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A47718 The third part of the reports of severall excellent cases of law, argued and adjudged in the courts of law at Westminster in the time of the late Queen Elizabeth, from the first, to the five and thirtieth year of her reign collected by a learned professor of the law, William Leonard ... ; with alphabetical tables of the names of the cases, and of the matters contained in the book.; Reports and cases of law argued and adjudged in the courts at Westminster. Part 3 Leonard, William. 1686 (1686) Wing L1106; ESTC R19612 343,556 345

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Eliz. In the Common Pleas. NOte It was said by Dyer and Brown Iustices That if a Man deviseth by his Will to his Son a Mannor in tail 2 Cro. 49. Yelv. 210. and afterwards by the same Will he deviseth a third part of the same Lands to another of his Sons they by this are Ioynt-Tenants And if a Man in one part of his Will deviseth his Lands to A. in Fee and afterwards by another Clause in the same Will deviseth the same to another in Fee they are Ioynt-Tenants XXVIII Drew Barrentines Case Mich. 8 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was Drew Barrentine and Winifred his Wife were seised of the Mannor of Barrentine which is Ancient Demesne and holden of the Lord Rich as of his Mannor of Hatfield levy a Fine thereof Sur Conusans de droit c. by which Fine the Conusee rendreth the said Mannor to the said Drew and Winifred in special tail the Remainder to Winifred in tail the remainder to the Countess of Huntington in tail the remainder to the Heirs of the body of Margaret late Countess of Salisbury the remainder to the Queen in Fee It was moved by Bendloes Serjeant If the Lord Rich being Lord of the Mannor might reverse this Fine by a Writ of Disceit and so Recontinue his Seignory and he said That he might and thereby all the Estates which passed by the Fine should be defeated even the remainder which was limited to the Queen for by it the Fine shall be avoided to all intents Welsh Iustice Such a Writ doth not lie For by the remainder limited to the Queen by the Fine all mean Signories are extinct Then if it be so Disceit doth not lie If the Tenant in Ancient Demesne levieth a Fine and afterwards the Lord Paramount who is Lord of the Mannor doth release to the Conusee and afterwards the Lord of the Mannor brings a Writ of Disceit he gains nothing by it And if the Tenant in Ancient Demesne levieth a Fine of it and dieth and the Heir confirmeth the Estate of the Conusee and afterwards the Lord by a Writ of Disceit reverseth the Fine yet the Estate of the Conusee shall stand But all these cases differ from our case For in all those cases another act is done after the Action given to the Lord but in our case the whole matter begins in an instant quasi uno flatu and then if the principal be reversed the whole is avoided For the whole Estate is bound with the Condition in Law and that condition shall extend as well to the Queen and her Estate as to another And if Lands is Ancient Demesne be assured to the King in Fee upon Condition Now during the possession of the King the nature of the Ancient Demesne is gone but if the Condition be broken so as he hath his Land again it is Ancient Demesne as it was before and so the Estate of the Queen is bounden by a Condition in Law. XXIX Mich. 8 Eliz. In the Dutchy-Chamber NOte It was holden by Welsh in the Dutchy Chamber That whereas King Edw. the 6th under the Seal of the Dutchy had demised Firmam omnium tenentium at Will Manerii sui de S. That nothing but the Rent passed and not the Land for Firma signifies Rent as in a Cessavit de feodo firmae But the Clerks of the Court said That their course had always been to make Leases in such manner But Welsh continued in his Opinion as aforesaid And further he said That this was not helped by the Statute of Non-recital or Mis-recital c. for that here is not any certainty For sometimes Firma signifies Land sometimes Rent XXX Mich. 8 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THis Case was holden for Law by the whole Court Two Coparceners are and one of them dieth her Heir of full age she shall not pay a Relief for if she should pay any at all she should pay but the moyety and that she cannot do for a Relief cannot be apportioned for Coparceners are but one Tenant to the Lord. XXXI 8 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. AN Action upon the Case was brought for stopping of a Way The Plaintiff declared That the Duke of Suffolk was seised of a House in D. and Leased the same to the Plaintiff for life And that the said Duke and all those whose Estate c. have used time out of mind c. to have a Way over the Lands of the Defendant unto the Park of D. to carry and recarry Wood necessary for the same House from the said Park to the same House and further declared That the Defendant Obstupavit the Way It was moved by Carns That upon this matter no Action upon the Case lieth but an Assise because that the Freehold of the House is in the Plaintiff and also the Freehold of the Land over which c. is in the Defendant But if the Plaintiff or Defendant had but an Estate for years c. then an Action upon the Case would lie and not an Assise All which was granted by the Court. Post 263. It was also holden That this word Obstupavit was sufficient in it self scil without shewing the special matter how as by setting up any Gate Hedge or Ditch c. for Obstupavit implyes a Nusans continued and not a personal disturbance as a Forestaller or in saying to the Plaintiff upon the Land c. that he should not go there or use that Way for in such cases an Action upon the Case lieth But as to any local or real disturbance Obstupavit amounts to Obstruxit And although in the Declaration is set down the day and the year of the Obstruction yet it shall not be intended that it continued but the same day for the words of the Declaration are further by which he was disturbed of his Way and yet is and so the continuance of the disturbance is alledged And of such Opinion also was the whole Court. Leonard Prothonotary said to the Court That he had declared of a Prescription habere viam tam pedestrem quam equestrem pro omnibus omnimodis Cariagiis and by that Prescription he could not have a Cart-way for every Prescription is stricti juris Dyer That is well Observed and I conceive that the Law is so and therefore it is good to prescribe habere viam pro omnibus Cariagiis generally without speaking of Horse-way or Cart-way or other Way c. XXXII Stowell and the Earl of Hertfords Case Mich. 8 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Formedom in the Remainder by John Stowel and R.R. against the Earl of Hertford the Case was That Lands were given to Giles Lord Daubeney in tail the remainder to the right Heirs of J.S. who had Issue two Daughters Agnes and Margaret and died The Donee died without Issue and the Demandants as Heirs of the said Agnes and Margaret brought a Formedom in the Remainder And it was awarded by the Court That the Writ should
35. that he shall enjoy it against all persons but only against all persons who have Title and not against those who have not any Title because against them he may have his remedy And if a Man makes a Feoffment of his Lands with Warranty and covenants that it is discharged of all Rents 1 Roll. 434. 1 Inst 389. a. 1 Len. 29. there it shall not extend to Rent Services which are incident to the Lands of Common Right In 3 H. 7. 4. the Case was The Condition of an Obligation was That the Obligor should make Appropriation of the Church of Dale such a day to such a House at his Costs and Charges discharged of Incumbrances Roll. Tit. Conditions there although there was a Pension granted thereout to another it was holden That the Obligee was not bounden to discharge it of that Pension No more than if a Man be bounden to make a Feoffment of his Land there although that he charge the Land yet he shall not forfeit his Bond But if it were that he should make a Feoffment of his Land discharged c. it is otherwise but yet he shall not be bounden to discharge it of such things with which it is charged by the Law. Barham The words are precisely That he shall enjoy it without interruption of any person so as be he interrupted by one that hath Title or no Title the Plaintiff hath cause of Action Manwood What if the words were That he should enjoy it without Suit in Law Meade That shall be intended of a lawful Suit And in the principal case although the Contract be by words yet it is upon a good Consideration that is to say Of a Fine and Income and upon the payment of the Rent And therefore as Dyer said When Catesby the Son leased the Lands to Mountford the now Plaintiff and it appeared that his Father or a stranger made claim to it and thereupon he made the promise as before shall it be intended that he should hold and enjoy the Lands peaceably without interruption of them only who had Title And that he should not have his Remedy against the Defendant upon his promise if a stranger who had not Title did interrupt him Truly he shall have his remedy against him As if the Son had promised that he should enjoy it against his Father or else that in truth if it were the Land of the Father shall it not be intended that the Son did presume that his Father should not interrupt his Lessee And that he would so deal with his Father that he should not interrupt him and it may be that upon the presumption of the good will of his Father or that he had treated with him or compounded with him that for these or the like causes the Son made the promise aforesaid And if the Father had not any Right or Title to the Land should not the Lessee have his Action against the Defendant if the Father did interrupt him for this unlawful Interruption Truly Yes For by the words it is to be supposed That the Son would so deal with his Father that the Lessee should enjoy and hold the Lands without any manner of interruption Mounson You have well tasted the Opinion of the Court upon this matter before and now you hear our Opinions again Manwood As I said the other day Cannot an Hostler take upon him that the Goods of his Guests which are within his Inn shall be safe and charge himself further therewith than he is chargeable by the Custom of the Realm and to be chargeable against every one that taketh them away Truly I conceive he may Harper The common making of Assurance is That he shall enjoy them without any lawful Interruption 1 Roll. 429. And if the Law upon the general words of Enjoying without Interruption should be intended but of lawful Interruptions It were in vain to have this word Lawful in the Deed c. LXV Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. AN Action of Debt was brought against one upon an Obligation It was upon an Apprentice Bond The Condition of which was That if such a one did become the Apprentice of the Obligee and transport his Merchandises beyond the Seas and make a Retorn of them and maketh an Accompt unto the Obligee and payeth the Monies upon his Accompt within a certain time that then c. And afterwards the Obligee doth release by Deed to the Servant the Apprentice and not to the Obligor And in Debt brought against the Obligor he pleaded the Release And it was said by the Lord Dyer and by the whole Court That by the Release to the Servant the Obligation was saved if the Release were made before any forfeiture or that the Servant or Apprentice had broken any of the Conditions or any point according to the Covenants but if it was made after any of them was broken then such a Release to the Servant did not dispence with the Obligation which was made by the stranger because an Obligation once forfeited cannot be saved by any Act or Release made or done to a stranger LXVI Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Quare Impedit brought by the Patron against the Archbishop of York and the Incumbent Dyer 327. who was in by the Collation of the Archbishop after the death of the Incumbent of the Patron It was said by the Lord Dyer That of an Avoydance by Resignation or Deprivation the Patron shall have 6 months time after notice thereof given unto him to present his Clerk because it may be done secretly in the Chamber of the Ordinary and therefore in such case the Law is That the Bishop is to give notice of it to the Patron before he be bound to that knowledge of such a Presentment as it appeareth by the Case in 1 H. 7. 4. And Lowe the Prothonotary said That so is the Roll of the same year where the Issue was Whether the Patron had 6 months after the notice And then the Lord Dyer said to the Prothonotary Shew me the Roll at another day that I may compare it with my Book But if the Church become void by death of the Incumbent there the Patron is to take notice of it at his peril without any other notice thereof to be given him by the Ordinary And he said That if the Patron doth present his Clerk a Week before the 6 months be ended and the Ordinary doth refuse the Clerk for Inability because he is unlearned and then the six months pass before he presenteth another after the six months after the death of the Incumbent in such case the Bishop shall have the Collation of the Clerk because it was the folly of the Patron that he did not present his Clerk before so as the Ordinary might examine him and that thereupon if he be found to be unable that he might present another Clerk to the Ordinary within convenient time and for that cause is the 6
said That he promised to find meat drink and apparel for the Plaintiff and his Wife for 3 years absque hoc that he promised to find meat and drink for two servants and Pasture for two Geldings The Plaintiff Replicando said That the Defendant did promise to find c. for 3 years next following Vpon which they were at Issue and found for the Plaintiff It was moved in Arrest of Iudgment That here is no Issue joyned For the Plaintiff hath declared upon a promise to find c. for 3 years when the Plaintiff will that require The Defendant hath pleaded a promise to find apparel meat and drink for the Plaintiff and his Wife for 3 years absque hoc that he promised for two servants and two Geldings and now the Plaintiff Replicando saith That the Defendant assumed for 3 years next following so here is another Assumpsit in the Replication than that whereof the Plaintiff declared and so the Plaintiff hath not joyned Issue upon the Assumpsit traversed by the Defendant and so there is no Issue joyned for the Defendant denyeth the Assumpsit whereof the Plaintiff hath declared And the Plaintiff in his Replication hath affirmed another Assumpsit than that whereof he hath declared and that is not helped by the Statute of Jeofails For it is not a mis-joyning of Issue but a not joyning of Issues and that was holden by the Court to be a material Exception And the Lord Dyer conceived That here is a Departure for the Plaintiff in his Replication hath alledged another promise than that whereof he declared Another Exception was Because that the Plaintiff had not averred in facto that he had married the Daughter of the Defendant but by an Argument Implicative Licet but that Exception was disallowed For that the word Licet is not a bare Implicative but it is an express Averment And so it was said Plow 127. it had been ruled before See 2 Mar. Plow Com. 127 128. Buckley and Thomas Case C. Hill. 19 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A Lease for years was upon Condition Dyer 45. 1 Roll. 214. 1 Len. 3. That the Lessee should not grant over the Land at Will or otherwise He devised the same to his Executors who accepted the same only as Executors and not as Devisees And yet it was the Opinion of the Iustices That the Condition was broken Because he had done as much as lay in him to have devised the Land. 2 Roll. 684. 1 Roll. 24. 9 Co. 94. Stiles Rep. 304 305 405. Hutton Rep. 27. Clayton Rep 85. 1 Len. 113. 1 Cro. 126. Owen 94. See 31 H. 8. 45. CI. Hodgson and Maynards Case Hill. 19 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. NOte It was said by the Iustices in this Case That if an Executor promiseth to pay a Debt when he hath not Assets no Action upon the Case lyeth against him upon such promise but contrary if he hath Assets And so it was holden That if the Heir hath nothing by descent an Action upon the Case will not lie against him upon such a promise made CII Mich. 20 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. Co. 3. Inst 1. Stat. 5. Eliz. 2 Len. 12. AN Action upon the Statute of 5 Eliz. of Perjury was brought by three and they declared That the Defendant being examined upon his Oath before Commissioners If a Surrender was made at such a Court of such a Mannor of a Copyhold to the use of A. and B. Two of the Defendants swore That no such Surrender was made c. Exception was taken to the Declaration because that the certainty of the Copyhold did not appear upon the Declaration For the Statute is That in that case the party grieved shall have remedy so as it ought to appear in what thing he is grieved Quod fuit concessum per totam Curiam Another Exception was taken because that the Action in such case is given to the party grieved And it appeareth upon the Declaration That the surrender in the Negative deposing of which the perjury is assigned was made to the use of two of the Plaintiffs only and then the third person is not a party grieved For he claims nothing by the surrender and therefore and because the two parties grieved have joyned with the third person not grieved It was the Opinion of Wray and Southcote Iustices That the Writ should abate CIII Mich. 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 1 Len. 263. NOte It was said by Dyer and Manwood Iustices If one be condemned in an Action upon the Case or Trespass upon Nihil dicit or Demurrer c. And a Writ issueth to enquire of the Damages and before the Retorn of the Writ the Defendant dyeth The Writ shall not abate for that For the Awarding of the said Writ is a Iudgment And Manwood said In a Writ of Accompt the Defendant is awarded to Accompt And the Defendant doth Accompt and is found in arrearages and dieth The Writ shall not abate but Iudgment shall be given That the Plaintiff shall recover and the Executor shall be charged with the Arrearages and yet Accompt doth not lie against them CIV Mich. 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 2 Len. 52. 2 Len. 282. Post 92. IN an Action upon Escape the Plaintiff is Nonsuit It was holden by the Iustices That the Defendant in that case shall not have Costs by the Statute of 23 H. 8. Note The words in the Statute upon any Action upon the Statute for any offence or wrong personal supposed to be done immediately to the Plaintiff Notwithstanding this Action is Quodam modo an Action within the Statute scil by equity of the Statute of Westm 2. which give expresly against the Warden of the Fleet Yet properly it is not an Action upon the Statute for that in the Declaration in such Action no mention is made of the Statute Which see the Book of Entries 169 171. And also here there is not supposed any immediate personal Offence or Wrong to the Plaintiff and an Action upon the Case it is not For then the Writ ought to make mention of the Escape which it doth not here And yet at the Common Law before the Statute of Westm 2. An Action upon the Case lay upon an Escape And so by the opinion of Dyer Manwood Mounson Iustices Costs are not given in this case and Manwood said That upon Nonsuit in an Action upon the Statute of 8 H. 6. The Defendant shall not have Costs 1 Len. 282. For that the same is not a Personal Wrong For the Writ is Disseisivit which is a real tort CV Mich. 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Debt upon an Obligation to perform certain Covenants in a pair of Indentures The Plaintiff assigned the breach in one of the Covenants scil That the Defendant should do all reparations of such a House demised to him And that he had not repaired but suffered the same to decay To which the Defendant said That the
for the variance is in a thing which is matter of surplusage and so much the rather because the said A. had not another House in D. c. CLXXXVI Lucas and Picroft's Case Pasch 28 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was That an Assise of Novel Disseisin was brought in the County of Northampton of two Acres of Lands 2 Len. 41. and as to one Acre the Tenant pleaded a plea tryable in a Forreign County Vpon which the Assise was adjourned into the Common Pleas and from thence into the forreign County Where by Nisi prius It was found for the Plaintiff and now in the Common Pleas Snag Serjeant prayed Iudgment for the Plaintiff and cited the Book 16 H. 7. 12. Where an Assise is adjourned into the Common Pleas for difficulty of the Verdict they there may give Iudgment But all the Court held the contrary For here is another Acre of which the Title is yet to be tryed before the Iustices of Assise before the tryal of which no Iudgment shall be given for the Acre of which the Title is found And the Assise is properly depending before the Iustices of Assise before whom the Plaintiff may discontinue his Assise And it is not like to the Cases of 6 E. 4. and 8 Ass 15. Where in an Assise a Release was pleaded dated in a forreign County which was denyed Wherefore the Assise was adjourned into the Common Pleas and there found by Enquest not the Deed of the Plaintiff's Now if the Plaintiff will release his Damages he shall have Iudgment of the Freehold presently But in our Case parcel of the Land put in View remains not tryed which the Plaintiff cannot release as he may his Damages 2 Len. 199. and therefore the Court remanded the Verdict to the Iustices of Assise CLXXXVII Hare and Mellers Case Mich. 28 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Post 163. HUgh Hare of the Inner-Temple brought an Action upon the Case against Phillip Mellers and declared That the Defendant had exhibited unto the Queen a slanderous Bill against the Plaintiff charging the said Hugh to have recovered against the Defendant 400 l. by Forgery Perjury and Cosening And also that he had published the matter of the said Bill at Westm c. In this Case it was said by the Court That the exhibiting of the Bill to the Queen is not in it self any Cause of Action For the Queen is the Head and Fountain of Iustice and therefore it is lawful for all her Subjects to resort unto her ad faciendam Querimoniam But if a subject after the Bill once exhibited will divulge the matter therein comprehended to the disgrace and discredit of the person intended the same is good cause of Action And that was the Case of Sir John Conway who upon such matter recovered And as to the words themselves It was the Opinion of the Court That they are not actionable For it is not expresly shewed That the Plaintiff hath used perjury forgery c. And it may be that the Attorny or Sollicitor in the Cause hath used such indirect means not known to the Plaintiff And in such case it is true That the Plaintiff hath recovered by forgery c. and yet without reproach And by perjury he cannot recover for he cannot be sworn in his own Cause It was adjudged against the Plaintiff CLXXXVIII Moore and the Bishop of Norwich's Case Mich. 28 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Quare Impedit by Moor against the Bishop of Norwich c. It was found for the Plaintiff and thereupon issued forth a Writ to the Bishop which was not retorned Vpon which an Alias issued forth Vpon which the Bishop retorned That after Iudgment given in the Quare Impedit the same Incumbent against whom the Action was brought was Presented Instituted and Inducted into the same Church and so the Church is full c. And if that was a good retorn It was oftentimes debated Windham cited the Case L. 5 E. 4. 115 116. A Quare Impedit against Parson Patron and Ordinary and pendant the Writ the Parson resigned and the Ordinary gave notice of it to the Patron and afterwards by Lapse the Ordinary presented the same Incumbent who resigned And afterwards the Plaintiff in the Quare Impedit had Iudgment to recovers And it was holden Because the same Incumbent is now in by a new title scil by Lapse and the same person against whom the recovery was had and that appeared to the Court he should be removed See 9 Eliz. Dyer 260. and 21 Eliz. Dyer 364. And it was said by the Lord Anderson What person soever is presented and admitted after the Action brought unless it be that the title of the Patron be paramount the title of the Plaintiff upon such Recovery he shall be removed And so in the principal case It was adjudged That the Retorn of the Bishop was not good Wherefore he was fined 10 l. and a Sicut alias awarded upon pain of 100 l. CLXXXIX Parret and Doctor Matthews Case Mich. 28 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. A Praemunire was brought and prosecuted by the Queens Attorny General and Parret 1 Len. 292. against Doctor Matthews Dean of Christ-Church in Oxford and others for that they procured the said Parret to be sued in the City of Oxford before the Commissary there in an Action of Trespass by Libel according to the Ecclesiastical Law In which Suit Parret pleaded his Freehold and so to the Iurisdiction of the Court and yet they proceeded there and Parret was Condemned and Imprisoned And afterward the said Suit depending the Queens Attorny withdrew his Suit for the Queen It was now moved to the Court If notwithstanding that the party Informer might proceed in his suit there See 7 E. 4. 2. the King shall have Praemunire and the party grieved his Action See Br. Praemunire 13. for by Brook None can have Praemunire but the King. Cook There is a President in the Book of Entries 427. In a Praemunire the words are Ad respondendum tam Domino Regi quam R F. and that upon the Statute of 16 R. 2. And see ibid. 429. tam Domino Regi de Contemptu praedict quam dicto A.B. de Damnis But it was holden by the whole Court That if the Queens Attorny will not ulterius prosequi the party grieved cannot maintain that Suit For the principal matter in the Praemunire is the Conviction and the putting of the party out of the Kings protection and the damages are but accessary and then the Principal being Released the damages are gone And it was also holden That the Presidents in the Book of Entries are not to be regarded For there is not any Iudgment upon any of the pleadings there CXC Archeboll and Borrell's Case Mich. 28 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. ARcheboll brought an Action upon the Case against Borrell and declared That the Defendant had procured one L. to bring an Appeal of the death of J.S. against
said Accompt the said Robston demanded allowance of 20 Marks by the year for the said 8 years for the Education of the said Arthur which was allowed to him so as now he shall not be received to demand allowance for the said 8 years for the Education of the said Arthur out of the Accompt of the said 100l and that was fully proved to the Iury. It was moved How the Iury should demean themselves in their Verdict For the Issue is That the Defendant had expended the whole 100l in the Education of the said Arthur and Anne And some were of Opinion If the Defendant had expended part in the Education of the said Anne only yet the Iury ought to find for the Plaintiffs For the Issue is entire upon the expending of the said 100l in the Education of the said Arthur and Anne without saying how much for the said Arthur and how much for the said Anne But Periam and Anderson Iustices were clear to the contrary Wherefore they advised the Iury to find specially if they conceived that the Defendant had expended any part of the 100l and to find it and how much And after the Iury found against the Defendant That nothing was expended c. And gave damages 20l. And the Iustices at the first doubted If damages should be given in an Accompt But at length they received the Verdict by the manner de bene esse See 2 R. 2. Fitz. Accompt 45. 2 H. 7. 13. 10 H. 6. 18. 21 H. 6. 26. And the Book of Entries 17. in such case damages were given CC. Tooley and Preston's Case Hill. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 1 Len. 397. 1 Cro. 206. 2 Len. 105. IN an Action upon the Case by Tooley against Preston which see Mich. 29 Eliz. Reported in Leon. 1. Part fol. 297. Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff And now upon the Retorn of the Writ of Enquiry of Damages It was moved That for as much as the Damages are excessive viz. 200l that the Court de Gratia would abridge the Damages But the whole Court was against it For that they as Iudges cannot know what prejudice and damage the Plaintiff hath sustained by the wrongful detaining of the said Recognizance but the Iury may well have notice of such matter And as the Case is here the damages are but incertain upon the Assumpsit For the Defendant assumed That if he did not redeliver the said Recognizance to the Plaintiff to pay him 1000 l. so as the damages are reduced to certainty by the promise of the Defendant himself And by Anderson If I bail to you an Obligation to rebail the same to me before such a day one 10l now upon not delivery at such a day I shall have an Action of Debt for the 10l contrary by Windham And by Anderson in the principal Case If the Defendant had pleaded Non Assumpsit and the Iury had found the promise they might have given 1000l damages without danger of an Attaint notwithstanding that the Plaintiff could not prove that he was damnified one penny and that by reason of the express Assumpsit of the Defendant CCI. Bingham and Squire 's Case Hill. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. BIngham brought Debt upon an Obligation against Squire 4 Len. 61 The Condition was That if the said Squire procure a Grant of the next Avoidance of the Arch-Deaconry of Stafford to be made to the said Bingham so that the said Bingham at such next Avoidance may present That then c. And the Case was That afterwards by the means and endeavour of Squire the Grant of the said next Avoidance was made to Bingham But before the next Avoidance the present Arch-Deacon was created a Bishop so as the presentment to that Avoidance appertained to the Queen It was adjudged in this Case That the Condition was not performed and that by reason of these words So that Bingham may Present And afterwards the Plaintiff had Iudgment to recover CCII. Rolt's Case Hill. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was A Lease is made to two durante vita ipsorum alterius eorum diutius vivent absque impetitione Vasti durante vita ipsorum The one of them dieth Now although some conceived there was a difference between the Limitation of the Estate and of the Liberty c. for the Limitation of the estate seems to be more liberal Yet it was agreed by the whole Court That the Liberty runneth with the Estate and shall endure as long CCIII Farmer and Dorington's Case Hill. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. AN Action upon the Case for these words I will prove Farmer to be a perjured Knave It was moved The words are not Actionable for it is not a meer affirmation But after many motions It was holden by the whole Court That upon those words an Action did well lie CCIV. Allen and Hill's Case Mich. 29 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 1 Cro. 238. IN an Ejection Firme by Allen against Hill of a House in Cornhill in London Vpon Not guilty pleaded The Iury found this special matter viz. That one Francis Beneson was seised of the said House in Fee and 4 Eliz. devised the same to Anne his Wife for life in full satisfaction of all her Thirds in London and after her death to Tho. Beneson his Brother in Fee Proviso That if Anne clearly the words of the Verdict are totaliter depart out of London and dwell in the Country that then she shall have a Rent out of the said House And the Iury found further That Francis died without Issue and that afterwards Thomas died Robert being his next Heir And that 14 Eliz. Anne clearly departed out of London and went to Melton in the County of Suffolk And that afterwards Robert before any Entry released unto Anne and afterwards against his Release entred It was argued for the Defendant That by this Proviso and the departure of Anne out of London the Freehold was not out of her and vested in Robert before the entry of Robert For if it were out of Anne then is she but Tenant at sufferance to whom a Release made cannot enure And the words of the Will are not That her Estate shall cease And here as the case is Anne cannot be Tenant at sufferance to him in the Remainder betwixt whom and her there is not any privity See 18 E. 4. 25 26. Tenant for the term of the life of another the Remainder over in Fee Cestuy que vie dieth The Tenant remained Tenant until he in the Remainder entred upon him And so in our Case although Anne hath clearly departed out of London c. yet the Freehold of the House doth continue in her until the Entry of Robert and then the Release made to her is good Also the Breach of the Condition is not fully found For the Proviso is If she clearly departs out of London but it doth not stay there and dwell in the Country c. And
and his diet for himself his servants and horses Vpon which the Debt in demand grew but the said Young was not at any price in certain with the Defendant nor was there ever any agreement made betwixt them for the same It was said by Anderson Chief Iustice That upon that matter an Action of Debt did not lie And therefore afterwards the Iury gave a Verdict for the Defendant CCXI. Heidon and Ibgrave's Case Hill. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 1 And. 148. A Writ of Right was brought by Heidon against Ibgrave and he demanded the third part of 40 Acres of Land in the County of Hertford and they were at Issue upon the meer Right Vpon which the Grand Assise appeared And first the 4 Knights were specially sworn to say upon their Oath Whether the Tenant hath better right to hold the Land than the Demandant to demand it And afterwards the rest of the Iurors were sworn generally as in other Actions And there was some doubt made Whether the Demandant or the Tenant should first begin to give Evidence And at the last it was Ruled by the Court That the Tenant should begin because he is in the affirmative And it was said by Periam Iustice That so it was late adjudged in the Case betwixt Noell and Watts And upon the Evidence the Case was That King Hen. the 8th by his Letters Patents gave to the Demandant the Mannor of New-Hall and all the Lands in the Tenure and Occupation of John Whitton before demised to Johnson and in the Parish of Watford And the truth was That the said 40 Acres whereof now the third part was in demand were in the Occupation of the said John Whitton but were never demised to Johnson nor in the Parish of Watford And by the clear Opinion of the Court the said 40 Acres did not pass for the circumstances of the Deed are not true scil the Demise to Johnson and the being in the Parish of Watford but both were false But if the said Land had had an especial name in the Letters Patents then it had been well enough notwithstanding the misprision in the rest And by Anderson If upon the particular it had appeared that the Demandant had paid his Mony for the said 40 Acres peradventure they had passed CCXII. The Dean of Gloucester's Case Hill. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Dean and Chapter of Gloucester brough a Writ of Partition against the Bishop of Gloucester upon the Statute of 32 H. 8. of Partition And it was moved That upon the words of the Statute that the Action did not lie in this Case for the Statute doth not extend but to Estates in Ioynt-Tenancy or in Common of Lands whereof such Ioynt-Tenants or Tenants in Common are seised in their own right And also it is further said That every such Ioynt-Tenant or Tenant in Common and their Heirs shall have Aid to deraign the warranty without speaking of the word Successors And by Periam and Windham Iustices The Writ doth not lie But Anderson seemed to be of a contrary Opinion CCXIII. Hare and Meller's Case Hill. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. HUgh Hare of the Inner-Temple brought an Action upon the Case against Philip Meller and declared Ante 138. That the said Defendant had exhibited to the Queen a scandalous Bill against the Plaintiff charging the said Hugh to have recovered against the said Defendant 400 l. by Forgery Perjury and Forswearing and Cosenage And also that he had published the matter of the said Bill at Westm c. It was said by the Court That the exhibiting of the Bill to the Queen is not in it self any cause of Action for the Queen is the Head and Fountain of Iustice and therefore it is lawful for all her Subjects to resort to her to make their complaints But if a Subject after the Bill once exhibited will divulge the matter comprised in it to the disgrace and discredit of the person intended the same is a good cause of Action And so was the Case of Sir John Conway who upon such matter did recover And as to the words themselves It seemeth to the Court That they are not Actionable For it is not expresly shewed That the Plaintiff had used Perjury Forgery c. And it may be that the Attorny or Sollicitor in the Cause hath used such indirect means the Plaintiff not knowing it and in such case the Plaintiff hath recovered by Forgery c. and yet without reproach And by perjury he could not recover for he could not be sworn in his own Cause And Stanhops Case was remembred by the Court which was That Edward Stanhop of Grays-Inn brought an Action upon the Case against one who had Reported That the said Edward Stanhop had gained his Living by swearing and forswearing And by the Opinion of the Court The Action did not lie for those words do not set forth any actual forswearing in the person of the Plaintiff but it might be in an Action depending between the Plaintiff and a stranger that another stranger produced as a Witness had made a false Oath without any procurement or practice of the Plaintiff in which Case it might be that the Plaintiff had gained by such swearing CCXIV. Cheverton's Case Hill. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. HEnry Cheverton brought a Quare Impedit and Counted That he was seised of the moyety of the Church of D. that is to say To present qualibet prima vice and that J.S. is seised of the other moyety that is to say To present qualibet secunda vice c. And Exception was taken to the Count Because it was not shewed how the special Interest did begin scil by Prescription Composition or otherwise for it is clearly against common Right and therefore that ought to be shewed See Dyer 13 Eliz. 229. CCXV Edmond's Case Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN an Action upon the Case against Edmonds the Case was That the Defendant being within age requested the Plaintiff to be bounden for him to another for the payment of 30 l. which he was to borrow for his own use to which the Plaintiff agreed and was bounden ut supra Afterwards the Plaintiff was sued for the said Debt and paid it And afterwards when the Defendant came of full age the Plaintiff put him in mind of the matter aforesaid and prayed him that he might not be damnified so to pay 30 l. it being the Defendant's Debt Whereupon the Defendant promised to pay the Debt again to the Plaintiff Vpon which promise the Action was brought And it was holden by the Court That although here was no present consideration upon which the Assumpsit could arise yet the Court was clear That upon the whole matter the Action did lie and Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff CCXVI Farrington and Fleetwood.'s Case Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Exchequer BEtween Farrington and Fleetwood the Case was upon the Stat. of 31 H. 8. of Monasteries 2
and have day to plead CCXX Dicksey and Spencer's Case Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case between Dicksey and Spencer see H. 29 Eliz. Notwithstanding the Opinion of the Court of Common Pleas The Mayor and Aldermen of London reversed the Iudgment given in an Assise of Freshforce Vpon which Dicksey sued a Commission directed to Anderson Manwood and Periam to examine the said Iudgment ad errorem corrigendum And the Case was often Argued The principal matter was That Lessee for years in an Action of Debt brought against him for the Rent reserved claimed Fee by bargain and sale of his Lessor the which bargain and sale the Plaintiff traversed And it was argued Because this bargain and sale was traversed there was not any forfeiture in the Case for upon that both parties are at large As in a Praecipe quod reddat The Tenant disclaims and the Demandant avers him Tenant he shall not enter for that Disclaimer But all the three Iustices were clear of Opinion That notwithstanding the Traverse it is a forfeiture for the very claim is a forfeiture which cannot be saved by matter subsequent See 9 H. 5. 14. If Tenant for life be impleaded in a Writ of Right and joyns the Mise upon the meer Right it is a forfeiture Another Error was assigned Because where it is found that both the Defendants Disseisiverunt the Plaintiff but Spencer only with force and the Iudgment in the Assise of Freshforce was that ambo Capiantur where no force is found in Clark one of them yet such a Iudgment is good enough For the Assise have found a Ioynt Disseisin and that Clark was present at the said Force and then he particeps Criminis And of that Opinion were all the 3 Iustices And it way Objected That forasmuch as Clark is Convicted of force upon the matter for both ought to be taken therefore the Damages ought to be trebled against both And the Court was in some doubt of that But clearly the Incrementum shall be trebled as well as the Damages taxed by the Assise And after many Arguments the said Iustices moved the parties to a friendly course to compound the matter For if we reverse the Iudgment given in the Hustings Then Spencer may have his Writ of Error upon the Iudgment in the Assise of Freshforce sic infinite And afterwards the parties put themselves to the Mediation and Order of the said 3 Iustices who at length made an end of the matter betwixt the said parties CCXXI The Lady Newman and Shyriff's Case Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Star-Chamber 4 Len. 25. THe Lady Newman Sister of James Wingfield lately deceased Exhibited a Bill of Complaint in the Star-Chamber against one Shyriff dwelling in Ireland and two others setting forth That the said Shyriff had forged a Deed purporting That the said James had by the same given to him all his goods and also that the said James had assigned to the said Shyriff a Lease for years of Lands in Ireland And also that the said Shyriff had procured the said two other Defendants to depose upon their Oath before the Town-Clerk of London That the said Deed was sealed and delivered by the said James as his Deed. It was moved by the Counsel of the Defendant's That these matters of Forgery are not within the Statute of 5 Eliz. nor also the Perjury or the procurement of it Whereupon the Lords of the Council referred the Consideration of the said Statute to both the Chief Iustices who the next Court-day declared their Opinions upon the said Matters 1. That the said Statute did not extend to forgery of a Deed conveying a gift of Chattels personals Which see by the Statute which as to that point extends but to Obligations Bills Obligatory Acquittance Release or other discharge And also a Deed of an Assignment of a Lease of Land in Ireland is not within the said Statute And also the said Iustices were of Opinion That this Perjury and the procurement of it is not punishable by the said Statute because the Oath was taken Coram non Judice For the Town-Clerk of London cannot minister an Oath in such case no more than a private person But because the Bill in the perclose and Conclusion of it was contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm The said Chief Iustices were of Opinion That the said Court might punish those offences as misdemeanors at the Common Law but not according to the Statute And afterwards Shyriff paid for a Fine 3 l. and by Order of the Court was set in the Pillory CCXXII Middlemore's Case Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. MIddlemore brought an Action upon the Case for these words scil Middlemore is a Cosening Knave for he had me to Coventry and there cosened me of 40 s. And afterwards had Iudgment to recover And now the Defendant brought a Writ of Error in the Exchequer-Chamber and there the Opinion of the whole Court was That the said words were not actionable And the Case of one Egerton was remembred Thou art a Cosening Knave Coroner For thou hast Cosened me of my Land. The Plaintiff in that Case could not have Iudgment For he was not particularly charged in respect of his Office. And Note That in this Case of Error the Defendant pleaded an Outlawry in the Plaintiff and being barred in that he pleaded now an Excommengement in the Plaintiff and shewed the Letters of Excommunication Vpon which it appeared That the Plea was pleaded before the Outlawry was pleaded And it was Ruled by the whole Court That this Plea lieth not for the Defendant For he cannot have two Pleas to the person of the Plaintiff but where his second Plea is matter of later time since the first Plea And afterwards the said Iudgment was reversed CCXXIII. Barns Executor of the Bishop of Durham and Smith's Case Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Exchequer EManuel Barns Executor of Barns late Bishop of Durham 2 Len. 21. brought Debt for Arrearages of Rent reserved upon a Lease for years of certain Mines demised to Smith scil Mines called Argill and Mines called Greenbourn and it was against the Executors of Smith The Defendant pleaded as to parcel Non detinet and as to other parcel of the Arrears That in the Indenture of demise there is a Covenant Quod si contigerit that the said Lessee impeditus fuerit quominus Mineris praedict gaudere possit That then so much of Rent should be deducted amounting to the value of the Mines he could not enjoy c. And pleads in facto quod impeditus fuit quo minus gaudere potuit Mineris praedictis c. And it was found for the Plaintiff And it was moved by Cook in arrest of Iudgment That here is not any place shewed where these Mines were so as Non constat from what place the Visne shall come As if in an Action as here the Plaintiff Declares of a Lease made of Land called R. in
all which he lost c. Wray The Bishop shall joyn for Conformity of Law and for privity of Record and the Plea of the Bishop is not so strong as a Disclaymer For in case of a Disclaimer the Iudgment is That the Plaintiff shall take nothing by his Writ but in the case of the Bishop here the Iudgment is Quod querens recuperet praesentationem suam versus dictum Episcopum ad Ecclesiam praedictam See 35 H. 6. 4. Fitz. Error 35. And afterwards in the principal Case the Writ of Error was awarded good CCXXIX Williams and Linford's Case Trin. 29 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. EDward Williams brought an Action upon the Case against Linford 2 Len. 111. for slanderous words concerning the Title of the Plaintiff's Lands viz. Williams is nothing worth and do you think that the Mannor of D. is his It is but a Compact betwixt his Brother Thomas and him And declared further That at the time of the speaking of these words there was a Communication with one J.S. to give the said J.S. the said Mannor of D. for his Mannor of R. and that by reason of the said slanderous words 1 Cro. 346.787 the said J.S. durst not proceed in the said intended exchange It was Objected That upon this matter an Action upon the Case did not lie because the slanderous words were not spoken to him who should be purchasor of the Lands but unto a stranger For in the Case betwixt Smith and Johnson Johnson was in speech with one to sell his Land to him and Smith said to him who should be the purchasor of them Will you buy Johnson's Land Why it is troubled with more Charges and Incumbrances then it is worth Wray There is not any difference be the words spoken to the parties or unto a stranger for in both Cases the Title of the Plaintiff is slandered so as he cannot make sale of it It was adjudged for the Plaintiff CCXXX Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A Poor Woman brought an Action of Trespass for breaking of her Close and declared of a Continuance by 6 years And upon Nihil dicit had Iudgment to recover Vpon which a Writ of Enquiry of Damages issued forth and now came the Woman and shewed to the Court That the Iury had found too little Damages scil but 40 s. whereas the Land was worth 5 l. per annum and that the Trespass had been continued for 6 years and prayed that the said Writ might not be received and that the Court would award another Writ to have a better Enquiry of the Damages But the whole Court denyed it For so there might be infinite Enquiries But some time at the request of the Defendant when excessive Damages are found or any misdemeanour is alledged in the Plaintiff in procuring or using such a Writ of Enquiry of Damages We use to relieve the Defendant with a new Writ but never the Plaintiff because it is his own Act. And by Rhodes The late Countess of Darby brough a Writ of Dower and had Iudgment to recover and she surmised That her Husband died seised and prayed a Writ of Enquiry of Damages and had it And because too small Damages were found she would have suppressed the said Writ and procured another but she could not have it And at the last she was driven to bring in the said Writ Which she did accordingly CCXXXI Lawson and Hare's Case Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 2 Len. 74. IN a Replevin by Lawson against Hare of the Temple who Avowed because he himself was seised of a Hundred And that he himself and all those whose Estate he hath in the said Hundred have used to hold a Leet within the said Hundred at such a place every year And that at every time such Leet should be holden The Inhabitants within the said Precinct have used to pay to the Lord of the Leet 16 d. for the Leet-Fee and that they have used to distrain for the same And shewed That at a Leet there holden 5 July 26 Eliz. c. The Plaintiff replyed absque hoc that they used to distrain And it was found for the Defendant And it was moved in arrest of Iudgment Because the Defendant in making his Title to the Leet by Prescription Conveys the Hundred to him by a Que Estate without shewing a Deed of it See 11 H. 4. 242. Quod fuit concessum per Anderson Windham Periam and Rhodes contrary But if the Hundred it self had been in Question then the Exception had been material but here the Defendant intitles himself to a thing by reason of the Hundred and then it is sufficient for him to say That he is seised of the Hundred be it by right or by wrong Admit That by this not shewing the Avowry be vitious and defective It is to be considered if it be not helped by the Statute of Jeofail's 1 Cro. 217.245 18 Eliz. And therefore it is to be considered If an Avowry be within the meaning of the said Statute Anderson Although that the Avowant be quasi an Actor to have a Retorn of the Cattel if the Distress be adjudged lawful yet in truth he is Defendant and not Plaintiff And if the Defendant will justifie the taking and not avow he is meerly Defendant And although that he avow to have a Retorn yet he cannot be said Plaintiff no more than the Tenant who voucheth over another to recover in value may be said Plaintiff And therefore an Avowry cannot be said a Count or Declaration but a Answer to the Count or Declaration Windham and Periam conceived That an Avowry is within the Statute For it comprehends title And an Answer to an Avowry is said a Bar to an Avowry and an Avowry is in the place of a Declaration Admitting That an Avowry is within the Statute If the not shewing of the Deed be such a defect which may be helped by the Statute Anderson conceived That it was But the Plaintiff might have demurred upon the Avowry for not shewing of the Deed and have had iudgment But when he hath traversed the Prescription as to the point of the distress and the same is found against him Now it shall be intended that the Avowant hath a Deed although he hath not shewed it Windham The Title of the Avowant to the Hundred is the Foundation and ground of the Suit for if the Avowant hath not a Deed to make him a sufficient title to the Hundred he cannot have the Leet and if no Leet then no Leet-Fee and then the Avowant hath no cause to distrain Another Exception was taken to the Avowry because the Avowant hath not shewed any Seisin of the Leet-Fee And by Periam Such a seisin ought to be shewed in some person certain For although it needs not always to lay a Seisin in shewing by whose hands the seisin was had for the Inhabitants are charged and no person certain yet the seisin ought to be
to the Bar because he hath not shewed that at that time of the cutting it was not Fawning time Poph. 158. 2 Cro. 637 679. for at the Fawning time his prescription doth not extend to it and that was holden to be a material Exception but because that the Plaintiff had replyed and upon his Replication the Defendant had demurred the Court would not resort to the Bar but gave Iudgment upon the Replication and therefore Nihil Capiat per breve CCXC. Brocas's Case Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. BRocas Lord of a Mannor Covenanted with his Copyholder to assure to him and his Heirs the Freehold and Inheritance of his Copyhold And the said Copyholder in Consideration of the same performed Covenanted to pay such a sum It was the Opinion of the whole Court That the said Copyholder is not tyed to pay the said sum before the assurance made 1 Roll. 415. and the Covenant performed But if the words had been In Consideration of the said Covenant to be performed then he is bounden to pay the mony presently and to have his remedy over by Covenant CCXCI. Ireland and Higgius's Case Trin. 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN an Action upon the Case the Plaintiff declared Owen Rep. 93. That he was possessed of a Greyhound ut de bonis suis propriis and that such a day he lost it and that it came to the hands of the Defendant by Trover and that the Defendant afterwards in Consideration thereof promised the Plaintiff to deliver the said Greyhound to the Plaintiff and shewed his request Ley The Action doth not lie For of those things which are ferae naturae the Plaintiff hath not any property but ratione fundi as of Deer c. And in Trespass for them he cannot say suos but only Quare claufum fregit lepores cepit without saying suos And to that purpose were cited 3 H. 6. 56. 18 E. 4. 14. 10 H. 7. 19. 22 H. 6. 12. 14 Eliz. Dyer 106. Sir John Spencer's Case And it was holden That the Action did not lie And if not for a Hawk much less for a Hound CCXCII Ognell and Trussell's Case Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Star-Chamber A Bill was Exhibited in the Star-Chamber by Ognell of London against one Trussell of Warwickshire setting forth such matter That whereas the said Trussell had for good Consideration sold and assured unto the said Ognell a Mannor Now to gratifie a great person who earnestly desired the said Mannor he for effecting thereof practised by fraudulent means to avoid the said assurance and practised by other persons to be Indicted of a Robbery supposed to be committed before the said Assurance and compounded with the Lord of the Fee that if he be attainted so that by such Attainder the said Mannor should escheat to the said Lord That he upon request should reassure to the said Trussell the said Mannor in Fee after Pardon obtained which was promised to him by the said great Parsonage Vpon which Indictment Trussell was Arraigned and Convicted upon Evidence which he himself procured to be falsly given against him And all that was to extort the Land which was lawfully sold before And upon the Bill Trussell demurred in Law because he is a person attainted of Felony and so dead in Law and therefore shall not be put to answer Hatton Lord Chancellor It is not reason that he be put to Answer for Nemo tenetur seipsum prodere And thereupon the Bill was referred to Anderson and Periam Iustices to Consider If the Defendant should be put to answer or not Who certified unto the Court That although the Defendant be attainted ut supra and so quodam modo dead in Law to all intents yet in Criminal Causes he shall answer Wherefore it was ordered That he answer accordingly CCXCIII Cardinal and Arnold's Case Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. CArdinal brought an Action upon the Case against Arnold and declared That the Dean and Chapter Ecclesiae Cathedralis Cantuar. per nomen Decani Capituli Ecclesiae Cathedral Metropolitan Christian Cantuar. Leased unto Seckford for years the Mannor of Hadley by force of which he was possessed And so possessed granted to the Plaintiff the Office of Stewardship of the said Mannor and the Defendant disturbed him The Defendant pleaded a Lease absque hoc that the said Seckford granted And it was found for the Plaintiff And it was moved in Arrest of Iudgment That that Lease being made in the manner aforesaid was void For the Declaration is That the Dean and Chapter Ecclesiae Cathedralis Cantuar where the Lease is made by the name ut supra Here are two several Names therefore two several Corporations therefore Decanus Capituli Ecclesiae Cathedralis Cantuariensis did not Lease But Decanus Capituli Ecclesiae Cathedralis Metrapolitan Christi did Lease CCXCIV. Anderson and Hayward's Case Pasch 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. A Copyholder of Inheritance of a Mannor in the hands of the King is ousted It was holden in such case That he hath not gained any Estate so as he may make a Lease for years upon which his Lessee may maintain an Ejectione firmae but he hath but a possession against all strangers And also in that Case It was holden That if a Copyholder dieth his Heir within age he is not bound to come at any Court during his Non-age to pray Admittance Or to tender his Fine Also that if the death of his Ancessor be not presented nor proclamation made he is not at any Mischief although he be of full age CCXCV. Brightman's Case Pasch 30 Eliz. In the Exchequer Chamber UPon a Writ of Error brought upon a Iudgment given in the King Bench The matter was A. Leased for 20 years to B. two Acres of Land rendring Rent with Condition of Re-entry who Leased one of the said Acres to C. for 10 years And afterwards granted the Reversion of the said Term in the said Acre to A. It was holden by the Iustices That the same was no present suspension of the said Condition because there was not any possession CCXCVI. Fitzhugh's Case Hill. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Dower against Fitzhugh who pleaded in bar a Fine with proclamations and 5 years passed after the death of the Husband of whose seisin she demanded Dower To which the Demandant said That within the 5 years after the death of her Husband she brought a Writ of Dower against the now Tenant and delivered the same to the Sheriff c. but did not shew that the Writ was Returned upon which the Tenant did demur in Law. It was holden by Periam Iustice That the Fine is not avoided by such manner of Claim For the words of the Statute are So that they pursue their Claim or Title by way of Action or lawful Entry within the 5 years but here the Demandant hath not pursued c. therefore she shall not be Retained by the said Statute
Commoner shall not use his Common before that the Lord hath put in his Cattel was holden to be a void Custom On the other side It was said That this Custom might have a lawful beginning and that it might be grounded upon the reason of the Common Law That a Remainder should not be without the assent of the particular Tenant and therefore that the Custom might be good And it was said That Wife should not have her Dower unless she claimed it within a year and a day that the same was adjudged to be a good Custom The Court delivered no Opinion in the Case but the Case was adjourned to another time CCCIV. Mich. 31 Eliz. In C. B. THE Case was a Man devised Socage Lands to his Brothers Son in tail to have the same at his age of 25 years and died having Issue a Daughter The Nephew after 21 years entred and levied a Fine and afterwards accomplished his age of twenty five years It was the Opinion of the whole Court That the Issue of the Devisee was barred by this Fine For the Heir in Tail and the Heir in Fee are all one by the Statute of 4 H. 7. And it was holden That this was not a Fine which doth enure by way of Estoppel but that it passeth the very right It was said to be the same Law If one who hath but a condition levyeth a Fine and afterward entreth for the condition broken c. CCCV Palmer and Smalbrook's Case Hill. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN an Action upon the Case The Plaintiff declared 1 Len. 132. Owen 97. 1 Cro. 178. That the Defendant had recovered a certain Debt against one A. and thereupon took forth a Capias against the said A. to Arrest his Body and delivered the said Capias to the Plaintiff being then Sheriff and prayed a Warrant for the serving of the Capias and that he would name to him one B. for a special Bayliff and promised the Plaintiff That if B. Arrested A. by force of the said Capias and suffered him to escape that he would not sue him for the said escape and further declared That he made a Warrant according to the said Capias and therein named and appointed the said B. his special Bailiff who Arrested A. accordingly and afterwards suffered him to escape and that the Defendant notwithstanding his Promise aforesaid sued the Plaintiff for the said escape and it was found for the Plaintiff And it was moved in stay of Iudgment That that Promise was against the Law to prevent the punishment inflicted by the Statute of 23 H. 8. upon the Sheriff and that it is meerly within the said Statute and so the Promise void Cook This is not any Bond or Promise taken of the Prisoner nor of any for him and therefore it is not within the Statute and it was Davies Case Wray A Promise is within the Statute as well as a Bond. But the Statute doth not extend but where the Bond or Promise is made by the Prisoner or by some for him And afterwards Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff CCCVI Wood and Payn 's Case Trin. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN an Ejectione firmae for Entry into a Messuage sive Tenementum and 4 Acres of Lands to the same belonging Vpon not guilty pleaded it was found for the Plaintiff It was moved by Cowper Serjeant That the Declaration is uncertain Messuagium sive Tenementum quod fuit Concessum Cook We will release our damages Kemp Then your Costs are gone also Cowper You cannot have Iudgment of the 4 Acres For the Declaration is 4 Acres to the said Messuage or Tenement belonging and for the incertainty to which thing belonging But to that it was said That as to the 4 Acres it is certain enough For the words To the same belonging are meerly void And afterwards the Plaintiff released damages and had Iudgment CCCVII Bennington and Bennington's Case Trin. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. BEnnington brought an Action of Trespass against Bennington for breaking of his Close c. The Defendant pleaded That long time before the Trespass supposed That it was the Freehold of one Joan Bennington and that he as her servant and by her Commandment entred upon which they were at Issue And it was found That for two parts of the Land where c. in three parts to be divided it was the Freehold of the Plaintiff and for the other part that it was the Freehold of the Defendant and by the clear Opinion of the whole Court The Plaintiff could not have Iudgment for now it appeareth That the Plaintiff and Defendant are Tenants in Common betwixt whom an Action of Trespass doth not lie and although this Tenancy in Common be not pleaded but found by Verdict yet it was the Opinion of the Court That it is all one CCCVIII Brereton and Auser's Case Hill. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. JOhn Brereton of the Inner-Temple brought a Writ of Error against Auser to Reverse an Outlawry And the Case was That the said Auser had caused the said Brereton to be endicted upon the Statute of Magna Charta and divers other Statutes For that Whereas the said Auser had sued the said Brereton in a Bill of Debt in the Court of Request against the said Brereton and by the said Suit procured the said Brereton to be imprisoned Vpon which Endictment Brereton was Outlawed And Error was assigned in the Outlawry because whereas the Endictment was taken in Middlesex the Exigent upon it was in London whereas it ought to issue out of Middlesex but the proclamations issued in the County whereof he was named Nuper and that was peremptory for if he make default upon that Process he shall encur the danger of a Praemunirè And for that cause the Outlawry was reversed Also the party was discharged of the Endictment for this Suit in the Court of Requests as it appeareth upon the Endictment was before Iudgment in the Bill of Debt CCCIX Constable and Farrer's Case Hill. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN an Action upon the Case upon an Assumpsit the Plaintiff declared That whereas the Defendant had brought an Action against him the Issue in which ought to be tried at the next Assises at N. the Defendant in Consideration that the now Plaintiff should confess the Action aforesaid at the Assises holden the 4th of August promised that he would stand to the Arbitrament of J.S. for the said matter And upon Non Assumpsit the Iury found That the Defendant made such a Promise the 5th of August but not the 4th of August Cook I conceive That upon this Verdict the Plaintiff shall have Iudgment for in truth the Assises began the 4th of August and the Consideration was That the now Plaintiff should confess the Action at the same Assises which although they continue divers days yet in Law all is but one day And all the Assises shall be said to be holden the 4th of August
them Another Exception was Because it is not shewed What is their due Fee And that was conceived to be a good cause of Exception And if no Fee be due the same ought to appear in the Indictment And afterwards the Opinion of the Court was That they should be discharged CCCLXII Doughty and Prideaux's Case Hill. 33 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Action upon the Case by Doughty against Prideaux 4 Len. 101 for these words Thou art a Wicked and perjured Fellow and art forsworn in the Court of Star-Chamber as appeareth by an Exemplification here under the Seal of this Court. The Defendant justified because of a Bill exhibited in the same Court by one Brooks against the now Plaintiff for conspiring with another to endict the said Brooks of certain Felonies And the Defendant now Plaintiff in his Answer to the said Bill denyed upon Oath the said Conspiracy And sentence was given in the said Court against the now Plaintiff ubi revera such a Conspiracy was The Plaintiff Replicando said That the said Brooks was Arraigned and Convicted upon the said Indictment and prayed his Clergy Whereupon it appeared because the said Brooks was not Legitimo modo acquietatus that the same could not be any Conspiracy in the now Plaintiff to procure the said Brooks to be Indicted Walmesley and Periam Iustices This Replication is not good For it may be that Brooks was acquitted and yet the Plaintiff did Conspire upon which a Writ of Conspiracy perhaps would not lie but an Action upon the Case without doubt For the Replication doth not prove That the Plaintiff did not Conspire but that the Plaintiff was not punishable for such Conspiracy c. CCCLXIII Pasch 33 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was An Abbot leased Lands to three Men for 80 years and in the end of the said Lease was a Clause That if they died within the said Term that then the Lessor might enter The possessions of the Abby came unto the King who granted the Reversion to J.S. who made a new Lease thereof to J.D. for 21 years to begin after the expiration determination or surrender of the said former Lease The 3 Lessees died within the Term If J.D. might now enter before J.S. hath entred was the Question And it was the Opinion of all the Iustices That he could not For it is in the Election of J.S. if he will take advantage of the Condition and defeat the Lease but that ought to be by Entry and none can make such Entry but the Lessor himself or by his express direction c. CCCLXIV Bond and Bayle's Case Pasch 33 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 1 Len. 328. 1 Roll. 926. BOnd brought a Scire facias against Bayle's Administrator of one T.B. upon a Recovery against the Intestate in an Action of Debt The Defendant pleaded before the said Iudgment given The Testator acknowledged a Statute-Staple to one B. and that the same was not paid in the life-time of the Intestate nor ever after and that they had not Goods of the Intestate in their hands above to pay the said Statute Vpon which it was Demurred in Law. Crook argued That the Bar was not good for here no execution upon the Statute is pleaded and then the Iudgment and the Statute being things of as high nature that of which Execution is first sued shall be first satisfied And if this Action had been brought upon the Obligation the Plea had not been good For although that Brian saith 21 E. 4. That Recognizances shall be paid by Executors before Obligations yet that is to be intended when a Scire facias is to be sued upon it otherwise not See 12 E. 3. Fitz. tit Execution 73. In a Scire facias upon a Iudgment in Debt given against the Testator Enquiry was What Goods the Executors had at the day of the Garnishment And he said It was moved 20 Eliz. by Anderson in this Court In Debt upon an Obligation against an Executor The Defendants pleaded That the Testator was endebted to one A. and that they had not more than to satisfie the same And it was holden no plea unless they had pleaded further That a Scire facias was sued forth upon the same But Wray said That was not Law And there is a difference when the Iudgment is given against the Testator himself and where against the Executors For where Iudgment is given against the Executors the Iudgment which was first given shall be first executed But if two Iudgments be given against the Testator he who first sueth Execution against the Executors shall he first satisfied because they are things of an equal nature and before suit it is in the Election of the Executor to pay which of them he pleaseth See 9 E. 4. 12. As if two Men have Tallies out of the Exchequer he who first offers his to the Officer shall be first satisfied for before that it is in the Election of the Officer which of them he will pay And a Iudgment is a higher Record than a Statute for the Statute is not a Record but Debitum recordatum recognitum And therefore 19 H. 6. If the Release enrolled be lost the Enrollment of it is not of any effect And Pasch 20 Eliz. Our very case was moved in the Court of Common Pleas In a Sire facias upon a Iudgment given against the Testator the Executor pleaded That the Testator had acknowledged a Statute before not satisfied ultra which c. And it was holden no Plea For a Statute is but a private and poquet-Record as they then called it And 32 Eliz. Between Coney and Barkham the same Plea was pleaded and holden to be no plea. Also if this Plea should be allowed great Mischief would follow for then no Debts should be satisfied by Executors For it might be that the Statute was made for performance of Covenants which Covenants peradventure shall never be broken And afterwards Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff CCCLXV Butler and Baker's Case Mich. 33 34 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. SEe the principal Case Reported in Cook 3 Part 25. Poph. 87. 1 And. 348. 3 Co. 25. The Argument of Egerton Solicitor General in the said Case under his own hand was as followeth viz. The disagreement by the Wife in pais is good by the Common Law. An Agreement may be by word Ergo a Disagreement If Husband and Wife Lease for years rendring Rent the Husband dieth the Wife accepteth of the Rent that Acceptance shall bind her 15 E. 4. 17. 3 H. 6. 48. 48 E. 3. 13. 16 E. 4. 8. 11 H. 7. 13. 9 H. 6. 44. 10 H. 6. 24. Tenant in tail makes a Lease for years not warranted by the Statute rendring Rent and dieth and afterwards the Issue accepteth the Rent the same shall bind him 21 H. 7. 38. 21 H. 6. 25. 14 H. 6. 26. 19 H. 6. 43. An Enfant Leaseth for years rendring Rent and at his full age accepts the
Customs stand with Reason And so in 5 H. 7. Where a Man prescribes That for the Pasture which the Beasts of the Tenant have taken in his Lands in the day-time that he have the Foldage of them upon his said Lands in the Night to manure his Lands is a good prescription because the party hath for it Quid pro Quo. And so where a Man prescribes to have a Farthing of every one who passeth over his Land the same is called Toll traverse and is good And so in 7 H. 4. Where a Man prescribes in Common by reason of Vicinage it is good for though it cannot be of Common Right yet because each hath Quid pro Quo it is good And so is the Custom for Fishermen to dry their Nets upon the Banks of the Lands of other Men lying upon the Sea Coasts because it is for the Common wealth and every Man hath an advantage by it but if a Man should prescribe to Fowle there upon the Lands of another that were not good Meade contrary That case is as it hath been put and divers Cases of the Common Law Custom and Statute Laws have been shewed And by common Intendment it is intended that need doth require the making of the By-Law for otherwise they would not have made it and there needs not any averment that there was need of it for that shall be taken by intendment As 19 E. 4. A Man counts of the Grant of the next Avoydance and the Count is good without shewing that that was the next Avoydance but yet it would have been better if it had been expressed And 21 H. 7. In Trespass the first day of May the Defendant pleads the Licence of the Plaintiff without shewing that it was for the same Trespass and yet it shall be intended when he pleads a Licence for the same day that it was for the same Trespass And as to the Case put upon the Statute of 1 R. 3. it hath been ruled otherwise for it shall be shewed on the other side that he was within age as it appeareth by 10 13 H. 7. Also he said that the Court here shall intend that there was a necessity sufficient without expressing of it and if there was not then it ought to be alledged on the other side As 15 H. 7. An Annuity is granted until he was advanced to a Benefice the Plaintiff shall not need to shew it but that shall come on the Defendants part And the Statute which is That no Cattel of the Plough shall be distrained where the party hath other Cattel of which a Distress may be taken there the party needs not to alledge that he had other Cattel or other Goods And as to that which hath been said That it was the better Order that needs not for the Defendant himself was one of the makers of the Order and when By-Laws are made they shall not extend but to the Tenants within the Mannor where they are made and to such only as have Lands there and not to the Lands of others which are out of the Mannor and the Defendant in this case shall not be received to say but that this is a good Custom and Order because he is a party to it and was the maker of it and that there was then a necessity for the making of it for the better ordering of the Lands and that especially when as the Defendant himself was a party to it And as to that which is said That Seisin is alledged in the Lord Cromwell in 6 E. 6. and it is not alledged that the Seisin did continue in him until 13th of this Queen It shall be intended that he continued seised until the contrary be shewed As in 11 H. 7. A Man prescribed to have Common by reason of the House c. The Avowant doth not say that he was seised of the House at the time c. of the disseisin of the Common because he once alledged Seisin of the House and that Seisin shall be intended to continue unto the time of the disseisin And so 10 H. 7. A Prior Domus Ecclesiae de C. brought Waste and supposed that it was to the disenheresin of the House and did not say praedict Domus and yet it was good and shall be referred to the said Priory And so here when he saith that he was Lord and that the By-Law was made as before and a penalty imposed and a Distress taken by the Bailiff of the Lord Cromwell for not observing the By-Law and payment of the sum assessed all being put together makes a sufficient certainty and that the Lord Cromwell continued his Seisin of the Mannor and Land And as to that which hath been said That the By-Law made and the Custom alledged to distrain in the Lands of any Man for the Offence of another is not reasonable and against the Law To that he said That the Tenants here had authority to make By-Laws and by their consents have bounden themselves to the observing and performance of them and therefore shall not now be received to say That the By-Law made by themselves was against the Law. And he said That the Customs in some places are Where there are Waste Lands that they may make By-Laws That if any Tenant or person dig Turfs in the same Waste that the Lord may distrain for such offence within any place of the Mannor and the Cattel of any person Quaere of it The Principal Case was Adjourned LXIV Mountford and Catesbys Case Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. AN Action upon the Case was brought by Mountford against Catesby Dyer 328. Vaugh. Rep. 120. And the Plaintiff declared That the Defendant covenanted assumed and promised in Consideration of a certain sum of Mony to him paid and in Consideration of the payment of a Rent of certain Lands demised to the Lessee That he should peaceably and quietly enjoy the same without Interruption of any person and he was ousted by a stranger And the matter aforesaid was found by special Verdict And it was argued by Lovelace Serjeant and he prayed Iudgment for the Plaintiff And he said That there is a difference when it is said that a Man shall hold and enjoy peaceably and quietly As in Case where one warrants Land there if he be ousted by a stranger who hath not any Title to the Land he shall have an Action of Trespass against him But a Man by word or Covenant may bind himself to that which he is not bound to do by the Law. As if the Covenant and Promise be That he shall leave the Houses in as good plight as he found them there although the Law doth not bind the party to re-edifie the Houses in case they be overthrown by tempest of Wind or that they be destroyed by Enemies yet by his special Covenant he shall be bound to re-edifie them Meade contrary And that this promise shall not be taken strictly against the Lessor Hob. Rep.
Land therefore it is in the Land or within the Land i. e. the Mannor For the King may distrain for the Fine as well in the same Land as in the Land of him who ought to pay it Dyer doubted of it and said That the Bishop could not distrain in the Land for this Fine but should have it by allowance in the Exchequer upon the Estretes and if the party would not pay it the Lessee should have a Subpoena against him out of the Exchequer And some were of Opinion That the Lessee could not have this Fine 2 Len. 179. 4 Len. 234. for that they were not Hereditaments within the Mannor but rather in the Exchequer or Court where the Record is LXXXII Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was A Man seised of a Pasture in which are two great Groves and a Wood known by the name of a Wood And also in the same Pasture there are certain Hedge-Rowes and Trees there growing Sparsim Leased the same by Indenture for years And by the same Indenture bargained and sold to the Lessee all Woods and Vnderwoods in and upon the Premisses And further That it shall and may be lawful to the Lessee to cut down and carry away all the same at all times during the Term. Harper The Hedge-Rowes do not pass by these words for they are not known by the name of Woods 14 H. 8. 2. contrary by Manwood For by such words Hedge-Rowes pass Mounson contrary For the words of the Grant may be supplyed by other Words Dyer The Hedge-Rowes shall pass for the Grant is general All Woods It was moved further If by those words the Lessee might cut them a second time or but once Harper Manwood and Mounson He may cut them but once Dyer contrary And so it should be if the words had been Growing upon the Premisses And this word Growing although it sounds in the present Tense yet it shall be also taken in the future Tense if not that the word tunc had been there for that is a word of Restraint The Case was argued in the Exchequer Chamber where I was present which was The Prior of St. John's Leased a Commandry Provided That if the said Prior or any of his Brethren there being Commanders will dwell thereupon then the said Lease to be void It was doubted If that Proviso did extend to the Successors for the word Being is in the present Tense And yet by the Opinion of Fitzherbert it shall be taken in the future Tense and so extend to the Successors Otherwise if the words had been Now being LXXXIII Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A. Made B. his Executor and died Vid. le stat 43 Eliz. cap. 8. Office of Executors 261. B. to the intent to defraud the Creditors refused to take upon him the Executorship but caused a stranger to take upon him Letters of Administration which stranger fraudulently gave the Goods of the Testator to B. Dyer If the gift be fraudulent then by the Statute of 13 Eliz. the gift is void and then B. by the Occupation of the Goods shall be charged as Executor of his own wrong Manwood I conceive there is a difference If one makes an Executor and another takes the Goods but doth no Act which concerns the Office of an Executor as paying of Debts he is not Executor of his own wrong but a Trespassor to him who is Executor in right but if he doth any Act which belongs to the Office of an Executor then he is Executor of his own wrong Dyer That Case hath been adjudged against you and although the Books of 9 E. 4. 22 H. 6. were vouched Yet Iudgment was given against the Opinion of Manwood It was the Case of one Stoke LXXXIV Jackson and Darcyes Case Mich. 16 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Writ de Partitione facienda between Jackson and Darcy the Case was Tenant in tail the remainder to the King levied a Fine had Issue and died In that case It was adjudged That the Issue was barred and yet the remainder which was in the King was not discontinued For by that Fine an Estate in Feesimple determinable upon the Estate tail did pass unto the Conusee LXXXV Strowds Case Hill. 17 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Replevin the Case was That Lands holden of a Subject came to the possession of the King by the Statute of 1 E. 6. of Chauntries and the King granted the Lands over In that case It was holden That the Grantee shall hold the Lands of the King according to the Patent and not of the Ancient Lord But the Patentee shall pay the Rent by which the said Land was before holden as a Rent seck distrainable of Common Right to the Lord only and his Heirs scil to him of whom the said Lands were before holden LXXXVI Tresham and Robins Case Mich. 17 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. TResham brought an Action of Debt upon a Recognizance against Robins The Condition of which Recognizance was To stand to the Arbitrament of A. and B. who made Award That Robins should have the Land Yielding and paying 10 l. per annum And that Tresham in further assurance should levy a Fine to Robins of the same Land and upon that Robins should grant and render to Tresham which is done accordingly the Rent is behind Tresham brought Debt upon the Recognizance The Defendant pleaded the special matter with this per close Unde petit Judicium if the Plaintiff should have Execution against him And by the Opinion of the whole Court the Conclusion of the Plea is not good For here is not any Execution of the same Debt but an Original Action of Debt brought in which case he ought to have concluded Iudgment Si actio It was further moved If these words Yielding and paying make a Condition And it was agreed That the words do amount to as much as So as he pay the Rent And if a Man makes a Feoffment in Fee Reddendo salvendo 10 l. for years the same is a Condition But in the principal Case It is not a Condition For it is not knit to the Land by the Owner it self but by a stranger i. e. Arbitrator but it is a good Clause to make the same an Article of the Arbitrament which the parties are bound to perform upon pain of forfeiture of the Recognizance Which Wray concessit And that this Rent should not cease by Eviction of the Land. LXXXVII The Earl of Westmerlands Case Hill. 18. Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Earl of Westmerland seised of a Mannor whereof the Demesnes were usually let for three Lives by Copy 2 Len. 152. 2 Brownl 208. according to the Custom of the Mannor granted a Rent-charge to Sir William Cordell pro consilio impendendo for the term of his Life and afterwards conveyed the Mannor to Sir William Clifton in tail The Rent is behind Sir William Cordell dieth Sir William Clifton dieth
the Mannor descended to Sir John Clifton who granted a Copy-hold to Hempston The Executors of Sir William Cordell distrain for the Rent And it was agreed by the whole Court That the Copyholder should hold his Copy-hold charged Vide inde 10 Eliz. Dyer 270. Windham It hath been adjudged That the Wife of the Lord shall not be endowed against the Copyholder which Periam granted and shewed a reason thereof For the Title of Dower is not consummated before the death of the Husband so as the Title of the Copyholder was compleated before the Title of Dower But the Title of the Grantee of the Rent is consummated before the Dower Fenner conceived That the Executors could not distrain upon the Possession of the Copyholder and he argued That this Case is not within the Statute of 32 H. 8. For by the Preface of the said Statute he conceived That the Statute extended but to those Cases for which by the Common Law no remedy was provided but in this Case the Executors by the Common Law might have had an Action of Debt Ergo. But Periam and Windham held the contrary For this Statute intends a further remedy for that mischief viz. not only an Action of Debt but also Dissress and Avowry See the words of the Statute viz. distrain for the Arrearages c. Vpon the Lands c. which were charged with the payment of such Rents and chargeable to the distress of the Testator so long as the said Lands continue remain and be in the seisin or possession of the said Tenant in Demesne who ought immediately to have paid the said Rent so being behind to the said Testator or in the seisin or possession of any other person or persons claiming the said Lands only by and from the said Tenant by purchase gift or descent in like manner and form as their Testator might or ought to have done in his life time It was moved by Fenner That here the Land charged doth not continue in the seisin or possession of the Tenant And here Sir J. Clifton was issue in tail and therefore he doth not claim only by the Father but per formam Doni and therefore he is not lyable Ergo nor his Heir Shuttleworth contrary Sir J. Clifton was chargeable and he claims only from them who immediately ought to have paid the Rent And the Copyholder claims by purchase from Sir J. Clifton so he claims from Sir William Clifton the Tenant although he doth not claim immediately For if the Tenant ought to have paid it and he dieth and the Land descendeth to his Heir and the Heir maketh a Feoffment the Feoffee shall be charged within this Statute although he doth not claim immediately So where Land discharged descends from the Tenant who ought to have paid it and so from Heir to Heir The Statute of 1 R. 2. is That all Grants c. shall be good against the Donor c. his Heirs c. claiming the same only as Heirs to Cestuy que Use Yet if Cestuy que Use grants a Rent-charge and his Feoffees are disseised the Grant shall be good against the Disseisor and yet he doth not claim only by Cestuy que Use And although Sir J. Clifton be Tenant in tail and so claims per formam Doni yet forasmuch as the Estate tail comes under the Estate of him who grants the Rent he shall be subject to the charge And this Statute extends not only to him who claims by the Tenant but also to the Heir of him c. And by Windham and Rhodes The Copyholder doth not claim only by the Lord but he claims in also by the Custom but the Custom is not any part of his Title but only appoints the manner how he shall hold The possession here is continued in Sir J. Clifton for the possession of his Copyholder is his possession so as if the Copyholder be ousted Sir J. Clifton shall have an Assise And so the strict words of the Statute are observed for the seisin and possession continue in Sir J. Clifton who claims only by Sir William Clifton who was the Tenant in Demesne who ought to pay the Rent But Fenner said to that That the seisin and possession intended in the Statute was the very actual possession i. e. pedis dispositio and such a possession in which a distress might be taken and that could not be taken in a Freehold without actual possession LXXXVIII Owen and Sadlers Case Hill. 18 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 10 Co. 96. A Lease was made to A. for life the remainder to B. in tail the remainder to the right Heirs of B. who bargains and sells all his Estate or levies a Fine with Proclamations of it to D. A. commits Waste It was holden by the Court That D. shall not punish him in an Action of Waste for nothing passeth to him but during the life of the Grantor scil as to the remainder in tail in respect of which Estate the Action of Waste is only maintainable for although that the Feesimple passeth to the Grantee or Conusee yet in respect of that an Action of Waste is not maintainable until the Estate tail be spent LXXXIX Mich. 18 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe King seised of a Mannor 2 Cro. 53 123. Yel 90 91. 1 Cro. 240. 2 Roll. 371. Hob. Rep. 242. to which an Advowson is appendant A stranger presents and his Clerk is in by 6 months The King grants the Mannor with all Advowsons appendant to it to B. The Incumbent dieth In this case It was holden by the Court That the Grantee might present For the Advowson was always appendant and the Inheritance of the same passed to the Grantee for it was not made disappendant by the Vsurpation But the Patentee shall not have a Quare Impedit of the first disturbance for that presentment did not pass unto him being a thing in Action without mention of it in his Grant And if the Plaintiff brings a Quare Impedit of the second Avoydance he shall make his Title by the presentment of the King not making mention of the Vsurpation Yet if the Bishop present by Lapse in the case of a common person he ought to make mention of it XC Mich. 18 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN an Ejectione firmae upon an Evidence the Case was this The Bishop of Rochester 4 E. 6. Leased to B. for years rendring Rent and afterwards granted the Reversion to C. for 99 years rendring the ancient Rent Habendum from the day of the Lease without impeachment of Waste which Grant was confirmed by the Dean and Chapter but B. did not attorn And in default of Attornment It was holden by the whole Court That the Lease was void For it was made by way of grant of the Reversion and to pass as a Reversion But by Catline If the Bishop had granted the Reversion and also demised the Land for 99 years It should pass as a Lease to begin first after the
created by this Will but the Feesimple setled in them when they came at their lawful age and had Issue so as the residue of the Devise was void and Iudgment was given accordingly CLXVI Griffith and Agard's Case Mich. 27 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Disceit by Griffith against Agard and his Wife 1 Len. 290. For that a Fine was levied of a Messuage being Ancient Demesne by which it became Frank-Fee and the Fine was levied in the life of A. Griffith Grandfather of the Plaintiff Exception was taken to the Writ because it is brought by the Plaintiff as Cosen and Heir of A. G. his Grandfather And in the beginning of the Writ the words are Si Henricus Griffith fecerit te securum without saying Cousen and heir of A. G. fecerit te securum But the Exception was not allowed For afterwards in the Writ these words are Cujus haeres ipse est See the Register 238. that it is sufficient if there be in the body of the Writ these words Cujus haeres ipse est Another Exception was taken to the Declaration in that it is alledged that the Lands were De antiquo Dominico Dominae Reginae Angliae wereas it ought to have been De antiquo Dominico Dominae Coronae suae c. The Opinion of the Court was That it was good both ways See Book Entries 100. antiquo Dominco Coronae 58. de antiquo Dominico Domini Regis CLXVII Bashpool's Case Mich. 27 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 2 Len. 101. Stiles Rep. 148. THe Case was The Father was seised of Lands in Fee and bound himself in an Obligation and devised his Lands unto his Wife until his Son should come to the age of 21 years the Remainder to his Son in Fee and died and no other Land descended or came to the Son from the Father It was moved by Godfrey That the Heir in this case might elect to waive the Devise and to take the Land by Descent See 9 E. 4. 18. by Needham But it was the Opinion of Gawdy and Shute Iustices That the Son should be adjudged in by Descent and so bounden with the Debt CLXVIII Branthwait's Case Mich. 27 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. DEbt brought by J. D. against Branthwait upon an obligation the Condition of which was That whereas J. F. claimed to have a Lease for years of the Mannor of D. made and granted to him by one W. D. If the said Branthwait keep without damage the Plaintiff from all claim and Interest to be challenged by the said J. F. de tempore in tempus during the years c. and also deliver the said Lease to the Plantiff that then c. The Defendant pleaded That the said J. F. had not any such Lease and that after the making of the said Obligation untill the Action brought the Plaintiff was not damnified ratione dimissionis praedictae Exception was taken to the same because where the words of the Condition are Keep without damage the Plaintiff from all Claim and Interest And he hath pleaded That the Plaintiff was not damnified ratione dimissionis c. But the Exception was disallowed by the Court For if he were not damnified ratione dimissionis then he was not damnified by reason of any Claim or Interest Another Exception was taken Because he could not now say there was no such Lease For it is recited in the Obligation That J. F. claimed to have a Lease and therefore by this recital he is estopped c. And see where a Recital is an Estoppel 8 R. 2. Fitz. 2 Len. 11. tit Estoppel 283. 39 E. 3. 3. Fitz. Estoppel 112. 46 E. 3. 12. It was holden by the Court That it was a good Estoppel And afterwards Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff CLXIX Mich. 27 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. DEbt upon an Obligation The words of the Obligation were I am content to give to W. 10 l. at Michaelmas and 10 l. at our Lady day It was holden by the Court That it was a good Obligation And it did amount to as much as I promise to pay c. It was also holden by the Court That an Action of Covenant lay upon it as well as an Action of Debt at the Election of the Plantiff And it was holden That although the Action is for 40 l. and the Declaration is 20 l. and 20 l. at two several days yet it is good enough and the Declaration is well pursuant to it And afterwards Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff CLXX The Queen and Kettell's Case Trin. 27 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Queen brought a Writ de Valore Maritagii against Kettell and Counted of a Tenure in Chief The Defendant pleaded That pendant the Writ the Queen had granted to one Edmund Kettel Custodiam Maritagium of the said Defendant with whom he had Compounded It was holden by the whole Court to be no Plea for the Letters Patents were void because the Queen was deceived in her Grant for it appeareth by the Count that the Defendant before the Grant of the Queen was of full age And by the Letters Patents the Queen intended that he was within age and by the same granted Custodiam c. CLXXI. Mich. 27 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A. Seised of Land by his Will Devised 1 Len. 31. That his Executors should sell the Lands and died the Executors levied a Fine thereof to one F. taking Mony for it of F. The Question was If in title made by the Conusee to the said Lands by the Fine It be a good Plea against the same to say Quod partes Finis nihil habuerunt Anderson conceived That it was But by Windham and Periam upon Not guilty the Conusee may help himself by giving in Evidence the special matter in which Case the Conusee shall be adjudged in not by the Fine but by the Devise And Windham said That if A. Devise That his Executors shall sell a Reversion of certain Lands of ●hich he dieth seised and they sell the same without Deed the same is well enough for the Vendee is in by the Devise 1 Iust 113. a. and not by the Conveyance of the Executors Quod vide 17 H. 6. 23. And by Periam The Conusee may help himself in pleading As he who is in by the Feoffment or Grant of Cestuy que use by the Statute of 1 R. 3. CLXXII Lee and Loveday's Case Trin. 27 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. TEnant in tail leased for 60 years and afterwards levied a Fine to Lee and Loveday sur Conusans de Droit come ceo c. and their Heirs in Fee And afterwards the Lord of the Mannor of whom the Land was holden brought a Writ of Disceit and upon that a Scire facias against the Conusees supposing the Land to be Ancient Demesne The Defendants made default by which the Fine was annulled and now the Issue in tail entred upon the Lessee for years and he brought an Ejectione firme
the now Plaintiff To which Endictment the now Plaintiff peaded Not guilty and upon that he was acquitted The Defendant pleaded That the now Plaintiff was endicted of the said death in the County of S. scil of the stroak and of the death of the dead in the same County To which the Plaintiff by Replication said That the said J.S. was struck in the said County of S. but died in the County of D. so as this Indictment found in the County of S. is void by the Common Law and by the Statute of 2 E. 6. the party ought to be Indicted in the County where the party died and not where the stroke was given And upon that Replication the Defendant demurred in Law. Broughton The Plaintiff ought to be barred 1. The Plaintiff was not lawfully accquitted for the proceedings are not by due process For upon the Writ of Appeal no Pledges are retorned Which see 11 H. 4. 160. Then if the Appeal was not duly sued the Plaintiff was not duly acquitted and then Conspiracy or Action upon the Case doth not lie For such suit doth not lie but where if the Plaintiff had been found guilty he should have Iudgment of life and member Which shall not be upon an insufficient Appeal 9 H. 5. 2. 2. Because it is not shewed in the Declaration If the Defendant did flie or not 3. The Declaration wants these words Falso Malitiose as they are in the Writ of Conspiracy And also it is not shewed If the Plaintiff in the Appeal be sufficient or not For if he be sufficient the Abettors shall not be enquired See Westm 2. And as to the Action it self he conceived That it doth not lie by Bill but by Originial Writ against those who are found Abettors See 2 E. 2. Fitz. Action upon the Statute 28. such suit by Writ But see 25 Eliz. It was holden Such suit doth not lie by Writ And see Book of Entries 43 44. Flemming to the contrary It needs not to be shewed That the Plaintiff found Pledges ad prosequendum For without that the Writ is good enough and although that the Writ be not well executed yet it is good For our Action is not grounded upon the Record of Appeal but at the Common Law and the Record is but Conveyance to our Action And also there needs not in the Declaration falso malitiose for they are implyed in the words Abettavit procuravit And he conceived That this Action is at the Common Law and not only upon the Statute of Westm 2. Which see Stamford 172. And see 3 E. 3. Fitz. Conspiracy 13. Conspiracy lieth upon an Endictment of Trespass as well as upon an Endictment of Felony for the Law hath provided remedy in every Case where a Man is damnified As 43 E. 3. 20. A Writ of Disceit was brought for that the Defendant by Fraud and Collusion had procured J.S. to brign a Formedon against the Plaintiff of such a Mannor by reason whereof the Plaintiff was put to great charges and holden maintainable And the Statute of West 2. is in the affirmative and therefore it doth not abridge the Common Law but the subject may take the advantage of the Common Law if he pleaseth For it may be that the Course according to the Common-Law will more avail him than that upon the Statute For upon the Statute Law If the Abettors have not any thing the party is without remedy but by the Common Law the party grieved shall have excution upon the body 13 E. 2. Conspiracy holden maintainable against one who procured one to sue an Appeal against the Plaintiff See Fitz. Conspiracy 25. Fitzh Na. Br. 98. If A. procures B. to sue an Action against me to vex and molest me an Action of Disceit lieth And as to the matter of the Endictment I conceive that it is not any bar For the Endictment is meerly void because it was found in the County where the stroke was and not in the County where the party strucken died where of right it ought to be and that by the Statute of 2 E. 6. Then if the Endictment be insufficient it is as no Endictment and then the Plea cannot excuse the Defendant Which see 20 E. 4. 6. If the Endictment be not sufficient the Appellee shall wage Battail and the Abettors shall be acquitted Vide inde 19 E. 3. Coron 444. 26 H. 8. 2. And by the Common Law the Plaintiff might at his pleasure bring an Appeal where the Plaintiff was strucken or where he died but in such case the tryal shall be by both Counties And 3 H. 7. 12. Appeal was brought in the County where the party was stricken And 44 H. 7. 18. the Appeal was brought in the County where the party died and there it is said That in an Appeal the Plaintiff may declare as if the thing were done in both Counties but the Endictment ought to be in one County only And 43 E. 3. 18. A Man strucken in one County and dieth in another County the Appeal shall be brought in the County where he died In an Action upon the Case brought in the County of Essex the Plaintiff Declared That the Defendant held certain Lands by reason of which he ought to repair a Wall in the County of Essex juxta le Thames and that the Plaintiff had Land in the County of Middlesex adjoyning to the said Wall and for want of repairing the said Wall his Land in the County of Middlesex was drowned and the Writ was allowed being brought in the County of Essex See 6 H 7. 10. Clench I conceive this Action doth not lie by the Common Law For no Writ of Conspiracy was at the Common Law before the Statute And vide F. N. B. 114. F. If the Plaintiff in an Appeal be Nonsuit Conspiracy lieth but contrary if he be acquitted for he shall have his remedy against the Abettors c. Plowden This Action lieth at the Common Law and an Endictment is no Plea in this Action and it is not grounded upon the Statute as a Conspiracy is and so it well lieth although the Abettors be not Enquired Gawdy Serjeant This is an Action by the Common Law For in all cases where one procures damages to another so as the party is put to charges an Action lieth a fortiori where the procurement extends to the danger of life And see F. N. B. 116. F. Men conspire to have a false Office found of my Lands which Office is found by such procurement Conspiracy lieth And the Statute of 2 E. 6. doth not alter the Law before for it is in the affirmative See the Statute Cap. 24. Gawdy Iustice Conceived That the Endictment did not excuse the Defendants in this Action but against those who are sworn to give Evidence for the King and not others For they may well procure an Appeal malitiously notwithstanding the Endictment Walmesley Serjeant conceived That the Action doth not lie at the Common Law For in
Land as it might be Leased And so it is where the Sheriff retorns Issues c. for the Corn there growing may be of the value of 40 l. where the Land is but of the value of 10 l. CCXXV. Weshborn and Mordant's Case Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 2 Len. 103. 1 Cro. 191.199 1 Len. 247. IN an Action upon the Case the Plaintiff declared That whereas he was possessed of a piece of Land containing 2 Acres called Parsonage lying adjoyning to a certain River from the 20th of May 29 Eliz. usque diem impetrationis istius Brevis c. the Defendant had the said 20th day of May estopped the said River with certain Loads of Earth and so continued estopped until the 14th of February by reason of which his Land was drowned and so he had lost the profit of it for the said time It was moved in Arrest of Iudgment That upon the Declaration it doth not appear that there is any cause of Action for the Plaintiff hath made title to the Land drowned from the 20th day so as that day is excluded and the Nusance is laid to be done the said 20th day and if so then he cannot complain of any wrong the Nusance being laid to be before any possession of the Plaintiff To which it was answered That although the stopping was made before the possession yet the Continuance of it after is a new wrong for which an Action lieth As 5 H. 7. 4. It was presented That an Abbot had not cleansed his Ditch c. by reason of which the Highway is estopped The Successor shall be put to Answer to that Indictment by reason of the Continuance of it See that continuance of a Nusance is Quasi a new Nusance 14 15 Eliz. Dyer 320. And it may be that the Plaintiff was not damnified until a long time after the 20th of May scil after the Estopping and the words of the Writ here are satisfied and true Afterwards Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff CCXXVI The Queen and Scot's Case Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Queen brought a Quare Impedit against the Bishop of London and Scot And the Case was 1 Len. 40. A. seised of an Advowson in gross holden of the Queen in Chief aliened the same by Fine without Licence of the King The Church became void The Conusee presented the Queen without Office found brought a Quare Impedit The Question was If the Queen without Office found should present It was agreed by the whole Court That if the alienation had been by Deed only there the Queen without Office should not have the presentment For upon such alienation by matter in fait without Licence no Scire facias shall issue without Office found of the alienation But upon Alienation without Licence by matter of Record a Scire facias lieth before Office. And in the last Case the Queen shall have the Issues from the time of the Scire facias retorned but in the first Case from the time of the Office found See Stam. Prerogat see 8 E 4. 4. It was then moved That if the Queen being entituled to present ut supra pardon the Conusee all alienations without Licence and Intrusions If the Estate of the Incumbent thereby be confirmed But the Court would not argue that Point CCXXVII Sir Thomas Holland and Bonis's Case Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Replevin 1 Len. 183. 2 Len. 12. Owen Rep. 138 139 the Defendant made Conusans as Baily to Tho. Lord Howard and shewed That the Prioress of the late dissolved Priory of Hallywell was seised of the Mannor of Priors in the County of Hertford and granted the same by words of Dedi concessi pro certa pecuniae summa to the Lord Audley Chancellor of England and his Heirs who died thereof seised and that the said Mannor inter alia descended to Mary Daughter and Heir of the said Tho. Lord Audley who died thereof seised by force of which the said Mannor descended to the said Tho. Lord Howard c. And shewed That the Conveyance by the Prioress bore date 4. Novemb. 29 H. 8. and then enrolled in the Chancery The Plaintiff in bar of the said Conusans shewed That after the making and inrolling of the said Conveyance the said Prioress Leased the Lands to Sir Hen. Parker for 99 years and conveyed the said Lands to himself and further shewed That the said Conveyance specified in the Conusans fuit primo deliberatum 4. November 31 H. 8. without that that the said Prioress the said 4. Novemb. 29 H. 8. dedit concessit the said Mannor to the said Lord Audley Vpon which it was demurred And it was the clear Opinion of the Court That the Averment de primo deliberatum against a Deed enrolled ought not to be received For by the same reason it might be averred Nunquam deliberatum and so upon the matter Non est factum It was further Objected That a Bargain and Sale by a Corporation is not good For a Corporation cannot be seised to another's use and the nature of such a Conveyance is to take effect by way of use in the bargain and afterwards the Statute draws the possession to the use But the Court utterly rejected the said Exception as dangerous for that such were the Conveyances of the greater part of the possessions of Monasteries And it was in this Case said by Shuttleworth Serjeant That although such a Corporation could not take an Estate to another's use yet they might charge their own possessions with an use to another CCXXVIII The Queen and the Bishop of Gloucester's Case Trin. 29 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. THe Queen recovered in a Quare Impedit against the Bishop of Gloucester and one S. in which Quare Impedit the Bishop pleaded as Ordinary scil Quod ipse nihil habet nec habere clamat in Ecclesia praedict neq in Advocatione ejusdem nisi Admissionem Institutionem c. And now the Bishop and S. the Incumbent brought a Writ of Error And If this Writ of Error brought joyntly by the Bishop and the Incumbent was well brought was the Question Some held That the Bishop had not cause to bring Error for that he had disclaimed in the Church and the Patronage of it For if in a Praecipe quod reddat the Tenant disclaims he shall never have a Writ of Error 16 E. 3. 7. Fitz. Error 78. And Note That in the Writ of Error at the Bar the perclose was Ad grave damnum Episcopi whereas the Bishop could not be grieved by the said Iudgment because he had nothing nor claimed any thing in the Church c. Wray The Writ of Error had been the better if those words ad grave damnum Episcopi had been left out for the Bishop hath lost nothing And it was Objected by some If the Iudgment in this Case be reversed the usual Iudgment cannot be given scil That the Bishop shall be restored to
so as of necessity we must lay the promise accordingly And it is a clear case That the Plaintiff in an Action upon the Case shall declare upon a Promise the first day of May And if it be found that it was made at another day yet the Plaintiff shall recover CCCX Hamper's Case Mich. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 2 Len. 211. 1 Cro. 147. HAmper was Endicted upon the Statute of 5 Eliz. of Perjury And in the body of the Endictment the Record was that he falso deceptive deposuit Whereas the Statute speaks Wilfully And although in the perclose of the Endictment the Conclusion is Et sic commisit voluntarium perjurium Yet the Opinion of the Court was That the same did not help the matter and for that cause the party was discharged For contra formam Statuti will not help the matter and yet it was moved and urged that contra formam Statuti did supply such defect And in this case It was holden by the Court That if a Witness deposeth falsly but the Iury do not give credit to his Oath but give their Verdict against his Oath although the party grieved cannot sue him for the Perjury yet at the Suit of the King he shall be punished CCCXI. Collet and Robston's Case Trin. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. Ante 149.192 2 Len. 118. ARthur Collet and Thomas Andrews recovered against Robston in a Writ of Accompt Hill. 29 Eliz. And now Robston brought a Writ of Error and assigned for Error That whereas the said Writ of Accompt was brought against the Defendant as Receivor of monies to render Accompt quando ad hoc requisitus fuerit the said Writ ought to have been more special But the Writ in its generalty was holden good enough without any special matter And so it was adjudged in the Case of one Gomersell scil Quod reddat ei rationabilem Computum suum de tempore quo fuit Receptor Denariorum ipsius A. Another Error was assigned For that the Iury had assessed damages which ought not to be done in an Action of Accompt Which see 2 Ric. 2. Fitz. Accompt 45. and 2 H. 7. 13. But see the Book of Entries 22. In a Writ of Accompt against one as Receivor for to render Accompt damages were given by the Iury for the Plaintiff And in the Case of an Accompt against one as Bailiff damages shall be given For if my Bailiff by the imployment of my monies whereof he was Receivor might have procured profit and gain unto me but he neglects the same he shall be chargeable to me to answer the same And here in our Case damages shall be given ratione implacitationis And afterwards notwithstanding the Exceptions the Iudgment was affirmed CCCXII Yates's Case Trin. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. YAtes and another brought a Writ of Error upon a Iudgment given in a Writ of Partition and assigned for Error 2 Len. 118. That the Partition was not sufficient For it is there set forth That the Plaintiffs insimul pro indiviso tenent cum defendente c. and doth not say what Estate See F.N.B. 61 62. Insimul et pro indiviso tenent de haereditate which was of A. matris of the Plaintiff and Defendant And yet see F. N. B. 62. A Writ of Partition betwixt strangers without naming de haereditate in the Writ 1 Cro. 759 760. And see also that Partitions of Lands in London without shewing of what Estate See Register 67. 6 Eliz. in Partitione facienda by Courtney against Polyweel no Estate shewed in the Writ 26 Eliz. Between the Lord Cheney and Bell. So between Finch and Tirrell And so between Fry and Drake 14 Eliz. And 4 5 Phil. Mary It was holden That it is not necessary in such Writ to shew the Estate But Tenants in Common ought to shew the same in their Declaration CCCXIII. Hill. 31 Eliz. In the King Bench. AN Action upon the Case was brought for these words scil Thou hast forged my hand It was holden by Gawdy and Wray Iustices That such words are not actionable because too general without shewing to what writing And by Wray these words scil Thou art a forger are not actionable because it is not to what thing he was a forger Godfery Between Warner and Cropwell scil She went about to kill me An Action lieth for them for if they were true she should be bounden to the good behaviour And by Gawdy for these words scil Thou hast forged a Writing They are not Actionable because they are incertain words Which Wray concessit But if the Declaration had been more certain as innuendo such a deed then it had been good enough Fuller A Case was betwixt Brook and Doughty scil He hath Counterfeited my Lord of Leicester's hand unto a Letter against the Bishop of London for the which he was committed to the Marshalsey for it And it was holden Not Actionable And afterwards in the principal Case Iudgment was Nihil Capiat per Billam CCCXIV Delabroche and Barney's Case Mich. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. DElabroche was sued in the Admiral Court upon an Obligation supposed to be made and delivered in France and now he prayed a Prohibition It was holden by the whole Court That such a Bond might be sued here but being begun in the Court of Admiralty we cannot prohibit them for that perhaps the Witnesses of the Plaintiff are beyond Sea which may be examined there but not here CCCXV. Moulton's Case Mich. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. THis Case was moved to the Court by Cook That one Robert Moulton Tenant in tail having Issue two Sons Robert and John died seised And that Robert his Son and Heir levied a Fine thereof and afterwards levied another Fine and died without Issue And John brought two several Writs of Error to reverse both Fines And the Tenant to the Writ of Error brought upon the first Fine pleaded the second Fine in bar of it And in her of a Writ of Error brought upon the second Fine he pleaded the first Fine The Court advised him to Reply That the Fine pleaded in bar was erronious See 7 H. 4. 107. Where a Man is to annul an Outlawry his person shall not be disabled by any other Outlawry CCCXVI. Babington and Babington's Case Mich. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN Debt brought The Defendant pleaded an Attachment made in London after imparlance It was adjudged That it was not any plea. And Wray said That the same should be observed for a Rule in other Cases After that plea was disallowed The Defendant pleaded Variance betwixt the Obligation and the Declaration For the Obligation was Randal Bab. And the Declaration was ad respondend Randulpho B. alias Randal B. Cook said That Randulphus is Latine for Randal Owen Serjeant shewed divers Presidents where Randulphus was taken for Randal But the Court did not agree upon it Wray advised the Plaintiff for his more speed to
Eliz. Leon. 166. Lib. 1. was this Term adjudged upon the Devise That the Survivour shall be each others Heir It was holden That all the surviving Brothers are Ioynt-Tenants and although this word Survivour be in the singular number yet in sense upon the whole matter it shall be taken and construed as for the plural number Survivour shall be each others Heir i. e each Survivour i.e. every Survivour i.e. All the Survivours and then in this case The Plaintiff and the Defendant being Ioynt-Tenants cannot maintain an Action of Trespass one against the other CCCLIII Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. BY the Statute of 32 H. 8. cap. 37. The Executors of a Grantee of a Rent-Charge may distrain for the Arrearages of the said Rent in the life of the Testator so long as the Land charged doth continue in the seisin or possession of the Tenant in Demesne who ought immediately to have paid the said Rent or in the seisin of any other person or persons claiming the said Lands only by and from the said Tenant by purchase gift or descent in like manner as the Testator might or ought to have done in his life-time It was now moved If A. grant a Rent-charge to B. the Rent is behind B. dieth A. enfeoffeth C. in Fee who divers years after enfeoffeth D. who divers years after enfeoffeth E. It was holden in this Case by Walmesley Periam and Windham Iustices That E. should be chargeable with the Arrearages to the Executors Anderson Chief Iustice held the contrary But they all agreed That the Lord by Escheat Tenant in Dower or by the Curtesie should not be chargeable for they did not claim by the Party only but also by the Law. CCCLIV. Leverett and Townsend's Case Trin. 32 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN an Action upon the Case for disturbing him of hs Common 3 Cro. 198. 2 Len. 184. The Plaintiff declared That he was seised in Fee of a Messuage and certain Lands And that he and all those whose Estate he hath have Common of Pasture in 16 Acres of Lands called D. from the time that the Corn is reaped until it be sowen again And also Common of Pasture in Land called R. omni tempore anni as appendant to the said Messuage and Land and that the Defendant had plowed the said Lands and so disturbed him of his Common It was moved in stay of Iudgment That it appeareth here that the Plaintiff was seised in Fee and so he ought to have an Assise and not an Action upon the Case But the Exception was disallowed by the Court. Vide inde Ante 13. 2 H. 4. 11. 8 Eliz. Dyer 250. 11 R. 2. Tit. Action upon the Case 36. CCCLV. The Chamberlain of London's Case Mich. 33 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. THE Chamberlain of London brought an Action of Debt in the Mayors Court in Guild-hall 5 Co. grounded upon an Act of Common Council See C. 5 Part The matter was removed into the Kings Bench by Corpus cum causa Fleetwood Recorder of London prayed a Procedendo It was Objected That they of London could not make Ordinances to bind the Subjects as an Act of Parliament To which It was said by Fleetwood That the Custom of the City is That the Mayor and Aldermen and four persons chosen out of each Ward by the Communalty may make Ordinances which they call Acts of Common Council and they shall bind every Citizen and Free-man and all their Customs are confirmed by Act of Parliament and by Magna Charta which hath been confirmed 52 times and also by the Statute of 7 R. 2. For that King seised their Liberties and drove them to pay for the Redemption of them 100000 Marks and then the said King confirmed them unto them for ever and therefore this Ordinance being made according to our Custom ought not to be impeached As in Case of matters of the Forrest If one be punished for offending against an Ordinance made for the governing of the Affairs of the Forrest you cannot remove the matter before you So is the Law called Lex Idumaea concerning Rivers and Fishing in which are divers Ordinances That none shall kill Salmons at certain Seasons of the year and so of other Fishes If one be punished by force of such Law he shall not be relieved here for the Law of the Land hath always allowed such particular Customs And see F. B. If two Merchants put their Stocks together and so Traffick together and the one dieth The Survivor shall not have the whole Stock as the Common Law is but the Executor of him that dieth shall have an Accompt against the other and that is per Legem mercatoriam Cook to the same intent This Act of Common Council is good and according to the Law that is of Common Right There are divers Statutes made for the true making of Cloth and to take away the abuses and deceit in the making of it and this Act of Common Council is for the well executing of the said Statutes and I conceive there is a difference in making of Laws by a Corporation A Corporation may make an Act for the better executing of any Law established at the Common Law but new Laws they cannot make As those of a Town who have used to have Common in certain Lands they cannot make a By-Law That such a one in such a Town shall not have Common there but that none shall use his Common but at such a time such a By-Law made is good See 15 H. 7. 21 H. 7. 40. See 8 E. 2. tit Assise 413. A Town had Common of Turbary in a Marsh and divers of the Inhabitants of the Town had made Trenches in the said Marsh and some had not a full Foot of Land in the Town and such persons by their Trenches which they had made there used to carry Turffs out of the said Marsh by Boats and sell them unto the value of 20 Marks per annum to their great private profit and to the great grievance of the others For which cause It was provided by common assent of the Freeholders of the Lord of the said Town That all the Trenches in the said Marsh should be stopped so as from thenceforth no Turffs be carried in Boats by the Trenches And there it was holden That if the greater part of the Commoners assent the same shall bind the others who have not assented for ubi major pars ibi totum And then if such Towns may make Laws a fortiori The City of London Secondly This Law is good by Custom for they have used to make such Acts and Ordinances time out of mind c. and these Customs are confirmed by Act of Parliament and also they may appoint a penalty for to what purpose otherwise should they make an Act Oderunt peccare mali formidine poenae Also this Action is maintainable for an Amercement in a Court Baron an Action of Debt lieth Gawdy Iustice 44 E. 3. 19.
they had not any Lands in the said Town but the said Mannor And the Ejectione firmae was brought of that Mannor in Kent and from thence the Visne came and all the special matter aforesaid was found by Verdict And Exception was taken to the Verdict because they have found generally That the Master and Scholars had not any thing in the said Town of Laberhurst but the said Mannor Whereas they ought to have said That they had not any thing in the said Town in the County of Kent For they could not take notice what Lands the Master and Scholars had in that part of the Town which was in the County of Sussex And of that Opinion the whole Court seemed to be But Quaere of it for it was adjourned XCVI Hinde and Lyons Case Mich. 19 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Post 70. Dyer 124. 2 Len. 11. IN Debt by Hinde against one as Son and Heir of Sir John Lyon who pleaded Nothing by descent but the third part of the Mannor of D. the Plaintiff replyed Assets and shewed for Assets That the Defendant had the whole Mannor of D. by descent Vpon which they were at Issue And it was given in Evidence to the Iury That the said Mannor was holden by Knights-Service And that the said Sir John the Ancestor of c. by his Will in writing Devised the whole Mannor to his Wife until the Defendant his Son and Heir should come to the age of 24 years And that at the age of his Son of 24 years his Wife should have the third part of the said Mannor for her life and his Son should have the residue And if that his said Son do die before he come to his said age of 24 years without Heir of his body that the Land should remain to J.S. the remainder over The Devisor died The Son came to the age of 24 years The Question was If the Son had an Estate in tail for then for two parts he was not in by descent And it seemed to Dyer and Manwood That here was not any Estate in tail for no tail shall rise if not that the Son die before his said age and therefore the tail shall never take effect and the Fee-simple doth descend and remain in the Son unless that he dieth before the age of 24 years and then the Estate vests with the remainder over but now having attained to the said age he hath the Fee and that by descent of the entier Mannor and then his Plea is false That but the third part descended And a general Iudgment shall be given against him as of his own Debt And an Elegit shall issue forth of the moyety of all his Lands as well those which he hath by descent from his Ancestor as his other Lands And a Capias also lieth against him But Manwood Iustice conceived That if a general Iudgment be given against the Heir by default in such cause a Capias doth not lie although it lieth in case of a false Plea. Dyer contrary And the Writ against the Heir is in the debet detinet which proves That in Law it is his own Debt And he said That he could shew a President where such an Action was maintainable against the Executors of the Heir XCVII Mich. 19 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was A. seised of Lands in Fee 2 Len. 154. Hob. 285. Dyer 329. by his Will in writing granted a Rent-Charge of 5 l. per annum out of the same to his younger Son towards his education and bringing up in Learning The Question was If in pleading the Devisee ought to aver That he was brought up in Learning And it was holden by Dyer Manwood and Mounson Iustices That there needs no such Averment for the Devise is not Conditional and therefore although he be not brought up in Learning yet he shall have the Rent And the words of the Devise are Towards his bringing up And the Devisor well knew that 5 l. per annum would not and could not reach to maintain a Scholar in Learning Diet Apparel and Books And this Rent although it be not sufficient to such intent yet the Son shall have it And by Dyer Three years past such Case was in this Court scil Two were bounden to stand to the Award of certain persons Who awarded That the one of them should pay unto the other 20 s. per annum during the Term of 6 years towards the education and bringing up of such an Enfant and within two years of the said Term the Enfant died so as now there needed not any supply towards his Education Yet it was holden That the said yearly sum ought to be paid for the whole Term after For the words Towards his Education are but to shew the intent and consideration of the payment of that sum and are not the words of a Condition XCVIII Mich. 19 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Quare Impedit The Plaintiff declared That the Defendant was seised in Fee of the Mannor of Orchard alias Lydcots-Farm to which the Advowson is appendant and presented such a one c. And afterwards leased to the Plaintiff the said Mannor per nomen of the Mannor of Orchard alias Lydcots-Farm with the appurtenances for 21 years and the Church became void c. And the truth of the Case was That there is the Mannor of Orchard and within the said Mannor the said Farm called Lydcots Farm parcel of the said Mannor and the Lease was of the said Farm and not of the said Mannor and so the Advowson remained to the Lessor as appendant to the Mannor In this Case It was moved What thing the Defendant should traverse Dyer He shall say That the Advowson is appendant to the Mannor of Orchard absque hoc that it is appendant to the Farm of Lydcots But it seemed to Manwood That the Defendant shall say That the Advowson is appendant to the Mannor of Orchard and that the Farm of Lydcots is parcel of the said Mannor and that he Leased to the Plaintiff the said Farm with the appurtenances absque hoc that the Mannor of Orchard and the said Farm are all one For if he traverse the Appendancy to the Farm of Lydcots then he confesseth That the Mannor and Farm are all one c. But Dyer doubted of it XCIX Kirlee and Lees Case Mich. 19 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Action upon the Case upon Assumpsit the Plaintiff declared That the Defendant in Consideration that the Plaintiff would marry the Daughter of the Defendant did promise to find to the Plaintiff and his said Wife convenient apparel meat and drink for themselves and two servants and Pasture also for two Geldings by the space of 3 years when the Plaintiff would require it And further shewed That Licet the Plaintiff had married the Defendants Daughter and that he had required the Defendant to find ut supra c. the Defendant refused c. The Defendant
confirms it is a void Confirmation And 7 E. 6. Br. Grants 154. A Man possessed of a Lease for 40 years grants so many of the said years which shall be to come at the time of his death it is a void Grant for the incertainty Afterwards Shuttleworth moved another point viz. The Plaintiff hath declared of a Trespass done 1 Januarii 23 Eliz. The Defendant shews in Evidence a Lease for years to him made 14 Januarii the same year which is 13 days after the Trespass whereof the Plaintiff hath declared and it shall not be intended that the Plaintiff had another Title than that which he hath alledged and forasmuch as he hath not disclosed in himself any Title Tempore transgressionis the Plaintiff should punish him in respect of his first possession without any other Title And although it may be Objected That where the Defendant hath given in Evidence That Williamson leased to the Defendant that is not sufficient and the words subsequent 14 Januarii are void as a nugation and matter of surplusage Truly the Law is contrary for rather those words ante Transgressionem shall be void because too general and shall give way to the subsequent words after the videlicet because they are special and certain As the Case late adjudged The Archbishop of Canterbury leased three parcels of Land rendring Rent of 8 l. per annum viz. for one parcel 5 l. for another 50 s. and for the third 40 which amounts to 9 l. 10 s. It was adjudged That the videlicet and the words subsequent concerning the special reservation of the Rent was utterly void because contrary to the premisses which were certain viz. 8 l. and that the Fermor should pay but 8 l. according to the general reservation but in our case the words precedent are general i. e. ante Transgressionem and therefore the words subsequent which are special and certain shall be taken and the general words rejected As in Trespass the Defendant pleads That A. was seised of the Land where and held it of the Defendant and that the said A. 1 die Maii 6 Eliz. aliened the said Land in Mortmain for which he within a year after viz. 4 Maii Anno 7 Eliz. entred now the same is no bar for upon the evidence it appeareth that the Lord hath surceased his time and the words within the year shall not help him for they are too general and therefore at the subsequent words viz. c. Cook on the Defendants part took Exception For it appeareth here upon the Evidence of the Defendant which is confessed by the Demurrer of the Plaintiff That upon this matter the Plaintiff cannot punish the Defendant for this Trespass for he was not an immediate Trespassor to the Plaintiff for the Plaintiff hath declared upon a Trespass done 1 Januarii 23 Eliz. And it is given in Evidence on the part of the Defendant and confessed by the Plaintiff c. That 22 Eliz. Cordell Savell levied a Fine to Williamson by force of which the said Williamson entred and was seised and so seised 14 Januarii 23 Eliz. leased to the Defendant Now upon this matter the Plaintiff cannot have Trespass but the Defendant for Williamson was the immediate Trespassor to him for he entred 22 Eliz. And at length after deliberation had of the premisses by the Court The Court moved the Plaintiff to discontinue his suit and to bring de novo a new Action in which the matter in Law might come into Iudgment without any other Exception But the Plaintiff would not agree to it Wherefore it was said by Wray Chief Iustice with the consent of his Companions Begin again at your peril for we are all agreed That you cannot have Judgment upon this Action CXXVI Mich. 26 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. THe Case was A. made a Feoffment in Fee to the use of his younger Son in tail and after to the use of the Heirs of his body in posterum procreand and at the time of the Feoffment he had Issue two Sons and after the Feoffment had Issue a third Son The younger Son died without Issue Vpon a Motion at the Bar it was said by Wray Iustice That after the death without Issue of the second Son the Land should go to the third Son born after the Feoffment for this word in posterum is a forcible word to create a special Inheritance without that it had been a general tail CXXVII Smith and Smith's Case Mich. 26 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. LAmber Smith Executor of Tho. Smith brought an Action upon the Case against John Smith That whereas the Testator having divers Children Enfants and lying sick of a mortal sickness being careful to provide for his said Children Enfants The Defendant in Consideration the Testator would commit the Education of his Children and the disposition of his Goods after his death during the minority of his said Children for the Education of the said Children to him promised to the Testator to procure the assurance of certain Customary Lands to one of the Children of the said Testator And declared further That the Testator thereupon Constituted the Defendant Overseer of his Will and Ordained and appointed by his Will That his Goods should be in the disposition of the Defendant and that the Testator died and that by reason of that Will the Goods of the Testator to such a value came to the Defendants hands to his great profit and advantage And upon Non Assumpsit pleaded It was found for the Plaintiff And upon Exception to the Declaration in Arrest of Iudgment for want of sufficient Consideration It was said dy Wray Chief Iustice That here is not any benefit to the Defendant that should be a Consideration in Law to induce him to make this promise For the Consideration is no other but to have the disposition of the Goods of the Testator pro educatione Liberorum For all the disposition is for the profit of the Children and notwithstanding That such Overseers commonly make gain of such disposition yet the same is against the intendment of the Law which presumes every Man to be true and faithful if the contrary be not shewed and therefore the Law shall intend That the Defendant hath not made any private gain to himself but that he hath disposed of the Goods of the Testator to the use and benefit of his Children according to the Trust reposed in him Which Ayliffe Iustice granted Gawdy Iustice was of the contrary Opinion And afterwards by Award of the Court It was That the Plaintiff Nihil Capiat per Billam CXXVIII Amner and Luddington's Case Mich. 26 Eliz. Rot. 495. In the Kings Bench. A Writ of Error was brought in the Kings Bench by Amner against Luddington Mich. 26 Eliz. Rot. 495. 2 Len. 92. 8 Co. 96. And the Case was That one Weldon was seised and leased to one Peerepoint for 99 years who devised the same by his Will in this manner viz. I Bequeath to my Wife the
Cantarista And it hath always been adjudged That a Chauntry by Reputation is within the Statute of 1 E. 6. CLXV Brian and Cawsen's Case Trin. 27 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Trespass by Brian and his Wife and others against Cawsen It was found by Special Verdict 2 Len. 68. That W. Gardiner was seised in Fee according to the Custom of the Mannor of C. of certain Lands and surrendred them to the use of his last Will by which he Devised them in this manner scil I Bequeath to Jo. Th. my House and Lands in M. called Lacks and Stone To Ste. Th. my House and Lands called Stokes and Newmans And to Roger Th. my House and Lands called Lakins and Brox. Moreover If the said Jo. Ste. or Roger live till they be of lawful age and have Issue of their bodies lawfully begotten Then I give the said Houses and Lands to them and their heirs in manner aforesaid to give and sell at their pleasure But if it fortune one of them to die without Issue of his body lawfully begotten Then I will that the other Brothers or Brother have all the said Houses and Lands in manner aforesaid And if it fortune the Three to die without Issue in like manner Then I Will That all the said Houses and Lands be sold by my Executor or his Assignee and the Mony to be given to the Poor The Devisor dieth Jo. Ste. and Roger are admitted according to the intent of the Will Roger dieth within age without Issue John and Ste. are admitted to his part John comes of full age and hath Issue J. and surrenders his part of the whole and his estate therein to the use of Ste. and his Heirs who is admitted accordingly Ste. comes of full age John the Father dieth Ste. dieth without Issue J. the Son as Cosen and Heir of Ste. is admitted according to the Will and afterwards dieth without Issue The Wives of the Plaintiffs are Heirs to him and are admitted to the Lands called Lacks and Stone and to the moyety of the Lands called Lakins and Brox parcel of the place where c. praetextu quorum they enter into all the Lands where the Trespass is done And it was found that A. the Executor died Intestate And that Cawsen the Defendant is Cosen and Heir to the said Devisor and that he as Heir entred and did the Trespass First It was agreed by all That by the first words of the Will the 3. Devisees had but an Estate for life But Fenner and Walmesley who argued for the Plaintiffs Conceived That by force of the later words scil If the said John Stephen and Roger live till they be of lawful age and have Issue of their body lawfully begotten Then I give the said Lands and Houses to them and their Heirs in manner aforesaid c. They have Fee and the words In manner aforesaid are to be referred not unto the Estate which was given by the first words which was but for life but to make them hold in severalty as the first Devisor willed and not joyntly as the words of the second Devise purported And Fenner said It hath been Resolved by good Opinions That where a Fine was levied unto the use of the Conusor and his Wife and of the Heirs of the body of the Conusor with divers Remainders over Proviso That it shall be lawful to the Survivor of them to make Leases of the said Lands in such manner as Tenant in tail might do by the Statute of 32 H. 8. although those Lands were never Demised before the Fine yet the Survivor might demise them by force of the Proviso notwithstanding the words In manner c. So if Lands be given to A. for life upon Condition the Remainder to B. in manner aforesaid these words In manner aforesaid refer unto the Estate for life limited unto A. and not unto the Condition nor unto any other Collateral manner The words If they live until they be of full age and have Issue are words of Condition and shall not be construed to such purpose to give to them by Implication an estate tail For the words subsequent are That they shall have them to them and their Heirs to give and sell at their pleasure By which it appeareth That his intent was not to make an estate tail For Tenant in tail cannot alien or dispose of his estate c. And as unto the last words And if it fortune they three to die without Issue c. these words cannot make an estate tail and the express Limitation of the Fee in the first part of the Will shall not be controverted by Implication out of the words subsequent As if Lessee for 40 years Deviseth his Lands to his Wife for 20 years and if she dieth the remnant of the Term unto another although that she survive the 20 years she shall not hold over and here the second sale appointed to be made by the Executor shall not take away the power of the first sale allowed to the Devisee's after-Issue Snagg and Shuttleworth Serjeants to the contrary And they Conceived That the Defendant hath right to two parts for no express Inheritance vests in the Devisees until full age and issue and because two of the Devisees died without Issue they never had any Inheritance in their two parts and so those two parts descended to the Defendant as Heir to the Devisor no sale being made by the Executor These words If John Stephen and Roger are to be taken distributive viz. If John live c. are to be taken distributive If John live until c. he shall have the Inheritance in his part and so of the rest As if J. have right unto Land which A. B. and C. hold in Common and J. by a Deed release to them all the same shall enure to them severally 19 H. 6. And here these later words If these three do die without Issue by that they conceived The same to be but an estate in tail And see to that purpose 35 Ass 11. 37 Ass 15. For a Man cannot declare his intent at once but in several parts all which make but one sentence And so it is said by Persay 37 Ass 15. We ought to have regard upon the whole Deed and not upon parcel And see Clark's Case 11 Eliz. Dyer 330 331. And it was said If I give Lands to one and his Heirs so long as he hath Heirs of his body it is a Feesimple determinable and not an estate in tail Quaere of that Then here the Feesimple is determined by the death of the Devisees without issue and therefore the Land ought to revert to the Heir of the Devisor especially being no person in rerum natura who can sell for the Executor before sale by him made died Intestate and if he had made an Executor yet the Executor of the Executor could not sell Which see 19 H. 8 9 10. And afterwards Resolved That no estate tail is
now the Grant to Fortescue be good or not Vide inde Dyer 2 Eliz. 17. Vpon a Writ of Mandamus The Escheator charged the Enquest who were agreed of their Verdict and delivered the same in Paper to the Escheator And before the engrossing sealing and delivery of it came a Supersedeas And it was Resolved by all the Iustices That before the engrossing indenting and sealing it was no Verdict See this Case Reported in Cook 5. Part 54. CLXXIX Nelson's Case Pasch 27 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Trespass brought by Nelson chief Preignothory of the Court of Common Pleas the Case was That the Abbot of D. was seised of a Common out of the Lands of the Abby of S. as appendant unto certain Lands of the said Abby of D. And afterwards the said Houses were dissolved and the possessions of them given to the King by Act of Parliament to have and hold in as large and ample manner and form as the late Abbots c. After which the King so being seised granted the said possessions of the said Abby of D. to A. and the possessions of the said Abby of S. to B. It was argued That the Common notwithstanding the unity of possession did continue For unity of possession is so qualified and restrained by the Statute by the words aforesaid and also by the words in the state and condition as they now be And the Abbot of D. was seised in the right of his House of the said Common Therefore so also shall be the King and his Patentees and so a special seisin is given to the King. Rhodes Windham and Anderson Iustices to the contrary And the said words in the said Statute are to be construed according to the Law and no further And by the Law the said Common cannot stand against the Vnity of possession CLXXX Leonard's Case Trin. 28 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 2 Len. 192. 2 Roll. 787. LEonard Custos Brevium brought an Action of Trespass for breaking of his Close The Defendant pleaded That William Heydon was seised and enfeoffed him And upon Ne enfeffa pas they were at Issue And it was found by Special Verdict That the said William Heydon was seised and leased to the Defendant for years and afterwards made a Charter of Feoffment to him by these words Dedi Concessi with a Warrant of Attorny in it and delivered the same to the said Lessee who delivered the same to him who was made Attorny in the said Deed who made Livery accordingly It was moved by the Plaintiff's Counsel That here is not any Feoffment found but only a Confirmation For as soon as the Charter was delivered to the Lessee for years the Law gave it its operation to that effect to vest the Fee in the Lessee by way of Confirmation See Litt. 532. But the Opinion of the whole Court was clear to the contrary for here the Lessee hath liberty how and by what Conveyance he shall be adjudged seised of the Land either by Feoffment or by Confirmation And it appeareth here That when the Lessee delivered the Charter to the Attorny And also when the Lessee accepted Livery from the Attorny he declared his meaning to be That he would take by the Livery And the Lord Anderson said That if Tenant in tail be disseised and makes a Charter-Feoffment with a Warranty of Attorny and delivers the same to the Disseisor who delivers the same to the Attorny who makes Livery accordingly the same is a good Feoffment and so a Discontinuance And after many Motions the Court awarded That the Plaintiff should be barred CLXXXI Palmer and Waddington's Case Trin. 28 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. RIchard Palmer brought an Action upon the Case against Anthony Waddington And Declared That Henry Waddington Brother of the Defendant was endebted to the said Plaintiff in 20 l. Et jacens in extremis mortem indies expectans vocavit ad se dict Anthonium quem executorem Testamenti ultimae voluntatis Constituisset eum rogans ut dictas 20 Libras praefato Richardo infra spacium duorum Mensium mortem suam proxime sequend numeraret solveret Et dictus Anthonius in Consideratione inde super se assumpsit c. And all the matter aforesaid was found by Verdict upon Non Assumpsit pleaded And it was the Opinion of the whole Court That the Declaration was insufficient because there is not any good Consideration set forth in it for it is not said That in Consideration that the said Henry made the Defendant his Executor c. CLXXXII Stransham and Collington's Case Trin. 28 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. THe Plaintiff sued in the Spiritual Court for Tythes against the Defendant within the Parish of C. The Defendant said 1 Cro. 128. That the Tythes are within the Parish of A. and the Parson of A. came in pro interesse suo and thereupon they proceeded to sentence and that was given against Stransham who now sued a Prohibition And the Question was If within such a Parish or such a Parish be tryable by the Law of the Land or by the Law of the Church Wray Chief Iustice said It hath been taken That it is tryable by our Law. Fenner The Pope hath not distinguished Parishes but hath Ordained That Tythes shall be paid within the Parish CLXXXIII Higham's Case Mich. 28 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 2 Len. 226. More Rep. 221. 1 Cro. 15. IT was found by Special Verdict That Thomas Higham was seised of 100 Acres of Lands called Jacks usually occupied with a House And that he Leased the said House and 40 Acres of the said 100 Acres to J.S. for life and made his Will by which he devised the said House and all his Lands called Jacks then in the Occupation of J.S. to his Wife for life and that after the decease of his Wife the Remainder thereof and of all his other Lands appertaining to Jacks to Richard his second Son c. It was said by Meade That the Wife should not have by Implication the Residue of Jacks for that she hath an express estate in the House and 40 Acres of the Land and her Husband having expressed his Will as to that his Will shall not be construed by Implication to pass other Lands to the Wife And it was said by him That it had been adjudged in the Case between Tracy and Glover That if Lands be devised to one and to his Heirs and if he dieth without Heir of his body 1 Roll. 839. that then the Land shall remain over that in such case the Donee hath but an Estate in tail to him and the Heirs males of his body And it was then also said by Anderson Chief Iustice That in the time of Sir Anthony Brown it was holden That if a Man be seised of two Acres of Land and devised one of them to his Wife for life and that J.S. shall have the other Acre after the death of his Wife that the Wife
of the said Lands A. brought an Action of Covenant The Defendant pleaded That before the day of payment the Plaintiff put the said B. out of his Farm It was moved by Godfrey That the same is no plea For this is a Collateral sum and not for Rent issuing out of the Land Also the Defendant is a stranger to the Contract for the Farm. But the Opinion of the whole Court was clear to the contrary For the Defendant hath Covenanted That the Lessee shall pay for the said Farm and Occupation 40 l. so as it is as a Conditional Covenant and here is Quid pro quo and here the Consideration upon which the Covenant is conceived scil the Farm and the Occupation of it is taken away by the Act of the Plaintiff himself and therefore the plea is good and the Action will not lie CCVII. The Archbishop of York and Morton's Case Pasch 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Archbishop of York recovered in an Assise of Novel Disseisio against one Morton before the Iustices of Assise 1 Len. 55. upon which Iudgment Morton brought a Writ of Error retornable before the Iustices of the Common Pleas And after many Motions at the Bar it was adjudged That a Writ of Error upon such Iudgment doth not lie in the said Court. Which see 8 Eliz. Dyer 250. See also N. B. 22. e. That upon Erroneous Iudgment given in the King Bench in Ireland Error shall be in the Kings Bench in England 15 E. 3. Error 72. And Fenner who was of Counsel with the Archbishop demanded of the Court How and in what manner the Record shall be sent back to the Iustices of Assise so as the said Archbishop might have Execution To which the Court answered That the surest way is to have a Certiorari out of the Chancery into the Common Pleas directed to the Iudges there and then out of the Chancery by a Mittimus to the Iustices of Assise But Fenner made a doubt to take such Course for such remanding Then Anderson Chief Iustice said Sue Execution out of the said Record for in as much as the Record came before us by Writ of Error it shall also be removed and sent back by Writ And so it was done CCVIII The Queen and Hurleston's Case Hill. 29 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 2 Len. 194. THe Queen brought a Scire facias against Hurleston to Repeal a Patent made to him of the Constableship of Chester and Iudgment was given for the Queen And now Hurleston brought a Writ of Error against the Queen in the Kings Bench. And it was moved by Gawdy Serjeant That the Writ did not lie for the manner for that he ought first to have sued to the Queen by Petition See 22 E. 3. 3. 23 E. 3. Fitz. Error 9. If the King recover by an Erronious Iudgment a Writ of Error cannot be granted upon such a Recovery sine gratia Regis speciali And he said That in Chester they have Courts of Common Pleas Kings Bench Exchequer and Chancery And that if Iudgment Erronious be given in the Chancery at Westminster It cannot be reversed but by Parliament and so it is of an Erronious Iudgment given in the Chancery at Chester Also he said They have a Custom in London That within one month they may reverse their own Iudgment See 23 Eliz. Dyer 376. Erronious Iudgment given in the 5 Ports cannot be reversed in the King Bench but it is reversable in the Court of the Guardian of the 5 Ports Clench Here both the parties claim by the Queen therefore there needeth no Petition for valeat quantum valere poterit it is no prejudice to the Queen Cook There needs no Petition here for the Attorny General hath subscribed our Writ of Error Egerton Sollicitor General It was the Case of Eliz. Mordant who was to reverse a Fine levied during her Nonage and the proceedings were stayed because she had not sued to the Qeen by Petition See the Case of 24 E. 3. 35. the Case of William de Ingularby who sued to reverse a Iudgment given against him in a Writ of Conspiracy in the Eyre of Derby and there it was said by Thorp Iustice That he must first sue to the King by Petition Wray An Outlawry may be reversed by bringing a Writ of Error without suing Petition to the King. CCIX. Beckwith's Case Hill. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 5 Co. 19. ROger Beckwich by Indenture Tripartite between him of the first part William Vavasour Frances Slingsby and Elizabeth Sister of Roger of the second part George Harvey and Frances Wife of the said George the said Frances being another of the Sisters of the said Roger of the third part Covenant with the aforesaid William Vavasour and Frances Vavasour his Daughter and with the aforesaid George and Frances cum quolibet qualibet eorum That the said Roger at the sealing and delivery of the said Indenture was lawfully and solely seised of the Rectory of Aldingfleet in the County of York discharged of all Incumbrances Francis Vavasour took to Wife Frances Slingsby And Note That by the same Indenture Roger Beckwith Conveyed the said Rectory to the said Francis Vavasour Francis Slingsby and Frances his Wife brought an Action of Covenant against the said Roger Beckwith and assigned the Breach in this That the said Roger was not seised of the said Rectory And Note That the Plaintiff declared of an Indenture bearing date at the Castle of York And upon the breach of the Covenant they were at Issue which was found for the Plaintiff and damages assessed and Iudgment given for the Plaintiff And Note That the Venire facias was de Vicineto Castri de York And upon that Iudgment a Writ of Error was brought in the Exchequer upon the new Statute and Error was assigned because all the Covenanters ought to have joyned in the Action of Covenant notwithstanding those words cum quolibet cum qualibet which words do not make the Covenant to be several And for that cause the Iudgment was Reversed Another Error was assigned because the Issue is not well and duly tryed For the Issue is upon the seisin of the Rectory of Aldingfleet in which case the Venire facias ought to have been de Vicineto de Aldingfleet And of that Opinion was Manwood and Anderson Iustices CCX Young and Ashburnsham's Case Hill. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN an Action of Debt brought by the Administrators of Young against Ashburnham The Defendant pleaded Nihil debet And the Enquest was taken by default And upon the Evidence given for the Plaintiff the Case appeared to be this That the said Young was an Innholder in a great Town in the County of Sussex where the Sessions used to be holden And that the Defendant was a Gentleman of Quality in the Country there And he in going to the Sessions used to lodge in the house of the said Young and there took his lodging
the Plaintiff That the Grant was before the Lease It was holden by the Court That this Release was meerly void for here was not any Interest to be released but a power to present and an Authority annexed to the person And afterwards by the Award of the Court the Writ was abated See 11 Eliz. Dyer 253. CCCXLI Woodward and Bagg's Case Hill. 32 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. WOodward Libelled in the Spiritual Court against Bagg and Nelson for Tythes of certain Lands called Christen Hill. Roll. 63. 2 Len. 29. 3 Cro. 188. Owen Rep. 103. The Defendant sued a Prohibition and surmised That one Pretiman was seised of the said Land and in Consideration of 5 l. by him paid to the said Parson It was agreed betwixt them That the said Pretiman and his Assigns should be discharged of Tythes of the Land during his life and afterwards the said Pretiman leased the same to the Defendants upon which a Prohibition was granted And it was holden That the party need not to make proof thereof within 6 Months for it is not within the Statute because a Composition with the same Parson But now a Consultation was granted because the Agreement is shewed but no Deed of it which cannot be any discharge But if it had been for a time scil unica vice it had been good but for life not Also it is not an express grant of the Tythes but only a Covenant and Agreement that he shall be discharged upon which he may have an Action of Covenant but not a Prohibition It was said on the other side That although without Deed Tythes cannot pass in point of Interest yet by way of discharge they might Cook It was holden betwixt Pendleton and Green That upon such words of Covenant and Agreement the party should hold the Land discharged of Tythes which was denyed For if the Grantee of a Rent Charge will grant it to the Tenant of the Land the same without Deed is not good And there was very lately a Case between Westbede and Pepper Where it was agreed betwixt the Parson and one of his Parish That for 20 s. Rent by the year the Parishioner should be discharged of Tythes for 20 years if he so long lived And it was holden That no Prohibition should lie upon it a fortiori where the Estate is for life Gawdy In the Case of grant of Tythes for life a Deed is requisite but here it is no● but a Contract for Mony c. See 21 H 6. 43. Wray If it had been for years it had been good enough but here is not any Contract but only a discharge for life which cannot be during his life without Deed. And afterwards the Record was read which was That Concordatum aggreatum fuit between the parties pro omnibus decimis during the time that the one should be Parson and the other Occupier of the said Land That in Consideration of 5 l. the said Pretiman and his Assigns should hold the said Land discharged of Tythes Wray The same is no Contract but a Promise for he doth not grant any Tythes Afterwards a Consultation was awarded CCCXLII Sanderson and Ekins's Case Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Debt upon a Loan by Sanderson against Ekins who waged his Law and at the day being ready to wage his Law the Court examined him And upon examination it appeared That the Plaintiff and Defendant were reciprocally endebted the one to the other And upon Conference betwixt them before the Action brought there was an Accord betwixt them That the Plaintiff should give to the Defendant such a sum which he had done and that the one should go quit against the other And it was the clear Opinion of the whole Court That upon the matter the Defendant could not wage his Law for a Debt cannot be extinguished by word CCCXLIII The Dean and Chapter of Windsors Case Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Exchequer IN this Case It was moved If he who hath a Rectory impropriate 1 Len. 146. and by the Statute of 26 H. 8. is to pay an Annual Rent for the same in the name of a Tenth and thereby is discharged of all First-fruits and Tenths shall have the Priviledge of the Exchequer for he is to pay the same sum yearly And it was the Opinion of the Barons That he should not For so every one who is to pay any Tenths or First-fruits should draw other who have sued him into the Exchequer And so all Controversies concerning Tythes and Parsonages should be drawn thither which should be a great prejudice to the Spiritual Courts But Egerton Solicitor vouched a Case viz. Coniers's Case The King gave a Parsonage to a Priory in Frankalmoign and the Tythes thereof being withdrawn The Prior impleaded him who withdrew the Tythes in the Exchequer And it was holden That the Prior should have the Priviledge for the King is endangered to lose his Patronage or rather his Foundership if the Rectory be evicted Gent Baron The Kings Tenant in Chief or he who pays First-fruits or he who holds of the Queen in Fee-Farm shall not have in such respect the Priviledge here CCCXLIV Sledd's Case Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. SLedd of Great Melton in the County of Oxon 2 Len. 146. was assessed to 7 s. for a Fifteenth And upon refual to pay the same the Collector distrained the Beasts of Sledd and sold them Thereupon Sledd brought Trespass against him the in the Kings Bench. And the Collector exhibited a Bill against Sledd Who shewed by his Counsel That the Statute of 29 Eliz. which enacted this Fifteenth Provides That the said Fifteenth shall be levied of the moveable Goods Chattels and other things usual to such Fifteenths and Tenths to be Contributory and chargeable And shewed further That his Beasts distrained fuerunt tempore districtionis upon the Glebe-Land of a Parsonage presentative which he had in Lease which Glebe-Land is not chargeable usually to Fifteenths granted by the Temporalty nor the Cattel upon it It was the Opinion of the Iustices That although the Parson himself shall pay Tenths to the King yet the Lay-Farmor shall pay Fifteenths and his Cattel are distrainable for the same upon the Glebe-Lands of the Parsonage And therefore it was awarded That the Distress and the Sale were lawful CCCXLV. Sir Walter Water's Case Pasch 32 Eliz. In the Exchequer IT was moved in this Case 2 Len. 77. 4 Len. 44. That if one hath a Iudgment in Debt and upon the same within the year sueth forth a Capias ad satisfaciendum although that he doth not prosecute it by the space of 2 or 3 years yet when he pleaseth he may proceed upon it and shall not be put to a Scire facias And of that Opinion was Philips Manwood I grant That if one hath sued forth a Writ of Execution and the same be continued by Vicecomes non misit Breve for 2 or 3 years yet the Plaintiff may proceed upon
Rent 11 H. 7. 13. 21 H. 6. 24. 14 H. 8. 35. So where the Successor accepts of a Rent upon a Lease made by the Predecessor 37 H. 6. 4. 8 H. 5. 10. 4 E. 4. 14. The same Law in Exchanges and Partitions If the Wife accepteth of Dower of the Land which her Husband hath taken in Exchange she shall be barred of that Land which her Husband gave in Exchange 6 E. 3. 50. 15 E. 3. tit Bar. 125. 12 H. 4. 12. c. And in all these Cases where there is an Agreement and therein an Agreement implyed scil An Agreement to the Lease and a Disagreement to have the Possession c. And so Agreement to the Land received in Exchange and Disagreement to the Land given in Exchange and all that by word and act in pais And so here in these Cases Estates are affirmed and entred and benefit of the possession waived and refused So it is also of a Right and Title of Action 21 H. 6. 25. The Lord entituled to have a Writ of Right upon Disclaimer accepts a Rent of the Tenant Now he is barred of his Action 13 Ass 3. The Disseisee accepts homage of the Disseisor it is a good bar in an Assise 21 Ass 6. Pendant a Cessavit the Tenant aliened the Lord accepted the Services of the Alienee his Action is gone 11 E. 3. tit Dower 63. A Woman entituled to Dower accepteth Homage of the Ter-Tenant the same is a Bar of her Dower And as it hath been said of Entries and Actions of which a Man may refuse the benefit by word and Acceptance in pais So is the Law also in Cases of Estates vested if the party doth not Enter Husband and Wife Tenants in special tail the Husband levyeth a Fine to his own use and afterwards Deviseth the Land to his Wife for life the Remainder over rendring Rent the Husband dieth The Wife Enters and pays the Rent now she hath waived her Remitter 18 Eliz. Dyer 351. 10 E. 4. 12. The Tenant enfeoffed the Lord and a stranger and made Livery to the stranger although the Freehold vested in them both yet if the Lord disagreeth to the Feoffment in futuro he cannot enter and occupy the Land and he may distrain for the services c. If a Disseisin be made to the use of the Husband and Wife and the Husband agreeth to it the Freehold vests in the Husband and Wife but the Wife is not a Disseisor and after the death of the Husband she may disagree unto the Estate by word 12 E. 4. 7. And also an Agreement shall make her a Dissessisor See to the same intent 7 E. 4. 7. and Litt. 129. Although that in such and the like Cases the Estate vests in some manner yet it shall never vest to the prejudice of the party without an express and actual agreement And that disagreement to an Estate in such manner vested may be in pais and by word seems by a Clause in the Statute of 27 H. 8. cap. 1. Where a Ioynture is made after Marriage there the Wife after the death of her Husband may at her pleasure refuse her Ioynture and have and demand and take her Dower her Writ of Dower or otherwise scil by word and Acceptance in pais And if in a Writ of Dower the Tenant will bar the Demandant by Ioynture made during the Coverture he ought to say Quod intrando agreeavit See Litt. in Dower ad Ostium Ecclesiae If the Wife entreth and agreeth the same is a good Bar in Dower Littl. 8. Now in the principal Case When the Wife agreeth to the Devise of Thoby and the same is executed by entry now the same is a full Disagreement to Hinton It was afterwards Objected That although it be clear That the Wife may waive her Ioynture in Hinton by word and act in pais without matter of Record Yet some conceived That this manner of Devise of Thoby is void by the Statute of 32 34 H. 8. The Statute enables to Devise two parts or so much as amounts to two parts in value at the time of the death of the Devisor for then the Will takes effect which cannot be here in this Case for at the time of his death the Ioynture of Hinton was in force and so continued until the disagreement afterwards Also the words of the Statute are Having a sole Estate in Fee-simple but here the Devisor had but a Reversion in Fee expectant upon an Estate tail c. As to the first Point it was answered That the Disagreement doth relate to the death of the Husband and is now as if no Ioynture had been made ab initio And here the Heir shall have Hinton by descent and he shall be Tenant to every Praecipe and if it be brought against him the same day that the Husband dieth the Writ shall be good by the Disagreement after and the Heir shall have his age c. And if the Father had been a Disseisor and had Conveyed the Land ut supra now by this argeement of the Wife the Heir shall be accounted in by descent and thereby the Entry of the Disseisee taken away And if the Heir in such case taketh a Wife and dieth by this disagreement after the Wife shall have Dower of Hinton and hath such a possession quod faciet sororem esse haeredem And if that the same day that the Husband dieth the Heir levyeth a Fine or acknowledge a Statute or maketh by Indenture enrolled a Bargain and Sale of it by the said agreement Hinton shall be subject to such Acts of the Heir All which Cases prove That the Devisor upon this matter at the time of his death had a sole Estate in Feesimple in the Mannor of Hinton and that the third part in value descended to the Heir and so the Devise of Thoby good It hath been Objected That here is not an immediate descent of which the Statute of 34 H. 8. speaks And here the Mannor of Hinton doth not descend immediatly for there was a mean time between the Death and the Disagreement and so the Will void for Thoby To that it was answered That this word immediatè sumitur dupliciter re tempore and shall be taken here immediatè re statu scil That a Reversion or a Remainder dependant upon a particular Estate in possession which is mean shall not be allowed for the third part descended For a Descent which takes away an Entry ought to be immediate for a mediate descent doth not take away an Entry Litt. 92. as the descent of a Reversion or Remainder And if this word Immediatè had not been in the Statute Then the Statute might have been construed That it should be sufficient to leave the third part to descend in Reversion or Remainder but this word Immediatè makes it clear And therefore the third part which descends ought to descend immediatè in re Statu Yet a Reversion upon a Lease for
for procuring a Warrant from a Justice of Peace upon a surmise to arrest one upon suspition of stollen Goods p. 101 For stopping of a River whereby the Plaintiffs Lands are drowned though the Plaintiff had no Title in the Land at the time of the first stopping of it p. 174 Lieth not for the not delivery of a Greyhound upon an Assumpsit made thereof p. 219 For publishing a scandalous Bill p. 138 Either the Action or an Assise at the election of the party for a disturbance of him to take his Common p. 263 For Words p. 171 269 Action upon Statutes Brought upon the Statute of 2 Ma. the Defendant shall not have costs in it by the Statute of 23 H. 8. p. 92 Upon the Statute of 21 H. 8. of taking Lands to Farm by spiritual persons to what Leases it shall extend p. 122 A Bill in the Exchequer-Chamber lieth not to have the treble value upon the Statute of 2 E. 6 cap. 13. p. 204 Upon the Statute of Hue-and-Cry lieth not against the Hundred for a Robbery committed in the persons house p. 262 Advowsons Where by grant of Advowson the Rectory Appropriate doth not pass p. 111 Agreement Made by a Parson with a Parishioner in consideration of 20 s. per annum he shall be discharged of Tythes during the life of the Parson not good without Deed p. 257 Amendment Of the Proclamations upon a Fine levied p. 107 Amercement Of the Hundred for the escape of a Felon where not good p. 207 Annuity Pro consilio impendendo not grantable over p. 185 Appropriation and Disappropriation Of a Church must be by a judicial Act and not by a private Act of the party Apportionment Not of a Release p. 13 Arbitrament and Award To perform an Act to be done by a stranger not good p. 62 To pay Mony such a day to a stranger or his Assigns and he dies before the day it must be paid to his Administrator or his Assigns p. 212 Assumpsit Where and in what Case lieth against an Executor where not p. 69 Where the consideration is not good to ground an Action upon it p. 88 128 The Plaintiff declares upon one consideration and the Jury find that promise was upon that and another consideration the Plaintiff cannot have judgment p. 91 Declaration in it where not good because levied so general p. 91 For the performance of an Award where good p. 105 Where binds an Enfant though there be no present consideration p. 164 To forbear a Suit per paululum tempus no consideration in it p. 202 Within the Statute of 23 H. 8. of Sheriffs as well as an Obligation p. 228 Assignment Of a Debt to the King where good and how it shall retake p. 197 Upon an Assignment of a Debt to the King a Lease is found by Office the King not bound to set forth in the Inquisition the certainty of the Term p. 204 Attachment Cannot be by the Custom of London of a Debt which is depending in the Kings Courts of Record p. 210 236 244 Cannot be by the Custom before the Debt is due p. 236 Attornment what p. 17 Tenant by possibility of Issue extinct not compellable to Attornment p. 121 Upon a surrender of the Reversion and Rent by a Copyholder to the use of a stranger where it passeth without Attornment p. 197 The Lessor granteth the Reversion to the Lessee and to a stranger the Reversion passeth without Attornment p. 279 Averment That the Tenant was not seised where not good p 92 Not against a Deed enrolled p. 176 B. BAil Of an Enfant condemned and Execution for Debt where shall pay the Mony recovered p. 107 Bar In Avowry where not good p. 92 In Trespass where good where not p. 122 Recovery in one Action where a Bar in another p. 194 Outlawry pleaded in Bar after Imparlance where good p. 205 Bill Upon the Statute of 5 Eliz. for Perjury doth not lie upon a Perjury committed in an Answer in the Chancery p. 201 C. CErtificate Of the Ordinary of the inability of a Clerk refused by him he must certifie the particular cause of his refusal and a general Certificate is not good p. 199 Chancery After Judgment at Law cannot grant Injunctions p. 18 Chauntry What shall be said a Chauntry within the Statute of 2 E. 6. p. 115 Cinque-Ports Certiorari granted further to certifie a Record p. 3 Common Where obtained by long sufferance may be lost by long negligence p. 202 Common recovery Where not bar the issue in tail p. 143 Tenant in tail rendring rent suffers a common recovery of the Land if the Rent be gone p. 261 Condition Proviso where a Condition where not p. 16 Where broken where not p. 67 Where the words in a Will are viz. shall go about to sell his part shall for ever lose the same the words for ever shall be referred to perdere and not to vendere p. 181 None can enter for a Condition broken but the Lessor or one by his direction p. 269 Conspiracy Where it lieth upon an acquittal in an Appeal p. 140 Constable Cannot compel strangers who pass to Watch nor set them in the Stocks for refusing so to do p. 208 Constat Where must be made of a Patent enrolled vacated p. 165 Tenant in tail of the gift of the King surrenders his Letters Patents and a vacat is made of the enrolment it shall bind the issue in tail p. 165 Conusans of Pleas In a Writ of Right must shew before whom to be holden p. 148 Not grantable to an inferior Court against the priviledge of the Court of King-Bench p. 149 Of Pleas to the University of Camb. if they shall have Conusans upon an information upon the Statute of 7 E. 6. cap. 5. p. 214. 217 Copyhold and Copyholder For years shall go to Executors p. 9 Makes a Lease for years and afterwards surrenders the reversion and rent to a stranger who is admitted it passeth without attornment p. 197 The admittance by the Lord of a stranger to a Copyholder is no disseisin to the Copyholder for that an Estate at Will only passeth p. 210 Corporations Cannot stand seised to an use but may charge their Possessions with an use p. 176 Covenant To make Assurance how to be expounded p. 27 A. Covenanted to convey the Freehold to a Copyholder in consideration of a Covenant performed and the Copy-holder covenanted to pay such a sum he is bound to pay the sum before the Assurance made otherwise it was of a Covenant to be performed p. 219 Custom That the Lord of the Mannor might grants Copies in remainder only with the assent of the Tenants and not otherwise if good p. 227 Of the Mayor and Aldermen of London to make Acts and Ordinances to bind the Citizens and Free-men where good where not p. 264 D. DAmages Where Judgment is given for the Plaintiff and upon a Writ of Enquiry excessive damages are given by the Jury which Writ is
awarded not good p. 100 Two Matters are in Issue the Jury find the one and says nothing to the other if a good Verdict p. 149 Where eating and drinking of the Jurors at their own charges doth not make the Verdict void otherwise if at the charges of any of the parties p. 267 Unity Of possession where shall extinct a Common p. 127 Usurpation Where puts the King out of possession where not p. 17 W. WAger of Law Where cannot be upon an Agreement that one Creditor be acquitted against the other for Debt p. 212 258 Warrants Of Attorny to acknowledge a Deed not good p. 84 Warranty Tenant in tail of an Advowson in gross grants the same in Fee a collateral Ancestor releaseth with Warranty a bar to the Issue p. 212 Wasts p. 7 60 What a sufficient Plea in it what not p. 9 Wills General words in a Will where not enlarge special words before in it p. 18 Words in a Will or Testament conditional where construed not to give tail by Implication Upon a Devise for three where the words of the Will shall be taken distributively and not jointly p. 117 Not to be taken by Implication p. 131 In a Will a thing implyed shall not control a thing expressed p. 167 Withernam Upon return of a Withernam if the Plaintiff tendereth the Damages he shall have a special Writ to restore his Chattel p. 236 Writs In a recovery upon a Writ in the Court of a Mannor the party who recovered in it cannot be put in possession with the Posse Comitatus p. 99 In the nature of a Scire Facias out of the Court of Admiralty to repeal Letters Patents of an Office is good p. 192 FINIS An Exact TABLE to the Three Parts of Reports of Mr. William Leonard And a Correction of divers Mistakes in Printing of Cases and other Matters in all the Three BOOKS A Denotes the first B the second and C the third Book A Abatement of Writs IF one of three Executors die pend brevi the Writ abates A. 44. Administrator sued as Executor may abate the Writ if the Administrat was committed before Action brought A. 69. A Feme sole Plaintiff takes Baron the Writ is not abated but abateable A. 168 169. If matter of Abatement appear in any part of the Record the Court after Judgment will reverse the Judgment A. 255. Action does not abate if the Defendant die after the first Judgment in Trespass and before the Return of the Writ of Enquiry A. 263. Death after Issue joyned no cause of Abatement in the Civil-Law A. 278. The Writ shall abate if it appear the Plaintiff cannot recover the thing in demand A. 333 334. In what Real Actions two Tenants may plead several Tenancy B. 8. It an Action shall abate after the Verdict if it appear to be brought before time A. 186 187. B. 20. Writ shall abate if the Feme be put before the Baron B. 59. Where upon pleading Joyntenancy or Villenage the Writ shall abate without any answer to the Pleas B. 161 162. Where a Writ shall abate Ex Officio Curiae B. 162. A Writ of Deceit not abated by the death of one Defendant C. 3. Abeyance In what Cases a Use may be in Abeyance B. 18. C. 21 22 23. The like of a Remainder B. 73. Acceptance Where the Issue of him in Remainder accepts the Rent of Tenant for life it is a good affirmance of his Estate A. 243. What Acceptance of Rent by Lessor shall bar him of his Re-entry for non-payment A. 262. The Acceptance of Rent by the Feme confirms the Lease of the Husband C. 271. The like by Issue in Tail of a Lease not warranted by the Statute C. 271. The like by an Infant at his full Age C. 271. The like of a Lease by a Predecessor and the Successor accepts the Rent C. 271. By the Wives Acceptance of Dower out of Lands exchanged she agrees to the Exchange C. 271. One disclaims and after the Lord accepts the Rent of the Tenant the Lord is barred of his right Sur Disclaimer C. 272. Pending a Cessavit Tenant aliened the Lord accepts Services from the Alienee he is barred C. 272. Accord and Concord No Bar if not executed A. 19. C. 212. Account Duresse a good Bar to it A. 13. Capias ad Comp. after a former executed A. 87. The power of Auditors A. 219. Of what things an Auditor by Deed may make Allowance A. 219. The power of an Auditor deputed by a private person A. 219. The difference of an Auditor deputed by Parol and by Deed A. 219. After Account and the Defendant found in Arrear and then the Defendant dies yet the Plaintiff shall recover A. 263. Lies not for the profits of Lands if the Defendant were in by Title A. 226. C. 24. If the Jury ought to assess Damages A. 302. B. 118 196. C. 150 192 230. What may be pleaded in Ear or must be pleaded in discharge before the Auditors B. 30 31 195. If a Factor account to one of many joynt Traders it is sufficient B. 75 76. If the Defendant plead that the Plaintiff gave him the Goods he must traverse that he was Bailiff to render account B. 195. If it lies against a meer Trespasser or wrongdoer C. 24. Where Account or an Action upon the Case lies against one who receives Mony to buy Cattle and does not buy them C. 38. In some Cases it lies against an Apprentice C. 62. Action upon the Case for Tort See Nusance Trover Slander For Erecting a Fould-course in disturbance of the Lord who had one by Prescription A. 11. By a Father against the Master of his Son for beating and laming his Son whereby he was disparaged in Marriage A. 50. Where it lies for malitiously indicting of Felony A. 107 108. Lies and not Trespass for pulling down Hurdles in a Market A. 108 109. Lies against an Under-Sheriff who took Mony to return but did not return a Summons A. 146. Against a Justice of Peace for Arresting one for Felony without accusation A. 187. Against a Mayor for not taking Bail to an Action A. 189. By Tenant in ancient Demesne for taking Goods for Toll A. 231 232. B. 190. By a Sheriff against a Prisoner who escaped out of Execution satisfaction being acknowledged A. 237. If it lies for retaining anothers hired Servant A. 240. Lies for a Tenant in Fee for a Nusance though he may have an Assise A. 247 273. Con. C. 13. If it lies for diverting a Mill-stream without Prescription A. 273. If it lies against a Justice of Peace for refusing to examine one who is Robbed A. 323 324. For conspiring with a Factor to cheat the Plaintiff who was a Joynt Trader with the Defendants in Account B. 75 76. For laying too much weight on a Floor which fell into the Plaintiffs Wares B. 93. An over-loading a borrowed Horse B. 104. By a Commoner for over-charging the Common with Conies B. 203. Against
an Under-Sheriff proceeding after an Hab●as Horpus delivered C. 99. If one whose Goods are stole desire the Justice to examine one no Action lies unless he charge some one positively C. 100 101. Lies no for exhibiting an Indictment which purported that the Plaintiff was a Disquieter of the Neighbors C. 123. For prosecuting a slanderous Bill against the Plaintiff to the King that the Plaintiff had got 100 l. by Forgery C. 138. For procuring J. S. to sue an Appeal of Death against the Plaintiff C. 140 141. For maliciously indicting the Plaintiff of what offences it lies C. 140 141. If such Action lies if the Appeal were Erroneous C. 140 141. A. 279. Action upon the Case for Assumpsit See Consideration and Request Lies for Rent where the Action is changed from the Baron and Feme to the Baron only A. 43. Lyeth in consideration to forbear parum tempus A. 61. Where it lies not for a Rent A. 155 156. contra B. 107. To pay Mony at two or more days when the Action must be brought A. 319. B. 108 221. If in such Action the consideration be laid to be at the Defendants request the performance of the Consideration must be averred to be done at his request B. 53. C. 91. If it be a good Bar that the Plaintiff did discharge the Defendant B. 214 203 204 If it lies against Bailee of the Plaintiffs Bailee who receiveth Mony to buy Goods and bought them not C. 38. Where this Action or Account lies C. 38. If the Defendant may plead in Bar another promise and traverse part of that in the Count C. 67. A special Assumpsit must be precisely found and averred else the Plaintiff shall not have Judgment C. 99 205. By a Sheriff for that the Defendant promised not to sue him for an Escape upon a Special Warrant granted at the Plaintiffs denomination C. 227 228. Action Popular Is vested in the Informer and the King or his Attorny cannot enter a Nolle pro sequi as to the Informer A. 119. In what Cases it must be brought in the Parties Name only or for the King and Party C. 237. Action upon the Statute Of 32 H. 8. cap. 9. of buying pretended Titles its necessary to alledge that the Defendant knew the Vendor had not been in possession A. 167 208. If the Action be brought pro parte gravata the Statute of 31 Eliz. 5. does not limit him to any time C. 237. Addition Must come before the Alias Dictus else it doth not satisfie the Statute B. 183. School-Master and Scrivener both good B. 186. No utlary without an Addition according to the Statute B. 200. Administrator and Administration Durante minori aetate of three ceaseth by the full age of any one A. 74. Husband Administrator to his Wife A. 216. The Ordinary may commit administration to whom he will if he will incur the penalty of the Statute A. 240. How to alledge Administration granted by a Chancellor or Vicar-General A. 312. Granted by a Bishop where the Intestate had bona notabilia c. is ipso facto void B. 155. If impleading Admistration granted by the Metropolitan bona notabilia must be alledged B. 155. It is the safest to pay Mony upon a Mortgage to the Infant and not to the Administrator durante minore aetate C. 103. Are assigns in Law and a Duty is payable to them though they be not and named in the specialty C. 2 2. Administrator during the minority c. hath one in execution and then the Infant comes of age the Administrator cannot release the Defendant nor acknowledge satisfaction C. 278. Admiralty No remedy there for extortion done on the Land A. 107. If they proceed by the Civil Law where the Common Law can decide the matter a Prohibition lies B. 103. How the Admiral Grants his Offices B. 115. Suit there for a moyety of prize Goods taken by two Ships whereof one did but stand still while the other seised B. 182. If by a Libel there it appear they have not Jurisdiction a Premunire lies B. 183. Action may be sued there upon a Bond made in France and no Prohibition lies C. 232. Advowson In gross cannot be made appendant A. 26. By what words the Advowson of a Vicaridge may be granted A. 191. Whether it pass from the King by the words Bona Catalla A. 201 202. To what it may be appendant A. 207 208. How an Advowson appendant to a Mannor may be granted A. 208. B. 26. C. 17 18 193 196. How an Impropriation may be disappropriated B. 80. Age. At what age a Man and Woman may consent to Matrimony A. 54. The second Vouchee in a Cui in vita shall have his age though the first should not B. 138. Agreement and Disagreement see Acceptance What shall vest in any person before or after Agreement A. 130. B. 223. If the Lords agreement to avoid admittance makes it good A. 288 289. Where an Interest shall be devested by Agreement en pais where not B. 72 73. To what time Agreement to a Disseisin or Feoffment shall have relation B 223. If an Agreement en pais to an Estate be good to devest an Estate C. 271 272 273. Amendment Of a Christian Name in a Plea in Bar after demurrer A. 24. What shall be amended by the Statute of 27 El. cap. 5. A. 80 81. Shall be to affirm a Judgment or Verdict not e contra A. 134. Of a Sheriffs Retorn A. 145. None of the Christian Name of a Juror after Verdict A. 267. Of a Judgment which was Ideo videtur Justic quod quer recuptret B. 1 2. If the Proclamation of a Fine which were wrong with the Custos Brevium and right with the Chirographer C. 106 107 183. Amerciament see Fine Annuity The Judgment therein B. 52. If the Term for which that is granted expire this Action lies not B. 51 52. An Annuity pro Consilio impendendo cannot be granted nor forfeited by attainder B. 122. Appeal Damages recovered in Trespass is a good Bar to an Appeal A. 319. Lies not for the Heir where the Feme poysons her Husband for it is Treason A. 326. If the Defendant shall be arraigned at the Suit of the King if the Appellant die before Judgment or be non-suited B. 83. Where auterfoits acquit or convict is a good Bar B. 83 160. If it be a Bar the Indictment being erroneous B. 160. Where it must be brought if the party die in another County than where the stroke was C. 140 141. See the Statute 2 E. 6. cap. 24. and W. 2. cap. 12. Of Appeals Defendant pleads Ne unques accouple c. Et si trove ne soit Not Guilty C. 268. If an Appeal from a Sentence in the High Commission Court B. 176 177. Appearance The form of recording it to save the Ball bound A. 90. Appendant Appurtenant and Parcel If Tithes pass by Grant of a Rectory cum pertinentiis A. 281 282. Issue if an Advowson be
nor his promotion can be properly called a Benefice A. 277. By-Laws Made by the Homage of a Court-Baron must be rationi legi consonan A. 190 C. 8 40 41 42 43. What By-Law is good in a Corporation C. 264 265. Made by the major part of Commoners binds all if it tend not to bind the Inheritance C. 265. C. Certainty WHat shall be sufficient Certainty to describe what Lands are granted though part of the descriptions be false A. 119. B. 226. C. 18 19 162 235. The like in describing the person of the Donee Devisee C. 48 49. Promise in consideration the Plaintiff would repair quandam partem domus is good C. 91. Certiorari To certifie a Warrant of Attorny A. 22. Granted at the request of the Defendant in error ex officio c. after a Nihil returned ibidem C. 107. If grantable after in nullo est erratum A. 176. B. 2 3. Cessavit Against the Tenant of the King B. 144. It is a good Bar to this Action that the Lord accepted the Services of the Alience of the Tenant C. 272. Challenge By a Bishop for that no Knight was retorned A. 5. To the Array for affinity whether principal challenge or not A. 88 89. No challenge to the Polls in a Writ a Right but at the time of the arrayment A. 303. The Statute 27 Eliz. cap. 6. A. 55. For want of Hundredors where there are many Hundreds in one Wapentake or Lathe B. 109. Of the Array for that the Sheriff married the Plaintiffs Cousin which the Plaintiff confessed C. 222. Chancery Ought not to give relief after Judgment B. 115. C. 18. Charge and Discharge If a Man marry an Inheritrix and hath Issue and then acknowledges a Statute and they sell the Land be Fine the Land shall not be charged for the Conuseels in by the Feme C. 254. Tenant for life granteth a Rent-Charge and cesseth after recovery in Cissavit the Lord shall hold the Land charged C. 255. Chattels A special property for a time in them A. 221. Are bound by the Teste of the execution A. 304. Chose en Action What is a Chose en Action A. 176. C. 196. The King may grant it and how and by what words A. 271. B. 56. C. 17 18 196. A void Church is a Chose en Action and one Grantee thereof cannot release it to his Companion A. 176. C. 256. Church-Warden Whether the Successor shall have Action for Trespass done in the Predecessors time A. 177. Cinque-Ports Issue triable there tryed by a Jury of the next County C. 3. How Execution of Lands must be made there C. 3. Clergy Not grantable for a second Felony if the first Conviction appear by Record A. 295. Collusion See Fraud Colour Defendant justifies by a gift of Goods which were then out of the Vendors possession if that being out of possession be a good Colour C. 266 267. Common Special Common at certain times when the Land is not sowed A. 73. Shall not be to any House built on a new Foundation B. 44 45. The Lord or his Tenant shall have no Common to Lands improved by the Statute of Merton cap. 4. B. 44. If a Commoner may kill Conies B. 201 202. May distrain a Strangers Beasts Damage Feas B. 201. If some Commoners let their Corn lie beyond the usual time the other Commoners may put in their Cattle B. 202 203. Commission and Commissioners The second Commission of the King repeals the first A. 270. Nisi prius out of the Exchequer by Commission 110. Commandment The Commander not punishable unless his Command be strictly pursued B 75. In what case traversable B. 215 216. Conditions Lease upon Condition that the Lessee shall not alien doth not bind an Administrator Secus of a Feme whose Baron alieneth A. 3. In a Feoffment of Lands held in Capite that the Feoffees shall not alien A. 8 12. What acts shall be defeated by entry for breach of it A. 8. That the Lessee shall not do voluntary waste what is a breach of it and who shall enter for the breach A. 67. The difference where the Condition is Quod dimissio vacua foret and where only a re-entry is given A. 61. B. 134 to 145. To pay 20 l. or to give Cows how tender is to be pleaded A. 68. contra 70. The difference in pleading to a Condition to discharge and to save harmless c. A. 72 324 325. Shall not be averred to be against Law unless it appear so A. 73. 203. To pay the 29 of February not payable until a Leap-Year happen A. 101. To make such assurance as J. S. and such as the Plaintiffs Council shall devise the diversity A. 105. To perform all agreements in Articles is broken by not performing or by the falshood of a recital A. 122. To pay Mony at the Feast of St. Thomas the later Feast is the day of payment A. 142. con C. 7. What makes a Condition what a Limitation A. 167 168 174 244 269 283 299. B. 38 114 138. C. 152 153. When an Estate which is to begin upon a precedent Condition impossible or possible shall commence A. 229. What Covenants shall amount to a Condition and defeat an Estate A. 246. That the Feoffee shall enfeoff J.S. in Fee or in Tail J. S. refuseth who shall have the Estate A. 266. That the Donees in tail shall not do any act to discontinue c. and what is a breach thereof A. 148 207 257 292 298. A true diversity between the nature of a Condition and a Limitation A. 299. To make reasonable assurance and to levy a fine the difference therein A. 304. Must be pleaded by him who will take advantage thereof A. 306. To pay Mony at a day and place certain it need not be found to be paid at the very day or place so it were paid before the day A. 311. The force of a Proviso coming after the Habendum to alter an Estate A. 318. To perform all Agreements in an Indenture obliges the Obligor to all things though contained in the Obligees Covenants A. 324. To defend the Plaintiff for the Title of such Lands what is a breach A. 325. That a Devisee shall not alien for a time is good and what Estates are a breach thereof B. 82 83. Where the word Proviso makes a Condition or an Exception or Limitation B. 128 129 138. C. 16 225 226. Condition that the Lessee shall not occupy for a time is void B. 132. Of what Condition in a Lease Grantee of the Reversion shall take advantage of B. 136 to 144. Devise to his Son towards his education in Learning is no Condition but the Devise is good though he be not so educated B. 154. Become unpossible to be performed by the act of the Law or of God B. 155. A. bound that B. shall pay before Mich. B. dies before the Bond is forfeit B. 155. To maintain and keep in good repair the Lessee cannot pull down and
rebuild B. 189. For saving harmless the Defendant must shew how he saved harmless B. 198. Difference where one is to do an act to a Stranger who refuses to accept it and where it is to be done to the Plaintiff who refuseth B. 222. If the words Yielding and Paying make a Condition C. 58. Provided that the Lessee shall not Grant the Land who devised the same to his Executor C. 67. To procure a Grant of the next Avoidandce so as the Plaintiff may present what is a breach C. 151. Upon a Condition to pay Corn the Obligor not bound to seek the Obligee if no place be appointed C. 260 261. Confirmation If one Chapter where there are two may confirm a Lease A. 234. What acceptance and by whom of Rent confirms the Lease of the Tenant A. 243. Tenant for life and he in remainder in Fee joyn in a Feoffment this is the Confirmation of him in remainder C. 10. Abbot and Covent Lease to J.S. at Will and after by Deed for life C. 15. Of a Dean and Chapter of a Bishops Lease in what time it must be made C. 17. Consideration in Assumpsit Assumpsit in cosideration the Defendant will prove such a thing c. when the proof is to be A. 93 94. Past and executed and yet continuing good to make a promise A. 102. B. 111. 224 225. That the Plaintiff will perform an Award the Defendant would perform it also good A. 102. To forbear a Suit in Chancery if good A. 114. B. 105. Of forbearance to sue the Execution of an Infant not good if the Debt were not due A. 114. B. 105. To stay a Suit in Court Christian good A. 118. In consideration of Goods delivered promised to pay the Debt due for them for if no sale no debt A. 157. If there be two if both must be found A. 173 300. B. 71 72. In consideration of the doing of an illegal Act A. 180. C. 208 236. To forbear a Suit ought to shew in what Court the Suit depended A. 180. In consideration of the Plaintiffs promise A. 180. B. 154. What is a good Consideration to make an Assumpsit A. 192 275 276 397. B. 29 30 C. 105 129. Not to execute a Fieri Facias upon Goods good though the Goods were not liable to the Execution A. 220 221. In Consideration the Obligor would pay the Mony the Obligee promised to deliver up his Bond quaere A. 238. Against the Wife of an Intestate in Consideration of forbearance not good unless she administers A. 240. In Consideration of the arrears of Rent-charge for life were unpaid good A. 293. If one of two Considerations be good and the other void yet the Action is maintainable A. 296 300. In Consideration the Plaintiff will assign his interest where he hath none at all B. 71. To forbear per Paululum tempus good C. 200. Where though the Consideration be past and executed being done at the Defendants request yet is good B. 111 224 225. C. 164 236. Ought to be matter of benefit to the Defendant C. 88. 129. Void Consideration per Stat. 23 H. 6. 10. being to let a Prisoner escape C. 208. Where there are two Considerations whereof one is void the whole is void C. 108. Copyhold and Copyholder Relieved by the Lord per Petition in a matter of equity A. 2. Where he shall do Fealty and have Aid of his Lord in Trespass c. and shall have an Ejectione Firme A. 4. How a person absent must make his surrender A. 36. If the Custom be to grant them in Fee it warrants a Grant for life A. 56. An Action in nature of a Dum fuit infra aetatem lies where an Infant surrenders A. 95. Where Statutes speak generally of Lands c. given to the King as forfeited Copyhold Lands are not intended A. 98 99. An Heir by descent may Lease or bring Trespass without any admittance A. 100. And also enter A. 174 175. C. 70. In pleading such Lease it need not be averred to be warranted by the Custom but must be challenged on the other part A. 100. An Heir within age not bound to tender his Fine while within age A. 100. Surrender to a Stranger for life remainder to the right Heirs of the Surrenderer the Heir is in by purchase Secus where an Estate is limitted to the Surrenderer himself A. 101. Surrender to the use of his right Heirs cannot vest during the Ancestors life A. 102. Lord sells and Copyholder releases the tenure is extinct A. 102. Release of a Copyholder to a Disseisor nihil operatur A. 102. What is a reasonable matter to excuse the Tenants not appearing at the Lords Court A. 104. To whom and where notice of a Court day must be given A. 104. Copyhold Estates may be entailed A. 174 175. Such Estate forfeited to the Lord and by him sold by Bill A. 191. Copyholder accepts a Lease of his Copyhold from the Lord this determines his customary Estate A. 170. What Steward may take Surrenders our of or in Court A. 227 228 288 289. Trespass lies by the Tenant against the Lord for cutting down Trees not being Timber A. 272. If the Lords agreement to avoid Admittance makes it good A. 289. A Court to admit Copyholders may be held out of the Mannor A. 289. The mis-entry of the day of holding the Court does not hurt the Copies but may be averred against A. 289 290. No Attornment necessary upon selling a Reversion of Copyhold Lands A. 297. If Tenant at will or sufferance may grant Copies B. 45 46 47. What Estates accepted by a Copyholder from the Lord does extinguish the customary Estate B. 72 73 208. Copyholders Estate not liable to a Rent-charge granted by the Lord B. 109. Secus of Demesnes grantable by Copy B. 153. C. 59. What refusal of a Copyholder to do his service pay his Rent or to make Presentments is a forfeiture of his Estate C. 108 109. What false Pleas Feoffments or Forgeries of Deeds is a forfeiture c. C. 108 109. He who disseiseth a Copyholder gains no Estate C. 221. No Escheat for want of an Heir until proclamation in Court C. 221. A Reversioner may surrender if no Custom to the contrary C. 239. Conspiracy If it lies if the Indictment were void A. 279. C. 140 141. Constable See False Imprison Iustification If he may imprison and how A. 327. Needs not dispute the legality of a Justices Warrant B. 84. May set one in Stocks for refusing to Watch C. 208 209. Continual Claim May be made though the Lands come to the hands of the King A. 191. What is a good Claim to avoid a Fine by the Statute of 4 H. 7. B. 53. Continuance Death of one Defendant after the Assises and before the Term cannot be pleaded for that the Defendant hath no day in Court to plead it C. 5. The difference between it and a dies datus silicet upon a dies datus and default thereupon
Middlesex may inquire by inquest of Office of the Customs in London C. 127. Inrollments If a Lease enrolled be lost the Jur. is not of any effect A. 329. Where a Deed may operate both by the Statute of Inrollment and of Uses C. 16. What is a good Plea against a Deed enrolled A. 183 184 B. 121. How the time is accompted for the six Months A. 183 184. If it be enrolled non refert if it were acknowledged C. 84. How a Corporation must acknowledge a Deed C. 84. Intendment Where two several quantities of Acres shall not be intended all one A. 44. Where the intent of a Man is traversable ib. 50. Where issuable B. 215. Where and how the Law construes the Intent of one who enters in Land A. 127. Where mentioning a Rent of 8 l. and after saying 8 l. Rent is intended the same Rent without the word praedict ' A. 173. How far the Law takes matters by Intendment in Wills Deeds c. A. 204 210 211. St. Martins and St. Michaels day what Feasts by Intendment A. 241. Where want of an Averment is aided by Intendment A. 281. C. 42 43. Where Baron and Feme are vouched it is intended to be in right of the Feme A. 291. If a Service be reserved according to the value of the Land it is intended the then present value B. 117. C. 114. Seisin in Fee is intended to continue until the contrary appear C. 42 43 96. Intrusion Bar therein by Grant of the King A. 9. Into the Rectory and receiving the Tithes A. 48. Disceit is no Bar therein for nullum tempus occurrit Regi B. 31 32. The Information is prout patet per recorda If the Defendant plead a Title If he need to traverse nul tiel record B. 30 31. If every continuance is a new Intrusion where the first Entry was lawful B. 206 207. Joynt-Tenants and Tenants in Common One Joynt-Tenant of the next avoidance to a Church Ecclesia vacante releases to his Companion nihil operatur A. 167. Cannot sue one the other in Trespass for their Lands A. 174. C. 228 229. Where two shall be Joynt-Tenants or Tenants in Common of an Estate tail A. 213 214. Two Joynt-Tenants are disleised by two to one of whom one Joynt-Tenant releaseth the other enters he is Tenant in Common to the Relessee A. 264. One Joynt-Tenant cannot grant to or enfeoff his Companion A. 283. If a Joynt-Tenant and a Tenant in Common may joyn in debt for Rent and make a general Count where one is to have a greater share B. 112. Devise to two to be equally divided if it be an Estate in Common or a Joynt B. 129. C. 9. If one Joynt-Tenant accept a Lease of the Land from his Companion he is estopt to claim by Survivor B. 159. Pleading of Joynt-Tenancy in abatement by Fine or Deed Stat. 34 E. 1. 8. B. 161 162. Joynder en Action Action Plea. Three Tenants in a Praecipe cannot vouch severally A. 116. Two Defendants justifie severally and the Plaintiff says joyntly de injuriis suis propr ' c. and good A. 124. Tenant for life and he in remainder in tail joyn in prescription A. 177. Where two Joynt-Tenants or Tenants in Common shall joyn in one Formedon A. 213 214. In what real Actions who shall joyn or sever A. 293 294 317. In a Writ of Error the like A. 293 294. Who shall joyn in a Writ of Error or in Conspiracy or Attaint A. 317. Three joyn in Action upon the Statute of Hue-and-Cry and adjudged good Quod est mirum A. 12. Covenant to two quolibet eorum both must joyn B. 47. C. 161. If one is obliged to account to three he may do it to any one B. 75 76. Debt upon a Judgment against three cannot be brought against one only B. 220. Two Infants Joynt-Tenants cannot joyn in a Dum fuit infra aetatem C. 255. Ioynture What alienation of a Feme of her Joynture is within the Statute 11 H. 7. 20. A. 261 262. Iourneys Accompts If Error lies for the Heir upon death of his Ancestor by Journeys Accounts Quaere A. 22. Issues joyn One joynt replication de injuriis suis propriis to two justifications adjudged good A. 124. Is called in the Civil Law Lis contestata A. 278. If an Advowson be appendant or in gross A. 323. How it shall be joyned upon pleading Ancient Demesne A. 333. Upon special Bastardy A. 335. Issue in an Inferior Court triable out of their Jurisdiction not triable in the Courts at Westm B. 37. Mis-joyn for that the Plaintiff in Covenant altered a word from the Covenant B. 116. In Replevin upon absque hoc that he took them as Bailiff B. 215. Iudgment Upon the Defendant rendring himself in discharge of his Bail A. 58. The Defendant pleads a frivolous Plea which is found for the Plaintiff Judgment shall be entred as by Nihil dicit Nullo habito respectu c. A. 68. In a Sur cui in vita for part of the Messuage demanded A. 152. In Ejectment Quod quer recuperet possessionem is as good as Termin A. 175. Quod Capiatur well enough although pardoned by Act of Oblivion A. 167 300. Shall not be for the Plaintiff if by the Record it appears the Plaintiff hath no cause of Action or that the Action is brought before the Debt due A. 186 187. B. 99 100. C. 86 87. Entred as of a day past where the Defendant dies while after Verdict the Court takes time to consult of the Law A. 187. In what cases the Judges may give Judgment by sight of an Almanack A. 242. Judgment for the Plaintiff in Trespass although the Defendant died before the Writ of Inquiry returned A. 236. In Forcible Entry for treble Costs and Damages A. 282. Nihil de fine qui a pardonatur not good because the Defendant does not plead the Pardon A. 300 301. In Trespass or Case may be arrested after the first Judgment A. 309. Arrest of Judgment shewed in writing in the Exchequer B. 40. Judgment final upon a Verdict in a Counter-plea in Aid B. 52. Where it shall be reversed in part or in all B. 177 178. Against the Heir where his Plea is found against him is general against all Lands C. 3. Iurisdiction The Spiritual Court hath Jurisdiction where right of Tithes comes in question between two Parsons A. 59. In what Cases the Spiritual Court may have Jurisdiction for Slanders B. 53. If the Court hath not Jurisdiction of the Action all is void but other faults make the proceedings only voidable B. 89. One cannot plead to the Jurisdiction of the Court after Imparlance C. 214 215. Iour in Court dies Iuridicus What things may be done upon day extrajudicial B. 206 207. Iustices and Iudges Whether Justice of Peace in a Vill may be by Prescription A. 106. In what Inferior Courts who are Judges A. 217 228 242 316. B. 34. If a Judge may take
and when Notice must be given to a Patron of a Voidance A. 32. C. 46 47. Where necessary to perfect an Assumpsit A. 105 123. Where Notice of a Surrender of a Lease must be given to him who hath the subsequent Estate C. 96. Nusance See Action sur case Where an Action lieth for stopping of new made Lights where not A. 168. Action on the Case lies for it by Tenant of the Freehold although he may have an Assise C. 263. B. 184. A. 247. Con. C. 13. Where it lies for turning a Water-Course from a Mill new erected on an old Foundation A. 44 45. Every continuance thereof is a fresh Nusance B. 103. C. 174. The difference of exaltare erigere stagnum in such Actions B 180 181. It is enough to say obstupavit viam without shewing how C. 13. For stopping a Water Course so that the Plaintiffs Land was drowned C. 174. O. Obligation GOod without words Obligatory or In cujus rei testimonium A. 25. C. 119. To perform Covenants If the Deed be void the the Obligation is single A. 282. Obligation to pay Mony within a Mannor where J.S. hath bona felonum if the Obligee be attainted J.S. shall not have the Debt B. 56. What words in the Condition make the Obligation void by 23 H. 6. cap. 10. B. 78. With a Condition against the Law is void Cont. if the Condition be only impossible B. 189. Conditioned that one shall not use his Trade in such a Parish is void B. 210. One is bound for the faithful Service of an Apprentice A Release made to the Apprentice is a discharge of the Bond C. 45. Where a Bond is I am content to pay Debt or Covenant lies C. 119. What Bond is joynt what joynt and several C. 206. Bond taken of one not bailable is void per Stat. 23 H. 6. C. 208. Obligation in ten Pounds to be levied by the Obligee of the profits of a Baillwick yet the Obligee may bring Debt C. 223. Made in France may be sued here C. 232. Occupancy Who shall be a special Occupant A. 310. C. 36. He who disseiseth Tenant pur auter vy who dies is a dispensor still and no occupant B. 121. None shall be an occupant but he in possession C. 36. It it shall be of a Use pur auter vy C. 35. Offices and Officer If a Steward of a Court may be deputed by Parol without Deed A. 228. What other Officer may be so deputed Ibid. Of what Office an Assise lieth Ibid. Vicar General of the Spiritualty Chancellor of A. Bishop what A. 312. The Office of Marshal of the Kings Bench and Marshal of England and who hath the Grant of them A. 320 321. If an Office ministerial may be granted in Reversion by any but the King C. 31 32. Office for the King. What Lands or Chattels shall be in the King by Attainder without Office found A. 21. B. 122 to 126 135 to 139 206 207. Or by alienation without licence A. 40. B. 126 135. C. 175. Must be pleaded under the Great Seal A. 65. To what purposes an Office is good not finding who is Heir Ibid. Upon Extent of Lease for years must find the certainty of the Term. B. 121. C. 204. In what case it may be traversed B. 122 to 126 187. C. 185 to 191. What Lands shall revest in the King by a Condition of re-entry before Office found of the Condition broken B. 134 to 145. C. 125 127. What a Common cannot have but by re-entry the King shall not without Office found B. 137. Of what force an Office is which is found after the King hath granted away all the Estate B. 138 to 145. C. 125 126 127. Upon assignment of a Debt to the King the Office must find but Goods since the Assignment C. 197. The Ter-Tenant shall not render recompence to the King for the profits of the Lands before Office found C. 242. P. Pardon IN what case a general Pardon not to be regarded unless specially pleaded A. 300 301. B. 28. Where the Kings General Pardon will not avail without words of Giant B. 123 124. C. 186 187. Parson and Patron What a Vicar is A. 182. They and the Ordinary joyn in a Lease of the Gleab if this bind the Successor A. 234 235. What an Arch-deacoury is A. 316. Partition Between Tenants in Common and Joynt-Tenants where good where bad without Deed A. 103. The form of the second Judgment A. 280. B. 50. Against whom it must be brought A. 291. If it may be made of a Use B. 25 26 27. The pleading thereof B. 24. What part is void what only voidable B. 25 26. Form of the Writ and where it must shew de qua haereditate B. 118. C. 231. If it lies by a Corporation upon the Stat. 32 H. 8. C. 162. Patent See Grant of the King. Perjury See Stat. 5 Eliz. May be punished at Common Law though the Jury give a Verdict against the false Testimony C. 170 230. Petition of Right See Monstrans Plaint In all Inferior Courts there ought to be a Plaint entred before the Defendant be summoned A. 185 186 302. Pleading and Pleas. Vide Bar and Iustification Of a Lease at will it 's good to aver the life of the Lessor A. 14. Of an Averment that the Rent c. was parcel of a Mannor A. 15. Of a Fine and Non-claim not needful to aver Infra Regnum sanae memoriae c. A. 18 76. What things must be shewed by the Plaintiff to enable his Action or must be pleaded by the Defendant A. 18 76 131 306. B. 5. C. 40 41 42 43. Of a Recovery in an Affise in Bar to Trespass A. 24 193. That a Rectory was appropriated to a Colledge A. 38. The Election of a Bishop Ibid. Where Ne unques accouple c. shall be pleaded and where Non fuit uxor A. 53. B. 170 171. Of an Utlary to entitle the King A. 63. Where Nient damnify is a good Plea to an Award which was That the Defendant should discharge and save the Plaintiff harmless from a Bond A. 71. The performance of a Condition to convey the Defendant must shew by what Conveyance c. A. 72. Of a Fine with Proclamation upon the Statute of 4 H. 7. 1 H. 3. and 32 H. 8. A. 76 77 78. Of an Agreement to an Estate Legacy c. A. 129. What matter ought to be shewed by the party who pleads or to come in on the other side A. 18 76 100 131 306. B. 5. C. 40 to 43. Of performance of a negative Covenant A. 136. To two Bars there must be several Replications or Demurrers A. 139. Of a Bargain and Sale must alledge a Consideration A. 170. Where it is not necessary to shew the beginning of a particular Estate nor to aver the life of Tenant for life A. 66 139 176 255. B. 50 94 95. Of a Recovery in a real Action it must be shewed that the Tenant was
For an amerciament for not appearing at a Leet C. 14. If the Plaintiff be nonsuit the Court may assess Damages without a Writ of Inquiry if the Avowry be for Rent C. 213. Reputation The signification of the word in Grants reputat fore parcel A. 15. Request When needful C. 73. In Assumpsit where it must be special A. 118 123 221 287. B. 22 215. C. 73 200 201. The like in Covenant A. 124 125 169. Promise to pay Mony at a certain day No request necessary A. 221. Is traversable in Covenant where the Covenant is to be performed upon Request B. 5. Want thereof where necessary not aided by Verdict B. 117. If a Joynt Request be good of several distinct Contracts C. 206. Resceit The Wife shall not be received if her right be not bound A. 86. Cont. B. 9. One in remainder received although he might falsifie the recovery A. 86. If Tenant for life do not pray to be received he in remainder may do it A. 262. By Executors where the Term was limited to the Testator for life remainder to his Executors for years B. 6. Stat. W. 2. c. 3. 13 R. 2. of Resceit B. 62. Stat. Glouc. of Resceit of Tenant for years B. 65. C. 169. In what cases the Tenant by Receit shall have day to plead or plead presently C. 168 169. Upon Resceit of one for a moiety the Plaintiff shall not have Judgment for a moiety C. 169. Where a Termor prays to be received if he must aver the Writ to be brought against the Tenant by fraud C. 168 169. Restitution Utlary in Felony against the Testator reversed by Error by the Executor and restitution de bonis A. 326. Upon a Forcible Entry he in Reversion shall be restored and then Lessee may enter A. 327. Goods sold by Fieri facias not to be restored if the Judgment be reversed B. 90. Of Goods stolen upon an Utlary in Appeal of Robbery B. 108. Retorn of Sheriffs Upon a Capias pro fine ret Cepi Corpus and upon the Cap. ad satisf ret non est invent and fined for contradictory A. 51. Upon a Writ of Hab. Corp. amended A. 145. Where an Averment shall be against it and for whom where not A. 183 184. Upon Elegit that there was a former Writ executed in the same case if good B. 12 13. What is a good retorn in a Writ of Replevin or retorno habendo B. 67. Upon a Fieri facias against Executors after Verdict upon plene administr the Sheriff cannot retorn nulla bona B. 67. Cont. C. 2. Cannot retorn tarde as to part B. 175. Retraxit Cannot be before a Declaration so as to make a perpetual Bar C. 19. S. Saver de default SIckness is no cause as the fall of a Flood or Imprisonment are C. 2. Scire Facias For the King against his Tenant in Capite for alienation without Licence A. 8. For the King against the Ter-Tenant of one Attainted A. 21. In London ad discutiend●m debitum A. 52. For the King to gain a Presentation for that the Patron is utlawed A. 63. For the Tenant by Elegit who was ousted by the King for a Debt against the Defendant to shew cause why the Plaintiff should not have the Land the King being satisfied A. 272. Upon reversal of a Fine or Recovery no restitution before a Scire facias against the Ter-Tenant A. 290. For the King against a Debtor in what case necessary B. 55 56. In what case it may issue out of another Court than where the Record is B. 67. Bail not chargeable by any Custom without a Scire facias B. 30 87. Payment no good Plea unless pleaded by Record B. 213. If an Execution were continued no Scire facias is necessary B. 77 78 87. C. 259. Sea. The Queens Interest therein extends to the midst thereof betwixt England and Spain C. 71. Seal The Kings Privy Seal and the force thereof A. 9. Second Deliverance After Withernam B. 174. C. 235 236. None after Verdict but after Nonsuit at the Nisi Prius it lies C. 49. Seisin What is a sufficient Seisin of Services A. 266. What Actions an Heir may have upon a Seisin in Law without entry A. 273. Servant What is a discharge of one retained pro consilio c. for life or otherwise A. 209. If an Action lies for retaining the Plaintiffs hired Servant A. 240. Services Vide Mannor Severance Lieth in Partition A. 55. And in a Writ of Error where A. 317. In case in the Kings Bench of an Executor B. 112. Sheriff His power in executing a Grand Cap. in Dower A. 92. May make a special Warrant and take an engagement to secure himself for Escapes A. 132. May execute a Fieri facias after the Defendants death A. 144. Where he justifies by an Execution he must plead that he retorned the Writ Secus of a Bailiff A. 144. Caveat how he discharge a Prisoner in a Court unless the cause be legal A. 145. Examined upon Oath about a retorn of an Extent B. 12 13. Must hold Plea in person upon a Justicies not the Under-Sheriff B. 34. Must execute Process without questioning the legality of them B. 84 85 93. Action against the Under-Sheriff for proceeding in an Hundred Court after an Habeas Corpus C. 99. Slander Did procure suborn and bring in false Witnesses adjudged actionable A. 101. Forsworn in the Court of Request adjudged actionable A. 127 128. Taken a false Oath in a Court Christian adjudged actionable A. 131 132. Thou art not the Queens Friend A. 336. Words spoken of a Peer or Bishop may bear Action though they will not if spoken of a common Subject A. 336. Corrupt Man spoken of a Judge or Attorny Ibid. Bankrupt will not bear Action unless the Plaintiff be a Tradesman Ibid. J. S. executes false Warrants spoken of a Bailiff Ibid. Liveth by Witchcraft and Sorcery B. 30. For calling one Witch B. 53. If it lies for calling one a Forsworn Man if no legal Oath was given B. 98. Of Title lies though the words were not spoken to any who was buying the Land B. 112. I will prove F. to be perjured actionable C. 151. You live by swearing and forswearing not actionable C. 163. Cousened me of 40 s. not actionable C. 171. Of Title what lies C. 177. Thou hast forged my Hand Thou art a Forger Thou didst forge a writing not actionable C. 231. He went about to kill me actionable Ibid. He forged my Lord of L's Hand to a Letter against the Bishop of L. for which he was committed not actionable Ibid. Statute-Staple Merchant c. If the Conusors Body be taken and let at large by the assent of the Conusee the Land is thereby discharged A. 230 231. If the Conusor sow the Land the Conusee shall reap B. 54. If Debt lies thereupon B. 112. The Body of a Lord is liable to Execution B. 173 174. Statutes Magna Charta cap. 35. When Leets are to be holden