Your wonted Courtesie to Strangers incourageth me to desire your Honor not to protect your Steward in his unlawfull Sutes He hath unjustly vexed his own Brother by Sutes and caused him to be arrested and taken out of his Bed forcibly by Catchpoles He hath likewise almost undone me who have maried his own Sister notwithstanding his entertainment at my House for himself Wife Servants and Horses for several years And now instead of payment thinks to weary me out with Vexations and Sutes at Law I hope your Lordship will give no countenance to him in these things By reason of which Letter the Lord Barkley turned him out of his Office The Defendant pleads not guilty which was found for the Plaintiff And it was moved in arrest of Iudgement that the Action here would not lye Atthowe said that the Action would lye well by reason of the particular loss the Plaintiff had And that is proved by Anne Davies Case Coo. 4. Such words that there are spoken of a maried woman are not actionable But of a Feme sole who had a Suter the Action will lye If one said of a Feme sole That she is a Whore and such a mans Whore It will not bear an Action in our Law But in the Spiritual Court it will And perhaps for Whore generally there And in the Case of Anne Mayes there was a loss of preferment which she might have But here the Plaintiff lost the preferment which he had If a man said to the Ordinary of a Clark presented to him that he is a Bastard seditious or heretique by reason of which words the Ordinary refuses him An Action lies for the Clark for the temporal losse and he cited Butchers Case and Stewkleys Case Cook 4. Also he cited Sir Gilbert Gerrards Case Cook 4. 18. If one said Take not a Lease of such an one I have a Lease of it an Action does not lie But if the party by reason of those words could not demise it to one with whom he had Communication for the Lease Then it lies Or if he said that another had a Lease of that also an Action lies 6 E. 6. Dyer 72. One saying that a Merchant would be a Banckrupt is Actionable Because that no man will trust him 7 E. 4. 24. One threatens another if he will come abroad he will beat him For the threatning an Action does not lie But if for that Cause he could not go abroad about his Business an Action will lye Secondly It hath been objected that the Action does not lie Because that it appears that the Letter was written out of the time of Limitation by the Statute of 21 Iac. which is for Slander That the Action ought to be brought within two years after the Slander I agree if it be brought for slanderous words But this is an Action upon the Case only An Action upon the Case for slandering of a Title is not within the Statute 21 Jac. for the two years but for the six years So here the Action is not for slanderous words For the Letter does not bear an Action But for the temporal loss But it was resolved by the Court That the Action did not lie For by Richardson Chief Iustice In all Cases where you will maintain an Action for words there ought to be some particular words of Slander spoken or written by which the particular loss came Here is a Letter it had not any Slander in it And it cannot be conceiceived that the Lord turned him away out of his Service or Office by that Letter which does not touch him in his Office of Stewardship nor his Receivorship If he had written that the Plaintiff was a contentious and troublesome man that had been more questionable than this is Yet it would not bear an Action And Richardson said that they alwaies conceived Sir Gilbert Gerrards Case not to be Law For if a man said that he himself had a Title to the Land of an other it is not actionable although he lost by that But if he had said that another man had Title to the Land of another that is actionable And no Case can be shewen where an Action upon the Case lies upon a particular losse unless the words carry some slander with them Hutton said the words of the Letter are not actionable But if being said to be done maliciously and falsesly and to the intent the Lord Barkley should put him out of his place and upon that the Lord displaced him then there would be more doubt of it But here the Iury had found the Defendant guilty and that seemed only to the writing of the Letter and it might be false notwithstanding But if the Iury had found that
action upon the case lies for retaining the servant of another And by them the retainer without being testimonial which is an offence against that Law is after the years of reteiner expired For so are the words of the Statute But they said that the Information was naught because that it does not appear that the Defendant did not retain him out of the Parish where they served before For the Statute says out of the City Town or Parish c. except he have a testimonial And the words secundum formam Statuti will not aid it And in the same Village or City c. The Statute does not require a testimonial because that there it was known c. And for these reasons after here said for the Plaintiff Iudgement was stayed if c. Jennings against Cousins IEnnings brought a Replevin against Cousins who avowes for damage feasant The Plaintiff replies that post captionam ante deliberationem he tendered 3 s. which was a sufficient amends for the Trespasse and the Defendant notwithstanding detained his Cattel contra vadum pleg c. Vpon which they demurred And by the whole Court the Replication is naught For Pilkintons Case was agreed to be good Law that the tender ought to be before pounding but any time before the impounding it is sufficient But here ante deliberationem implies that the Cattel were impounded and it is not shewn in certain that the tender was before And it was agreed in trespass That the Defendant may plead the Trespass to be involuntary and disclaim in the Title without pleading the Statute of 21 Iac. for the Statute is a general Statute Whereupon Iudgement was given for the Defendant Butts against Foster THe Plaintiff in an Action upon the Case the Plaintiff declared That whereas he was a man of good fame carriage and behaviour and free from all blot or stain Yet the Defendant with purpose to draw his life in Question and traduce him amongst his Neighbours in presentia multorum c. crimen felonae ei imposuit ea occasione illum arrestari causavit et per spatium duarum dierum in custodia detineri coram Iohanni Pettyman uno Justic ad pacem c. duci procuravit nequisfime prosecutus est c. The Defendant pleads not guilty which was found for the Plaintiff And Hitcham moved in arrest of Iudgement that the Action would not lie And of that opinion was Hutton because that he did not proceed to indictment For there an Action of that lies in the nature of a Conspiracy But if an Action should lie here it would be a mischievous Case for by that every man would be deterred to question any person for felony And it was said by Hutton If one said You have broken the Peace and I will cause you to be arrested and procures a Warrant from a Iustice of Peace by which he is arrested No Action here will lye But Berkley on the other side said to the contrary and of that Opinion was Richardson Chief Iustice that the Action will well lye And by Richardson The Defendant ought to have justified that there was a Felony done and that he suspected him c. But he pleads not guilty And it does not appear by the Declaration what was done with the Plaintiff after he was brought to the Iustice of Peace and by that it shall be implyed that he was dismissed upon his examination And here the Plaintiff was imprisoned and carried before a Iustice of Peace which is an act done as well as in the case where there is an Indictment And an Attourney of the Court cited one Danvers and Webly's Case In that very case it was adjudged that the Action lay But it was adjourned to another day Champues Case OUnson makes his will gives 200 l. to Tho. Champues son of Jeremie Champues Also to other Children of Ieremy 20 l. a piece to be paid at their several marriages or ages of 21 years And after wills that his Executor should enter into bond to the several parents to pay the several Legacies to the several Children at the ages of 21 years or their marriages And his Executor after his death gave an Obligation to Jeremy Champues to pay the 200 l to Thomas at his full age or marriage But in the Spiritual Court afterwards upon libell it was ordered that he pay the legacies presently Thomas being under age of tender years And for that Henden moved for a prohibition Richardson although the sute for a Legacy be properly in the Spiritual Court yet if there be an Obligation given for the payment of it it is not turned to a duty in the Common Law and then it is not tryable there This is one reason why a prohibition shall be granted Secondly another reason is because that they sentenced the payment of the Legacy against the Will and against Law and the Obligation here will not alter the case for it is given to another person not to the Legatee and then the Legatee notwithstanding the Obligation may sue in the spiritual Court But by Richardson it is all one for here the Will orders the Obligation to be made Which Hutton changing opinion and Harvey agréed For now because the Obligation is given if the sentence shall be given the party is liable to the Obligation also to perform that And by Richardson it seemed that the clause in the will of the Obligation to be entered into by the Executor to pay at the marriage or 21 years of age the several Legacies c. extends to the first Legacy of 200 l. to Thomas although it be coupled to the last Legacy which should be by a new and several Item And by that clause the intention of the Testator appears that the 200 l. which is given generally and no time of payment named It shall not be paid until marriage of 21 years of age And a prohibition was commanded to be granted NOte It was said by Richardson chief Iustice If a man had a way over the Land of another for his Cattel and upon the way he scares his cattel so that they run out of the way upon the land of the owner and the party who drives the Cattel freshly pursues them c. That in Trespasse he who had the way might plead this special matter in justification Green against Brouker and Greenstead IN Trover and reversion the Plaintiff declares That whereas he was possessed of a bag of hops and a bag of flax to the value of c. And that the Defendant found them and the third day of October converted them And the Defendants plead that Sandwich is an antient Village and that the custom of forrain attachment is used there as in London and that these goods were lost upon default in November and traverses absque hoc that they were guilty of any conversion in October Pasc 7 Car. Com. Banc. or any other time or day than the times before which are
put off till the next day by nine in the morning Collins against Thoroughgood AN action of Covenant was brought against the Executor and the breach assigned for default of reparation committed in the time of the Executor and damages were assessed And the question was moved by Atthow whether the Iudgement shall be de bonis propriis or de bonis Testatoris And upon view of presidents it was adjudged that it shall be de bonis Testatoris For this is the Testators Covenant and obliges the Executor as representing him And therefore he ought to be sued by that name Waters against Thomson IN an action of slander for calling him Bankrupt Iudgement was given for the Plaintiff And it was afterwards moved in arrest of Iudgement Because that in the Declaration it is said that he was a seller of Wool And Serjeant Ward said because he did not allege that he was a Merchant that it would not hold But the Court over-ruled him Tomkin's Case A Man cannot plead a former Iudgement had against the Plaintiff in an action brought by the Plaintiff against the Defendant But Outlawry he may Which was not denyed Baker against Webberly THat if a mans Dog runs at the Sheep and kills them not with his consent there will no action lie But otherwise if with his consent Recovereis suffer per gardens of the lands of the Infant MEmorandum That the 26 Decemb. 21 Iac. that letters under the privy signet and sign Mannual came unto the Iudges of the Com-Pleas importing that the King had been humbly petitioned by Mountioy Blunt being under the age of 21 yoars as well by himself as his kinred and Feoffees into whose custody the late deceased Earl of Devonshire did commit his estate in trust that he would declare unto us his liking that he might be permitted to suffer a Common recovery of the Mannor of Wansled for payment of his debts and further advancement of his means to the use of the Duke of Buckingham which his Majestie by his said Letter did accordingly Now although the Iudges did never hold such Recoveries unlawfull or void in Law yet divers motions in the like kind have been refused as holding it very inconvenient But inconveniencies are best discerned by circumstances and therfore my L. Chief Iustice Richardson acquainting the other Iustices therewith it was determined that he should send for the young Gentleman and examine him sole and secret of the reasons of this Recovery and of his own free-will Which I did and being of 18 years of age or thereabouts suffered me of his own good liking that he did conceive it to be necessary for his estate yet not therwith contented the Chief Iustice caused the Earl of Southampton the L. Davers and Mr. Wakeman the persons to whom the world knew he his Estate was committed in trust and that they had worthily performed and calling them in an open Court and questioning with them they confessed to us all that it was necessary for the young Gentleman and for his good to part with this thing and that therefore they had made means to his Majesty for this Letter in that behalf whereupon the Recovery was passed openly at the Bar the last day of Michaelmas Term against Mr. Blunt in person and the Earl of Southampton the Lord Daverâ—… and Mr. Wakeman were admitted his Guardians Brownlow and Moyle Prothonotaries shewed Presidents of the like Recoveries against Infants M. 23 H. 8. rot 441. et P. 38 H. 8 rot 128. Tr. 28 El. rot 17 et M. 26 et 27 El. rot 45. 572 P. 42 Eliz. rot 1. 5. 63 44. 45 69 70 89 91 94 P. 32 El. rot 60 T. 38 El. rot 41 44 40 El. rot 62. 124 112 M. 40 et 41 El. rot 13 M. 34 et 35 El. rot 166. per Zouch M. 39 40 Eliz. rot 82. 173. M. 41 42 El. rot 24. 106. et 72 T. 42. El. rot 20. M. 42 et 43 El. rot 173. Chamberlines Case HE brought an Action upon the Statute of Hue and Cry and after Issue joyned and entred The Record was that the Robbery was done 30 Octob. It was ordered by the Court of Common Pleas that the Record shall be amended and made the 30th of September upon the Affidavit of the Attorney for the Plaintiff that he had given direction accordingly And shews to the Court the Book of the Office Male against Kett. HE brought an Action against Kett for these words Thou hast stollen my Corn out of my Barn and verdict was given for the Plaintiff And after verdict it was moved in arrest of Iudgement That perchance the Corn was not of the value of a penny Yet Iudgement was given for the Plaintiff For it is felony although it is not great Hitcham against Cason before NOw they urged 5 Eccles If thou see the oppression of the poor and perverting of Iudgement Perverting of Iudgement is the Oppression But then he did not again manifest Injustice It was objected that he might give erroneous Iudgement and that is Injustice If they are taken all alike it is clear that they are actionable and the party himself ought not to interpret but the Iudge The Case between Palmer and Boyer M. 37 38 El. He hath as much Law as a Iackanapes spolton of Palmer being a Lawyer and adjudged actionable And they were spoken to disgrace him in his profession 7 Iac. Thou a Barrester thou a Barrettor and thou durst not shew thy face Thou study the Law thou a Dunce actionable upon he same reason Mich. 14 Iac. Com. Banc. Beck against Barneby Spoken of an Attorney Thou art a Common maintainer of Sutes and a Champerter c. It was objected there that it was lawfull for an Attorney to maintain sutes Yet because he said Champertor it was actionable And Trin. 12 Iac. Com Banc. Yeardlies case He said of the Plaintiff being an Attorney Your Attorney is a bribing Knave and hath taken 10 l. of you to cousen me Answered that the words shall be intended of him as Attorney and so actionable One exhibites a Petition where it was first against the Lord chief Baron In which he said Tanfield is a great Oppressor of the Country and did remove the Boundaries between his Land and mine And it was adjudged actionable Pasc 4 Iac. Banc. Roy. Master Kebbe is a Basket Iustice and a partial Iustice and I 'll give him 5 l. a year for all Gifts that are brought to him for Injustice done And adjudged actionable And the word Partial Iustice bears an Action Hil. 40 Car. Kings Bench. Denson is a sweet Iustice of peace who gave a Warrant to apprehend I. S. and sent him notice of it Is actionable For it is a misbehaviour in a Iustice of Peace to do so H. 6. Iac. Com. Banc. rot 1159. Lonsman against Peck The Plaintiff shews that he had been impannelled upon several Iuries upon life and death and the Defendant said Thou art a Iury man and
of Entries If one said of a Chirurgion he did poyson the wound of his patient That is not actionable for it might be for the cure of it But if he said as it was in 33 and 34 Eliz. Com. Banc. He did poyson the wound of his patient to get money That is actionable And the words here are allayed if they be joyned with the first For being spoken of a Iustice his power and greatness may oppresse him without fault in the Plaintiff One said M. 37 Eliz. of a Iustice of Peace That he was a Bloodsucker and thirsteth after blood yet if you 'll give him a couple of Capons he 'll take them Not actionable for they are too general As to the Iustification all is justified clearly It was objected then is omitted in our justification It is true if he complain of oppression one time and we justifie at another time it shall be insufficient But the matters of Iustification here well enough meet with the time By which c. Gosse against Brown Gosse brought an action upon an Obligation against Brown dated 23 Feb. 20 Iac. to pay money upon the 30 of December following It was then said that the money was not to be paid until the 30 day of December For it is all one as if the bond had been without date But if the condition had been to have béen paid the 33 Febr. It was then presently due upon demand because it was an impossible date Gibbs against Ienkins GIbbs brought an action upon the case for scandalous welch words spoken in the presence of divers understanding the language And witnesses were sworn to the Iury who deposed that the signification of those words were to steal or at least to carry away Which words in English not being able to bear an action Iudgement was given against the Plaintiff Ravyes Case A Sheriff had taken one by capias ad satisfac a Stranger assumes to him that if he will let him goe at large that he would pay him what damages he should sustain thereby No action upon the case will lie for that promise because it is against the Common Law And 23 H. 6. 2 H. 5. If a man oblige another in a bond not to follow his trade It is void Darlyes Case SErgeant Atthow shewed to the Court that an action upon the case was brought by the Sheriff of S. And declares that the Defendant assumed that if he would put such an one in Execution into the Castle of which he had recovered against him to save him harmless And shews that he did take him in execution and that for that he was indicted for a forceabie entry and sues in the Star-chamber ad damnum 500 l. And the Court séemed that it was not a sufficient consideration For it was no more than by his office he ought to doe But if it was upon an other matter otherwise it should be And for that they said to the Serjeant that he might have demurred to the Declaration NOte that it was said that an Ejectione firm does not lie de una pecia terrae although that it was added conteining by estimation half an acre of land vocat It is not good But he ought to shew the longitude and latitude And it is otherwise in an assize and that for the view And so it was held by the Court. Hadves against Levit. AN action upon the case was brought That in consideration the Plaintiff would consent that his Son should marry the Daughter of the Defendant and that after the Coverture upon request of the Defendant the Plaintiff shall make a joynture of 20 l. to the wife That the Defendant should give 200 l. to the Son in marriage they are married the mony is not payed the Father of the Son brings this action and shews how he is indamaged by it because that he is constreined to give more to the Son and his Wife for to allow them maintenance then otherwise with an averement that be is forced to make that Ioynture if the other will make the request Richardson This action should have béen more properly brought by the Son for he is the person in whom the interest is And he put the case 22 Eliz. A man had a license to transport Herrings to Spain and the Daughter one of the parties had a license And a stranger comes to the Father and says to him procure me that license and I 'll give you 100 l. and 100 l. to your daughter It was held that the Daughter should have the action for the one 100 l. for more specially it concerns her And put the case of lorning Iorning 37 Eliz. Where A. was indebted to B. a stranger follows the sute for B. A. comes to the stranger and says to him leave the sute and I 'll pay your Master The Master shall have the action upon the case And now in our case the father does not demand the 200 l. but only the damages which will happen to him by the non-payment to the Son Hutton There is a difference when the promise is to perform to one who is not interessed in the cause and when he hath interest In the first case he to whom the promise is made shall have the action and not he to whom the promise is to be performed If A. promise B. to pay I. S. 10 l. upon a consideration which is not done B. shall have the action and not I. S. If there be two joynt of a Horse and the one conditions with the other to goe to Market to sell it who does it and appoints the payment to be made to another In this case he only to whom the payment is to be made shall have the action So also if my servant by my command sell my Horse the money to be paid to me I shall have the action and not my Servant for the interest is in me So here the interest is in the Son and he is to have the money It was said at the bar betwéen one Cardinal and Lewis It was adjudged that where two fathers promise upon marriage betwéen the daughter of the one and the Son of the other that the Father of the Son will give 100 l. stock and the Father of the Daughter 100 l. in money The money was paid and the stock not delivered And the action was maintained by the Father And the Iustices said that they would see that Record viz. 27 H. 8. Tathams case of a promise made to the wife c. They put at the bar one Cores Case That a man promised to one to make satisfaction of all debts in which he was indebted to another who was then absent He to whom the satisfaction was to be made brought the action upon the Case and well maintainable ve Mich. 43 44 Eliz. in t Rixon Horton Stone against Tiddersly THe action was brought upon an Obligation the condition whereof was that a conveyance of a Mannor shall be made to one P. and two others to the use of Richard Tiddersly and the heirs males of his body The remainder to the heirs males of Rob. Tid Vpon issue whether conditions were performed And it was found by verdict that it was to the use of the heirs males of his body the remainder to Rob. Tid and the heirs males of his body Held no performance for they agréed not to the words of the Condition IT was agreed by all That antient Demesne was a good plea in Ejectione firm but not after imparlance Crosses Case THere was errour brought because the appearance was by Anthony Goodwin Attornat suum And there was not any such in rerum natura The Court said that this averment shall not be received against the Recorder of the Court. FINIS
Case 164 Male against Ket 172 N NOrtherns Case 57 Norbery against Watkins ibid. Norris against Isham 81 Norton Joyce et al. against Harmer 88 Newton against Sutton 105 Nortons Case 110 The same 117 Napper against Steward 133 Nurse against Pounford 161 O OWen Dorothy against Owen Price 22 Owen against Price 29 Overalls Case 157 Overalls Case 158 P PAston against William Manne 5 Provender against Wood. 32 Peto Sir Edward against Pemberton 52 Perriman against Bowden 59 Palmers Case 62 Panton against Hassell ibid. Pease against Thompson 66 Peitoe's Case 71 Plowmans Case 73 Peters against Field 75 Perkins against Butterfield ibid. Mrs. Peels Case 107 Port against Yates 114 Page against Taylor ibid. Pinsons Case 125 Plummers Case 130 Countess of Purbecks Case 131 R REadings Case 18 Rowes Case 32 Margery Rivers Case 35 Rivets Case 60 Roberts and others 61 Rothwells Case 91 Rowe and Dewbancks Case 94 Rolls against How 117 Read against Eaglefield 122 Rises Case 147 Rawlings's Case 161 Rawling against Rawling 163 Raveys Case 175 S SMith against Dr. Clay 3 Smith against Secheverill 51 Score and Randalls Case 57 Score against Randall 66 Symons against Symons 66 Stamford and Coopers Case 72 Spark against Spark 73 Saulkells Case 78 Swintons Case 84 Stanleys Case 93 Dame Sherleys Case 95 Sacheverills Case 105 Strange against Atthowe 116 Spencer Sir John against Scroggs 121 Stone against Walsingham 123 The same 128 Smith al. against Pannel 132 Scot against Wall 133 Starkey against Taylor 139 Simcocks against Hussey 142 Starkeys Case 143 Sheriff Surrey against Alderton 145 Springhall against Tuttersbury 157 Stone against Tiddersly 177 T THomas et Ux. against Newark 2 Taylor against Phillips 10 Thomas's Case 38 Thomsons Case 53 Tomkins's Case 57 Traver against the Lord Bridgewater et Ux. 62 Tomlins's Case 64 Thomas against Morgan 67 Tomlinsons Case 75 Executors of Tomlinsons Case 76 Thornells Case 93 Thomas and Kennis's Case 97 Thompson against Thompson 110 Turner against Hodges 126 Taylors Case 136 Turner against Disbury 149 Tomlins's Case 163 Tomlinsons Case 168 Tomkins's Case 171 V VIner et Ux. against Lawson 14 Viner against Eaton 86 W VVIlcocks Case 27 Wood against Simons 34 Wilkin against Thomas 52 Wildshires Case 54 Wentworth against Abraham 55 Warberleys Case 57 Winchester Bishop against Markham ibid. Wilkinsons Case 56 Waterton against Loadman ibid. Winchesters Mayor and Commonalties Case 57 Wolfes Case 59 Wilkinsons Case 59 Waddingtons Case 59 Williams against Bickerton 63 Wilkins against Thomas 65 Watson against Vanderlash 69 Wakeman against Hawkins 72 Williams against Thirkill 73 Wilkinsons Case 76 Wimberley against Taylor et al. ib. Whiddons Case 77 Wakemans Case 78 Wiggons against Darcey 79 Woolmerstons Case 85 Warmer against Barret 87 Walsingham and Stones Case 107 Wroth against Harvey 119 Winchcombe against Shepard ib. Marquess of Winchesters Case 120 Wilson against Peck 129 Wats against Conisby 132 Dr. Wood and Greenwoods Case 135 Sir Francis Worthly against Savill 142 Wardens Case 146 Wood against Carverner 147 Williams against Floyd 168 Waters against Thomson 171 Y YOungs Case 54 A TABLE OF THE PRINCIPAL MATTER IN THIS BOOK A THe assumpsion of the Husband shall in an Account charge the Wife fo 1. Action upon a libellous Letter 10 Action for perjury and what makes it 12 Where a demand intitles to an Action 13 16 Whether a Tenant in Quid juris clamat may attourn without being sworn to do fealty to the Lord. 16 Action for words brought by a Maid 18. An arrest on Christmas day going to Church in the Church-yard may be censured 19 Attourney fined for arresting in Actions of Debt without original 29 Assumption upon mariage 30 Action for saying one forged Deeds 31 Action on the Case for stopping a River 34 An Action for words brought by a Counstable 36 Consideration upon an Assumpsit is not traversable but he ought to plead the general Issue 50 Action upon the Statute de Scandalis magnatum 55 Those who sue at the Assise have protection 33 Action for words 63 Action for words against a Chirurgeon 69 70 71 Warrant of Attorney may be entred after the Record removed 59 Action for words he hath forged a Deed c. 114 Action for saying he is falsly forsworn before c. 119 Whether in an Account there ought to be a certainty for what 85 106 113 122 Alimony is not within the High Commission Court 95 High Commissioners have no conusans of Adultery 108 Administrator has the same power as an Executor 116 Appearance by Attorney saves an Obligation given to the Sheriff to appear 117 Action for calling one a Daffidowndilly 123 Action the Case for words against Attorney 139 Convicted Barretor spoken to a common person is actionahle 143 A man having Land in right of his Wife in trust they cannot both join in the Action but the Hushand only ib. Action for words Thou hast stollen my corn out of my Barn 172 An Action for Welsh words 175 B VVHere a Bayliff shall be charged for money levied by him without warrant 12 Iustification as Bayliff upon a Distress ib. Recovery in Battery had against one the other in another Action for the same Battery may plead the First 20 33 49 Garton against Mellows in Battery 50 In Battery against Baron and Feme the wife ought to plead as wel as the Baron 10 C VVHat amounts to a forfeiture of a Copihold 6 7 In consideration the Testator was indebted and you l forbear good consideration 8. 62 A Chanceller cannot alter a Iudgement at Common see how he may proceed against him 20 One may distreyn for amerciament in a Court Leet 21 62 Iudgement given in an Inferiour Court shall not be executed by Writ of a Superiour Court 26 Officer of Common Pleas ought to be answered in any Action de die in diem 29 They may examine in Chancery before Tryal 30 Appearance of Clarks in Court ought to be in proper person 36 Writ of Covenant brought upon a Lease of a Parsonage 54 Cestui que use in tayl what remedy 57 Where Habeas Corpus on occasion may be returnable immediate 2 Custom the life of a Copihold 6 Leet is the Kings Court 62 If a Chattel personal be suspended by sute it is gone for ever 71 The breach of the Covenant is the cause of Action 212 If Copiholder make a Lease for years to commence at Michaclmas 't is a forfeiture presently 122 Where Custome ought to be shewed and where not 159 A Writ of Enquiry may be granted after Verdict when the Jury omit the dammages 161 Upon Contracts the party shall have the Action to whom the Interest belongs 176 D NO discontinuance after Verdict 3 To deny the Rent is a Disseisin 6 Demand of Rent ought to be according to the reservation in the Deed. 59 Declaration or Replication ought to be certain to all intents 60 Debt by Paroll discharged by Paroll 73 Beasts distrained for Dammage fesant not put in the
an advowson appendent be granted for life After the Lessee it becomes an Appendent again And so if a Mannor with the Advowson descend to two Copartners And the Advowson is allotted to one and the Mannor to the other If there the Sister who hath the Advowson die without Issue it is then appendant and yet there was a severance in perpetuity And Yelverton went to the Iustices of the Kings Bench to have their opinions And they all agreed that it was but a temporal disappendency during the life without doubt Bramston said the Mannor is granted and the Advowson by E. 6. to the Lord Saint Iohn to be held by several tenures The Mannor in Chivalry and the Advowson in soccage which is a strong presumpsion that the Advowson was in gross But the Iustices agreed that there may be several Services and yet the Mannor and the Advowson nor severed And a Mannor may be granted parcel to be held by one Tenure and parcel to be held by an other Tenure and yet remain intire And afterwards verdict was given for the Plaintiff c. Viner and his Wife against Lawson VIner and his Wife libells against Lawson in the Councell of York for a promise to pay 600 l. to the Wife for her Mariage And suggested that they could not precisely prove it by one witness that they might have remedy at the Common Law But Lawson denyed the promise upon his Oath and yet they proceeded and Lawson prayed a prohibition and it was granted For if it may be proved by some witnesses then it is tryable by an Action of the Case c. And so the Iurisdiction of the Common Law is ousted Abrees Case MOre of the Case which you saw before c. Henden argued that that release is but special and that it extends only to errors And first for that the intention of the parties is principally to be regarded And ex praecedentibus consequentibus optima fit interpretatio The precedent clause is only a release of errors and then the consequent suits And in the last clause release all Actions and suits of error before Secondly a release is particular and may be by inference of other words have a general sense yet particular construction shall be made Nisi impediatur sententia or intentio partium For that also Suits in the middle of the clause shall have relation to the other words And to that purpose is 28 H. 8. Dyer 19. A Grant to the Lessee that he shall have the Rues for hedges by the assignment of the Bayliff of the Lessor and for necessary fuel to burn And the opinion of the Court was that he should have the fewel also by assignment 9 E. 4. 43. 6. A man submits himself to the Arbitrament of I.S. de omnibus actionibus personalibus sectis querelis And it was ruled that that word personal refers to all And the Case in question is the very Case as that in reason 10 H. 7. 8. A man grants the Custody of his Park and all the Windfalls c. And it seemed there that the grant of Windfalls is absolute for that that the intent cannot be otherwise Pasc 36 Eliz. banc Roy. Betwéen Pidgeon and Gibson Norff. The Case upon the special verdict was in Trespass and Pidgeon the Father makes a feoffment to his younger son by which he grants thus Omnia illa messuagia mea tenementa in East Bockham that late were Patris mei and since in the Tenure of N. D. and C. And it was adjudged that that land did not pass by that Feoffment For where particular words are in the end the middle shall never be taken general And so also 8. rep 150. Althams Case There it was resolved that where it had particular words there all shall be of the same nature c. Thirdly expende circumstantias intentio nihil intelligetur which may be intended also in Suits more than in actibus For will you have Action particular and Suits general And so the intention appears in the first word Errors and the subsequent are but declaratory And although that Suits is lastly put in the second Clause yet there it is not but a surplusage And that which is not released by the first Suit cannot be by the second For it is not but a repetition of that which was before Richardson the words are All Writs Actions and Suits by error Without question it shall be intended but errors Or if it be so And all Actions and Suits of error It cannot extend but to errors Hutton In that release there is not any word of debt and therefore it seemed that the intention was not to release other actions but errors And it was adjudged in this Court in a Writ of Annuity A release was pleaded that the Plaintiff acquitted him of one payment for half of the year and released to him all Actions Suits and Demands And adjudged that that release does not bar him but of the arrearages of a year A Quid juris clamat IN a Quid juris clamat The Tenant was adjudged to Attourne And the question was whether he might Attourne without being sworn in Court to do fealty to his Lessor And Brownlow chief Prothonotary said That all the Presidents are that he shall Attourne and do fealty by which the Tenant was sworn to do fealty and the fealty was taken for an Authority Beare and Hodges Case MOre of Beare and Hodges Case you may see before Davenport said that a man cannot distrein upon an actual demand which ought to be to the person upon the Land And for that the distress is tortious and damages by the Common Law are given to him who made the Replevin But to the Avowant damages are only given by the statute of 7. H. 8. cap. 4. 21 H. 8. 19. Now the Rent is not in question for it was taken to pay it but the dammages and the Tenant had done all that he can and it is not reason that he pay any damages And the diversity between a Replevin and debt for Rent after such a tender That a local tender excuses the damages appears H. 4.4 Tidthorps Case 38. E. 3. 13. Debt An Obligation is indorsed to pay the money at Easter and he tenders it at the day to the Obligee who refuses it because he lives at another place And now because that no place was named for the payment the tender was good and shall excuse him without any other demand of the damages Littleton said that a tender of Homage excuses until a new demand 21 E. 4.4 And there a difference seemed to some between fealty and homage But Bryan said that a tender of fealty also until a new request to his person excuses damages because that fealty may be done by Attourney 22 H. 6.31 7 E. 4.4 puts the case of Rent to the same intent Cook Littleton 7. 28. Maunds Case The third resolution is a ground for our Case There it is said if Terre-tenant
all was false and written of set purpose and that for that the Lord displaced him it would be more difficult But for any thing as appears to us there is not any thing for which he might be justly displaced And also it was not said in the Declaration that the Defendant had any fee for his Office And Richardson also said That if it had been found as my Brother Hutton said Yet it is known that it should be more strong But then I conceive that the Action does not lye For it is apparent that nothing in the Letter may be applyed to a particular misbehaviour in his Office And by the Court Although the Declaration be laid falsely and maliciously Yet if the words be nâ—…t scandalous yet it ought to be laid falsely and maliciously And he said that it was adjudged in this Court Where an Action upon the Case was brought for conspiracy to indict a man and upon the Indictment the Iury found Ignoramus There the Indictee was clear And yet for the conspiracy the Action laid which was Blakes Case And it was said by Hutton If I have Land which I intended to sell and one came and says maliciously and on purpose to hinder my sale that he had a Title to it That that is actionable Which Harvey agreed without Question if he does not prove that he had a Title If one says of an Inue Go not to such an House for it is a very cutting House Agreed by the Court not Actionable Mich. 5 Car. Com. Banc. And Iudgment was given quod querens nil cap. per bil Pasc 6 Car. Com. Banc. THis Term there was nothing worthy the reporting as I heard of others For I my self was not well and could not hear any thing certum referre c. Trin. 6 Car. Com. Banc. Tomlins's Case IF the Husband makes a Feoffment to the use of himself for life the Remainder to his Son in tayl By the Court That is a dying seised in the Husband For the Wife shall have dammages in Dower And so it was adjudged in the Lady Egertons Case But the Husband ought to dye seised of an Estate tayl or Fée simple which might descend to his Heir Mich 6 Car. Com. Banc. MEmorandum That Sergeant Atthowe died at his House in Northfolk who was a man somewhat defective in Elocution and Memory but of profound Judgement and Skill in pleading NOte it was was said by Hutton and Davenport That if an Inferiour Court prescribe to hold Pleas of all manner of Pleas except Title to Freehold That that is no good prescription For then it may hold Plea of Murther which cannot be c. Note It was said by Richardson chief Iustice that if two conspire to indict an other of a Rape and he is indicted accordingly If the Iury upon the Indictment find Ignoramus Yet that Conspiracy is not punishable in the Starchamber Father purchases Lands in his Sons name who was an Infant at the age of seaventeen years and he would have suffered a Common recovery as Tenant to the Praecipe But the Court would not suffer him Rawling against Rawling THe Case was thus A man being possessed of a Lease for 85 years devises it as follows viz. I will that R. Rawling shall have the use of my Lease if he shall so long live during his life he paying certain Legacies c. And after his decease I devise the use thereof to Andrew Rawling the residue of the term with the Lease in manner and form as R. Rawling should have it Crew said That after the death of R. Rawling and Andrew the term shall revert to the Executors of the Devisor But by the Court not But it shall go to A. Rawling the last Devisée and in manner and form shall go to pay Legacies And by all a strong Case And together with the Lease be by strong words The Archbishop of Canterbury against Hudson of Grays-Inne THe Archbishop of Canterbury prosecuted against Hudson of Grays-Inne in an Information upon the Statute of E. 1. of Champerty Henden Sergeant for the Plaintiff moved upon the Plea that it was insufficient Because that the Defendant had prayed Iudgement of the Writ when he ought to have pleaded in Bar For the Statute of E. 1. had appointed a special Writ in this Case as the Defendant said But by him the Information is upon the Statute of 32 H. 8. which gives that Action by sute in Chancery which before was only by sute at Common Law Richardson chief Iustice said That the Plea is not to the matter but to the manner for the Plaintiff had mistaken his Action For the Action is given to the King only And therefore said to Henden demur if you will The Case was that the Defendant purchased Lands in anothers Name hanging the Sute in Chancery for it And after rules for Publication was given in the Cause Malins Case AYliff moved in arrest of Iudgement in an action of Battery c. And the cause that he shewed was An issue mistaken cannot be amended It was brought against William Malin of Langlee and in the Record of nisi prius It was William Langley of Malin But by the Court it ought to be amended For it is a misprision apparently of the Clark For the whole Record besides is right And the Record of nisi prius ought to be amended by the Record in the Bench according to the 44 E. 3. But if the issue had been mistaken otherwise it had been Arrerages for rent upon an estate for life cannot be forfeit by Outlawry NOte That it was agreed by the whole Court That arrerages of rent reserved upon an Estate for life are not forfeited by Outlawry because that they are real and no remedy for them but a distress Otherwise if upon a Lease for years c. Hill 6 Car. Com. Banc. MEmorandum that this term Sir Humfrey Davenport puisne Iudge of the Common Bench was called into the Exchequer to be Chief barron Browns Case AN Information upon the Statute of 5 Eliz. pro eo that one Brown was retained an Apprentice in Husbandry until the 21 year of his age and that he before his age of 21 years went away And the Defendant absque ullo testimonio detained him contra formam Statuti And by Hutton and Harvey Iustices only shewed the branch of the said Statute which says And if any servant retained according to the form of this Statute depart from his Master c. Hil. 6 Car. Com. Banc. And that none of the said reteined persons in Husbandry until after the time of his reteiner be expired shall depart That is not to be intended of an Apprentice in Husbandry but of an hired servant For the Statute did not intend to provide for the departure of an Apprentice because that an Apprentice ought to be by Indenture And then a writ of Covenant lies upon his departure to force him to come again And by the Common Law an
contained in the Declaration That the Defendants were guilty before scil October Vpon which the Defendants demurre and Iudgement was given for the Plaintiff Although it was objected that the Iustification here by the Custom before had taken away the property And I shall be debarred in Detinue and so in Trover But the Court was of the contrary opinion That the Defendants Plea in barre here shall not be good without traverse as it is and therefore the time is not made material but any time before is sufficient Méer possession sufficeth to maintain a Trover Pasc 7. Car. Com. Banc. Eaglechildes Case FInch Sergeant said that 6 Car. in the Kings Bench it was ruled upon Bill of Exchange betwéen party and party who are not Merchants There cannot be a Declaration upon the Law of Merchants but there may be a Declaration upon the Assumpsit and give the acceptance of the Bill in Evidence Crompton against Waterford WAterford was sued in the Spiritual Court for saying these words of the Plaintiff she will turn tayl to tayl with any man intimating that she would be naught with any man And sentence was given for the Plaintiff Whereupon he appealed to the Delegates propter gravamen And the Delegates overruled it and assesse costs for the wrong appeal Then there was a prohibition granted because the words were idle words and not punishable in the Spiritual Court Hutton seemed That the costs taxed by the Delegates are not taken away by the Prohibition Richardson on the contrary For the principal is prohibited and the costs are incident And because that a prohibition stays all proceedings the costs are taken away If the costs are to be executed by the Delegates then the prohibition to them will help But if the costs are remanded to the inferiour Court as well as the cause then the prohibition to the Inferiour Court will help So quacunque via data the costs are to be discharged And the party if excommunicat be dissolved And so agreed by the Court. Alleston against Moor. ALleston an Attourney of this Court brought an action upon the Case against Moore for calling him cheating knave and it was not upon speaking of him as an Attourney And for that by the Court in arrest of judgement It is not actionable If he had said you cheat your Clients it would be actionable One said That my Lord Chief Baron cannot hear of one ear colloquio praehabito of his administration of Iustice And it wad adjudged actionable Otherwise it had been if they had had no discourse of his Iustice Trin. 7 Car. Com. Banc. Coxhead against Coxhead IN Debt upon an Obligation the Condition was to perform an Arbitrament and the Defendant pleads nullum fecere arbitrium The Plaintiff replies that they made such an arbitrament and recites it the Defendant rejoyns that the Condition was to make an arbitrament of all things in controversie and that other things were in controversie whereof no arbitrament was made The Plaintiff sur-rejoynes that the Defendant did not give notice of those upon which issue was taken and no place alleged where notice was given And that exception was moved in arrest of Iudgement And upon that Iudgement was stayed Trin. 7. Car. Com. Banc. NOte It was said by Richardson Chief Iustice If a man sends his servant to a Draper to buy cloath for his Master and makes not the contract in his own name That the Master shall be charged and not the Servant Which was not denied 11 E. 4.6 Tomlinsons Case IF an Executor is sued in the Ecclesiastical Court for a Legacy and the Executor pleads plene administravit a Prohibition shall not be granted if they will not admit that plea. For they ought to judge there if he had administred fully or not But upon suggestion that they did not reject any administration which our law allows A prohibition shall not be granted as Richardson said which was not denied by the whole Court Williams against Floyd WIlliams was Plaintiff by an English Bill to the Council of Marches against Floyd in the nature of Debt upon an Escape and there was a Latin Declaration upon an Escape turned into English because that the Defendant being Sheriff of Canarvan suffered one against whom the Plaintiff had a Iudgement being taken by capias utlegat to escape To his damage of 40 l. And by the whole Court a prohibition was granted Although that by their Instructions they had power of personal actions under 50 l. For this is intended a meer personal action As debt detinue c. But Debt upon a Iudgement or debt upon an escape or upon the 2 E. 6. for not setting forth of tithes an action upon 8 H. 6. or any other action upon matter of Record or Statute In such cases they have not Iurisdiction And the Defendant there might have pleaded nul teil record and then he might have proceeded further But the misdemeanour here in permitting the party to escape might have been punished there by Information Gee against Egan GEe an Attorney of this Court brought an Action upon the Case against Egan and declares that he was an Attorney for many years late past and still is and that he had taken the Oath of an Attorney to do no fraud nor deceit in his Office as Attorney And that colloquio habito et moto inter one Rise Brother in Law to the Plaintiff and the Defendant concerning the Office of the Plaintiff as an Attorney and concerning a Bill of Costs and Expences by the Plaintiff in defence of a Cause prosecuted by one Treddiman in the Common Bench against the Defendant laid out and expended The Defendant 1 Augusti 4 Car. spoke those words to Rise Your Brother and Mr. Treddiman have cheated me of a great deal of mony c. by which the Plaintiff is in danger to lose his Office And it was moved after verdict for the Plaintiff in arrest of Iudgement by Ayliff Because that here is not any certainty in the Declaration that the words were spoken of the Plaintiff as Attorney And then they are not actionable For he does not shew at what time the speech was of him as Attorney Richardson upon reading of the Record said It was true that no time of the speech is shewen neither is it after the speech shewen upon whom he spoke those words Which might help it Neither is it said afterwards that is to say primo die but primo die Augusti he spoke c. And if it can be intended that those words were spoken of the Plaintiff as Attorney That would inforce the words to bear an Action But if such words are generally spoken of an Attourney without speech of his Office they are not actionable For he may be a Cheater at dice or in a bagain c. And here non constat that the words were spoken of the Plaintiff as Attourney Secondly it does not appear that the Plaintiff was was an Attorney in the Cause but says
that there was a conference of a Bill of Costs laid out by him c. and does not say laid out by him as Attorney And the whole Court seemed to be of the same opinion But it was adjourned If it had been said that habente colloquio primo die c. he spoke it should have been good But habito implies time past Hitcham against an Attorny of this Court HItchsm Chief Sergeant of the King brought an Action upon the Case against James Cason an Attorney of this Court And he declared that he was now Sergeant to the King and so was to his Father and that the King made him Iustice of Peace for his County of Suffolk and that he for many years theretofore and yet did exercise the Office of a Iustice of Peace And that the Defendant on purpose to disgrace him and to make him to be removed from being a Iustice of Peace in the Court openly spoke these scandalous words In a matter wherein I was questioned at the Quarter Sessions in Suffolk Mr. Sergeant Hitcham being there was Witness Judge and Party and did there oppresse me And moreover he said In Articles there presented against me he did me injusticâ—… and hath contrived those Articles And moreover he said Mr. Sergeant Hitcham bound my Son Finch to the Quarter Sessions and there indicted him and was Witness Judge and Party and counts to the dammage of the Plaintiff 1000 pound The Defendant to some of the words in the Declaration pleads not guilty to the residue he justifies and says that the Plaintiff was made a Iustice of Peace 1 Apr. 1 Car. And as to the words In a matter wherein I was questioned in the Quarter Sessions in Suffolk Mr. Sergeant Hitcham being there was Witness Judge and Party And all but the last words That the Plaintiff at the Sessions 8 Sept. 2 Car. at W. in Suffolk quosdam falsos Articulos scribi fecit exhibuit et produxit And recited all the Articles being in number eleaven Hil. 5 Car. Com. Banc. And that after the exhibiting the Articles in open Court The Plaintiff there said that they were true and counselled the Clark of the Peace to read them and then said he should be tryed upon them But the Plaintiff denied that and said that he would proceed now no further upon them but took the Articles and carried them with him by which the Court was dispossessed of them And would not proceed against him upon them And upon the last words scil Mr. Sergeant Hitcham bound my Son over to c. He said that his Son was bound to appear at the Quarter Sessions And caused an Indictment to be preferred against him Because he being elected Constable refused to take his oath or to execute his office And upon that Indictment the Sergeant gave evidence to the grand Iury and they found the Indictment And upon that Iudgement was given that he should be amerced that estreated And upon this bar the Plaintiff dumurred Finch for the Plaintiff And first he answers to the Exceptions which were taken before to the Declaration c. First that it did not appear by the Declaration that the Plaintiff was Iustice of Peace at the time of the speaking of the words To that he answers That is sufficient in the Declaration to shew that he was a Iustice of Peace at the time For it is per multos annos jam ultime elapsos et adhinc est and that the Declaration coming in M. 5 Car. If it was per multos annos ulterius c. It was at the time of the speaking For it was Paululum before the Action commenced And also the Defendant says in his Bar that the King made him a Iustice of Peace and that he was not a Iustice of Peace at the Sessions And although that he was not a Iustice of Peace at the Parlance Yet the words are actionable which charge him with Injustice when he was c. Secondly It was objected that part of the words were not alleged to be spoken of the Plaintiff But the Declaration is That in a matter c. Mr. Sergeant did c. which is directed to the first words But the subsequent words are induced such like afterwards Ad tunc ibidem the Defendant said And he did me injustice c. And although the first words were laid to be spoken of the Plaintiff yet the last words not But and he did me c. which ought to be taken That they were spoken of the Plaintiff For it is ad tunc ibidem upon the same Communication And also the Defendant cleared that For he justifies those words as spoken of the Plaintiff Thirdly It was objected that the words themselves are not actionable In Actions for words it is as in Wills The best argument will be from the words themselves yet we can borrow light from other words in the same Will Which I will recite The proverbial Verse Quid de quoque viro cui dicas saepe caveto Quid c. Some words declare all malice which are not actionable of some persons they may be spoken of quo some only actionable being spoken of such a man 4 H. 8. The Duke of Buckingham hath no more conscience than a Dog Those words upon the Statute of Scandala magnatum are actionable 10 Iac. the Earl of Northamptons Case It was resolved in the Starchamber that to publish false rumors of any of the Peers of the Realm was punishable at the Common law And if one heard such words and reported them again it is punishable But not in a Common persons case But this difference there was resolved That to say of Commons person generally that he heard so is not actionable if he name the person If one says of a Merchant he is a Banckrupt it is actionable not of the Defendant If one said of the Defendant he is an Ambidexter it is actionable not if of a Merchant It is a general rule that slander of every man in his profession is actionable Much more of the Plaintiff in his profession being a Iustice of peace For the words themselves if they be taken together or asunder are actionable The ground of the speaking was that there was a communication of Injuries done to him by the Plaintiff but take them asunder Trin. 7. Car. Com. Banc. and none of them but with the circumstances here will bear an action First that he was a Iudge Witness and party That is against the Law to be Iudge and party They who are Duellists are Iudges and parties and Executioners Iudge and party is as much as to say he is partial and he did oppresse me That shews that he was not Iudge and party fairly But they have objected that this word oppresse is incertain for he may be oppressed with overwait or hunger and cold But this case cannot have any such such sence But here it is intended the perverting of Iustice But this case was
by subtile and false means thou hast been the death of 100 men For before verdict against them and the words were that he was their death by false verdict As to the Bar. That is naught it appears by the Bar that the Defendant was not called to answer the Articles aforesaid For he said the Plaintiff would not proceed upon them Then the Plaintiff might be Iudge witness and party and not oppress me c. And it is not Iustice for one Iustice of Peace to refuse to proceed As here If Articles be given to him the Witnesses perhaps are not ready and although he request the Plaintiff to proceed it is not the Office of a Iustice of peace to promote a Cause For the words continue he justifies scribi fecit And that is no justification to contrive which is a word well known and apt to signifie the framing or inventing of Articles c. And the words are in the Declaration and did then oppress me And there is nothing answered to then or justified to it Pasc 24 Kings Bench Actions for words in London and the Defendant justifies the words in S. the Plaintiff demurred and had Iudgement M. 27 Eliz. Kings Bench. An Action for calling the Plaintiff Thief The Defendant pleads the Plaintiff guilty in 3 several Felonies And issue was taken de injuria sua propria absque aliqua tali causa And the Plaintiff was found guilty of two Felonies but not of the third And it was adjudged for the Plaintiff because he failed of his tali causa upon which he concludes c. Bramston at an other day on the contrary And said that the Declaration is not good First it must appear plainly that the Plaintiff was a Iustice of Peace at the time of the speaking of the words and implication will not serve I agree that necessary intendment shall be sufficient And if there might be other intendment it is not sufficient 13 Eliz. Dyer 304. Mich. 20 Jac. Kings Bench. Arundel Plaintiff Mead and Harvey Defendants in an Ejectione firmae brought upon a Lease made for 5 years if a Woman should so long live And after verdict for the Plaintiff It was moved that the Declaration is not good Because that it was not averred that the Woman was living at the time of the Ejectment But it was adjudged that the words virtute cujus he was possessed and termino nondam finito he was ejected supplies that Dyer 254. Debt upon a Lease for years rendring rent the Plaintiff declars upon the lease by him made to A. who devises it to the Defendant and he enters And it was objected that the Declaration was naught because that he does not shew the assent of the Executors and it is not said virtute Legationum c. But that he entred and that may be by any other Title and for that naught And in our Case that he was a Iustice of Peace many years before and at the time of the speaking And the words premisor non ignorant the Defendant intending to remove him c. does not aid it For it might be meant when he was not a Iustice of Peace It is not but by argument that he was then a Iustice of Peace Secondly The second Objection The second words are not laid to be spoken of Roberti Hitcham aforesaid It is to be observed that the words And he did then c. be distinguished in time For it is postea ad tunc et ibidem By which it ought to be meant spoken at another time of the same day and then all the subsequent words not actionable And it is not sufficient as it was objected that he was a Iustice of Peace when the Injuries were supposed to be done There are two reasons why a Iustice of Peace shall have his Action for words First That if the words be true they expose him to punishment or pain and either of them is sufficient cause to make the words actionable And when the words are such that they do not expose the party to punishment but only discredit him in his profession and make him subject to be removed they are not actionable unless spoken at the time that he is a Iustice of Peace And here the words are of such nature But words which expose him to punishment for a misdemeanour when he was a Iustice of Peace are actionable although spoken after he was removed Secondly If the Declaration was defective in substance for want of a precise shewing that he was a Iustice of Peace at the time Nothing in the Bar will help it But defect in circumstance may be so aided scil by the Bar as time or place failing in the Bar may be supplied by the Bar. 6 E. 4.16.6 E. 4.2.7 Rep. 24. Buts Case Mi. 37.38 Eliz. Badcop against Atkins Thy Father hath stollen six sheep It was moved in arrest of Iudgement Because it was not shewn in the Declaration that the words were spoken to the Son or in his presence of his Father the Plaintiff And as to that it ought to be intended For it is not sense to say thy Father to any but the Son Secondly the Defendant admitted it in his Bar. But resolved by the whole Court it is not necessarily implyed that they were spoken to the Son And then it was agréed by all that the Declaration was defective in substance and is not aided by any admittance in the Bar. Thirdly The third Exception here is there wants an Innuendo to make the Declaration good where the place is necessary to make the words actionable there ought to be an Innuendo for the place c. Barham did burn by Barn there no Innuendo will make the words actionable But if there be a Communication of the Plaintiffs Barn and that it was full of Corn there with an Innuendo horreum praedict will serve H. 37 Eliz. Banc. Roy rot 334. Thou art a Thief thou hast stollen half an acre of my Corn Innuendo half an acre of Corn severed Adjudged that the Innuendo does not serve So for Slander of title Entties fol. 36. A. was seised of the Mannor of S. and there was a Communication of that Mannor of S. And the Defendant said I have enough in my Study to make I. S. Heir to the Mannor of I. S. Innuendo manet praedict de S. It is sufficient Secondly The words are not actionable Witnesse Iudge and party is not a scandal without a violent construction of the words To say he did oppresse me That of a Iustice of Peace without more is hard to maintain an action for it does not appear that he was damnified And words of themselves which are actionable joyned with others are not sometimes actionable If one says of a Lawyer he did reveal the secrets of my Case that is not actionable for he might reveal it to a Iudge But if he said Goe not to such a one he did reveal the secrets of my case that is actionable Suegos case in the book
Fifthly that he retained one Steveson in one of the Chapels of ease who was a man of ill life and conversation scilicet an Adulterer and a Drunkard Sixthly that he did not catechise according to the Parish Canon but only brought many of Dr. Wilkinsons Catechisms for every of which he paid 2 d. and sold them to his Parishoners for 3 d. without any examination or instruction for their benefit And that he when any Commissions were directed to him to compel any person in his parish to do penance he exacted mony of them and so they were dismissed without inflicting any penalty upon them as their censure was And that he and his servants used divers menaces to his Parishioners and that he abused himself and disgrac'd his function by divers base labours scilicet He made mortar having a leathern a prou before him and he himseif took a tithe Pig out of the Pigsty and afterwards he himself gelded it And when he had divers presents sent him as by some flesh by some fish and by others ale he did not spend it in the invitation of his friends and neighbours or give it to the poor but he sold the flesh to Butchers and the ale to Alewives again And that he commanded his Curat to marry a couple in a private house without any licence and that he suffered divers to preach which peradventure had not any licence and which were suspected persons and of evil life It was said by Henden that they cannot by the Statute of primo Eliz. cap. 1. meddle with such matters of such a nature but only examine heresies and not things of that nature and that the High-Commissioners at Lambeth certified to them that they could not procéed in such things and advised them to dismiss it But they would not desist and the Iudges Richardson being absent granted a prohibition if cause were not shewed to the contrary Note it was said by the Iustices a discontinuance could not be after verdict Humbleton against Bucke THeophilus Humbleton was Plaintiff in an Assumpsit against Bucke and declares that whereas there was a controversie between one Palmer who pretended to be Lord of the soyl and the Inhabitants of such a Village concerning Common in ripa maritima which Palmer claimed to be his own soyl The Tenants claim common there and a liberty to cut grass and make hay of it and to carry it away Palmer incloses the soyl Humbleton enters upon the place enclosed and also takes the grass being one of the Tenants And Palmer brought a Trespass against him and then Bucke assumes to the Plaintiff in consideration of a Iugg of Beer and in consideration that the Plaintiff in the Trespass hanging against him would plead a Plea in maintenance of their title of Common he immediatly would pay to him the half of his expences or if he failed of that he would pay him forty pounds And further he said that he pleaded not guilty in that action of Trespass which was found for him and that he expended so much money the half of which the Defendant refused to pay to him c. The Defendant pleads non defendit sectam in maintenance of their Common which was found against him And Davenport moved in arrest of Iudgement because that he ought to have pleaded such a Plea by which the title of Common might come in question but when he pleads not guilty he disclaims the matter of Common And also the word immediatly is not to be taken so strictly that he should pay the money in the same instant c. But the Plaintiff must declare what costs he had expended and then he shall have reasonable time by the Statute to pay the money But Athowe answered that the verdict which was in the Kings Bench helps him For it was there found that that land was the Kings wast and that Palmer was not owner of the soyl and therefore for that his plea was good for the title of Common cannot come in question Richardson Chief Iustice said that that is not a maintenance of the title of Common against Palmer First he cannot give that verdict in evidence in a prescription for the Common and the maintenance by that Plea of not guilty is for the soyl and not for the Common and whoever is owner of the soyl the title of Common is not specially against Palmer but it is general against every one in the world And so was the opinion of Harvey and Crook And Crook said that although the verdict had found the Assumpsit and so admitted that that plea was for maintenance of the title yet that shall not bind us For if a verdict finds matter which is repugnant or a thing which cannot come in question it shall not bind us But by Iustice Yelverton it was said That because the Iury have found the Assumpsit they have admitted all the residue And for that we do not doubt of it no more than the Iury have decreed As in an Ejectione firm If they be at issue upon the collateral matter it shall be admitted that there was an ejectment and so it was adjudged But this cause was deferred to another time to be argued more c. Meridith Mady against Henry Osan aliis MEridith Mady brought debt against Henry Osan for that he and 5 others were bound to perform the Arbitrament of thrée elected by them and the Plaintiff concerning all tithes and all other matters of controversie between them and that they still and all the Parishioners should perform and stand to the award made c. And upon breach of the award made was the action brought For the award was that when any of the Parishioners clip their sheep they ought to give notice to Mady the Parson to the intent that he or his Servants may be there And the Defendant did not give notice c. The Defendant by rejoynder pleads that Allen and others that they were Deputies to receive the Tithe-wool and that they or one of them were present at the clipping and so they demur Athowe said that notice ought to be given to the Parson himself for perchance he would be there himself had he notice And for that the breach alleged is not answered And also he said that they or some of them were present and does not name him as he ought for he may come in issue c. Richardson If the Arbitriment was made for some things within the submission and some things without It is good for those things that are within and void for the residue And although the Parishioners did not submit yet it is good because the six are bound for them Hutton said that the Award for the notice is not good for it is not well assigned where the notice should be given And an Arbitrement ought to be reasonable but it is unreasonable that he ought to inquire Mady wheresoever he is to give him notice as Cook 77. Salmons Case Crook said that the Award is
the Iustices it should be a confirmation during the life of the Feme If Iudgement be given in an action at Common law the Chancellor cannot alter or meddle with the Iudgement given against him But he may proceed against the Person for a corrupt conscience because he took advantage of the Law against his conscience quod nota c. William Watsons Case AN action of Battery was brought against William Watson for battery committed by him insimul cum I. Watson And Iudgment was given against him and dammages and levyed and payed to the Plaintiff And after in another Action which was brought against I. Watson and he also was found guilty And Diggs moved in arrest of Iudgement for that that he had recoveted and had execution against W. Watson But by the Court Where several actions are brought against two for the same battery and a recovery is had against the one and an action is brought against the other and that found also The Court can never intend that to be the same Battery Because he may commit 20 Batteries in one day But if he may take any advantage of the first recovery it ought to be shewed in pleading But if there be but one Original against both and several Declarations produced when he hath recovered he hath dammages against the other But if he recover against the other before he had execution against the first Then he had his election to have whether dammages given against the first or the dammages given against the other And Coo. lib. 11.56 Heydons Case by Richardson is to the same effect Eve against Wright Eve brought a Replevin against Wright who was known as Bayliff to the Lord Peters For that the Lord Peters had a Court Léet within the Mannor of Writtle And that he distreined for an amerciament upon the Plaintiff at that Court Leet of the Lord c. And upon issue that he had not such a Léet The Iurors found that the Lord Peters at the time when c. had a Leet within the Mannor and that the Tenants ought to come to his Léet But also they found that the Warden and Fellows of New College in Oxford had a Rectory also within the Mannor of Writtle called the Roman fee And that they time out of mind c. had a Léet within that Rectory and that the Plaintiff is a Resiant within the Roman fee But whether upon the whole matter the Lord Peters had a Leet upon all the Resiants within the Mannor of Writtle they prayed the discretion of the Court in that And it was said by Richardson That the matter is found expresly for the Lord Peters And if the Court séemed to be agréed then he assess'd dammages and that Verdict was clearly for the Defendant And if the matter in Law might well come in question as the Iurors intend scilicet whether a Person will be compellable to two Léets yet Iudgement shall be given for the Lord Peters For it might be a general Leet of the Hundred or a special Leet within a Mannor within the Hundred As it is expresly 21 E. 3.34 And the Case of the Countess of Northumberland and Devonshire was in this Court before this time agreed Crook Iustice 18 Iac. Banc. Reg. One Cooks and Sables Case there was agreed to this purpose Though a man is not compellable to be attendant to two Leets although they be held at several daies Yet by that Custom they may be attendant Like to Walgraves Case which was adjudged in this Court That a Mannor may be held by Copy of another And that the Lord of a Copyhold-Mannor may grant Copyhold And this Iudgement was affirmed good in the Kings Bench in a Writ of Error For Custome hath abolisht that And the opinion of the Court was That he cannot be attendant on two Leets if they be held at several daies It was said by Richardson That the Lord of the Roman fee shall not be Subject to the Leet of the Lord Peters As appears by 21 E. 3.33 And Crook said That that Book was good Law For there when the party is amerced in the one Court he cannot be punished in the other Court for the same offence And afterwards Richadson and the whole Court said That he himself shall be subject to another Court for his resiance or otherwise he should be exempt from every Leet Humbletons Case MOre of this you have before Now they afterwards come and the Case was recited in some thing different from the former scilicet That there being such a Communication as afore the consideration was That Palmer having now brought an Action against him he should defend the said Sute in maintenance of their Tytle of Common and that immediatly after Iudgement given he should pay him half his costs or 40 l. Vpon which this Assumpsit is brought And the Issue was Whether he defended the Sute in maintenance of their Title of Common and it was found against the Defendant And by the whole Court the Plaintiff had well declared the consideration For the words are that he maintain the Title against Palmer for the promise was after the acttion brought And the Plaintiff is not to prescribe what Plea hee 'll plead but that he defend that Sute And then when Palmer is not owner of the Soyle as appears in the evidence in the Kings Bench. And so if a pretence to common fail he should be punisht for a Trespass where he ought not Palmer being an Introcer upon the King And every Commoner may break the Common if it be inclosed Although he does not put cattel in immediately But he may infriender by the other Commoners or his Tenents and his Title of Common only excuses him of the Trespass And also the Iury had found that it was in maintenance of the Title of Common expresly And so Iudgement was entred for the Plaintiff pleno consensu Dorothy Owen against Owen Price DOrothy Owen brought an action of the Case against Owen Price upon a trover of Conversion of one Load of Wheat and one other of Barley within the Rectory of Broody And upon not guilty the Iury found a special Verdict to this effect viz. Marmaduke Bishop of St. Davies seised of the Rectory of Broody and a Mannor parcell of the Bishoprick 3 August 27 El. makes a Lease of them being formerly demised to Anne-Davyes and the two Daughters P. and C. habendum a die datus for their lives successively viz. to A. and her Assigns for her life rendring the antient rent and afterwards the first of September 27 El. makes a Letter of Attorny to I. S. to enter in the Rectory and Mannor and there to deliver seisin secundam formam Cartae which he did accordingly The Lease is confirmed the Bishop dies and Wilburn his Successor accepts the rent of A. and without any entry makes a second Lease for two lives to the Defendant and he is translated Laude the next Successor before any acceptance makes another Lease for
by Attorny the Deed is void But now the grand doubt is whether the livery after the day by Attorny be good I will agree that if the letter of Attorny was made the same day that the deed bore date the livery is void For it shal not be in the power of an Attorny to invalidate or validate the lease made by an other So if a letter of Attorny be contained in a Charter of feoffment or be in another Deed delivered at the same day The delivery upon that Deed shall be nought And the Attorney by his livery cannot make the lease or feoffment good no more than in Bucklers Case an atturnment can make a Grant good 9 Iac. com banc rot 1414. Walter and Dean and Chapters Case of Worcester cited before In a Writ of covenant There a lease was made by E. for three lives bearing date the 10 of Novemb. 42. E. and a letter of Attorney to deliver seisin The Attorney delivered seisin a year after when two rent daies were incurred And it was doubted whether that livery was good because that two rent daies were passed before he had executed his Authority And it was adjudged good And it was not like the Lord Cromwells Case 2 Rep. Where a performance of a Condition for the avoidance of an advowson was void no time being limitted For in Case of authority it may be executed 10 years after So that what the Feoffor himself may do he may give authority to another to do that For if he be bed-rid or other infirmity shall the law so fetter him that what he can do himself he cannot in the same Case do by any other For although you may say that he may make a new lease yet perhaps he is tyed by Covenants or Obligations so by which he shall be worse intangled And the reason of the expectancy of the Frank-tenement also which an Attorney may make good or bad a lease of another is included Because where it is mischievous to none the law does not envy the Ease of the party as Combes Case is A Surrender by an Attorney of a Copihold is good and we can you know appear by Attorney in actions and acknowledge Iudgements But it will be objected that livery by Attorney is not good without a Charter of Feoffment as Kirkby said 16 H. 7. fol. 51. Plo. 6. And if those Books are not law Yet Greenwood and Tilers Case before recited will resolve that doubt That the Deed is not void if the livery be after and if the Entry be presently he is a Tenent at will or a Disseisor as it is in Bucklers Case For it cannot be made good by any thing after Yet the Déeds remain or otherwise his acceptance did not bar him I confess that an Authority to make livery cannot be made by Paroll as 10 H. 8. 11 H. 4. for it may be revoked by Paroll As a Will which cannot be made but by writing yet it may be revoked by Paroll 26 As But an authority to make a Lease is made by Paroll 30 E. 3.31 32. If a Déed purporting an Estate in Fee simple be read to the Feoffor who is an illiterate man to pass only an Estate tail And a Letter of Attorney was to deliver seisin secundum formam Chartae which is well read to him Yet it was resolved that all is void And that he may plead it was not his deed to the letter of Attorny For if the Deed be void the Letter of Attorney which releases to it is void also But I conceive if it be put in a Deed that gives Land a die datus and the Attorney authorised by express words delivers seisin three daies before that livery may be good And then it is more strong when he appoints his Attorney after the day as it is in this Case A Feoffment made from a day past is good and the time before the livery is idle And for another reason in Case of Assurances such nice constructions ought not to be made And because there is no difference whether livery be made in Person or by Attorney Now there is a difference between an Authority and Conveyance H. 20. 40 Eliz. in an Ejectione firm in this Court Marriots Case A Charter of Feoffment was made to the Lessor of the Plaintiffs 10 Septemb. And the Feoffee reciting that that Charter was made the 11 of September authorised him to take livery secundum formam Chartae And it was resolved because the date was mistaken although all other circumstances agreed Because that the authority ought to be taken strictly that that is a void livery But in Dyer 116. A Lease is made the 30 day of August for 21 years and afterwards the Lessor reciting that the Lease was made the 6th of August demises the Land habendum after the first Lease determined And it was resolved to be a good Lease because that the beginning and ending of the Lease agreed And in the Case of Marriot it was resolved Secondly That an Attorny cannot be without Deed. Thirdly Although that the Feoffor in person makes livery yet it is void Because that the Attorney cannot take the livery upon that Deed without that authority But where that one may do that thing himself and he gives the Attorney the same authority It is all one if Feoffment be made to I. S. and I. S. makes an Attorney to take livery whereof livery is made yet is good And it is all one as if livery had been made to I.S. himself 19 H. 6. A Feoffment upon Condition that he enfeoff I. S. void by the Statute of 1 Eliz. or voidable and it seemed it was but voidable by the Successor by entry or by action You may sée that the words are as plain as may be They shall be utterly void to all intents and purposes But quid haeret in litera For her meaning was That it shall be void by the Successor and that construction had alwaies been made 3 Rep. 19. 11 Rep. 73. So the Statute 23 H. 6. of Sheriffs had been expounded 7 E. 4. 4. There cannot be non est factum pleaded And upon the Statute of Vsury That an usurious contract shall be void Yet the Statute ought to be pleaded Acts of Parliament where there are many doubts shall be expounded by the Common law For that that at the Common law a Free-hold cannot he helped but by Entry 11 H. 7. There is a diversity between a Lease for years and a Lease for life Dyer 222. And it is the dignity of a free-hold to reduce it by free-hold Then if it stood with the Common law It is not to be void without Entry For as a solemn Ceremony created the same must defeat it The Statute shall be so expounded And if it was in Case of a lease years of a Bishop it shall not be void without Entry 3 Rep. Pennants Case Dyer 229. 8 H. 5. 11 E. 3. Commen 139. It was never the meaning of the Act
one of them dyed before partition yet their heirs should hold severally according to the intent of the Will for otherwise the Surviver should hold place which against the will of the Devisor Northens Case A Man seised of a Mannor having all the Goods of Felons de se within the same Mannor and makes a Lease for years of parcell of the same Mannor to a man and afterwards makes another Lease of the same Lands to commence after the determination surrender or forfeiture of the first Lease The first Lessée was a Felo de se the Lord Lessor of the Mannor enters into the lands Leased as forfeit and the second Lessée ousts him and it séemed to Crook that the Entry was lawfull enough Harvey said That the Lessor to whom the Frank-Tenement belonged entring into the land the Frank-Tenement drowned the lesser Estate and the Lease for years is extinct in the Frank-Tenement And it was said That therefore the first Lease extinguisht But if before that the Lord had aliened the Mannor saving to him the liberty and after had entred for the Forfeiture the second Lessée could not enter for it is not any determination of the first Lease Crook said That if the Lessor infeoffed the first Lessée of the Mannor that is a determination of the first Lease and the second Lessée may enter The Bishop of Winchester against Markham THomas Bishop of Winchester brought an Action upon the Statute of West 1 cap. 4. de scandalis magnatum against Markham for that he preferred a slanderous Bill against him before the President of the Councel surmising that he was a covetous and malicious Bishop And the Opinion of the Court was That the words were sufficient to maintain the Action A man seised of a Mannor held in Chivalry devises two parts of it to two men in severalty and all the Remnant he devises to his heirs in Tayle the remainder over in Fée Hutton said It seems to me that the devise is voyd for the third part to the heir for he might devise the two parts by his Testament and he had done all that he could doe by the Statute and then the devise of the third part is out of the warranty of the Statute for it is not reason that by the limitation of the third part the which he could not doe that the devise of the residue which was one time good shall be defeated which Harvey granted but Crook to the contrary for although the two parts were devised by the premisses of the Testament and the third part in the end of it yet in operation of Law the one part is not before the other but the will is intire and took effect in all its parts at one and the same time by the death of the Devisor By which it seemed for the benefit of him in the remainder that he shall take the third part devised to him for if a man seised of three Acres of land held in Chivalry and devises them severally to three severall persons in Fee the heir shall have the third part of every of the three Acres and not the Acre last devised which Hutton granted So also for the benefit of a third person he ought to be judged in the third part as a Purchaser and not of an Estate by descent and so is the better Opinion in 3 H. 6. But if he had devised the Tenements to his Son in Taile without limitation over of the remainder there he might choose to be in of the Estate limited by the Devise or as heir Hutton I doubt of that for the Book is not agreed 3 H. 6. Wilkinsons Case THe Baron seised of lands makes a Feoffment upon condition to enfeoff him and his wife for life the remainder over to a stranger in Fee Atthow demanded if the Feoffee shall be bound to make the Feoffment before request made by the Baron Hutton and Crook thought that a request ought to be made by the husband And because the particular Estate which is the foundation of the remainder limited to the stranger ought to be made to the husband who is party to the condition and it is his will to take the Estate for life or refuse it and the Feme is at his will But if the Baron dyes then it behooves him to make the Feoffment to the wife without request because she is a stranger to the condition by Act in Law And so where she dyes also before the Feoffment the Estate ought to be made to him to whom the remainder is limited without any request Yelverton But if the condition was to re-enfeoffe the Feoffor and a stranger there it behoves the Feoffee to tender the Feoffment to the stranger for he had not notice of the condition and he ought to be party to all the Estate And by the Livery made to him the Feoffor shall take well enough Waterton against Loadman VVaterton makes a Feoffee to the use of Loadman in Fee to the use of another in Tayle the remainder to his right heirs in Fee Cestui que use in Tayle dyes the first Feoffees enter for to recontinue the use Crook said That when Tenant in Tayle in use makes a Feoffment nothing passes but for his own life For it had been agreed where cestui que use pur vie makes a Feoffment in Fee for it was not a Forfeiture of his Estate because nothing passed but for his life then when the Feoffee dyes during the life of cestui que use in Tayle that cannot be any descent of the Fee but as an Estate for life the which determines by the death of cestui que use in Tayle And all the Iustices were of the same Opinion for the descent was when he had not any Title of entry for by the Feoffment he had a Title during the life of cestui que use in Tayle Wherefore during his life they could not enter nor make continuall claim But if the descent had been after the death of cestui que use in Tayl then otherwise it shall be for they had a Title to enter before the descent and by their laches they are told of that Hutton seemed That the Feoffees cannot enter in that case for they cannot have the same Estate that they had before the alienation of cestui que use in Tayl for by the Feoffment the Estate of the Fee simple which was to their right heirs passes clearly and it is lawfully in the Feoffee Wherefore if they enter to re-continue the use in Tayl where they shall he seised of another Estate where they shall be seised of a Fee simple also and so there shall be two Estate of Fee simple of the same land which is inconvenient But the Iustices said That cestui que use in Tayl had no other remedy unless by the Entry of the Feoffees Harris against Marre A Man seised of certain lands in Fee makes a Feoffment in Fee to his use and afterwards makes his will by which he devises That
said Goe not to such a one c. it is actionable without question Slander of one in his Trade will bear an action And so all being connexed alike it ought to be intended that he killed him in respect of his skill In Cases of Defamation Sir George Hasting's Case Thou didst lye in wait to kill me with a Pistoll were actionable So if one touch another in respect of his skill in that that he professes it will maintain an action c. And Yelverton to the same purpose for there is a difference between a Profession and a particular Calling As if words are spoken of one that is a Iustice of Peace he ought to shew that he was then a Iustice of Peace for he is removable and may be changed every Quarter Sessions But as to a Calling the Calling of every man is his Free hold 43 E. 3. Grant of an Annuity to one pro consilio and he professes Divinity Physick and Law there the grant is pro consilio generally for Physick if that be his usuall Profession And it is intended that a man alwayes dyes in his Calling If he said to I. S. Thou art a murtherer it shall not be intended of Hares for the Iudges are not to search so far for construction Loquendum ut vulgus intelligendum et sapiens If one sayes of a Merchant Put not your Son to him for hee 'l starve him to death These words are actionable for that that it comes within the compasse of the disgrace of his Profession And so of a School-master Put not your Son to him for hee 'l come away as very a dunce as he went Harvey If one sayes of a Iudge He is a corrupt Iudge it cannot be meant of his body to be corrupt but it shall be intended of his Profession Peitoes Case before HEnden for the Defendant the Case is thus A Rent is granted for life out of Lands which descend to the Heir and he makes a Lease of parcell of the Land to the Grantee for years who surrenders the term Whether the Rent shall revive or suspend during the term And it was said by him it shall revive First For that that it is the act of him who is lyable to the Rent to accept the surrender And there is a difference where there is a determination barely by the act of the party there it shall not be revived For the first 21 H. 7. 9. Tenant in Tayl of a Rent is infeoffed of Land and he makes a Feoffment of Land with a warranty to B. with Voucher as of land discharged of that Rent And so it is 19 H. 6. 55. Ascue put this Case Grantee of a rent in Fee and Donee in Tayl of Land infeoffs the Grantee who grants that over and afterwards the issue in Tayl recovers in a Formedon yet the rent shall not be revived But if it had been the joynt act of the parties as so by surrender it should have been revived First It is clear that if a Chattell personall be suspended by Sute it shall be gone for ever As if a Feme marries the Obligor 11 H. 7. 25. unless suspension be in anothers right if it be by the act of the party there it shall be revived As if a Feme Executrix marry with the Obligor and he dyes the suspension is determined and they are revived against the Executors 7 H. 6. 2. In one Gascoines Case Lessee surrenders to the Lessor upon condition the rent be suspended but if the Lessor enter for conditions broken the Rent is revived Which in effect is our case A rent is granted to the Daughter and the land descends to her and her other Sister who make partition The Rent is revived for it is the joynt act of both parties Plow 15. If a man had a Rent and disseises the Tenant of the land and after the Disseisee re-enters Where there is a revivor of the land there is a revivor of the Rent for the disseisin was the cause of the suspension and that now is gone Secondly Because that when the Lessee for years surrenders the term is determined to all purposes and the Lessor is in of his Estate is Fee and there is a diversity of surrender in respect of a stranger for to a stranger it may have Essence after surrender But as to himself it is otherwise extinct And he cannot say that it had any Essence 5 H. 5. 12. But in respect of a stranger it ha's continuance as if an Executor surrenders yet it shall be assets And all acts done upon Lessee for ltfe before surrender shall have a continuance after And so he prayed Iudgement for the Avowant But more after Wakeman against Hawkins IT was said That if an Executor was sued in this Court by Originall he shall not put in Bayl. But if he be arrested in an inferiour Court and removed by Habeas corpus he ought to put in Bayl. Stamford and Coopers Case STamford and Coopers Case was thus I. S. acknowledges a Statute to Cooper the 22 January and afterwards he confesses a Iudgement to Stamford the 23 of January next ensuing the Statute And it is extended And Stamford brought a Scire fac against Cooper to wit now because he ought not to have the land by Elegit And the Question was whether the Iudgement by relation shall defeat the Statute And it was resolved That the Iudgement shall have relation to the Essoin day which is the 20 day of Ianuary for that is the first day of the term legally and the fourth day after is the first day of the Term open Dyer 361. Pla. 10. A Release was pleaded after the last continuance and it bore date the 21 of Ianuary which was after the day of Essoin de Octab. Hil. And for that nought because that it came late for it ought to have been after the last continuance and before the last day c. 33 H 6. 45. Nisi prius was taken after the day of the return and before the fourth day after and adjudged nought because that the day of the return which is the Utas is the first day of the term and the fourth day after but a day of Grace and that is the difference If a man be obliged to pay money the first day of the Term he shall not pay it but upon the fourth day after for that is the first day in all common acceptance But in all legall proceedings the first day is the Essoin day And so it was adjudged 16 Eliz. And in the Kings Bench it was in one Williams Case A Iudgement was given the 20 of Ianuary and a Release of all Errours the 21 Ianuary and adjudged that that bars the Iudgement given the 20 Ianuary although it was not entred the fourth day after A Iustice in the Kings Bench examined an Infant upon inspection the Essoin day and found him to be under age and would not permit him to confess a Iudgement although that he would
arrear that the Remainder shall be to a Stranger that Remainder is not good Hutton said that in my opinion my Brother Atthow spoke well and so it was affirmed Bateman against Ford. AN action of the Case was brought against Ford who had called the Plaintiff Thief and that he had stollen from him a yard of Velvet and a yard of Damask The Defendant said that he said that the Plaintiff had taken and bribed from him as much mony as he had for a yard of Velvet and Damask and justifies Hitcham said that the Iustification is not good For the words that he justifies do not amount to so much as to affirm a Felony in the Plaintiff where the Plaintiff counts that the Defendant slandered him of a Felony Hutton said What difference is there when you say that I have bribed your Horse and when you say that I have robbed you of your Horse Henden one may take Goods and yet it is not felony Termino Pasc Anno 4. Car. Regis Com. Banc. Norris against Isham IN an Eject firm by Norris against Isham These things happened in Evidence to the Iury. First it was cited by Richardson and Hutton to be Hurtltons Case That an Eject firm cannot be of a Mannor Because that there cannot be an Ejectment of the Services But if they do express further a quantity of acres it is sufficient It was said by Crook Iustice and not denyed That if a Lease is made of 5 acres to try a Title in an â—…eject firm And of the 3 acres he will make a lease But in the other a he will not If the livery be in the 3 acres the other 2 does not pass Part of the Evidence was That the Countess of Salisbury being seised of the Lands in Question makes a Lease of them by words of Demise Bargain and Sale to Iudge Crook for a Month to begin the 29 September habendum a datu and it was deliveted the 3 of September And the same day he bargains and sells the Reversion Davenport Because that no Entry appears by the Lessees by vertue of the Demise he submitted to the Court If there was any such Reversion in the Grantor he bring in possession And this difference was a greed That if one demises Lands for years and Grants the Reversion before Entry of the Lessée The Grant is void As it is in Saffins Case Cook 5. 12. 46. But if a man bargain and sell for years and grants the Reversion before Entry of the Lessee it is good For the Statute transfers the Possession to the use As if a man bargain and sells in fee or for life and the Deed is inrolled The Bargainee is in possession of the Frank-tenement And so it is of a Lease for years which is a Chattell And by Crook In the Court of Wards that very point was resolved Davenport Also there are words of Demise and Bargain and Sale before which the Lessee had his Election to take by which he would As Sir Rowland Heyards Case is But by Hutton and it was not denyed He should be in by the Bargain and Sale before Election For that is more for his advantage Further the Evidence was That George Earl of Salisbury made a Lease of those Lands which were a Mannor And makes a Conveyance from himself for life with divers Remainders and then to the use of the Daughter or Daughters of the said George And the heirs males of thrir bodies the remainder to the heirs of the body of the said George c. and had 3 Daughters to whom the Remainder The first dyed without Issue the 2 d. dyed having Issue male the 3 d. bargains sells all her half part and pur part to Edw. Earl of Salisbury Who now being seised of a third part of the Estate of Inheritance and of the other two parts for his life and the lives of the 3 Daughters suffers a common recovery by the name of the moyety of the Mannor And the doubt was what passed Richardson By that there is not passed but the moyety of the third part Hutton Crook and Yeiverton were on the contrary opinion and said that by that All the third part passed also Yelverton If a man be seised of the mannor of Dale and buys half for life of another in fee and makes a Feoffment of the half of the Mannor The moyety which he had in Fee shall pass And there shall be a forfeiture for no part Which was agreed by the Court. If a man be seised of the third part and grants the moyety perhaps the moyety of the third part only passes But he is seised of all Richardson There are several Estates and moyety goes to that Estate which he had in the Mannor For when I grant more than I can grant that which passes passes Crook I had the third part of a Mannor and grant the moyety of the Mannor all my third part passes But in the Bargain and Sale the words were part et pur part Which as it was passed all And also the Covenant to the Lessor The Recovery was of the half part pur part And by Hutton Crook Yelverton All was intended to be recovered And then the word Moyety carries that tresbien Richardson That Indentures of Covenant much mends the Case Another Question upon the Evidence was Whether when a Bargain and sale is made of Lands And the Bargainee before inrollment makes a Lease for years and afterwards it is enrolled If the Lease now be good Richardson and Yelverton It shall be that although it be after acknowledgement and before inrollment yet it is naught And by Yelverton and Crook it was so adjudged in Bellingham and Hortons Case That if one sells in fee and before inrollment the Bargainee bargains and sells to another And afterwards comes an Inrollment That second Bargain and sale is void And an other Question was Pasc 4. Car. Com. Banc. If one makes a Lease for years by Indenture of Lands which he had not If the Iury be estopped to find that no Lease And by Richardson If the finding that no Lease be subject to an attaint But they should find the special matter And then the Iudges would judge that a good Lease And Sergeant Barkley cited Rawlins's Case Coo. 4. 43. to that purpose Crook and Hutton against him And Crook said That it was adjudged in London in Samms case That that is not an Estoppel to the Iury. Which was affirmed by Hutton And that they may find the special matter And then the Iudges ought to find that it is not a good Lease And Hutton said That there is a difference between a special Verdict and pleading in that case For in speciall pleading and Verdict is confost by all parties That he had not any thing in the Lease And then the Iudges gave Iudgment accordingly The King against Clough IN the case of a Quare impedit by the King against Clough before Richardson shewed how the Quare
payment of 72 l. And he alleges that the Defendant did not become bound in the Statute but that he himself delivered possession as soon as he could And upon non-assumpsit pleaded it was found for the Plaintiff And Atthowe moved in Arrest of Iudgement It is not a good consideration or promise He said that there was a Colloquium and an Agreement and in Consideration thereof c. That is not a good Consideration And the second Consideration that he delivered c. tam citius quam potuit It is not good for it is uncertain For it may be a year or two years or a day after And the other promise to pay 8 l. in the hundred deferendo diem And there is not any deferring the day for it is not shewn that it is due before and that he shall be bound in a Statute and that no sum is expressed which is uncertain Richardson There is a good Consideration and a good promise There was an Agreement touching the sale of a Banck and an acre of Land and take all alike and that perfects the Agreement And it is plain that the Agreement was for 72 l. and the delivery of the possession or making of assurance is not any Consideration But the promise is all the Consideration And he might have omitted the averment of the delivery of the possession But there is a cross and mutual promise upon which the Action might lye As many times it had been adjudged in this Court and in the Kings Bench. And for the words tam citius quam potuit the Law appoints the time scilicet so soon as he can go remove his goods things out of the House c. As in Case where one sels goods for mony the Vendee shall have for telling the mony And so here at the most till request be made And although it is not expressed in what sum he shall be bound by the Statute Yet it appears that it is for the payment of 72 l. And then the sum ought to be double in which he is bound As if one arbitrate that he pay 72 l. and enters into an Obligation for the payment of it That shall be in the double sum In which Case he said that he could shew several Iudgements of it Crook If one promise to me divers things some of which are certain It is good But also for the time of the delivery there the Law adjudges of that And the sum of the Statute shall be double as it had been said But for the Case of the Arbitrament it is adjudged contrary as 5 Salmons Case And admit that it be uncertain It is a reciprocal Assumpsit and an Action will lye upon that Hutton If a promise to enter into an Obligation there ought to be a reasonable sum as the Case requires for it And in this Case it being in a Statute which is more penal than an Obligation I conceive the same sum of 72 l. will serve And for the time of the delivery of the possession It ought to be in convenient time or upon request As 2 H. 6. And the Law adjudges of the inconveniences of time And although that he fails in the sum of his promises the end of his promise is good enough and the other is not concluded by that Action But he might allege other considerations in actions brought by him Yelverton There is but one promise against another And the sum in the Statute ought to be the same sum As the Case where an Annuity is granted of 20 l. untill the Grantee be advanced to a benefice That ought to be a benefice of the same value But I doubt whether it should be double Harvey It is there by way of promise And then one promise is the consideration of another and there is no breach for it ought to be upon request And then the Action being brought upon that side the request cannot be alleged and one promise good against another Then be the sum what it will ought the Defendant to be bound single or double The Assumpsit not being performed all agreed that the Action well lies A Verdict against an Infant NOte that it was said If a verdict pass against an Infant and the Defendant dies after verdict and it is shewn Iudgement shall not be given against him For the Court does not give Iudgement against a dead man and that is matter apparent and the other is doubtfull matter Fortescue against Jobson A Man seised of certain Lands hath Issue two Sons and devises one part of his Land to the eldest Son and his Heirs and the residue to the youngest Son and his Heirs And if both dye without Issue that then it shall be sold by his Executors and dyes The eldest Son dies without Issue And the opinion of Hutton That the Executors could not sell any part before that both are dead For the youngest Son hath an Estate tayl in Remainder in the part of his eldest Brother So that the Executors cannot sell it And if they do sell it yet that shall not prejudice the younger Brother So long as he hath Heirs of his Body Richardson said That although that the eldest Son aliens and after dies without Issue That the Exâ—…cutors may make sale For that that no interest was given to them But only an Authority to sell the Lands Dicksons Case A Writ de partitione fac against two the one appears and grants the Partition the other makes default Hutton said a Writ shall issue to the Sheriff to make Partition but cesset executio untill the other comes For Partition cannot be by Writ but between the whole Otherwise it is of Partition by agreement Rothwells Case IF a Man makes a Lease for life and the Lessee for life makes a Lease for years And afterwards purchases the reversion and dies within the Term yet the Lease for years is determined And the Heir in reversion may oust him and avoid But if one will make a Lease for years where he had nothing and afterwards purchases the Land and the Lessor dies If that be by Deed indented The Heir shall be estopped to avoid it By Hutton Crook and Richardson Sir Charles Foxes Case THe Case of Sir Charles Fox was now moved again by Henden It was objected that there ought to be an express demand at the day or otherwise he ought not to distreyn But first it appears that he had a good Title to the Rent then there being a verdict found he ought to have Iudgement upon the Statute But not admit that Yet the Demand is good for the words are legitime petit and no time expressed And although the Demand is after the day yet it is sufficient for all the arrerages for the words are tunc et ibidem but c. And the Difference is between the Demand which intitles to the Action and to the thing it self Maunds Case 7 Rep. 20. 40 Eliz. between Stanley and Read Where it was agreed That the day
Gammons Case before IT was now moved again And the Court was of the same opinion For take the sale for a reasonable price and the Conclusion alike and by that the price appears And although he said 19 l. he might have found less Secondly the Request shewen in the end shall be referred to all the particular sums reservando singula singulis And Harvey said He was of Councel in the Kings Bench Where the Writ was pro diversis barrellis of Bear And in his Declaration he shews that at one day he delivered one and at an other day another And it was ruled that the Declaration well maintained the Writ Thornills Case A Parson libels for the tithes of young Cattel preserved for the Cart. And the Question was as before Whether in such Cases a Custome ought to be surmised And Crook Fitz-Herberts nat brev is That of right Tithes shall not be paid for such things Richardson In all such Cases the Parson ought not to have Tithes if there be not a Custome alleged by which the Parson had any thing or recompence or by which his other Tithe is better And he said that he had searched the Books and the Book of Entries And there is not any such Case but some surmise is made as for that that he had tithe of Corn in specie where the Land is inclosed And so the Corn better Hutton It ought to be tryed if the thing in his nature be tithable or if there be any usage to discharge it or not as the Cattel are in their nature titheable then you cannot prohibit it But the usage ought to be surmised so And it may be Law as the Parson had better tithes Harvey If a Libell be for tithes of Hedgeing and Fenceing there a surmise ought to be made to discharge that But when it is for tithes of Heyfars which in apparency ought to be spared by the Law of the Land Otherwise it is c. Richardson For the herbage of those Heyfars tithe is due by the Ecclesiasticall law And we never can take tithe of them without express custome or other recompence Harvey There was a Case 16 Jac. Com. Banc. A Parson sues for the herbage of Horses and the other alleged that he kept them for the carrying of Coals There he ought to surmise something to be discharged And if he allege that he kept them in his house for serving of Husbandry the other may allege that he kept them to carry Coals and the allegation is traversable Richardson There was a case where the question was A Husbandman keeps an Horse to ride up and down about his business whether he shall pay for the herbage of him And a prohibition in that case was granted But a surmise ought to be made Crook said that in the Kings Bench he had 20 times seen a prohibition granted in such cases without any surmise And a libel is for dry Cattel If it be alleged that they are kept for the Plough the other may allege that he keeps them to sell without that that he keeps them for the plough And before there is any profit of them it is not reason they should be tithable and the Parson shall have the benefit for them after And for hedging it is lex terrae that he shall pay no tithes Richardson It is lex terrae ne consuetudo loci facit legem terrae And if he had used to pay tithes for the Cattel or for hedging he ought not to pay that still If an ignorant man will pay tithes for those things and after upon a livell a prohibition is granted if the other does not allege a custom the prohibition shall stand or if they allege a custom which is found against him no consultation shall be granted And for a Garden penny the reason of that is apparent for otherwise tithes shall be paid in specie And so for Harth-penny if he had always paid it it ought to be paid Hutton If a man had an antient garden for which he paid a penny and that is inlarged of that inlargement tithes ought to be paid in specie Rowe and Dewbancks Case IN a prohibition for slanderous words Brampston shewed cause why a prohibition should not issue The words were That one Harvey and Rowe should report that Mary Marrian should say that Dewbanck and one Anne Rowe were together in such a ones house in an upper Room and that the bed there was tumbled And reported that she said a pox of all Whores and Bawds And that the Husband of Anne Rowe came to demand his wife at the house and they denyed her to be there And that after they were both seen to goe out of a Broomy field and that one should wish he had been in a tree to have seen what they did And he said that a prohibition shall not be granted for that these words may have dubious interpretations for they may be spoken in mirth or in heat as well as to defame But when other words are joyned with them they shall not be granted And these words so cannot be taken but that they were advisedly spoken to slander As in Ayliffs case before when it is added that he lay with such a woman a prohibition shall not be granted Richardson These things are requisite in every action forwords First That the parties of whom the words are spoken be certain Secondly that the words tend to slander By imputing a direct offence that should not be punishable there now there may be a great familiarity and no hurt done And he is not directly charged with any offence as it was in Ayliffes case wherefore it was ruled that a prohibition should issue Eaton against Ayliffe EAton libells against Ayliffe pretending that a seat that the other claimed always belonged to his house and sentence in the spiritual Court was given against Eaton and costs pro falso clamore And he appealed to the Arches and there when they were ready to affirm the sentence he prayed a prohibition And it was moved by Davenport that it might be granted and he cited one Treshams case 33 Eliz. Where in such a case a prohibition was granted after an appeal Richardson There is no cause for any prohibition but in respect of the costs Hutton said it was a double vexation and the party shall not have costs for that Hitcham said they came too late to have a prohibition for the costs Richardson That is not like to the probate of a Will where a thing may fall out tryable at the Common Law But there the principal was tryable at the Common Law for they had it as in right Hutton Seats in the generalty is in the power of the Ordinary to dispose It is the prescription which makes that not tryable at the Common Law And if prescription be made there and it is found that he shall pay costs Richardson All disturbances appertain also to them If it be not upon the Statute of 5 E. 6. But if
is not assets For it is not the money of Manningham but taken by him to pay to another And Richardson said If the party had dyed intestate by the Common law the Administrator is Executor and all things that were to be performed by the Executor are to be performed by the Administrator There was an obligation to A. to pay to the Executors of B. It shall be more doubted there whether it shall be payed to the Administrator But the obligation here is to Manningham himself Now his Executors comprehend Administrators And Needhams case is plain in that And the mention was that the money shall be payed to these that succeed him in his personal Estate Now it was not the intent that it should be lost if he dyed without Executors Crook an action of debt being brought against an Executor upon an obligation plene administravit is pleaded Then Administrator being included in the word Executor there is a good cause of Action And the Court seemed to be of the same opinion Sed adjournatur Fowlers Case FOwler libels for tithes and a Prohibition was prayed upon a suggestion that he came to the Church by Symony By the Court a Prohibition ought to be granted upon a surmise only that he came to the Church by Symony Then Henden shewed That it was found by verdict in the Kings Bench That he came in by Symony And upon that verdict there was a decree in the Court of Wards accordingly And then the Court inclined to grant a Prohibition And the Case here was That Fowler being convicted of Symony the King presents Glapthorn who was admitted instituted and inducted And afterwards he takes another benefice above the value of 8 l. by which the other was void Yet by the assent of the Lord Windsor Patron Fowler continued possession And by Richardson He cannot be any way removed untill laps incurre Strange against Atthowe SIr Hamond Strange brought trespass against Christopher Atthowe And the trespass was done 8 years after but with a continuando unto the time limited by the Statute 21 Iac. And by Richardson the action is toll'd by the Statute For the continuation within the time makes the Trespass within the time And it is not like the Case in Dyer 119 pl. 17. In the turning of a Cock It was adjudged a new diversion for it was a new action But here is not a new act done Richardson the Statute of 21 Iac. may be well pleaded in this discharge of that action And you ought to commence for all not done after the time of the limitation within the Statute otherwise the Statute should be overthrowed For by that means the continando may punish a trespass done 20 years past with the alleging of a continuando Hutton Crook of the same opinion Yelverton on the contrary who said that it was not material if the Statute was overthrown But the other Iustices said it was a good Statute Crook Suppose that you cannot prove your continuando for in trespass it is not requisite indéed to prove it For it is only put for increase of damages But Hitcham said Now by the Statute the continuando shall be proved Then by Richardson Hutton and Crook You will make a fraction That the trespass shall be partly upon the Statute and partly upon the Common law It was ruled again according to that before That when a Will was proved in the Prerogative Court The Executor or Administrator may be cited out of â—…e Diocess where he lives to the Prerogative Court Because that the Will cannot be executed a libi than where it was proved And so that is out of the Statute of 23 H. 8. But by Richardson Hutton and Yelverton Where a Will is proved in the Prerogative Court That it shall be proved in the proper Diocess also of the Executor then it may be executed there Richardson said The privilege for them of the upper House continued 30 daies after the Session where the Parliament of the lower House but for 20 daies And that the privilege extended to Person Goods and Lands Nortons Case Mich. 4. Car. Com. Banc. IN Nortons Case before A Consultation was granted because of a Custome alleged and found for the party But by Crook and Yelverton There are divers Presidents where in that Case a Prohibition was granted without alleging a Custome Allen against Westby before IT was ruled That the Defendant shall not have costs against the Informer they being found against the Informer And Brownlow affirmed that the course of the Court is That upon the Statute the Defendant shall never have costs against the Informer Although Binge cited a President to the contrary Termino St. Mich. Anno 4 Car. Reg. Com. Banc. Gosse against Skipton IN the Court of Requests Gosse borrowed mony of the Testator of Skipton and gave a term whereof he was possessed for five years to him for security by Indenture with a Proviso of redemption And shews further in his Bill that there was a verbal Agréement between them That if the mony was not paid at the day the Testator should take the profits growing upon the Land And if the profits amounted to the value of the sum of mony that then he shall have his term a-again And that he reaped the profits accordingly which well satisfied him and yet he continued possession of the term Which afterwards came to Skipton and is now expired And so he prayed that the Defendant might account for the profits And the Defendant moved for a Prohibition Richardson Although the trust is contrary to the Indenture yet such an averment is good notwithstanding the Proviso But for that that the Executor shall account to none but the King and the years are now spent And although he occupied the same yet the profits shall be Assets And if it shal be received in the Court of Equity there shall be a Devastavit against the Executor And by the whole Court a Prohibition was granted Rolls against How A Man arrested upon a Latitat makes an Obligation to the Sheriff with a Condition to appear And the Question was if it be good For he may make his appearance by his Attorny Although Hutton thought it was not good For the Law intends that he is in person when he is in custodia Marescall And Brownlow said it was adjudged accordingly when Mr. Tomkins Bayliff of the liberty of St. Andrew took an Obligation in his own name for a personal appearance upon a Latitat At an other day Atthowe moved that the Bond was void For the Statute is general that he shall take a Bond for his appearance And now the Sheriff here had taken a Bond for his personal appearance And there he might answer to the Action by his Attorney But that he ought alwaies to be in custodia Marescal which is meant in proper person and he ought to put in bayl which is good enough It was ruled that Iudgement should be entred for the Plaintiff if cause
charged be to the value of 40 l. per an that will be a good condition and the Obligation shall be forfeit If the condition was that the Land was then of such a value it was presently a breach of the Condition The second matter was whether the breach was well assigned or not And Richards Yelvert held that the breach is not well assigned There are two things in the Covenant one of the Estate another of the value Here may be a breach to be assigned upon the Estate but then it ought to be general For the grant out of all his lands and tenements in Watchfield is not a conclusion to him who had lands and tenements in Watchfield then the Obligation is forfeited As if one be obliged to make a Feofment to I. S. of all his lands which he had by descent in D. If he had no lands there it is not a forfeiture So here But if the rent was granted out of particular land as out of the Mannor of D. There the grantor is included to say but that he was seised of the Mannor of D. which was granted As to this diversity the word praedictis had relation to lands and tenements in Watchfield for no lands were named But the material thing is the value c. And if praedict goes to all the Lands then the breach goes to more than the Covenant and then it is not met with But admit that it goes to all yet it is all one For the intention of the parties was that the value of 40 l. joynture per annum shall be mentioned But the Plaintiff does not mention the value And it is sure that the word praedict may goe to all the lands in Watchfield or to lands of 40 l. And if the Defendant had rejoyned he might have rejoyned generally scil That he was seised of lands in Watchfield in Fee simple and he is not forced to shew his particular estate in the lands And admitting they had gone to tryal upon that issue what might the Iurors find And if they had found the value it is nothing to the breach That is more than was in their charge and so void But Hutton and Harvey on the contrary and said that the breach is well assigned And Hutton took this difference That if the Covenant was that he was seised of such particular lands of such value The breach ought to be assigned in particular also but where it is that he was seised of lands of such a value the breach is now well assign'd here it is a recital of lands of the value of 40 l. per an to that predict has relation And it does not appear to us if he had more lands in Watchfield than of 40 l. per an But these things were agreed by all First that the antient pleading in the time of H. 6. is now changed and the general pleading of all Covenants in the Indenture in form although that the affirmative is good And the Plaintiff ought to shew the particular Covenant broken c. Secondly in the principal Case if the Plaintiff had replyed that he was not seised of lands and tenements in Watchfield in Fee-simple without praedict or deque fuit seise de nullis terris vel tenementis praedictis in Watchfield of the value of 40 l. in modo forma secundum formam conventionis is a good assignment of the breach And the Defendant forced to shew the particulars The Plaintiff discontinued the principal sute and begins again but that he might not doe without the license of the Court as they said Because that they might agree afterwards to give Iudgement Taylors Case TAylor was Plaintiff against Waterford in debt upon an Obligation and the Defendant demanded Oyer of the Condition quae legitur ei in haec verba If the Defendant should pay such costs as should be assist at the Assizes without shewing for what the Obligation should be void And the Plaintiff replies that post confectionem Obligationis Pasch .. 4 Car. Com. Banc. the aforesaid words were written upon the Obligation and the truth is that they were endorsed upon the Obligation by memorandum after the Delivery And Atthowe moved that the Plaintiff might not reply in that manner because that when Oyer of the condition was demanded that was entred for a condition and so was admitted by the Plaintiff And for that he is concluded to say the contrary But Serjeant Davenport replyed on the contrary And said first that the words of themselves will not make a condition It is Litletons case That some words doe not make a condition without a conclusion as what is contingent 39 H. 6. And admit that the words will make a condition yet they were written after delivery 3 H. 8. Kellways reports Hutton If there be an Obligation made of 20 l. if it be written upon the back of the Obligation before the sealing and delivery The intent of this Bond is to pay 10 l. for such costs That is no good condition Which Iustice Harvey only being present agreed And if any thing may be part of the condition it ought to be written before the sealing and delivery But it is no condition if it be written after And by them here is no conclusion but that the Plaintiff may plead that the words were written after sealing and delivery Termino Pasch Anno 5. Car. Regis Com. Banc. Mericke against King IN evidence to the Iury he who had purchased the land in question It was said by the Court he shall not be a witness if he claim under the same title Richardson said that the conveyance may be proved by other circumstances And the same reason was also agreed by the Court That if a Feoffment be made of a Mannor to uses that if the tenants have notice of the feoffment that although they have not notice of the particular uses their attornment to the Feoffees is good For the Feoffees have all the estate And Harvey said that so it was agreed in one Andernes's case Sir Richard Moors Case IT was said in evidence to the Iury. The case was that a man prescribes to have common in 100 acres and shews that he put his cattel in 3 acres without saying that those thrée acres are parcel of the 100 yet good And Hitcham said that so it was adjudged in this Court. And Richardson said it was an Huntingtonshire case Where a man alleged a custom to put his Horses c. And the custom was for Horses and Cows And adjudged good Hutton said there can be no exception to the Witness who is Cozen to the party to hinder his evidence in our law To which all agréed Clotworthy against Clotworthy THe case between Tenkely and Clotworthy was cited One grants an Annuity for him and his heirs to be paid annually at two usual feasts for 30 years which was to begin after the death of the grantor And it was agreed by all Richardson being absent that
Hill 4 Car. Com. Banc. that is a good Grant and charges the Heir although it first commenced upon him Yelverton said he charges himself And the Grant is for him and his heirs And warranty which is so granted to commence 40 years after although the Father dye before the commencement of it yet it binds the Heir And so it is of an Obligation to be paid 40 years after Quod concessum fuit Beckrows Case IN one Beckrows Case in evidence to the Iury c. Beckrows intending to a mary a Widdow makes a conveyance by Deed of Feoffment of his Land to several uses by which he setled his Land upon the issue of the Feme having issue by a former wife But after the mariage he by much importunity procured the Déed of conveyance into his hands out of the custody of the Wife and also an Obligation which makes mention of it and it was for performance of Covenants and then he cancelled the Deed and the Obligation and took off the seal from them And afterwards settles his Land upon his former Children and dies having Issue by his last wife And in actions under these conveyances It was permitted by the Court that the cancelled Deed should be read in evidence But first there should be Testimony given of the truth of that practice before it should be read c. A Copiholders Case IT was said by Richardson to Harvey privately That there is almost no Copyhold in England but the Fine in truth is uncertain For if the Rolls make it appear that some time a lesser and sometime a greater sum had been paid for a Fine that is an uncertain Fine And he said that he was of Councel in a Case where the Iury found that the Fine was certain And afterwards by Bill in Chancery It was decreed upon search of the Rolls to be a Fine incertain And that is now the ordinary course scil by decree in Chancery Francis Bill against Sir Arthur Lake FRancis Bill was Plaintiff in an Assumpsit against Sir Arthur Lake who assumed to the Plaintiff that in consideration that he would make for his wife certain apparel and prepare stuff and lace for it That he would pay for the stuff and making as much as should be required And he shews that he provided Sattin and Gold-lace and made the Apparel and shews of what value the Stuff was and what he deserved for his labour which amounted to the value of 39 l. and that he required the Defendant such a day to pay him which was within six years before the action brought but the promise was laid to be 7 years before The Defendant pleads the Statute of Limitations and that the Plaintiff did not bring his Action within the six years after the promise made nor within the 3 years after the Parliament ended But he does not shew when it ended Vpon which there was a Demurrer And by the Court the ending of the Parliament néeds not to be shewn here For the Question is not upon the 3 years after the ending of the Parliament but upon the matter in Law whether an Action ought to be brought within six years after the promise or after the request Richardson said That it ought to be within six years after the promise Here are two causes of Action for the words of the Statute are within six yenrs afcer the cause of Action the promise and the request and the promise is the principal Trin. 5 Car. Com. Banc. and the Action took its denomination from that scil an action of the Case upon an Assumpsit And if there be a demand which is the case of Action Here it will be answered the promise for a Request without promise is no cause of Action And the mischief that the Statute intended to remedy was that a man was should not be put to the proof of the matter de facto so long time after And if the request is said to be the cause of Action the promise may be laid 20 years before and although that may be proved But the other 3 Iustices were against him and said That the intention of the Statute is within 6 years after the cause of the Sute given which is not untill after request As if one promised to another so much when he should mary his Daughter The 6 years there shall be after the mariage Or if one promise such a sum to one at his return from Rome or such a place from whence it is not impossible to return within six years The payment shall be after the return and there is not a cause of Action before and also the promise and the Request are intire For the request is part of the promise and the promise is not intire untill the request They agréed if a man makes a request and suffer the 6th year to pass before an action brought and then makes a new request And this Case was more strong because the consideration was future Heidley said there was a difference where the request is necessary and where it is alleged but for form As if I sell a Horse for 10 l. generally and after the 6 years brought an Action upon the Case upon an Assumpsit against the Vendee and shews in his Declaration that he was to be paid when he would require it licet saepius requisit c. within the six years Here the Plaintiff is barred For it was due by the contract and the request is but formal If a man brings an Action within the 6 years and afterwards is non-suted for want of request shewen where it was necessary and makes a new request after the 6 years and brings his Action It is good Which was granted by the Court. And in this Case the Court taxed Henden for advising the Defendant to plead the Statute and hazard it upon Demurrer When he might have tryed first the matter in fact But Henden said it was dangerous not to plead the Statute For the opinion of the Kings Bench and Exchequer seemed to be that it ought to be pleaded By the Court when it is apparent within the Record that the Action is brought after the 6 years certainly they doubted not but the Statute ought to be shewn in arrest of Iudgement But the doubt is when a general issue is pleaded in an Assumpsit or Trespass and it does not appear in the Trespass or Assumpsit that it was above the six years the Statute now may be given evidence Trin. 5 Car. Com. Banc. Starkey against Taylor STarkey an Attorny of the Common Bench brought an Action against Taylor for slanderous words and declares that he being an Attorney of the Common Bench of honest fame c. and that he gained much by that profession which was his Livelihood the Defendant maliciously and to hinder him in his profession spoke these words of him Thou art a Common Barrettor thou art a Iudas and a Promoter and a Destroyer and a Viper and a Villain and
them the word Iudas is material here for loquendum ut vulgus If he had said you have plaid the Iudas with your Clyent without doubt is actionable Which Richardson also agreed and said if one says of an Attorney that hes a false Attorney an action lies Sed adjournatur Hawes's Case IN Dower the Defendant pleads ne unque seise que dower It was found by the Iury that the Husband was seised and died seised and assess dammages to the Plaintiff generally And it was moved in arrest of Iudgment because that the Iurors did not enquire of the value of the land and then ultra valorem terrae tax dammages as much as is the usual course as the Prothonatories informed the Court. For the Statute of Merton gives dammages to the Wife scil valorem terrae And the Statute of Glouc. cap. 1. gives costs of sute But by the Court Iudgement was given for the Plaintiff although the dammages are given generally and certainly intended for the value of the Land And there might be in the Case a Writ of Error Hil. 5. Car. Com. Banc. Simcocks against Hussey SImcocks brought waste against Hussey for cutting 120 Oakes and the Iury upon nul wast pleaded found him guilty of cutting 20 in such a field and so sparsim in other fields which was returned upon the Postea but nothing said of the other 20. where in truth the Iury found him not guilty of them but the Clark of Assizes took no notice of that By the Court If the Clark had taken notice there might have been an amendment by them But here they gave direction to attend the Iudge of Assize to examine the truth of it And if they could procure the Clarks to certifie the residue they would beleeve it Dower DOwer was brought for the moiety of 45 acres of land and for part non tenure was pleaded which was found for the Plaintiff and for other part Ioyntenancy which was after imparlance Whereupon the Plaintiff demurred and Bramston prayed Iudgement and answered farther for that that it was after imparlance and cited one Doctor Waterhouses case in Dower where it was adjudged that non-tenure after imparlance was not a plea And by the same reason shall not joyntenancy be 32 H. 6. 29. And by the Court it was adjudged quod respondeat ouster But otherwise it would have been if there had been a special imparlance tam ad breve quam ad narrationem And it was prayed to have Iudgement upon the verdict And by the Court it was said that they should have Iudgement And that there might be two Iudgements in this action for the several parts of the land Sir Francis Worthly against Sir Thomas Savill HE brought an action against Sir Thomas Savill for batterie In which it was found for the Plaintiff in not guilty pleaded and 3100 l. damages was given Which verdict was last Term. And in this Term it was shewn to the Court that the Declaration entred upon the imparlance roll was without day moneth and year in which the battery was committed Which was observed by the Atturneys and Counsel of the other part and that a blank was left for it But afterwards in the time of this vacation in the night time the Key of the Treasury being privily obtained by a false message from Mr. Brownlow Prothonotary the record was amended and some things were interlined to make it agree with the Issue Roll which was perfect And these things were affirmed by severall affidavits Whereupon Atthowe moved that those parties privie to this practice might be punisht and that the record might be brought in Court and made in statu quo prius Crew on the other side demanded Iudgement for the Plaintiff for whether there is an imparlance Roll or no. If none then the matter is discontinued and that ayded by the Statute If you will have an Imparlance Roll then I think these omissions are amendable by the Clarkes although after verdict Harvey The Course of the Court is for I am not ashamed to declare that I was a Clark for 6 years in Brownlowes Office If the Declaration was with a blank and given to the Attourney of the other side if in the next term the Atturneys of both sides agrée upon the Issue Roll Vpon this agreement the Clark for the Plaintiff had always power to amend the Declaration Because that by the acceptance of the other side there was an assent Richardson The imparlance Roll is the original Roll and ground for the Issue Roll which is the Record of the Court And I agrée that it is reason to amend the nisi prius Roll. Harvey gave an excellent reason whereupon the Pregnotaries were demanded what was the course of the Court Brownlow Gulston and Moyle all agréed that the course is That an imparlance roll may be amended if no recordaâ—uâ— That if no recordatur or rule be to the contrary and a Declaration delivered with blanks the Clarks have always amended it And Brownlow shewed where the book of 4 E. 4. was objected to the contrary and he had séen the Record and there was a recordatur granted Richardson Debt is brought against one as heir and there is omitted ad quam quidem solutionem haeredes suas oblig shall that be amended And it was said by all the Pregnotaries it should And Moyle said that in 13 Iac. there was a case between Parker and Parker upon a trover and conversion and the Imparlance Roll was entred with a blank as here and upon non-guilty pleaded it was found for the Plaintiff and I fear it will be mended By the Court this difference will reconcile all the books scil where there is a recordatur and where not It was agreed by some one of the Iudges that a recordatur might be granted out of the Court. And so Brownlow cited a president Pas 4 E. 4. rot 94. to the same purpose And so Iudgement was given for the Plaintiff Starkeys Case before IVdge Yelverton now being in Court the Counsel of the Plaintiff prayed his opinion and shewed the reasons given before to have Iudgement And Yelverton said that the word Iudas here did not bear an action It was two of the Apostles names and the betrayer Iudas was a Traytor to Heaven and therefore this reason should not be drawn to earth to cause Actions between men But for the word common Barrettor being spoken of a common person is not actionable until conviction he is not punishable for it If he called him convicted Barrettor Convicted Barrettor to a common person is actionable it is actionable But being spoken of an Atturney or an Officer of Iustice it is actionable Littleton tells us what they are they are meant stirrers up of unjust sutes which is a grand offence in an Atturney And they put the case of Sir Miles Fleetwood One called him the Kings Deceiver which was adjudged actionable and that it ought to be understood of his Office And for that in
the principal case Iudgement was given for the Plaintiff Iohn Costrell against Sir George Moor. JOhn Costrell and Ioan his wife brought an action upon the Case against Sir George Moor and declares That whereas the said Iohn and Ioan were seised of a Messuage and lands in right of his wife Ioan A man having land in right of his wife in trust they cannot both joyn in the action but the Husband only and that the said Iohn and Ioan and all their predecessors time out of mind c. had common in such a waste which is the soyle of the Defendant pro omnibus a veriis levantibus cubantibus c. and the Defendant had inclosed 20 acres of the said waste and made a fish pond of it there so that they could not take the profits as before with their cattel Vpon the general issue pleaded it was found for the Plaintiff And Crawley moved in arrest of Iudgement For that the prescription is ill made and that the Husband and wife cannot joyn in this action but the Husband might bring the action only And also where it is said that they cannot take the profits with their Cattel when the wife cannot have Cattel during the Coverture Richardson said the prescription is good and it would have been better if he said all those whose estate the wife had But this tantamounts and is as well in substance for that goes meerly to the estate of the Wife Trin 5 Car. Com. Banc. which was granted But for the second I doubt if the Wife may joyn in this Action If a man be seised in right of his Wife he may have Trespass for Trespass done upon the Land there the Wife shall not joyn for she cannot have the dammages if she survive And there is no difference between this Case and the principal Case It is Trespass on the Case and for the personal and temporary trespass and such for which the Wife should have the Action after the death of the Husband unless that the Defendant continue the Pond c. I agree if Battery be done to the Wife they both shall joyn for the Wife might have had the Action if she survived And so it was resolved in the Cooks of Grays-Inns Case they might joyn For the wrong was done to the Wife But here the Husband only lost the benefit of the Common and the wife could not take it with her Cattel For she had not any Cattel during the coverture And Yelverton also was of the same opinion But Hutton said In a Quare impedit the Husband and Wife shall joyn And yet the avoidance goes to the Executors of the Husband Hitcham In an Ejectione firm or ravishment of Ward the Feme joyns quod concessum fuit Yelverton said that in 4 E. 4. it is express that the Wife shall not joyn in trespass done upon the Land of the Wife for dammages shall be recovered in lieu of profits Moor against Everay MOor and his Wife brought dower against Everay To parcel he pleads non tenure and to the other parcel ne unque seise de dower which goes to the tryal and there the Tenant makes default and upon that a petit cape is awarded and now at a day in bank one Lumbard prays to be received upon the Statute of Gloucester to save his term c. But Henden alleged to the contrary First That Statute is not to this purpose in force by the Common law Tenant for years cannot falsifie 6 Rep. Periams Case Then because it was hard that a recovery should be had by Covin and the Lessee for years without remedy for his term the Statute of Gloucester was made which gives a receipt for the Lessee for years after the Statute 21 H. 8. was made which gives the Lessee power to falsifie The Common experience of the Court is If an habens facias seisinam issue there is not any saving of the term of Lessee for years Hil. 39 Eliz. in Bests Case A receipt was moved and denied For if the Lessee had a good term he might have trespass for entry upon him Littleton though says in his Chapter of Tenant for years that he shall be received Hutton The Statute of Gloucester aids them only who knew and had notice of the Recovery 21 H. 8. aids them who had not notice of it And it is better to prevent mischief than to remedy it after and as to that a final Bar. I was of Counsel in some Cases where the Lessee was received And if the Lease be not good the Lessor may avoid it by Plea scil Traverse or Demurer And I remember the issue taken upon the Term and found against the Termor And it was Mr. Fulhams Case against Sergeant Harris Sed adjournatur Fawkenbridges Case IT was moved he having Iudgement before to have costs where the Court doubted because that it was a special Verdict and the Statute of 23 H. 8. cap. 15. says That where a Verdict is found against the Plaintiff But in a special verdict it is neither found for or against But it may be said that when it is adjudged against the Plaintiff then it is found against him And 4 Iac. cap. 3. which gives costs in an Ejectione firmae had the same words if any verdict c. But it may be answered That as in Demurrer no costs shall be recovered no more in a special verdict For that the Plaintiff had a Prohibition causam litigandi And the Statute may be intended of vexatious Sutes c. But Brownlowe said that he had many times given costs upon the Statute of 4 Iacob For that the Prothonotaries were commanded to search Presidents The University of Cambridge THe Vniversity of Cambridge claimed by their Charter to be Clarks of a Market and that they had power by their Office to make orders and execute them And they made an Order that no Chandler should sell Candles for more than 4 d. ob the pound And because that one R. sold for 5 d. he was imprisoned and a Prohibition granted But it séemed that an Habeas corpus was more proper For he was not presented First For that they could not imprison without course of Law Secondly Because that as Clarks of a Market they have nothing to do with but Victuals and Candles are not Victuals The Sheriff of Surrey against Alderton THe Sheriff of Surrey returns a rescous against one Alderton That whereas there was a Iudgement had against B. and a fieri facias awarded upon that by vertue of his Warrant directed to R. to take the Goods of B. By vertue whereof such a day the said R. diversa bona catalla ipsius did levy and had them in his custody No rescous can be of Goods and one Alderton rescued them from the Bayliff contra voluntat ipsius Rich. The return is naught First For that that it is rescued from the Bayliff Secondly It is of Goods whereof a rescous cannot be returned Yelverton contrary in
day a procedendo in this case was granted Sir William Cave against Sir William Fleetwood IN debt the Plaintiff had judgement Hill 5 Car. Com. Banc. and a cap. ad satisfac was awarded against the Defendant upon which he was outlawed And Crawley moved that the Plaintiff might have an Elegit and cited 21 H. 7. 19. There are but four manners of Execution Two by the Common law levari and fieri fac And two by the Statute elegit and capias and none of them is a barre to the other unlesse there be satisfaction of it A fieri fac is no barre to the cap. although part of the Debt be satisfied 22 Ass 47. E. 3. Exec. 41. If the party pray execution of the body and had it then he shall not have resort to a new Execution For if the Defendant die in prison it is adjudged in Bloomfields case that the Plaintiff shall have an Elegit which proves that it is the satisfaction the Law looks upon and respects A fieri fac is no barre to the capias although part of the debt be levied by fieri fac and a capias may issue after Secondly the processe is determined by the Outlawry although it be after Iudgement And for that the Plaintiff resorts to his satisfactory execution again 17 E. 4. 4. Execution by Statute does not oust execution by the Common law no more than the execution by one Statute ousts the execution by another Hutton Iustice If upon an Elegit brought it be executed he can never have an execution And if a man be taken upon a capias the party now may have another execution but the outlawry here determines the process and then the Plaintiff by scire fac revives the Iudgement again and he may resort to which process he will If a man had a Iudgement and taken a capias and done nothing upon it but died the Executor is not bound by that But after a scire facias he may have an Elegit or what other execution he will Hudson and Lees case Common Bench The Plaintiff took an Elegit but because he could not upon the Inquisition find sufficient to satisfie he resorted to a capias And it was agréed that he might for that that the Elegit was not awarded upon Record But if an Elegit be awarded by the Roll and so shall be recorded the Plaintiff ought to proceed upon that But the course is not to award it upon the Roll and he said that Bloomfields case is not Law For if the party die in execution by Elegit by capias the Plaintiff had his execution and might not have any execution again And so it was adjudged in Iacksons Case in this Coutt And the making of the Statute of 21 â—…ac shews that so the Law was taken Wollaston Dixye against the Bailiffs and Burgesses of Derby IN a quare impedit the Plaintiff declares that Iustice Beamont was seised in Fée of the Advowson of St. Peters in Derby and presented his Clerk to it who was instituted and inducted c. and dies and that the Advowson descended to H. Beamont his son and heir and he died and the Advowson descended to Barbara his daughter and heir and that she being seised in fée and under the age of 21 years the Church became void and Barbara her Mother who had not any right of presenting presents her Clerk who was instituted and inducted and admitted to it And Barbara the Daughter took the Plaintiff to Husband and became of full age and then the Church became void And because the Bayliffs and Burgesses presented and the Church so full within the six months the husband alone brought that action upon which there was a demurrer Davenport said the action did not lie for the husband alone but the wife ought to joyn with him For that usurpation upon the Infant which he had by descent by the Statute of West the 2d does not turn the Infant to his writ of right Yet the Vsurper gets the inheritance and turns his estate to a right And for that he cited Cook 6. 50. Boswells case and 16. E. 3. there cited Where one seised of a Mannor with an advowson appendant dies his heir within age who suffers an usurpation and then grants the Mannor Resolved that the advowson does not passe because that the heir had but a right in the advowson after the usurpation So in our case the wife had but a title of action and than the wife ought to join As where an obligation is made to a woman who takes a husband the wife ought to joyn with the husband in the action upon the obligation But Henden said that the Husband only might have an action If a feme covert be seised of an advowson in fee and the Church void the Husband only may have an action without question Which was granted by the Court. Then here the wife being of full age before the avoidance now the feme being in possession of the Advowson again to all intents and purposes And for that by the exposition of the Statute of Westminster the force of the usurpation being upon the Infant who had it by descent continued but during the incumbency and non-age of the Infant And it was said by Richardson That the Infant at full age might present and so regain the possession without action at the Common Law by usurpation she was turned to her writ of Right And if it was a purchase he was without remedy Now I demand in this case If there be a death during the avoidance whether the Executor shall have it or the Husband upon tenant by Courtesie And he cited the Lord Stanhops Case which was That the Abbot of the Monastery of Shelford was seised of the advowson in gross and there was an usurpation in the time of the Abbot And then came the Statute of dissolutions which gave a right and title to the King So that that which was in the Abbot was now in the King Afterwards the King grants that Advowson by a general grant without recital of the case And adjudged a good grant But by Hutton Warberton and Winch Iustices were of the contrary opinion to Hubbard But that was because that there are words in the Statute that the Subject shall have all the King had which was to induce purchasers Hutton If it might appear that the Plaintiff scil the Husband presented before the Vsurpation and was disturbed that perhaps would have been a claim and so a remitter For at the Common Law the remedy for an Infant was to present and upon admission and Institution c. of his Clerk he should be remitted or might have a Writ of right if he pleased But by the Court the husband only in this case might have presented And then upon disturbance he only shall have the action But here the Church was full before the presentation Henden said the intention of the Statute was to give to the Infant at full age
offences Therefore his sentence was That his Name should be put out of the Roll and thrust over the Bar and committed to the Fleet Which was executed accordingly 20 H. 6. 37. 41. E. 3. 1. Which Cases prove the same Iames and Thoroughgood against Collins IAmes and Thoroughgood brought Trespass against Collins And the Case was this A man makes his Testament and gives to 5 men their heirs and assigns certain Houses in Fleet-street c. All of them to have part and part alike and the one to have as much as the other And whether the Defendants were Iointtenants or tenants in Common was the Question and it was adjudged and resolved that they were Tenants in Common And the same Case in 2. 3 Phil. Mary in Bendlows Reports is adjudged so And also in Lucan and Locks Case in the Kings Bench It was afterwards remembred and agreed to be good Law Ratcliff Case Advise to two and his Heirs in Ioynt-tenency by the whole Court against the opinion of Audley It was said by the Court that an Officer of the Court ought to be answered in any action de die in diem Quod nota c. Beguall against Owen BEguall brought a Writ of Partition against Owen before the Iustices of Assise at the grand Sessions in Anglesey And the Defendant pleaded the general issue The Plaintiff prefers a Bill in English and says that Owen is Tenant in Common with him and that divers of his VVitnesses which can prove his Title are so aged that they cannot come to the Sessions and desires a Commission to examine the Witnesses concerning the Title in perpetuam rei memoriam And Henden moved for a Prohibition For that that Cause would be dangerous for the Subject that such Testimonies taken in his absence should be for tryal of his Title Secondly That that examination before the Tryal is against the Statute of 26 H. 8. And although they have it in Chancery yet it is not so here But it was denied by the Court For there was never seen such a President Of a Prohibition to a grand Sessions And by Yelverton They have it in Chancery and if it be not prescribed in what manner they shall have it it should be as in the Chancery Hutton That Commission is not prejudicial to the Subject although a Prohibition be grantable For such Testimonies are not used but after the Witnesses are dead And a man cannot preserve them alive and perchance his Title rests upon their Testimonies Iane Heeles Case IAne Hee le Administratrix of her Husband brought an action of Debt upon an Obligation made to her Husband the Testator The Defendant pleads a Recovery by the Testator upon the same Obligation and that he was taken in execution and that the Sheriff suffered him voluntarily to escape The Plaintiff replies Null tiel Record of the Recovery Vpon which there is a demurrer Davenport That the Iudgement was but a conveyance to their matter in Bar and it ought not to be traversed But it was said by the whole Court That the Iudgement in it self is a good bar if it be not reversed 6 Rep. 45. Higgins case The execution upon that is not but a consequence upon the Iudgement And without the Iudgement Escape is not material for to make the traverse good And so Iudgement was given for the Plaintiff Issues If the King by his Letters Patents grant to the Corporation all Issues within any places The issue that the Corporation it self shall forfeit shall be excepted by intendment of law For otherwise it would be a defrauding of Iustice For then the Corporation would never appear Which note in the Case of Dean and Chapter of Ely Provender against Wood. PRovender brought an action upon the case against Wood For that the Defendant assumed to the Father of the Plaintiff upon a mariage to be solemnised betwéen the Plaintiff and the Daughter of the Defendant to pay him 20 l. And it was agreed by Richardson and Yelverton nullo contradicent That the action well lies for the same And the party to whom the benefit of a promise accrews may bring his action Mrs. Rowes Case MIstris Rowe was arrested by a capias corpus ad satisfaciendum by a Bayliff in Middlesex within the Bars in Holborn which is within the liberty of London And Hitcham the Kings Sergeant prayed a Supersedeas For that that the arrest was false And the Court agreed that a Supersedeas cannot be granted For a Supersedeas it cannot be alleged Executio erronice emanavit but there the Execution is well granted And if it be returned by the Sheriff generally It ought to be intended well served although that the Affidavit be made to the contrary But in this case a Corpus cum causa shall be granted Booth against Franklin BOoth Farmor of a portion of Tithes for 5 years without Deed demises a Farm which he had in the same Parish to Franklin for years and afterwards he libells against him for tithe of that Farm And Franklin said he was not Farmour And Henden prays a Prohibition for that First That the Lease for Tithes is without Deed but he may be discharged of his own Tithes without Deed As was adjudged before in this Court Secondly the Lessee is not to pay tithes for that Farm For although the Parson makes a Lease of the Glebe for years he paid tithes But if a Layman who had the impropriation leases the Glebe the Lessee does not pay tithes But the Court denied the case of the lease of the Parsonage impropriate And said that the case of Perkins and Hinde was adjudged to the contrary in that very point And also if he purchase other lands in the Parish which are discharged of tithes in his hands and he demises them yet the Lessee pays him tithes And the opinion of the Court was If one contract with the Parson for discharge of the Tithes of his lands for years and demises his lands to another yet he shall not have tithes but the discharge runs with the land But if one take a lease of his Tithes by deed and makes a demise of his land he has tithes of the Lessee And the direction was that the Lessee of the Farm ought to shew expresly in the Ecclesiastical Court that the Farmour had not a Lesse by Deed and a Prohibition was granted And it shall be admitted that the words of the libell being Firmator conductor occupator was good Ralph Andrews against Bird. ANdrews brought an action upon the Case against Bird and declares that Bird sued a Trespass in this Court against him and upon not guilty pleaded the issue betwéen the aforesaid Ralph Andrews and Robert Bird was tryed at the Assises c. And that there Andrews shew'd in evidence a Deed of feoffment concerning his Title and the verdict passed for Andrews And afterwards Bird spoke these words scilicet That Andrews procured the Deed to be forged And upon not guilty pleaded it
was found for the Plaintiff And Atthowe moved in arrest of Iudgement First for that That in the Record it was entred that the Issue was inter praedict Robertum where it should have been Radulphum And secondly that the words were not actionable Richardson said as to the mistake it was helped by the word aforesaid And although that it was inter praedict Andrews it should have been well For it cannot be intended but the same Andrews And Crook Iustice cited Dyer 260. Cook and Watsons Case to be the same Case and 11 H. 7. Penningtons Case That the words were actionable For the Statute punishes forgery and the procurers of forgery And it is all one although he did not say falsly procured as the precise words of the Statute are Yet it shall be intended that that is implyed in the word Forge But if it had been said the Deed given in evidence was forged that was not actionable Wood against Symons VVOod against Symons in a Prohibition in which Symons libels for Tithes of Hay And Wood suggests for the Prohibition That he used to pay tithe of Hay in specie in consideration whereof he used to be discharged for all Doles Green-skips and Headlands not exceeding the breadth that a Plough or a Teame might turn about the Lands And Henden moved for a Consultation For that it is said about c. that is circa terras arabiles When the truth is there are Skips at the side of Lands as broad as the Lands themselves and then he would be discharged of them also Whereas it ought to be at the end of the Head-lands only Richardson said that in arable lands inclosed Pasture is at the end and at the sides which is mowed and yet discharged of tithes But the Court in respect there was a Prohibition granted said That he ought to joyn Issue or demurre upon the Declaration Summons IN a Writ of partition after the Summons an Estrepment was granted and generally against the Parties and their servants For in partition no dammages are to be recovered Quod nota Escape IF a Sheriff remove his Prisoners out of the County without being commanded it is an escape But if he remove them from one place to another in his County as he changes his Gaol it is not an Escape But if he remove prisoners for their ease and delight in the same County it is a Escape As the Case was cited by Harvy That one went with his Prisoner to a Bear-bating in the same County And it was adiudged an Escape And Hutton Iustice said So that if a Sheriff permit his Prisoners to go to work for their benefit it is an Escape And the Question was if in an Audita Querela for a voluntary Escape of one in Execution there should be bayl and the opinion of the Court was That if it appears That the Cause upon which the Audita Querela is grounded is called a good proof by the Record and that he should not be bayled unless good and special bayl Duncombe against Sir Edward Randall IN an action upon the Case betwéen Duncombe and Sir Edward Randall for diversion and stopping of a River It was agreed by the Court That if one had antiently Ponds which are replenisht by Chanels out of a River He cannot change the Chanels if any prejudice accrew to another by that And yet the effect by prefluxions is to have the Ponds fed out of the River But sic utere tuo ut ne laedas alieno The Vicar of Hallifaxes Case A Chaplain that was under the Vicar of Hallifax libells against him for his Sallary And he prescribes that the Vicar ought to pay the Chaplains four pounds a year And the Vicar prays a Prohibition First for that he alleges That the Chaplains were eligible by himself And because that Chaplain was not elected by him He is not Chaplain But he is in of his own wrong c. Secondly That prescription for Sallery was tryable at the Common law Yelverton the Sallery is spiritual as the Cure it self is spiritual for which it is to be payed As the Case in Dyer 58. Pl. 4. But a Prohibition was granted untill it was determined to whom the election appertained And that now depends by Prohibition in this Court Assault and Battery TRespass of Assault and Battery was brought against two and the one of them appeared and a Verdict was found against him The other was in the insimul cum And dammages were taxed against him who appeared But the Court by view of the Plaintiff increase the dammages from 30 l. to 40 l. And afterwards a verdict was given against the other Defendant and dammages also were taxed And Thime moved that the other Defendant had murdered the Officer who came to serve the Execution upon him for the 40 l. And so they by possibility might recover nothing against him that the Court would increase the dammages against this Defendant upon another view of the wound But the Court denied that For they can have but view one time in this Action But if they had brought several Actions then it had béen otherwise But he directed him to stay all untill the first Defendant was hanged And then they may make a view and increase the dammages Margery Rivets Case A Iudgement in Debt was brought against Margery Rivets Administratrix durante minori aetate of her Son And in a Scire facias against her she pleaded in Bar that she was Administratrix c. and that such a day her Son came to full age scilicet 17 years and that after she refused before the Ordinary And that the Administration was granted to a Stranger And that she had delivered all the Goods in her hands at the time of the Writ brought or after c. The Plaintiff replies and confesses all the Bar But that before the delivery of the Goods and Administration granted by the Ordinary devastivit and does not say that praedicta Margery devastavit The Defendant joyns Issue Quod praedict Margery non devastavit Which was found for the Defendant And Hitcham the Kings Sergeant moved in arrest of Iudgement For that that there was no Issue For every Issue ought to be returned certain and the Issue grows upon the affirmative Then the word of the Defendant quod praedict does nothing for the affirmative makes the Issue Coo. Countess of Salops Case A Bar may be taken upon Common intent But a Replication ought to be precise and certain In the Exchequer Chamber Tho. Harris's case One pleads that he was seised of White acre and Infeoffac .. And adjudged naught for it ought to have been feofavit inde For he may be seised of White acre and enfeofft of another acre And also it may be said that another devastavit although that the wife was Administratrix Atthowe observed all the course of the Reeord there is not a word of Margery in the Replication but only in the recital But says ante diem quo devastivit And