THE THIRD PART OF THE REPORTS Of Several 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, Esquire; Then of the Honourable Society of GRAYS-INN: Not before Imprinted; And now Published By William Hughes of Grays-Inn, Esq With Alphabetical TABLES of the Names of the CASES, and of the Matters contained in the BOOK. LONDON, Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires; For Henry Twyford, Thomas Basset, William Rawlins, and John Place. 1686. TO THE READER. Courteous Reader, I Can do no less than acquaint thee, That the First and Second Part of the REPORTS of that Learned Lawyer, William Leonard, of Grays-Inn, Esquire, were obtained from me, and Printed by the over-forwardness of those persons that received it from my hand, who published it with a Design to prejudice the Learned Author and myself, by false Intimating in the Epistle to the Reader prefixed before the Second Part, That the First and Second Part, was [All] of our Learned Author's Works, [that I thought fit to publish.] That I may Extricate myself out of their intended Abuse, and undeceive thee, I do hereby assure thee, That although I do Collect the First and Second Part, yet do I wholly disown the Epistle aforementioned, and also aver it to be a false and scandalous Assertion. That it is so, I refer thee to the View of this Third Part, The which is in no wise Inferior to the First and Second Part: But on the contrary, I may with Modesty say, as to the Worth and Usefulness of it, That it may Challenge the Precedence of the Other Two; the which I intended, as one that Feasteth his Guests, preserveth the Daintiest Dishes until the last. My Intention ever was, (if my other occasions would give me leave) To publish such further CASES as were Collected by him, (not before Imprinted) that might add something to the Study and Benefit of the Ingenuous Reader: Wherefore I having lately Collected (out of his Manuscript which only is in my hands) some other Cases (out of many) which lay scattering therein, not before made Public, I have reduced them into this Third Part, which I commend to thy Reading, and leave to thy favourable Construction. And if these Cases now Printed off in this Third Part, (as the former Cases have done) shall find good Acceptance of thee, and be useful to thee, I shall willingly (if God give me life, and it be desired,) put an End to this Work. In the prosecution of the which, I shall have due regard, as I hitherto have had in this Third Part, as well as in the Two former Parts, that thou shalt be presented with nothihg but what is Really useful, and not to be had in other Works of the like nature. Now for as much as no Action or Thing done under Heaven, can be free from Error, in a greater or lesser proportion, The which, as well as other Arts, Printing too too frequently demonstrateth; yet the Errors of this Third Part are so few, and Inconsiderable, that it maketh me the more Confident to desire thy favourable Corection: Therefore I leave it to thee. From my Study in Grays-Inn, 24 of October, 1662. William Huhges. The Names of the Learned Lawyers, Sergeants at Law, and Judges of the several Courts at Westminster, who Argued the Cases, and were Judges of the said several Courts, where the Cases were Argued, Viz. A. ANderson, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Anger. Altham, afterwards one of the Barons of the Exchequer. Atkinson. Ayliffe, Justice of the King's Bench. B. Beaumount, Sergeant at Law, after Judge of the Common Pleas. Bromley, Lord Chancellor of England. Barkley. C. Cook, after Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Clench, one of the Judges of the King's Bench. Cooper, Sergeant at Law. Clark, Baron of the Exchequer. D. Daniel, Sergeant at Law, after Judge of the Common Pleas. Drew, Sergeant at Law. Dyer, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. E. Egerton, Solicitor of the Queen, after Lord Chancellor. F. Fleetwood, Sergeant at Law, Recorder of London. Fuller. Fennor, Sergeant at Law, after Judge of the King's Bench. G. Gawdy, Judge of the King's Bench. Golding, Sergeant at Law. Glanvile, Sergeant at Law, after Judge of the Common Pleas. Gent, Baron of the Exchequer. Godfrey. H. Haughton, Sergeant at Law, after Judge of the Common Pleas. Hammon, Sergeant at Law. Harris, Sergeant at Law. Heal, Sergeant at Law. Hobart. K. Kingsmil, Judge of the King's Bench. L. Laiton. M. Mead, Sergeant at Law, after Judge of the Common Pleas. Morgan. Manwood, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Mounson, Justice of the Common Pleas. O. Owen, Sergeant at Law, after Baron of the Exchequer. P. Popham, Attorney-general of the Queen, after Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Periam, Judge of the Common Pleas. Pepper, Attorney of the Court of Wards. Plowden. Puckering, the Queen's Sergeant at Law. R. Rhodes, Judge of the Common Pleas. S. Snag, Sergeant at Law. Shute, Judge of the King's Bench. Shuttleworth, Sergeant at Law. T. Tanfield, Sergeant at Law, after Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Topham. W. Wray, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Windham, Judge of the Common Pleas. Walmesley, Sergeant at Law, after Judge of the Common Pleas. Y. Yeluerton, Sergeant at Law, after Judge of the King's Bench. A Table of the Names of the CASES in the third Part of LEONARD'S Reports. P. stands for Page; C. for Case. A. ANdrews and Glover's Case, Trin. 4 Eliz. Page 7. Case 19 Abrahal and Nurses Case, Hill. 19 Eliz. C. B. p. 63. C. 94 Absalon and Andertons Case, Mich. 26 Eliz. B. R. p. 84. C. 124 Amner and Luddingtons' Case, Mich. 26 Eliz. B. R. p. 89. C. 128 Annisley and Jonson's Case, Mich. 27 Eliz. C.B. p. 114. C. 164 Archbold and Borrells Case, Mich. 28 Eliz. B. R. p. 139. C. 190 Lord anderson's Case, Mich. 29 Eliz. C. B. p. 149. C. 198 Allen and Hills Case, Mich. 30 Eliz. B. R. p. 152. C. 204 Abbot's Case, Pasch. 30 Eliz. B. R. p. 206. C. 266 Anderson and Heywards Case, Pasch. 30 Eliz. B. R. p. 221. C. 294 George Ap-Rices Case, Trin. 32 Eliz. Exchequer. p. 241. C. 336. B. BArrentines Case, Mich. 8 Eliz. C. B. Page 12. C 28 Oliver Breers Case, 11 Eliz. Cur. Ward. p. 25. C. 52 Banks and Thwaites Case, Mich. 21 Eliz. B. R. p. 73. C. 113 Barker and Tailor's Case, Mich. 21 Eliz. C. B. p. 78. C. 117 Bunny and Bunny's Case, Hill. 26 Eliz. C. B. p. 90. C. 129 Brett and Peregrine's Case, Pasch. 26 El. p. 105. C. 155 Brian and Cawsens Case, Trin. 27 Eliz. C. B. p. 115. C. 165 Baspoles Case, Mich. 27 Eliz. B. R. p. 118. C. 167 Branthwaits Case, Mich. 27 Eliz. B R. p. 118. C. 168 Bingham and Squires Case, Hill. 29 Eliz. C. B. p. 151. C. 201 Beadles Case, Mich. 30 Eliz. B. R. p. 159. C. 206 Beckwiths Case, Hill. 29 Eliz. C. B. p. 160. C. 209. Blunt and Wards Case, Mich. 29 Eliz. Exchequer. p. 174. C. 224 Barns Case, Mich. 29 Eliz. C. B. p. 193. C. 240 Botham and Lady Gresham's Case, Pasch. 30 Eliz. C. B. p. 203. C. 257 Body and Tassels Case, Trin. 30 Eliz. Exchequer. p. 205. C. 260 Bland and Riccards Case, Mich. 30 Eliz. C. B. p. 208. C. 269 Baxters Case, Mich. 30 Eliz. Excheq. p. 214. C. 284 Blacksmiths Case, Mich. 30 Eliz. C. B. p. 217. C. 288 Brocas Case, Trin. 30 Eliz. B. R. p. 219. C. 290 Brightmen Case, Pasch. 30 Eliz. Exchequer Chamber. p. 221. C. 295 Bennington and Benningtons' Case, Trin. 31 Eliz. B. R. p. 228 C. 307 Brereton and Ausers Case, Hill. 31 Eliz. B. R. p. 229. C. 308 Bebington and Bebingtons' Case, Mich. 31 Eliz. B. R. p. 232. C. 316 Brags Case, Pasch. 32 Eliz. B. R. p. 233. C. 319 Bremyn and mansfield's Case, Mich. Eliz. B. R. p. 235. C. 322 Broughton and Prince's Case, Mich. 33 Eliz. Exchequer. p. 237. C. 326 Butler and Lightfeet Case, Mich. 33 Eliz. Exchequer. p. 239. C. 329 Bond and Baylies Case, Mich. 33 Eliz. B. R. p. 270. C. 364 Butler and Baker's Case, Mich. 34 Eliz. B. R. p. 271. C. 365 C. Canon's Case, 1 Eliz. C. B. p. 5. C. 13 Case in the Dutchy-Chamber, Mich. 8 Eliz. p. 12. C. 29 Sir Peter carew's Case, Mich. 14 Eliz. C.B. p. 15. C. 36 Cranmers Case, Hill. 14 Eliz. C. B. p. 20. C. 49 Lord Cromwel's Case, Mich. 15 Eliz. p. 38. C. 63 Cox's Case, Mich. 26 Eliz. B. R p. 102 C. 148 Carter and Dixwells Case, Trin. 27 Eliz. B. R. p. 123. C. 176 Countess of Sussex and Wroths Case, Hill. 28 Eliz. C.B. p. 144. C. 194 Cocket and Robstons' Case, Mich. 29 Eliz. C. B. p. 149. C. 199 Cadee and oliver's Case, Mich. 30 Eliz. B. R. p. 153. C. 205 Chevertons Case, Hill. 29 Eliz. C. B. p. 163. C. 214 Sir Gervase Clifton's Case, Mich. 29 Eliz. B. R p. 184. C. 235 Lord Comptons' Case, Trin. 29 Eliz. C. B. p. 196. C. 245 Carter and Martin's Case, Mich. 29 El. B. R. p. 197. C. 248 Crane and Junipers' Case, Hill. 30. El. B. R. p. 205. C. 262 Chard and Tucks Case, Hill. 30 Eliz. B. R. p. 214. C. 283 Coney and Beveridges Case, Mich. 30 El. C. B. p. 216. C. 287 Cardinal and arnold's Case, Mich. 30 El. C. B. p. 220 C. 293 Constable and Farrers Case, Hill. 31 El. B. R. p. 229. C. 309 Collet and Robstons' Case, Hill. 31 Eliz. B. R. p. 230. C. 311 Cursons Case, Mich. 33 Eliz. Excheq. p. 239. C 328 Cheneys Case, Mich. 32 Eliz. Excheq. p. 260. C. 347 The Chamberlains of London's Case, Mich. 33 Eliz. B.R. p. 264. C. 354 D. DEdicots Case, 7 Eliz. C.B. p. 9 C. 22 Denton and Goddards Case, Pasch. 26 Eliz. p. 100 C. 144 The Dean of Gloucesters' Case, Hill. 19 Eliz. C. B. p. 162. C. 212 Dicksey and Spencer's Case, Mich. 29 Eliz. C. B. p. 169. C. 220 Delabroche and Barns Case, Mich. 31 Eliz. B. R. p. 232. C. 314 Dalton and Selby's Case, Mich. 32 Eliz. B. R. p. 236. C. 324 Dean and Chapter of Windsor's Case, Mich. 32 Eliz. Exch. p. 258. C. 343 Doughty and Prideaux Case, Hill. 33 Eliz. C. B. p. 269. C. 362 E. ELiot and Nutcombs Case, Mich. 4 Mar. C. B. p. 4. C. 9 Earl of westmerland's Case, Hill. 18 Eliz. B. R. p. 59 C. 87 Eve and Finches Case, Trin. 26 Eliz. B. R. p. 105. C. 154 Evesque of bristol Case, Trin. 26 El. Exchequer. p. 113. C. 160 Evesq of York and Mortons' Case, Pasch. 29 Eliz. C. B. p. 159. C. 207 edmond's Case, Mich. 29 Eliz. C. B. p. 164. C. 215 Executors of the Bishop of Durham and smith's Case, Mich. 29 Eliz. Exch. p. 171. C. 223 Esgrige and Owls Case, Trin. 30 Eliz. B. R. p. 200. C. 252 Evans and Godfrey's Case, Mich. 32 El. B. R. p. 260. C. 346 F. FVller and Cooks Case, Pasch. 26 El. B. R. p. 100 C. 146 Farmer and Dorrintons' Case, Hill. 29 Eliz. C.B. p. 151. C. 203 Farrington and Fleetwoods' Case, Mich. 29 Eliz. Exch. p. 164. C. 216 Fetherstone and Hutchinsons' Case, Trin. 30 Eliz. B.R. p. 206. C. 270, 298 Fitzhughs Case, Hill. 30 Eliz. C. B. p. 221. C. 296 Fines and Lord Dacres Case, Mich. 32 Eliz. Exch. p. 241. C. 335, 348 G. GVrney and Saers' Case, Trin. 26 Eliz. B.R. p. 95. C. 138 Gerrard's Case, Pasch. 26 Eliz. C. B. p. 98. C. 140 Griffith and Agards Case, Mich. 27 El. C.B. p. 117. C. 166 Sir Tho. Gorge and Daltons' Case, Trin. 29 Eliz. C.B. p. 196. C. 246 Gates and Hollywells Case, Pasch. 30 Eliz. B.R. p. 216. C. 286 Gore and wingfield's Case, Hill. 30 El. C.B. p. 223 C. 299 Lord Gray's Case, Trin. 32 Eliz. Exch. p. 240. C. 332 Gardiner and the Hundred of Readins Case, Mich. 32 Eliz. C.B. p. 262 C. 350 H. HEcks and Tirrels Case, 4 Mar. p. 3. C. 7 Holt and Ropers Case, 2 Eliz, C. B. p. 5. C. 14 Humphrey and Humfreys Case, Mich. 14 Eliz. C. B. p. 18. C. 42 Hind and Lion's Case, Mich. 19 Eliz. C. B. p. 64. C. 96 Hodgson and Maynards' Case, Hill. 19 Eliz. B. R. p. 67. C. 101, 107 Henry and Brodes Case, Mich. 21 El. C. B. p. 77. C. 116 Harper and Berisfords' Case, Mich. 26 Eliz. C. B. p. 94. C. 135 Herring and Badlocks Case, Trin. 26 Eliz. B. R. p. 94. C. 136 Hitchcock and Thurlands Case, Trin. 27 Eliz. B. R. p. 122. C. 175 Highams' Case, Mich. 28 Eliz. C. B. p. 130. C. 183 Hare and Mellers Case, Mich. 28 Eliz. C.B. p. 138. C. 187, 213 Heidon and Ibgraves Case, Hill. 29 El. C.B. p. 162. C. 211 Sir Tho. Holland and Bonis Case, Mich. 29 Eliz. C. B. p. 175. C. 227 Hitchcock and Harveys Case, Hill. 31 Eliz. B. R. p. 213. C. 282 Hampers Case, Mich. 31 Eliz. B. R. p. 230. C. 310 Hungate and Hall's Case, Trin. 32 Eliz. Exchequer. p. 240. C. 331 Harris and Wings Case, Mich. 32 Eliz. B.R. p. 242. C. 337 Hambleden and Hambledens Case, Mich. 32 Eliz. C. B. p. 262. C. 352 I. JOscelin and Sheltons' Case, Mich. 5 Mar. C. B. p. 4. C. 11 Jackson and Darcies' Case, Mich. 16 Eliz. C.B. p. 57 C. 84 Iplit and William's Case, Mich. 26 Eliz. C. B. p. 99 C. 143 Inchley and Robinson's Case, Hill. 29 Eliz. C.B. p. 165 C. 218 Johnson and Bellamy's Case, Mich. 31 Eliz. C.B. p. 211. C. 276 Ireland and Higgins Case, Trin. 30 Eliz. B. R. p. 229. C. 291 K. KIrle and Lees Case, Mich. 20 Eliz. C.B. p. 66. C. 99 The King and Due and Kirleys Case, 4 Mar. p. 3. C. 8 Knight and Beech's Case, Pasch. 27 El. C. B. p. 124. C. 178 Knight and Nortons' Case, Mich. 32 El. C. B. p. 239 C. 330 L. LVke and Eves Case, Pasch. 10 Eliz. C.B. Page 14. Case 34 Litchfield and Gauges Case, Pasch. 26 El. B.R. p. 100 C. 145 Lees Case, Pasch. 26 El. B.R. p. 106 C. 156 Lee and Lovedays Case, Trin. 27 Eliz. C. B. p. 120. C. 172 leonard's Case, Trin. 28 Eliz. C. B. p. 128. C. 80 Lewen and Moodies Case, Mich. 29 El. C.B. p. 135. C. 185 Lucas and Picrofts Case, Pasch. 28 El. C.B. p. 137. C. 186 Lawson and Hares Case, Mich. 29 Eliz. C.B. p. 178. C. 231 Largesse Case, Mich. 29 Eliz. B. R. p. 182. C. 233 Longs Case, Mich. 29 Eliz. B. R. p. 193. C. 239 Leverett and Townsends Case, Trin. 30 Eliz. B. R. p. 263. C. 354 Lakes Case, Mich. 33 Eliz. B. R. p. 268. C. 361 M. MOuntford and Catesby's Case, Mich. 15 Eliz. C.B. p. 43. C. 64 Master and Scholars of Linckfords' Case, Mich. 15 Eliz. C.B. p. 64. C. 95 The Marquis of Northamptons' Case, Hill. 20 Eliz. C.B. p. 71. C. 110 Merry and Lewes Case, Pasch. 26 Eliz. C.B. p. 91. C. 131 Marsh and Jones Case, Mich. 27 Eliz. C.B. p. 114. C. 163 Masons Case, Trin. 26 Eliz. B. R. p. 123. C. 177 More and the Bishop of Norwich's Case, Mich. 28 Eliz. C.B. p. 138. C. 188 manning's Case, Mich. 28 Eliz. B. R. p▪ 143. C. 192 Master and Chaplains of the Savoys Case, Mich. 29 Eliz. Excheq. p. 165 C. 217 Middlemores Case, Mich. 29 Eliz. B.R. p. 171. C. 222 Matthews Case, Pasch. 30 Eliz. B. R. p. 201. C. 253 Markham and Pitts Case, Trin. 30 El. p. 205. C. 261 Mounson and west's Case, Mich. 30 El. C.B. p. 222. C. 297 Moultons' Case, Mich. 31 Eliz. B. R. p. 232. C 315 Mead and Bigots' Case, Mich. 33 Eliz. B. R. p. 236. C. 325 N. NOrwich and Norwichs Case, Trin. 18 Eliz. B.R. p. 62. C. 91 Nelsons Case, Pasch. 27 Eliz. C. B. p. 128. C. 179 Lady Newman and Shermans Case, Mich. 29 El. Star-Chamber, p. 170 C. 221 O. OWen and Sadlers Case, Hill. 18 Eliz. C.B. p. 68 C. 88 Ognells Case, Pasch C.B. p. 213. C. 281 Ognell and Trussells Case, Mich. 30 Eliz. Star-Chamber. p. 219. C. 292 Owen and Morgan's Case, Mich. 33 El. Exchequer. p. 238. C. 327 P. POtkins Case, Hill. 19 Eliz. B. R. p. 63. C. 93 Sir Peter Philpots Case, Mich. 15 Eliz. C. B. p. 28. C. 56 Pepy's Case, Pasch. 25 Eliz. B.R. p. 80 C. 121 Partridge and Pools Case, Pasch. 26 El. B. R. p. 97. C. 139 Palmer and Waddingtons' Case, Trin. 28 Eliz. C.B. p. 129. C. 181 Parrot and Dr. Matthews Case, Mich. 28 Eliz. B.R. p. 139. C. 189 Parker and Harold's Case, Pasch. 28 Eliz. B.R. p. 142. C. 193 Pains Case, Mich. 28 Eliz. Exchequer. p. 144. C. 195 Putnam and Cooks Case, Mich. 29 Eliz. B.R. p. 180. C. 232 Peter's Case, Mich. 29 Eliz. C.B. p. 194. C. 243 Pie and Grunways Case, Mich. 30 Eliz. C. B. p. 202. C 255 Paramour and Robinson's Case, Trin. 30 Eliz. Exchequer. p. 209. C. 272 Pike and Hassens Case, Mich. 31 Eliz. B. R. p. 233. C. 17 Pendleton and Green's Case, Mich. 33 Eliz. B. R. p. 355 Q. QVeen and Sir John Constables Case, Hill. 20 El. B.R. p. 72. C. 111 The Queen and Lord Lumleys' Case, Tr. 26 Eliz. Excheq. p. 101. C. 147 The Queen and Kettles Case, Trin. 27 Eliz. C. B. p. 119. C. 170 The Queen and Hurlstons Case, Hill. 29 Eliz. B. R. p. 160. C. 208 The Queen and Scots Case, Mich. 29 Eliz. C.B. p. 175. C. 266 The Queen and the Bishop of Gloucesters' Case, Trin. 29 El. p. 176. C. 228 The Queen and Littleton's Case, Trin. 30 Eliz. Exch. p. 223. C. 301. R. RIches Case, Mich. 15 Eliz. C. B. p. 25. C. 75 Rivers and Pudseys' Case, Hill. 19 Eliz. B. R. p. 63. C. 92 Rosses Case, Trin. 26 Eliz. B. R. p. 94. C. 137 Rampston and Bowmers' Case, Trin. 26 Eliz. B.R. p. 98. C. 141 Rag and Bowleys Case, Trin. 26 Eliz. B. R. p. 106. C. 157 Rolts Case, Hill. 29 Eliz. C.B. p. 151 C. 202 Rush and Highgates Case, 30 Eliz. Exchequer. p. 204. C. 258 Russel and Brookers' Case, Mich. 30 El. C.B. p. 218. C. 289 Rooksby and Wickhams' Case, Hill. 32 El. C.B. p. 256. C. 340 S. STapleton and Truelocks Case, Mich. 2 Mar. p. 2. C 6 Scarning and Criers Case, Mich. 7 Eliz. C. B. p. 7. C. 21 Stamfords' Case, 7 El. C.B. p. 10. C. 24 Simonds Case, 8 Eliz. C B. p. 11. C. 26 Stowel and the Earl of hartford's Case, Mich. 8 El. C.B. p. 14. C. 32 Stuckley and Sir John Thynns Case, Mich. 9 Eliz. C.B. p. 14. C. 33 Strowds Case, Hill. 17 Eliz. C. B. p. 58. C. 85 Segar and Boyntons' Case, Mich. 21 Eliz. C. B. p. 74. C. 114 Stamps Case, Mich. 24 Eliz. C. B. p. 78. C. 119 Skipwiths Case, Pasch. 20 Eliz. C. B. p. 81. C. 122 Savel and Badcoks Case, Mich. 26 Eliz. B.R. p. 84. C. 125 Smith and Smith's Case, Mich. 26 Eliz. B. R. p. 88 C. 127 Stransham and Collingtons Case, Trin. 28 Eliz. B.R. p. 129. C. 182 Sir John Southwells Case, Hill. 28 El. Exchequer. p. 147. C. 196 Specots Case, Mich. 30 Eliz. C.B. p. 198 C. 251 Sackfords' Case, Hill. 30 Eliz. B. R. p. 207. C. 267 Stretton and Brown's Case, Trin. 30 El. B. R. p. 208. C. 271 Seckfords' Case, Hill. 30 Eliz. C. B. p. 223 C. 300 Scot and Scots Case, Pasch. 31 Eliz. B.R. p. 225. C. 302 Sparrey and Warfields Case, Mich. 31 Eliz. B.R. p. 233. C. 318 South and Marshes Case, Mich. 32 Eliz. Exchequer. p. 234. C. 320 The Sergeants Cases, Mich. 32 Eliz. C. B. p. 253. C 339 Sanderson and Ekins Case, Mich. 32 El. C.B. p. 258. C. 342 Sledds Case, Mich. 32 Eliz. B. R. p. 259. C. 344 T. TIndall and Cobbs Case, 7 Eliz. C.B. p. 9 C. 23 Tuttenham and bedingfield's Case, Mich. 15 Eliz. C. B. p. 24. C. 50 Tresham and Robin's Case, Mich. 17 Eliz. B. R. p. 38. C. 86 Taverner and Cromwell's Case, Trin. 26 Eliz. B. R. p. 107. C. 158 Tuker and Nortons' Case, Pasch. 26 Eliz. B.R. p. 113. C. 162 Tooley and Prestons' Case, Hill. 29 Eliz. C. B. p. 150. C. 200 Thorp and wingfield's Case, Trin. 30 Eliz. C.B. p. 203. C. 256 Town of Green in Sussex Case, Pasch. 30 Eliz. B. R. p 207. C. 268 Traps Case, Mich. 32 Eliz. B. R. p. 235. C. 321 Sir Brian Tukes Case, Mich. 32 Eliz. Exchequer. p. 241. C. 334 V. VErnon and Vernons Case, Mich. 15 Eliz. C.B. p. 28. C. 55 Vavasours Case, Mich. 15 Eliz. C. B. p. 52. C. 76 Vincent Lees Case, Trin. 26 Eliz. Exchequer. p. 110. C. 159 Venables Case, Mich. 29 Eliz. B. R. p. 185. C. 236 W. WEbster and Bradbury's Case, Pasch. 14 Eliz. C.B. p. 19 C. 45 Lord Windsor's Case, Mich. 15 Eliz. B.R. p. 35. C. 61 Wrenham and Bulmen Case, Pasch. 26 Eliz. C. B. p. 92. C. 132 Wroth and the Countess of Sussex Case, Pasch. 28 Eliz. B.R. p. 130. C. 184 Williams and Drews Case, Mich. 29 El. C.B. p. 168. C. 219 Weshborn and Mordants Case, Mich. 29 Eliz. B. R. p. 174. C. 225 Williams and Linkfords' Case, Trin. 29 Eliz. B.R. p. 177. C. 229 Welcot and powel's Case, Pasch. 30 El. B.R. p. 206. C. 263 Wigmore and Wells Case, Pasch. 30 El. B. R. p. 206. C. 264 Willoughbies Case, Trin. 30 Eliz. B. R. p. 216. C. 285 Wood and Pains Case, Trin. 31 El. B.R. p. 228. C. 306 Sir Walter waller's Case, Trin. 32 Eliz. Exchequer. p. 241. C. 333. p. 259 C. 345 Woodward and Baggs Case, Hill. 32 El. B. R. p. 257. C. 341 Witherington and Delabars Case, Mich. 33 Eliz. B. R p. 268. C. 360 Y. YOung and ashburnham's Case, Hill. 29 Eliz. C. B. p. 161. C. 210 Yates Case, Trin. 31 Eliz. B.R. p. 231 C. 312 THE THIRD PART OF THE REPORTS OF Several Excellent Cases, Argued and Adjudged in the several COURTS of LAW at Westminster. In the Time of the Late Queen ELIZ. From the First, to the Five and Thirtieth Year of her Reign. In the Time of Edw. the Sixth. I. 6 Edw. 6. In the Common Pleas. A Man had a Warrren in Fee extending into three Towns, Benlow's Rep. 12. Owen Rep. 10. 1 And. 26. 13 Co. 57 1 Inst. 148. a. 7 Co. 23. b. Goldb. 44. and Leased the same by Deed to another, rendering Rent; And afterwards granted by Deed the Reversion of the whole Warren in one of the said Towns to another, and the Lessee attorned; It was holden by all the justices in the Common Pleas, That neither the Grantor, nor the Grantee, should have any part of the Rent during the same Term, Because no such Contract can be apportioned. II. 6 Edw. 6. In the Common Pleas. A Man by Deed Indented, 1 And. 27. Bargained and sold Land unto another in Fee; and Covenanted by the same Deed, to make to him a good and sufficient Estate in the said Land before Christmas next; And afterwards before Christmas, the Bargainor acknowledged the Deed, and the same is enroled: It was the Opinion of all the justices of the Common Pleas, That by that Act, the Covenant aforesaid was not performed: For the Bargainor in performance of the same, aught to have levied a Fine, made a Feoffment, or done other such Acts. III. 6 Edw. 6. In the Common Pleas. 1 And. 32. IN Dower, the Tenant made default at the Summons; and now at the Grand Cape, he came and said, That he could not come, because he was in great infirmity at the time of the Summons, so as he could not appear. It was the Opinion of the whole Court, That that matter should not save his Default, because it cannot be tried, as creit de Eve, and Imprisonment may be. iv 6 Edw. 6. In the Common Pleas. 1 And. 32. DEbt against Executors, who pleaded, Riens enter Maynes; which was found against them. The Plaintiff sued forth a Writ of Execution: Upon which the Sheriff returned, Nulla bona Testatoris, within the County: It was the Opinion of the Court, That the same was a good return, for it may stand with the Verdict; for it may be that they have Assets in another County. See 3 H. 6. 11. Where the return is general, Quod non habent Executores aliqua bona Testatoris, that it was holden insufficient, but here in this Case the return is special; scil. in the same County. In the Time of Queen Mary. V 1 and 2 Philip and Mary. In the Common Pleas. 1 And. 31. TEnant in tail had Issue two Sons, and enfeoffed his younger Son, and died: The younger Son died without Issue, leaving his Wife priviment ensient with a Son; the elder Brother entered: It was holden in this Case, That he was Remitted; and although that afterwards the Son was born; yet the same should not avoid the Remitter. VI Stapleton and Truelocks Case. Mich. 1 and 2 Phil. and Mary. More Rep. 11. WIlliam Stapleton, Executor of John Scardenyll, brought an Action of Debt against John Truelock, Administrator of the Goods of William Truelock, who died Intestate, upon a Bill sealed. The Defendant demanded Oyer of the Testament: By which it appeared, That the said Scardenyll had made the Plaintiff, and the said William Truelock his Executors: And in the said Will was this Clause; I Will, That my Friend William Truelock shall pay to my other Executor all such debts as he oweth me, before he shall meddle with any thing of this my Will, or take any Advantage of this my Will for the discharge of the same debts, for that I have made him one of my Executors. And upon this matter, It was clearly Resolved, that the said William Truelock could not Adminster, nor be Executor before he had paid the debts. And the Defendant said, That the said William Truelock in his life had paid unto his Co-Executors all such debts which in vita sua debuit to the said Scardenyll; And also, that the said William Truelock in his life time had Administered the Goods of Scardenyll, with his Co-Executors. And in this Case, judgement was given for the Plaintiff, and that for default of pleading: For the Defendant ought to have showed Acquittances of the payment of the debts to his Co-Executors; and also aught to have showed in Certainty, what debts they were. VII. Hecks and Tirrell's Case. 3 and 4 Phil. and Mary. DEbt by Hecks and Harrison against Tirrell as Heir; Who pleaded, Nothing by Descent. The Plaintiff Replied, 1 And. 28. Assets at such a place within the Cinque-Ports. And so it was found by a jury of the County adjoining, and judgement given of the moiety of his Lands, aswell those by descent, as by purchase: And a Writ awarded to the Constable of Dover, to extend the Lands within the Cinque-Ports. But it was said, That first the Plaintiff ought to have a Certiorari to send the Record into the Chancery, and from thence by Mittimus to the Constable of Dover. VIII. The King and Due and Kirleys Case. 4 and 5 Phil. and Mary. THe King and Queen brought a Writ of Deceit against Due and Kirley; and declared, More Rep. 13 That one coley was seized of certain Lands in Fee, and held the same of the King and Queen as of their Manor of Westbury; the which Manor is Ancient Demesne: and so seized, levies a Fine thereof to the said Due, Sur Conusans de Droit come ceo, etc. Due rendered the Land to coley for life, the Remainder over to Kirley in Fee: coley died; Kirley entered as in his Remainder. Kirley pleaded, That the Land whereof, etc. is Frank▪ Fee, etc. Upon which, they are at Issue: Which Issue depending, and not tried, Due died. It was moved in this Case, That the Writ might abate. But that was denied by the Court. For this Action is but Trespass in its nature for to punish this Deceit; and no Land is to be recovered, but only the Fine Reversed. IX. Eliot and Nutcombs Case. Mich. 4 and 5 Phil. and Mary. In the Common Pleas. 1 And. 27. THe Case was, That the Bishop of Exeter leased certain Lands in the County of Devon for years, rendering Rend payable in Exeter aforesaid, with Clause of Reentry; and the Bishop of Exeter had a Palace in Exeter aforesaid: It was the Opinion of the justices in this Case, That the Rent ought to be demanded at the said Palace, and not elsewhere: And if that the Lessee come to the Common Gate of the said Palace, and there tender the Rent, it is a good tender without more, be the Gate shut or open, notwithstanding that the Bishop be within the Palace, and that neither he nor any of his Servants be at the Gate for to receive it: for the Lessee is not tied to open the Gate of the Palace, if it be shut; nor to enter into the Palace, if it be open. X. Mich. 4 and 5 Phil. and Mary. In the Common Pleas. COpyhold Land was surrendered to the use of the Wife for life, the remainder to the use of the right Heirs of the Husband and Wife: The Husband entered in the right of his Wife: It was the Opinion of the justices in this Case, That the remainder was executed for a Moiety presently in the Wife, and the Husband of that was seized in the right his Wife; and, the Wife dying first, that her Heir should have it: 1 Roll. Lane and Pannel's Case. But if the Husband had died first, his Heir should have had one Moiety. XI. Joscelin and Sheltons' Case. Mich. 4 and 5 Phil. and Mary. In the Common Pleas. More Rep. 13. IN an Action upon the Case, the Plaintiff declared, That the Defendant in Consideration that the Son of the Plaintiff would marry the Daughter of the Defendant, assumed and promised to pay to him 400 Marks in 7 years' next ensuing, by such portions. And upon Non Assumpsit pleaded, It was found for the Plaintiff. It was Objected in Arrest of judgement, That one of the said 7 years was not incurred at the time of the Action brought, etc. and that appeared upon the Declaration, so as the Plaintiff had not cause of Action for the whole Money promised. And for that cause, the Writ was abated by the Court by award, although it was after Verdict. See Br. Title, Action upon the Case, 108. XII. 2 and 3 Phil. and Mary. In the Common Pleas. IN an Assize against 4. they were at Issue upon Nul Tenant del Franktenement nosme en le brief. And it was found by the Assize, That two of them were Disseisors, and two Tenants: And after Verdict, and before judgement, one of those who were found Tenants, died; And that was moved in Arrest of judgement: But it was not allowed of by the Court, Because the parties had not day in Court to plead it. But it was said, That after judgement given, a Writ of Error lieth. In the Time of Queen Elizabeth. XIII. Canon's Case. 1 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. UPon an Evidence to a jury in the Common-Pleas; 1 Roll. 839. Upon an Issue there, this Deed was given in Evidence, viz. Sciant praesentes & futuri, Quod Ego Richardus Canon, filius & haeres Richandi Canon, Dedi, Concessi, & hac praesenti carta mea Confirmavi Willielmo Compton Militi, Omnia Terr. Tenementa, etc. ad usum mei praed. Richardi & Joannae uxoris meae pro termino vitae absque impetitione Vasti, ac etiam rectorum haered. mei praefat. Richardi, & assignatorum meorum post decessum mei praefat. Richardi & Joannae uxoris meae; Et si contingat me praefat. Richardum obire sine exitu de Corpore meo procreato, Tunc Volo, quod omnia dict. Terr. & Tenementa remaneant Tho. fratri meo & rectis haeredibus de Corpore suo procreatis, & haeredib. & assignat. eorum. And it was the Opinion of the justices, That a good Estate tail was by that Deed limited to the said Richard in use, after the death of his Wife. XIV. Holt and Ropers Case. 2 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Replevin by Holt against Roper, the Case was: J. Abbot of W. Leased to T.M. Knight, a Close of Land in B. for 44 years, Post. 242. 243. who thereof possessed, was attainted of misprision of Treason, and so forfeited to the King, who seized the same: The Abbot and his Covent surrendered, 31 H. 8. the King Leased the same to Roper for 21 years, and died: King Ed. 6th in the fourth year of his Reign, Leased the same to one Philips, To have and to hold, after the Term to T.M. ended, for 21 years: Roper surrendered to Queen Mary, who Leased the same again to Roper for 30 years. In this Case, It was adjudged, That the Lease made to Phillips, was utterly void, for that the King was deceived in his Grant; For the Lease made to F.M. was long time before determined by extinguishment in the Person of the King, who had it by forfeiture upon the Attainder of T.M. and the Statute of 1 E. 6. Cap. 8. shall not help that Lease (notwithstanding the Non-recital, or Mis-recital of Leases made before:) For here is not matter of recital, but matter of Estate and Interest, which is not well limited for the Commencement of it, i. the Lease to Phillips; For there is not any certainty of the Commencement of it: For that Lease cannot begin after the Surrender of Roper, for the words of the Limitation of the beginning of it, cannot serve to such Construction. XV. 2 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A Term for years is devised to A. The Executors of the Devisor entered into the Land devised to the use of the Devisee; It was the Opinion of the Court, That the same was a sufficient possession to the Devisee. XVI. 3 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. TWo Coparceners were of a Reversion, the one of them granted his Interest in it by Fine to another; It was holden in that Case, That the Conusee should have a Quid juris clamat for a Moiety of the said Reversion. XVII. Mich. 4 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Lessor mortgaged his Reversion in Fee, to the Lessee for years, and at the day of Mortgage for payment of the Money, he paid the Money; It was holden in this Case, That the Lease for years was not revived, but utterly extinct. XVIII. Mich. 4 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. J.N. Cestuy que use in tail, 14 H. 8. by Indenture between him on the one part, and J.S. of the other part, In Consideration of a Marriage between his Son and Heir apparent, and Joan Daughter of the said J.S. to be had, Covenanted with the said J.S. That neither he, nor any of the Feoffees seized to his use, have made, or hereafter shall make any Estate, Release, Grant of Rent, levy any Fine, or do any other Encumbrance whatsoever of any of his Manors, Lands, etc. But that all the said Manors, etc. shall immediately descend or remain to his said Son, and the Heirs of his Body, after the decease of the said J.N. It was the clear Opinion of all the justices in this Case, That by the said Indenture, No use is changed in I N. nor any use raised to the said Son and Heir; but that it is only a bare Covenant. XIX. Andrews and Glover's Case. Trin. 4 Eliz. Rott. 1622. IN Trespass by Andrews against Glover, The Lady Mary Dacres being seized of the Manor of Cowdam, by her Indenture bargained and sold to the said Andrews, all those her Woods, More Rep. 15. Post. 29. Winch. Rep. 5. Vnderwoods', and Hedge-Rowes, as have been accustomably used to be felled and sold, standing, growing, being in, upon, and within the Manor of Cowdam, etc. To have and to hold, etc. from the Feast of S. Michael last passed, during the natural life of the said Lady Mary: And the said Andrews for himself, his Heirs and Assigns, doth Covenant and Grant, to and with the said Lady, her Executors, etc. to content and pay, or cause to be contented and paid to the said Lady, her Executors, etc. yearly during the said Term, 10 l. By force of which Grant, he cuts down all and singular the Trees, Woods, and Vnderwoods' in the aforesaid Manor growing at the time of the making of the Indenture aforesaid. And afterwards the said Lady by her servants, felled all the other Woods and Vnderwoods' growing in the same Manor, after the said felling made by the said Andrews: Whereupon Andrews bringeth Trespass. And the Opinion of the Court was clear, That after the Bargainee had once felled, that he should never after fell in the same place where the first felling was made, by force of the said Grant, notwithstanding the Rent yearly reserved, and notwithstanding the words of the Grant, viz. To have and to hold, during the life of the said Dame Mary. Wherefore the said Andrews durst not Demur, etc. XX. 6 Eliz. In the King's Bench. THe Case was; A. is bounden to B. in an Obligation to pay to B. 20 l. at the Feast of our Lady, without limiting in Certain, what Lady-Day, viz. the Conception, Nativity, or Annunciation; And the Opinion of the whole Court was, That the Deed should be construed to intent such Lady-Day, which should next happen and follow the date of the said Obligation. XXI. Scarning and Criers Case. Mich. 7 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Rott. 1851. IN a Second Deliverance by Scarning against Cryer, the Defendant makes Conusans as Bailiff to J.S. and showeth, More Rep. 75 That the said J.S. and at the time of the taking, etc. was Lord of the Manor of A. Within which Manor, there was this Custom time out of mind, etc. That the Tenants of that Manor and other Resiants and Inhabitants within the said Manor, or the greater part of them at the Court-Baron of the said Manor, at the Manor aforesaid holden, were used and accustomed to make Laws, and impose Pains as well upon the Resiants and Inhabitants within that Manor, and the Tenants of the said Manor there being; as upon every Occupier of any Tenements within the said Manor, for good government there to be had and kept, and for the preservation of the Corn and Grass there growing: And that the said J.S. and all those whose Estate, etc. distringere consueverunt pro omnibus poenis sic forisfact. & per Juratores Curiae praed. ex assensu dictor. Tenent. Inhabitant. & residentium ibid. in forma praedict. assessis & impositis; tam super quibuscunque tenent. Manner. praedict. aut inhabitantibus aut residentibus infra Manner. illud, quam super occupatoribus aliquor. Tenementor. infra idem Maner': And further said, That at a Court-Baron there holden, That Coram Sectatoribus ejusdem Curiae, by the Homage of the said Court then charged to present, with the assent of other Tenants and Inhabitants of the said Manor, it was Ordained and Established, That no Tenant of the Manor aforesaid, nor any of the Resiants or Inhabitants within the said Manor, nor any Occupier of any Tenements within the said Manor from thenceforth, should keep his within the several Fields of that Manor by By-herds, nor should put any of their Oxen, called Draught-oxens, there before the Feast of St. Peter, upon pain, Quod quilibet tenens residens, etc. should forfeit 20 s. And further said, That the Plaintiff, at the time, etc. Occupied and had such a Tenement within the said Manor; And that at such a Court afterwards holden, viz. such a day, It was presented, that the Plaintiff Custodivit boves suos, called Draught-oxens, within the several Fields by By-herds, contrary to the Order aforesaid, by which, the penalty of 20 s. aforesaid, was forfeited, Notwithstanding the said pain de gratia Curiae illius per quosd. A. & E. afferratores Curiae illius ad hoc jurat. assess. & afferrat. fuit ad 6 s. 8 d. And further he said, That the place in which the taking, etc. is within the Manor aforesaid; And that A. B. Steward of the said Manor extraxit in scriptis extra Rotulis Curiae praed. the said pain of 6 s. 8 d. and delivered the same to the Defendant, Bailiff of the said Manor, to Collect and Receive; by force of which, he required the said 6 s. 8 d. of the Plaintiff, and he refused to pay it; and so avoweth the taking, etc. And upon this Conusans of the Defendant, the Plaintiff did Demur in Law: And judgement was given against the Conusans, 1. Because he pleaded, That it was presented Coram Sectatoribus, and doth not show their Names. 2. The penalty appointed by the By-Law, was 20 s. and he showeth, it was abridged to 6 s. 8 d. and so the penalty demanded, and for which the Distress was taken, is not maintained by the By-Law; and a pain certain ought not to be altered. 3. He showeth, that it was presented, that the Plaintiff had kept his Draught-oxens; and he ought to have alleged the same in matter in fact, that he did keep, etc. XXII. Dedicots Case. 7 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. DEdicot seized of certain Customary Lands, Dyer 210, 251. Hob. 285. surrendered the same into the hands of the Lord, to the intent that the Lord should grant the same de Novo to the same Dedicot for life, and afterwards to Jane his Wife, during the Nonage of the Son and Heir of Dedicot; and afterwards to the said Son and Heir in tail, etc. Dedicot died before any new Grant: Afterwards, the Lord granted the said Land to the Wife, during the Nonage of the said Heir, the remainder to the Heir in tail, the Heir at that time being but of the age of 5 years; so as the said Wife by force of the said Surrender and Admittance, was to have the said Lands for 16 years: The Wife took another Husband, and died; And it was the Opinion of Brown and Dyer, justices, That the Husband should have the Lands during the Nonage of the Enfant; Hob. Rep. 281. for the Wife had her said Estate to her own use, and then her Husband surviving her, should have it, and that without any admittance, for that he is not in of any new Estate, but in the Estate of his Wife as Assignee. And it was said by them, That if a Copyholder be for years, and maketh his Executors, and dieth, that the Executors should have the Term, Co. Case of Copyholders. and that without any Admittance: Weston, contrary in that case, as to the Executors. XXIII. tindal and Cobbs Case. 7 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. WAste was brought by tindal, Knight, against Jeoffery Cobbe Esquire; and the Plaintiff declared of a Demise of the moiety of the Manor of Wolverton; and of the moiety of a Wood called Wolverton-Wood. The Defendant pleaded, That Robert Winckfield before the Waste supposed, was seized of and in tertia parte alterius Medietatis of the said Manor, and of and in tertia parte alterius Medietatis of the aforesaid Wood, and held the same insimul & pro indiviso with the Plaintiff; and that the said Robert Winckfield, by his Deed, sold to the Defendant omnes & omnimodas arbores & subboscos suos crescent. in praedict. tertia parte alterius medietatis praedicti bosci ad libitum ipsius Galfridi succidend. and so justified the cutting down of 300 Oaks, in which the Waste is assigned; with this, that he will aver, That the aforesaid 300 Oaks were the third part only in numero & precio medietatis omnium arbour. & subboscorum at the said time when the Waste is supposed to be done; and demanded judgement, if Action: And divers Exceptions were taken to the Count: 1. He showeth, Vaugh. Rep. 175. that the Demise of the moiety of the Manor was per nomen, etc. and doth not show, that the demise was by writing; and if not, than he cannot plead it by a per Nomen. 2. The Waste is assigned in digging of Clay in 100 Acres of Lands, parcel Medietatis Manner. de Wolverton, and hath not showed in what Town the Land is: For he hath showed before, the Demise of the moiety of the Manor of Wolverton in Wolverton. 3. He shows the Demise of the moiety of the Manor of Wolverton, and of other Lands, and assigns the Waste in cutting down Oaks in quodam bosco vocat. Wolverton Wood, parcel praemissorum; and that cannot be: for this Wood cannot be parcel of the Manor of Wolverton, and of the other Lands also. And for these Causes, the Count by the whole Court was holden to be insufficient. XXIV. Stamfords' Case. 7 Eliz. Dyer. In the Common Pleas HUgh Stamford, seized in Fee, had Issue A. his eldest Son, and B. his younger Son: A. had Issue George and Elizabeth by divers Women; Hugh made a Feoffment in Fee to the use of himself for life, and afterwards to the use of George in tail, and afterwards to the use of A. in tail, and afterwards to the use of the right Heirs of Hugh: Hugh dieth; A. dieth; George levieth a Fine to the use of himself in tail, the remainder over to B. in Fee, and dyeth without Issue: It was holden by Bendloes, carel, Kelloway, both the Bromley's, and Kingsmill, That Elizabeth is barred by this Fine, by the Statute of 4 H. 7. & 32 H. 8. XXV. 7 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was this; Grandfather, Father, and Son: Lands are given to the Grandfather for life, the remainder to the Son in tail; The Grandfather and Father join in a Feoffment with warranty; The Feoffee makes a Lease for years, and afterwards conveys the Land to the Grandfather for life, the remainder to the Father in Fee: The Grandfather and Father die; The Son entereth, and puts out the Lessee: Weston was of Opinion, That the Entry of the Son was lawful; for it was the Feoffment of the Grandfather, and the Confirmation of the Father, and the Warranty of the Grandfather collateral to the Father and his Estate: but when the Land is re-assured, as above is said, and afterwards the Son entereth after the death of the Grandfather and Father, now he is remitted, and the warranty gone, by taking back the Estate: and the Son is now seized of as high an Estate as his Ancestor was at the time that he departed with the Land, by which the warranty is determined. Dyer, contrary: Here had not been any discontinuance, if the warranty had not been; for the Father was never seized by force of the entail; And I conceive, that against a warranty collateral, one cannot be remitted; for it binds the Right, as a Fine with Proclamation, after the Statute of 4 H. 7. And I conceive, that during the possession of the Grandfather, the Warranty is but suspended, and not determined: and although that by the death of the Grandfather it be determined; yet having respect to the Lessee, it is in being; for his Estate is derived out of the Estate which was warranted, and which descends with the Warranty. Bendloes, One cannot make Title by a Collateral Warranty only, etc. XXVI. Simonds Case. 8 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Formedom, the Tenant vouched Rose Simonds as Daughter and Heir of Henry Simonds, Clerk; and because she was within age, he prayed that the Parol might demur. Bendloes recited the Case to be this; A Fine was levied of the Lands to Henry Simonds, upon Condition, etc. who rendered back the Land to the Conusor by the same Fine; and that the said Henry Simonds never had any possession, or seisin, but that which he had mean between the Conusans, and the Rendee; of which possession the Wife should not be endowed: And therefore it is a good Counter-plea to say, That the said Rose, nor any of her Ancestors, etc. for that was not such a Seisin upon which Warranty might rise; and so if a Feoffment in Fee had been made to the said Henry Simonds to the use of another: And of that Opinion, was Dyer, justice; for Henry Simonds had not any possession by force of which he might be vouched. Welsh, contrary; For the Fine imports in itself, that he hath a Fee, and that he hath granted and rendered the same Fee, and this Fine amounts to a Feoffment. Dyer said to Bendloes, The best way for you, is to plead the Counter-plea generally; and if he estop you by the Fine, to demur upon it. Afterwards, Bendloes moved another matter, viz. Henry Simonds was a Priest, and therefore Rose is a Bastard; and if so, than she cannot be vouched as Heir: But I would not trust the Bishop to Certify the Bastardy, if I should plead it generally, and therefore I will plead the special matter, and so it shall be tried by the Country. Dyer and Welsh, So you may do, if you please; and yet if you plead general Bastardy, it shall be tried by the Country; for Rose is not a party to the Writ; and in such case, Bastardy shall be tried by the Country. XXVII. Mich. 8 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. NOte; It was said by Dyer and Brown, justices, That if a Man deviseth by his Will to his Son, a Manor 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 joint-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 joint-tenants. XXVIII. Drew Barrentines Case. Mich. 8 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was; Drew Barrentine and Winifred his Wife, were seized of the Manor of Barrentine, which is Ancient Demesne, and holden of the Lord Rich, as of his Manor of Hatfield, levy a Fine thereof Sur Conusans de droit, etc. by which Fine the Conusee rendereth the said Manor to the said Drew and Winifred in special tail, the Remainder to Winifred in tail, the remainder to the Countess of Huntingdon 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 Manor, might reverse this Fine by a Writ of Deceit, and so Recontinue his signory: 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, justice, 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, Deceit doth not lie. If the Tenant in Ancient Demesne levieth a Fine, and afterwards the Lord Paramount, who is Lord of the Manor, doth release to the Conusee, and afterwards the Lord of the Manor brings a Writ of Deceit, 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 Deceit 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 gins 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 Duchy Chamber, That whereas King Edw. the 6th, under the Seal of the Duchy, had demised Firmam omnium tenentium at Will Manerii sui de S. That nothing but the Rent passed, and not the Land; for Firma, signifies Rend; 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, etc. for that here is not any certainty; For sometimes (Firma) signifies Land, sometimes Rend. 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 moiety; 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 seized of a House in D. and Leased the same to the Plaintiff for life; And that the said Duke, and all those whose Estate, etc. have used time out of mind, etc. 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 Assize, because that the Freehold of the House is in the Plaintiff; and also the Freehold of the Land over which, etc. is in the Defendant: But if the Plaintiff or Defendant had but an Estate for years, etc. then an Action upon the Case would lie, and not an Assize: All which was granted by the Court. Post. 263. It was also holden, That this word▪ Obstupavit, was sufficient in itself; scil. without showing the special matter how; as by setting up any Gate, Hedge or Ditch, etc. for Obstupavit implies a Nusans continued, and not a personal disturbance, as a Forestaller, or in saying to the Plaintiff upon the Land, etc. 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 alleged: 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, etc. XXXII. Stowell and the Earl of hertford's 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 abate; For the Writ shall be brought by the Heir of the Survivor of the said two Daughters, because they have that remainder as purchasers. XXXIII. Stuckly and Sir John Thynns Case. Mich: 9 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THo. Stuckly; Administrator of the Goods and Chattels of one Tho. Curties, Alderman of London, brought Debt upon an Obligation, against Sir John Thynn, and demanded of him 1000 l. Et modo ad hunc diem venerunt, Tam praefatus Tho. Stucklie, quam praedict. Johannes Thynn; Et super hoc, dies datus est usque Oct. etc. in statu quonunc, etc. salvis, etc. At which day, the Defendant made default, and thereupon the Plaintiff prayed his judgement against the Defendant. But the Opinion of the Court was, That he could not have it; but was put to process over, because Dies Datus, is not so strong as a Continuance. XXXIV. Luke and Eves Case. Pasch. 10 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Replevin by Luke against Eve, The Defendant Avowed, because that the jury at such a Leet did present, That the Plaintiff was a Resiant within the Precinct of the said Leet, etc. and that the Plaintiff was warned to appear there, and notwithstanding that made default: For which he was Amerced by the Steward there to 5 s. And so for that Amercement, he avowed the taking, etc. The Plaintiff in bar of the Avowry, pleaded, That at the time of the said Leet holden, he was not a Resiant within the Precinct of the said Leet: Upon which they were at Issue; And it was found for the Avowant. Whereupon judgement was given for the Avowant to have a return. XXXV. Mich. 14 Eliz. Rott. 1120. In the Common Pleas. THe Abbot and Covent of York, Leased to J.S. certain Lands at Will; and afterwards by Deed Indented under their Covent Seal, reciting, That whereas J.S. held of them certain Lands at Will, they granted and demised that Land to the said J.S. to hold for life, rendering the ancient Rent; And by the same Indenture granted the Reversion of the same Land to a stranger for life: It was holden by the Court clear, That an Estate for life accrueth unto J.S. by way of Confirmation, and the remainder unto the stranger depending upon the Estate created by the Confirmation▪ XXXVI. Sir Francis carew's Case. Mich. 14 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. SIr Nicholas Carew, seized of the Manor of A. of which Manor B. held certain Lands; B. is disseissed by C. C. assures the same to Sir Nicholas Carew, who is attainted of Treason; by which Attainder, the Manor and Land cometh to King Henry 8th who thereof dieth seized, and the same descends to King Edward the 6th, who grants the same Manor to the Lord Darcy, who grants the same to Queen Mary, who grants the same to Francis Carew, Son of Nicholas Carew, who by Fine assures the same to the Lord Darcy; the Proclamations pass, and the 5 years' pass; she who hath right to the Lands whereof the Desseisin was made, being for all that time a Feme Covert; And therefore the Fine did not bar her: But because that the King was entitled to the Land by a double matter of Record, and by the descent from Hen. the 8th, to Ed. the 6th; And also because a signory is reserved to the King upon the Grant made by King Edward the 6th, to the Lord Darcy; The justices were all of Opinion, That the Entry of the Heir of the Disseisee was not lawful upon the Patentee of the Queen, 2 Len. 122. but that she ought to be Relieved by way of Petition. XXXVII. Mich. 14 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A Man brought an Action of Trespass against another, for chase of his Ewes being great with Lambs, so as by such driving of them, he lost his Lambs. The Defendant justified, because they were in his several Damage-feasans; wherefore he took them, and drove them to the Pound: And it was holden by the whole Court, to be no Plea: for, although that he might take; yet, he cannot drive them with peril, etc. XXXVIII. Mich. 14 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. More Rep. 16, 23. THe Case was; A. made a Lease to B. for life, and further grants unto him, That it shall be lawful for him to take Fuel upon the premises; Proviso, That he do not cut any great Trees: It was holden by the Court, That if the Lessee cutteth any great Trees, that he shall be punished in Waste: but in such case, 1 Len. 117. the Lessor shall not re-enter, because that Proviso is not a Condition, but only a Declaration and Exposition of the Extent of the Grant of the Lessor in that behalf. And it was holden also by the Court, That Lessee for life, or for years, by the Common Law, cannot take Fuel but of Bushes and small wood, and not of Timber-Trees. But if the Lessor in his Lease granteth Fireboot expressly, if the Lessee cannot have sufficient Fuel, as above, etc. he may take great Trees. XXXIX. Mich. 14 Eliz. In the King's Bench. 2 Roll. 787. IN Trespass, upon an Evidence given to the jury at the Bar, the Case appeared to be thus; Land was given to A. in tail, the remainder in Fee to his Sisters, being his Heirs at the Common Law: A. made a Deed in this manner; viz. I the said A. have given, granted, and confirmed, for a certain piece of Money, etc. without the words of Bargained, Sold: And the Habendum was to the Feoffee with warranty against A. and his Heirs; And a Letter of Attorney was to make Livery and Seisin: And the Deed was in this manner, To all Christian People, etc. And the Deed was enroled within one month after the making of it; And the Deed was Indented, although that the words of the Deed, were in the form of a Deed Poll: And after 4 months after the delivery of the Deed, the Attorney made Livery of Seisin. A. died without Issue, and the Sisters entered, and the Feoffee ousted them of the Land; and thereupon they brought an Action of Trespass: And the Opinion of the whole Court, was for the Plaintiff; for here is not any Discontinuance, for the Conveyance is by Bargain and Sale, and not by Feoffment, because the Livery comes too late after the enrolment, and then the Warranty shall not hurt them: And although that in the Deed there be not any word of Indenture, and also that the words are in the first person; Yet in as much as the Parchment is Indented, 2 Roll. 787. and both the parties have put their Seals to it, it is sufficient. Also, It was clearly agreed by the Court, That the words, Give for Money, Grant for Money, Confirm for Money, Agree for Money, Covenant for Money, If the Deed be duly Enrolled, that the Lands pass both by the Statute of Uses, and by the Statute of inrolments, as well as upon the words of Bargain and Sale. And by Catline, Wray, and Whiddon, the party ought to take by way of Bargain and Sale, and he hath not election to take the Land by way of Livery: But when all is in one Deed, and takes effect equally together, in such case the Grantee hath Election; but here in this Case, the Bargain and Sale (the Deed being Enrolled) doth prevent the Livery, and taketh his full effect before. And by Wray and Catline, If he in the Reversion upon a Lease for years, grants his Reversion to his Lessee for years by words of Dedi, Concessi, Feoffavi, and a Letter of Attorney is made to make Livery and Seisin, the Donee cannot take by the Livery, for that the Lessee hath the Reversion presently. XL. Mich. 14 Eliz. IN an Ejectione Firmae, the Case upon Evidence appeared to be thus; The Bishop of Rochester, Anno 4 E. 6. Leased to B. for years rendering Rent; and afterwards, granted the Reversion to C. for 99 years, rendering the ancient Rent, To have 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 for default of Attornment, It was holden by the whole Court, That the Lease was void; for it is made by way of grant of a 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 former Lease determined. And as to the Attornment, it was given in Evidence, That B. after the notice of the Grant to C. spoke with C. to have a new Lease from him, because he had in his Farm but 8 years to come, but they could not agree upon the price; And the justices were of Opinion, That that was an Attornment, because he had admitted the said C. to have power to make a new Lease unto him. Also the said B. being in Company with one R. seeing the said C. coming towards him, said to the said R. See my Landlord; meaning the said C. Bromley, Solicitor, That is no Attornment, being spoken to a stranger. Barham, contrary, because he was present. And it was held by the whole Court, to be a good Attornment. But it was holden, That if the Attornment was not before that the Bishop was translated to Winchester, That the Lease should be void: and although that the Confirmation of the Dean and Chapter was before the Attornment, so as no Estate had vested in C. yet it is good enough; for the assent of the Dean and Chapter is sufficient, whether it be before or after; by Catline, Southcote, and Whiddon: Wray, contrary. XLI. Mich. 14 Eliz. THe King seized of a Manor to which an Advowson is appendent, a Stranger presents, and his Clerk is in by 6 months; The King grants the Manor, with all Advowsons' appendent to it, to B. The Incumbent dieth, The Grantee may present; For the Advowson was always appendent, and the Inheritance thereof passeth to the Grantee, and is not made disappendant by the usurpation, as in the case of a common person, for the King cannot be put out of possession. But the Patentee shall not have a Quare Imped. of the first disturbance, for that presentment doth not pass to him, being a thing in Action, without mention of it in his Grant. And if the Patentee bringeth a Quare Impedit of the second Avoidance, he shall make his Title by the presentment of the King, not making mention of the usurpation; yet if the Bishop presenteth for Lapse in the case of a common person, he ought to make mention of it; for that is his Title to the Presentment, etc. XLII. Humphrey and Humfrey's Case. Mich. 14 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. BEtween Humphrey and Humphrey, the Case was, That the Defendant in Debt after judgement aliened his Land; and the Plaintiff sued forth Execution upon the new Statute: And the Court of the Request awarded him to the Fleet, because that he sued forth Execution. Whereupon the justices of the Common Pleas awarded a Habeas Corpus, and discharged the Plaintiff. It was said by Bendloes, Serjeant, That the Chancery after judgement could not enjoin the party that he shall not sue forth Execution; for if they do, the party shall have his remedy as above. XLIII. Mich. 14 Eliz. In the King's Bench. A Man seized of Copyhold Lands, Deviseth a certain parcel of them to his Wife for life, the remainder to his Brother and his Heirs; And afterwards in the presence of 3 persons of the Court, said to them, I have made my Will, and I have appointed all things in my Will as I will have it. And afterwards he said, And here, I surrender all my Copyhold Lands into your hands accordingly. And it was moved, If all his Copyhold Lands should be to his Wife, or by those which were specified in the Will. And the Opinion of the whole Court was, That the Surrender is restrained by the Will, so as no more passeth to the Wife upon the whole matter, but that which is mentioned in the Will; and the general words shall not enlarge the matter. XLIV. Hill. 14 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. LAnds were devised to the Mayor, Chamberlain, and Governors of the Hospital of St. Bartholomew in London, whereas in truth, they are Incorporated by another name, yet the Devise is good, by Weston and Dyer; which Manwood also granted, because it shall be taken according to the intent of the Devisor: And it was said by Weston, If Lands be devised to A. eldest Son of B. although that his name be W. yet the Devise to him is good, because there is sufficient certainty, etc. XLV. Pasch. 14 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was; A. seized of Lands, deviseth the same to his Wife for life, the remainder to his three younger Sons, and to the Heirs of their bodies begotten, equally to be divided amongst them by even portions; and if one of them die, than the other two which survive, shall be next Heirs. The Devisor dieth, One of the Sons dieth; and, by Dyer and Weston, justices, The 3 Brothers were Tenants in Common in remainder. But contrary it is, where such a Devise is made between them, To be divided by my Executors, etc. there they are joint-tenants, until the division is made: but here, although the words are, Equally to be divided, the same is not intended of a Division in fact and possession, but of the Interest and Title; For if a Man bringeth a Praecipe quod reddat, de una parte Manerii de D. in 7 parts to be divided, it is not intended, divided in Possession, but divided in Interest and Title. And it was said by the said justices, That although one of the Brothers dieth, the two surviving Brothers have his part by purchase, and not by descent, and they are joint-tenants of it. And this was the Case of one Webster and Katherine his Wife, the late Wife of John Bradbury. XLVI. Pasch. 14 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was; Lessee for years of the Pawnage of the Park of H. grants all his Goods and Chattels, moveables and immovables within the said Park; It was holden by Weston and Dyer, justices, That the Lease of the Pawnage passeth by these words. And it was said by Dyer, If a Man hath a Lease for years of a House, and grants all his Goods and Chattels being in the same House, that as well the Lease of the House as the Goods within it, pass by such a Grant. XLVII. Pasch. 14 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. NOte: It was said by Weston, and Bendloes, That a Retraxit cannot be before a Declaration; which Leonard and Filmer, Prothonotaries, granted: And Dyer said, That it being before a Declaration, it is but a Nonsuit; and Wheatley and Filmer affirmed the same: and therefore, it was adjudged, That such a Retraxit in the Court of Hustings before the Sheriff, is no Plea in Bar. XLVIII. Pasch. 14 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Debt brought against Christmas, who shown forth a Protection, Quia Profecturus with the Lord Hunsdon to Barwick: Dyer doubted, If the Protection did lie? But said, It should be rather Moraturus, then Profecturus: For a Protection Quia Profecturus to Calleis, was never good, but super victitation. Calicii. Harper, contrary; For Barwick is out of the Realm: And he said, That he was once of Counsel, Where a Bill was exhibited in Parliament, to make Hexham part of England: and he said, That in the time of the Queen that now is, One Car struck a Man, who thereof died at Barwick; and in an Appeal thereof, brought here by the Wife, Car was dismissed. XLIX. Cranmers' Case. Hill. 14 Eliz. Rott. 938. In the Common Pleas. Dyer 309, 310. 2 Len. 5. 1 Len. 196. 1 And. 19 More Rep. 100 Office of Executors, 118. 119. TThomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, having a Reversion in Fee of certain Lands upon a Lease for years, granted the Reversion to the use of the Grantor himself for his life; and after his decease, to the use of the Executors and Assignees of the Grantor for 20 years' next after the death of the Grantor; and after to the use of Thomas his Son in tail, and afterwards to the use of the Grantor in Fee: The Grantor is attainted of Treason, and the Queen gave the said Term of 20 years to the Wife of the Grantor, who took to Husband Ed. White-Church, who let the Land to A. Thomas the Son entered, and leased the same Land to one Kirk, who upon an Ouster, brought Ejectione Firmae. This Case was Argued by the justices; Manwood, the puisne justice, conceived, That the Plaintiff ought to be barred, and that the Lessee of White-Church, who claimed by the grant of the Queen the said Term of 20 years, aught to hold the Land against the Son of the Grantor; For the remainder limited to the Son, is not yet begun in possession. And he insisted much in his Argument upon this point, That Uses limited upon any Conveyance, are governed and directed according to the Rules of the Common Law: As if a Feoffment in Fee be made unto the use of another for life, the remainder to the use of the Lessee for life, and the Heirs of his body, etc. now the party hath an estate tail executed in possession, and that is according to the Rule of the Common Law. And he cited the Case of 40 E. 3. 20. Where Land was given by Fine to A.B. and C. and to the Heirs of the body of C. and for default of such Issue, the remainder to the right Heirs of A. C. died without Issue; B. died, and afterwards A. died; his Heir brought a Scire facias out of the said Fine: And by judgement of the Court, the Scire facias did not lie, for the Fee was vested in the Father of the Demandant, although that ex vi verbi, the remainder was limited not to the Father, but to his Heirs: But where Uses are limited in other manner than according to the Rules of the Common Law, there they shall not be ruled and governed by the Rules of the Common Law: As if Lands be given to the use of one for life, and to the use of such Lessees to whom the Tenant for life shall demise the same for years or life, rendering Rend, the remainder over to a stranger in tail, and afterwards the Tenant for life makes a Lease for years, or life, and dieth; such a Lease shall bind him in the remainder, although that the Lessor had not but for life, and be now dead: for the Use limited here to the Lessees, which would be, was limited contrary to the Rules of the Common Law. For by the Common Law, such Leases made by Tenant for life, are determined by his death: And in this Case, This Lease for 20 years, after the death of the Grantor, was limited according to the Rules of the Common Law, and therefore it shall take effect accordingly, as if it had passed in possession, and not in use, as if the Conveyance had been of the Land itself, and that Land had been granted to the Grantor for 20 years after his death, that Interest had been vested in him to sell, forfeit, or otherwise to dispose at his pleasure, and shall not accrue to the Executors as a purchase. 19 E. 2. Fitz. Covenant, 25. Land was Leased to one for life, and after his decease, to his Executors and Assigns for 10 years; the Lessee assigned the Term; And, by Herle, it is a good Assignment; For it is in the Election of the Lessee to Devise that Interest, or to assign it in his life-time. And see 39 E. 3. 25. A Lease was made to one for life, and a year over. 17 E. 3. 29. Lessee for life, so as after his death, the Land remain to his Executors for 8 years; Lessee for life died; He who had the Freehold of the Land was impleaded, who rendered the Land, and the Executors of the Lessee for life prayed to be received; scil. (where as Executors do hold the Term;) which proves, that they had the Term as Executors to the use of the Testator, and so Assets, therefore the same was before in the Lessee for life. But by Dyer, in his Argument, That Case doth not prove it, and certain●y it is not Assets; For although the Executor have the same Term by purchase, yet they have it as Executors, for that is a good name of purchase, which Harper concessit: And Manwood argued further, and he Cited 19 E. 3. Fitz. Covenant, 24. Land was let for life, and if the Lessee died within 12 years, that his Executors should hold the same until the end of the 12 years; The Lessee for life died, and the Executors entered, and the Executors of the Lessee for life brought Actions of Covenant, which proved, that the Executors had the Term as a Chatel vested in the Testator, and not in their own Rights as Purchasers, by the name of Executors. See 22 Ass. 37. Land demised to A. ad totam vitam suam; Et ulterius concessi●, that if the Lessee obierit infra 20 annos proxime sequent. the said Lessee potuit legare & dare praedict. tenementa alicui personae usque ad terminum praedict. 20 annorum, etc. and Dyer cited the Case, 16 E. 3. Quid juris clamat, 22. Land was leased to one for life, and if the Lessee died within the Term of 20 years, that his Executors or Assigns should have it until the end of the said 20 years, and a Quid juris clamat was brought against the Lessee for life without any mention of any other Estate. To which the Defendant pleaded the special matter, and demanded judgement upon that Fine, if he should be driven to Attorn, where he is supposed Tenant for life only; And it is there said, That that special matter is but a Protestation to save the Term to his Executors. And upon such a Fine, such Tenant hath been driven to Attorn: And by Dyer, If the Lessee doth not make such protestation, yet his special interest is not impaired by it; yet it is but reason that it be entered for the more manifestation of it. 32 E. 3. Quid juris clamat, 5. A Lease to W. for life, and 20 years over, he may grant the same Term or any part of it: And he cited the Case between Parker and Gravenor, 3. & 4 Mar. Dyer, 150. Where a Lease for life was made, and by the Indenture of Lease Provisum fuit, That if the Lessee died within the Term of 60 years, that then his Executors and Assigns should have and enjoy the said Lands pro termino totidem annorum, which did amount to the number of 60 years, to be accounted from the date of the Indenture. And it was the Opinion of the Court, That that was not any Lease: But they all agreed, That a Lease for years in remainder might be upon a Lease for life in the same person. See 40 E. 3. A Lease was made for life, and half a year after; the Lessee died, and Waste is brought against the Executors, supposing that the Testator held for years; and the Writ was holden good: And there it is said by Kirton, That the Executors could not have that Term, unless it were in the Testator; and there the Term is not limited to any person. And see 11 H. 4. 187. Annuity granted to one for life, and 20 years after. And 50 E. Ass. 1. A Lease for life, and 3 years over to his Executors. And then here in our Case, This Use being limited in Order, according to the Rules of the Common Law, shall vest in the Grantor to give or forfeit, and then by the Attainder it was forfeited to Queen Mary: and if so, than the Plaintiff shall be barred. Harper, justice, to the contrary; And that the Interest in the Remainder for years limited to the Executors and Assigns of the Grantor is in abeyance, and not in the Grantor, and then it cannot be forfeited: But if this Use had been limited to the Grantor himself, than all had been in him to give, etc. But here in our Case, the Remainder for years is limited and appointed to the Executors, etc. Also, Uses shall not be ruled in such manner as Lands; but the Law shall rule the possession obtained by use in another manner, than the possession obtained by the Order of the Common Law: As in the Case of Amy Townsend, Blow. Com. 111, 112. Where the Husband seized in the right of his Wife, made a Feoffment in Fee to the use of himself and his Wife for life, with divers remainders over; Now is not the Wife remitted, as she should be by Conveyance at Common La: as if the Husband discontinueth the Land in the right of his Wife, and the Discontinuee giveth the Lands to the Husband and Wife, and to a third person, she is remitted to the whole, and the third person hath not any thing. Dyer, to the same intent; And here we ought to intent and consider, That it was the purpose of Cranmer, to advance his Executors with this Term unto their own use and benefit, and not to leave the same in himself. And I do conceive, That the use is in abeyance until the Executors are made, or an Assignee appointed; for he may make an Assignee who shall have the Term: For Assignee may be made two ways, 1 By grant of an Estate which is in the Grantor before; 2 A person nominated and appointed by another to take any thing, etc. And it shall be also intended, That Cranmer was purposed to make other Provision to leave to his Executors Assets to perform his Will; and not that that Term should be applied to that purpose, for than he would have showed it in the Conveyance by words; scil. as to pay his Legacies, and perform his last Will: And the Cases put by my Brother Manwood, do not go to the Point; For I agree, Where Lands are given to one for life, the remainder for years, and doth not say to whom, it cannot be intended to any other but to the Lessee for life; or otherwise it shall be void. And also where Land is given to one for life, and for two years after to his Executors or Assigns, or Heirs, all is in the Lessee, for all is as one gift: But where it is given to one for life, and after his death, the remainder to his Executors, I do not see any reason that that remainder should be any Assets in the hands of the Executors; Or that if the Lessee dieth Intestate, that his Administrator should have it; and therefore the Executors shall have the same as a purchase: But Cranmer might have given the same, or appointed one in the mean time to receive it, and in the mean time it shall be in abeyance. Also if Lands be Leased to B. for life, the remainder for years to his Heirs, the same remainder for years is in abeyance until the death of the Lessee, and then it shall vest in the Heir as a Purchasor, and as a Chattel, and shall go to the Executor of the Heir, etc. and the Tenant for life cannot meddle with it, for it is not in him: Also, Uses shall not be raised as Lands; i. e at the Common Law, but shall be raised by the Statute, and as Uses were raised in the Chancery before the Statute. And therefore if this Conveyance had been before the Statute, he could not have compelled the Feoffees to dispose of that Interest at his pleasure, etc. And then Cranmer the Son shall have the Land by force of the entail limited unto him; For the Estate for years is gone, because no assignment of it is made, nor any Executors who can take it, and the Estate for life is determined by the death of Cranmer; and the Feoffee to an Use cannot have it, for there is not any Consideration whereof he should have any Use; for by the Limitation, nothing was left in the Feoffee: And so I conceive, that the Plaintiff shall recover. See the Case, 14 Eliz. in Dyer. L. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Tottenham and bedingfield's Case. Owen Rep. 35, 83. IN an Account by Tottenham against Bedingfield, who pleaded, That he never was his Bailiff to render account, the Case was, That the Plaintiff was possessed of a Parsonage for Term of years, and the Defendant not having any Interest, nor claiming any Title in them, took the Tithes being set forth, and severed from the 9 parts, and carried them away, and sold them. Upon which, the Plaintiff brought an Action of Account: And by Manwood, justice, the Action doth not lie, for here is not any privity; for wrongs are always done without privity: And yet I do agree, That if one doth receive my Rents, I may implead him in a Writ of Account, and then by the bringing of my Action there is privity: and although he hath received my Rent, yet he hath not done any wrong to me; for that it is not my Money until it be paid unto me, or unto another for my use, and by my Commandment: and therefore notwithstanding such his Receipt, I may resort to the Tenant of the Land, who ought to pay unto me the said Rend, and compel him to pay it to me again; and so in such case, where no wrong is done unto me, Hob. 32●. I may make a privity by my consent to have a Writ of Account: But if one disseiseth me of my Land, and taketh the profits thereof, upon that no Action of Account lieth; for it is merely a wrong. And in the principal case, so soon as the Tithes were severed by the Parishioners, there they were presently in the Plaintiff, and therefore the Defendant by the taking of them, was a wrong doer, and no Action of Account for the same lieth against him. And upon the like reason was the Case of Monox of London lately adjudged; which was, That one devised Land to another, 1 Len. 266. and died; and the Devisee entered, and held the Land devised for the space of 20 years; and afterwards for a certain cause, the Devise was adjudged void, and for that he to whom the Land descended, brought an Action of Account against the Devisee: And it was adjudged, That the Action did not lie. Harper, contrary; For here the Plaintiff may charge the Defendant as his Proctor, and it shall be no Plea for the Defendant to say, That he was not his Proctor, no more than in an Account against one who holdeth as Guardian in Socage, it is no plea for him to say, that he is not Prochein Amy to the Plaintiff. Dyer, The Action doth not lie; If an Account be brought against one as Receiver, he ought to be charged with the Receipt of the Money: and an Account doth not lie, where the party pretends to be Owner, as against an Abater or Disseisor; but if one claimeth as Bailiff, he shall be charged, and so it is of Guardian in Socage. Latch 8. And it was agreed, That if a Disseisor assign another to receive the Rents, that the Disseisee cannot have an Account against such a Receivor. LI. 15 Eliz. In the Court of Wards. NOte: That this Case was ruled in the Court of Wards; That where Tenant of the King, of Lands holden by Knight's Service in chief, made a Feoffment in Fee of the same Lands to the use of himself for life, and afterwards to the use of his younger Son in tail, the remainder to the right Heirs of the Feoffor, and died, his eldest Son within age, That the Queen should have the Wardship of his body, and of the third part of the Land; and when the eldest Son comes of full age, that the younger Son should sue Livery, and pay▪ Primer Seisin according to the rate and value of the whole Land, viz. of the third part as in possession, and of the two parts as a Reversioner: For the remainder to the right Heirs of the Feoffee, is in truth a Reversion; for the Fee simple was never out of him, because there is not any consideration as to that, nor any Use expressed. And because Livery shall not be sued by parcels, the younger Son shall not be suffered to sue Livery of the third part presently, and respite the residue as to the two parts in Reversion, until the Reversion fall; but he shall sue Livery presently as well of the two parts in reversion, as of the third part in possession: and if the eldest Son had been of full age at the time of the death of his Father, the younger Son should pay Primer Seisin as to the third part, the whole value of it for one year as in possession; and as to the two parts, the moiety of the value of a year, as of a Reversion. LII. Oliver Breers Case. 15 Eliz. In the Court of Wards. OLiver Breer, who was Tenant in Chief by Knight's Service, made a Feoffment in Fee to the use of himself for life, and afterwards to the use of A. his eldest Son and Heir for life, and after to the use of the first begotten Son of the said A. in tail; and afterwards to the use of the second Son of the said A. etc. and for default of such issue, to the use of the right Heirs of the Feoffor; Oliver died, the said A. his Son being of full age; It was holden by the Council of the Court of Wards, That he should pay for his first Primer Seisin, a third part as in possession; and two parts as a reversion. See the Case before. LIII. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the King's Bench. NOte: 1 Roll. 626▪ This Case was moved to the justices in the Court of the King's Bench: A Man had Issue two Daughters by divers Women; and being seized of Lands in Fee, he made his Will, and by the same Devised, That his Wife should have the moiety of his Lands for years, and that his eldest Daughter at the day of her Marriage, should enter into the other moiety; his eldest Daughter married and died without Issue: And the Question was, Whether her Uncle should have that moiety or the fourth part of the whole Land. Catline conceived, and said, That when the Devise which was made to the eldest Daughter, that she might enter after certain years, is not the Inheritance in her presently, and the other words void? So he said here, That it is not a purchase in the eldest Daughter, but both the Daughters should enter in Common as one Heir to their Father, until the Marriage; and then the Inheritance which was once settled in them, should not be removed. Southcote, justice, said, There are no words of Limitation of any Estate that the Daughter should have after the Marriage, and therefore the Devise was void; and if he had limited, that the Daughter after Marriage should have it for life, the Fee-simple is vested in her before, and then she cannot have it for life. And he said, That if a Lease be made to the eldest Daughter for years by the Father, and afterwards the Land descends to her and her Sister, as unto one moiety of the Land, the Lease is determined, but not as to the other moiety. Whiddon, justice, Where a Devise is for the benefit of a stranger, there the Heir shall take by the Devise, and not by descent. As if a Lease be made for years, the remainder to the Heir, there the Heir shall take the Land by the Devise. Catline, She hath it be Descent, and not by the Devise. But if he deviseth the Land to the Heir in tail, with this, That he shall pay a certain sum of Money unto another, there the Heir shall take by the Devise, for the benefit which may accrue to the stranger, and not by descent, for otherwise the Will should not be performed: But where the Estate of the Heir is altered by the Will, nor any benefit doth accrue unto another after that the Lands come to the hands of the Heir; in that case he shall have the Land by descent: And so here in this case for as much as the Devise is, That the Daughter shall enter, they both being but one Heir to their Father, shall have the Land by descent; and the words of the Will, That he shall enter into the moiety, shall be void; as, if the Devise had been to the Heir for life, there the same is void, because the Fee-simple which descendeth to her, doth drown the particular estate for life. And therefore in the principal case here, the Uncle shall have but the moiety of the moiety which is so devised, and the other Sister shall have the other moiety of the Land; and as to that moiety which is devised to the Wife for years, the same shall enure according to the Common Law, that the Uncle shall have the moiety of that; and the other Sister the other moiety. LIV. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THis Case was moved to the Court by Lovelace, Serjeant; A Man Covenants with another to make and execute an estate of such Lands as should descend to him from his Father and Grandfather by a certain day, the same Lands to be of the clear yearly value of 40 Marks: And the Question which he moved to the justices, was, That if the party had more Lands which came to him from his Grandfather and Father, than did amount to the yearly value of 40 Marks, If he was to make assurance of all the Lands, or of so much thereof only as amounted to the value of 40 Marks? And Manwood, justice, conceived, That he should make assurance of Lands only which were of the value of 40 Marks per annum: For the words (such which) do not go so largely as if he had said, All my Lands which shall descend, or to me be descended; for then the yearly value were but a demonstration, and all his Lands ought to be assured. But here the Intent of the Indenture cannot be taken otherwise, than to have but an Assurance of so much Land; as if he had said, Of such Lands and Tenements as were my Grandfathers, and Fathers, amounting to 40 Marks by the year: for there by those words, he shall have but 40 Marks by the year. Lovelace, It hath been taken, That where the Queen made a Lease of all her Lands in such a Town, amounting to the yearly value of 40 l. that that valuation is not a demonstration, and shall not abridge the Grant precedent, to have all in the Town which should be of the value of 40 l. but her Grant shall be taken and construed according to the words precedent. Manwood, The Common case of assurance upon a settlement of Marriage is, That he shall stand seized of so much of his Land as shall be of the clear yearly value of 40 Marks; If the marriage take effect, The Question hath been, If they to whom the assurance is made, may enter into any part of the Land at their election, and take that which is the best Land, to the value of 40 Marks per annum, and hold the same in severalty, or if they shall be only Tenants in Common with the other? And also it hath been a Question, Whether they may choose one Acre in one place, and another Acre in another place, and so through the whole Land where they please, because the Grant shall be taken strong against him that granteth: But I conceive, that it should be a hard case to make such Election of Acres. But it was said by some Sergeant at the Bar, That if a Man granteth to another to take 20 Trees in his Lands, that the Grantee may cut down one Tree in one place, and another in another place: Manwood agreed that Case: but of the other Case, the Court doubted of it. The principal case was adjourned. LV. Vernon and Vernons Case. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. NOte; That in the Case of Dower between Vernon and Vernon, and the Argument of it, the Plaintiff would have been Nonsuit. Dyer, justice, said, It should be an ill Precedent, if a Nonsuit should be after Demurrer: And therefore he said, That for his part he would not agree, that any Nonsuit should be upon it; but he said, he would be advised, and take better Consideration of it, If the Nonsuit should be awarded, or not. And afterwards at another day, Manwood and Dyer took a difference, where the Nonsuit is the same Term, and where in another Term; and said, It is like unto the Case, where a Man would Wage his Law, and is present ready to do it, that there the Plaintiff cannot be Nonsuit, because it is in the same Term, but he shall be barred: But in another Term afterwards he might be Nonsuit, if the Defendant take day over to wage his Law until another Term; and so they said it should be in this case. LVI. Sir Peter Philpots Case. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THis Case was moved by Meade, Sergeant to the justices of the Court of Common Pleas, viz. That Sir Peter Philpot Knight, seized in Fee of divers Manors and Lands, suffered a Recovery, and made a Feoffment thereof unto divers persons, To the use of himself for life, the remainder to his right Heirs: And after the Statute of 32 H. 8. of Wills, He devised all his said Manors and Land to his Wife for life; and it was expressed in his Will, That he could not devise all his Lands, by reason of the Statute of 32 H. 8. that his Will was, That his Wife should have so much which might be devised by the Laws of the Land: And there was another Clause in the said Will, That his Feoffees should stand seized of the same Manors and Lands after the death of his Wife, To the use of one Hurlock and others for years, for the payment of his Debts, and for the raising of Portions for the preferment of his Daughters in Marriage: And further by his said Will he willed, That if the Law would not bear it, That Hurlock and the others should have the Interest, Then he willed that his Son should have all his Manors and Lands, and should pay his Debts, and should give certain sums of moneys for the Marriage Portions of his Daughters; And the Question which was moved to the Court, was, Whether the first part of his Will, That is to say, That Hurlock and the others should have his Lands, etc. were void, or not, by the later words of his Will? Dyer, justice, said, That the last words of the Will did well expound the meaning of the first words, and that the Will should be performed as it might be: And afterwards Harper said, That upon this matter, Hurlock and the others had had a Decree in the Court of Wards, to have the whole Lands during the years, and not two parts of the Lands only. Dyer, justice, said, That the Will of Sir Tho. Umpton, which was made mean between the Statutes of 32 H. 8. and 34 H. 8. and which is excepted by the same Statute, that it should not be construed in other form than according to the first Statute was, Of all his Lands. And upon a Demurrer argued, It was adjudged, That the Will was good of two parts, although that by the Will it was not divided: For where a Man hath a Warrant to do a thing, and he doth it, and more, so as he exceeds his Warrant, yet it is good for that part for which it is warranted; and void for the rest: As if a Man makes a Warrant of Attorney to make Livery and Seisin of the Manor of Dale, and he makes Livery of the Manors of Dale and Sale; it is good for the Manor of Dale, and void for the Manor of Sale. The Case was, in a Writ of Partition: And afterwards the Record was removed by a Writ of Error, supposing that this Court had Erred; and the judgement was affirmed by three of the justices of the King's Bench. But because there was a Discontinuance in the Record, which was erroneous, for that the first judgement was reversed, but not for any other cause. And such was the meaning and intent of the Statute of 32 H. 8. before the making of the Statute of 34 H. 8. of Explanation of Wills. And therefore here in the principal Case, it was holden, That the Will was good for two parts, both to the Wife, and also to Hurlock and the others. And it was holden, That by the Intent of the Will, that the Son was to pay such sums of moneys a Hurlock was to have paid, so as the Will was not for the advantage of the Heir, but to be construed according to the meaning of Philpot, That if Hurlock could not have the Lands, etc. that then the Son should have them, but with such charge as aforesaid; and it was no Intent to subvert the first part of the Will, if the same might stand with the Law. And so it was adjudged. LVII. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was this; A Man makes a Lease for 30 years; More Rep. 94 Post. 55. Winch. Rep. 5. and bargains and sells the Woods in and upon the Premises to the Lessee, and that he might carry them off the Lands during the time of 30 years: The Lessee cut down all the Woods; and afterwards other Wood grew up from the Stocks, and the Lessee cut them also within the Term; and the Lessor brought an Action of Waste for cutting of the new Wood And it was moved by Meade, Hob. Rep. 132. Serjeant, If the Action of Waste would lie, or not? Harper, justice, Is the Bargain, de bosco & subbosco, growing in and upon the Premises? Meade, No; but all his Woods in and upon the Premises. Harper, The Grant is in the present tense in praesenti; so as he cannot have that which shall grow there, after: And if he would grant all his Woods which should grow in time to come, the Grant should not be good, because it is not of a thing in esse. And if a Man will grant all his Wood growing upon Black-Acre, and there be then no Wood, he cannot have any thing, although that afterwards, Woods grow there; and if his meaning had been, That he should have the Wood which should there after grow, he would have expressed the same in another form. Mounson, If a Man grants all his Hay growing upon his Land; Hob. 132. shall he have that which is growing there, after? No truly; And if he grant all the Wool which is growing upon his Sheep, shall he have more than that which groweth this year? Meade, No truly: But if he had granted all the Wool growing upon the Sheep for 20 years, than the same is like to our case; for he hath granted, that he may carry the Wool during the 30 years. Harper, The same is but a Liberty to fallen the Trees which where growing at the time of the Sale, and to carry them when he pleaseth, and not to give other Trees or Wood, which should there after grow. LVIII. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. LOvelace, Serjeant, moved this Case to the Court, That an Assize was brought of the Office of Registership in the County of Devon: And he shown, How that the Bishop of Exeter granted the Office, and shown the name of the Bishop: And that after William Alley Bishop there, granted the same Office after the death of the first Grantee to the Plaintiff: And further he shown, That the Bishop might grant the Office ad Idoneam personam: And because he doth not say in his Plaint, That the person to whom it was granted, is idonea persona, I conceive, that the Plaint is not good; for if there be no such person which can exercise the Office, he shall not have it: For that is a Condition which is annexed to the Office, that he be a fit person who shall take it: And the Prothonotaries of this place ought to have skill in that which appertaineth to their Office; For if such an Office should be given to a Courtier who hath not skill in that which appertaineth to the Office, nor knowledge how to execute, he shall not have it. Also he said, That he hath not showed, that the first Bishop is dead, or that he hath resigned; or whether that he be deprived; and therefore it shall be intended, that he continueth, unless the contrary be showed: And then the Grant made by Alley to the Plaintiff, cannot be good. And for these causes, and for others, he prayed to know the Opinion of the Court. Dyer, justice, The matter is not before us; and wherefore should we give our Opinions to serve the fancy of every person, and to resolve the doubts of every Court? But if the matter laid come before by Adjournment for difficulty, because the justices of Assize are of divers Opinions, or that they doubted of any thing upon such difficulty and adjournment, we use to show our Opinions, and to take some pains to search our Books to Resolve the doubts; but when we have not any thing before us; but are moved for the pleasure of the parties, What Resolutions shall we make by speaking at random? Manwood, As to the first Exception, I, nor my Brother Jeffery, do not doubt of it, but that the Plaint was good, notwithstanding that it is not showed, that he was idonea persona, for the Law shall intent him so to be, until the contrary he shown. And so it is of a grant of an Annuity, as long as he se bene gesserit, the Law shall intent that he carrieth himself well, until the contrary be showed. But as to the other Point, That he doth not show the death of the first Bishop, my Brother Jeffery doubted of it, but I make no doubt of it, for that is but a Recital, and the Plaintiff makes his title but from Bishop Alley, and therefore that is not material, nor parcel of his Plaint, whether the predecessor of Alley be alive, or not; for he doth not derive any Title from him, but from Alley. Dyer, Can a Bishop grant an Office in Reversion, without title of Prescription, that they have used so to do time out of mind? And here no Prescription is laid, that the Bishop might so do. And then, as I conceive, the Reversion of the Office cannot be granted, for there is not any Reversion of it: and it is not like unto an Advowson, which may be granted, that the Grantee may present when it shall be next void. And as I conceive, No Reversion of any Office can be granted, if not by the King who hath a special Prerogative; For he reciting, how that such an one hath such an Office for life, he may grant that such a person shall have the same Office after the death of the first Grantee. And so the Queen may grant the Reversion of such an Office; as if she recite, that such an one is Keeper of such a Park, there she may grant the Keepership of it after the death of another: But if a Common person will grant the Stewardship of his Courts after the death of such a person as is now Steward, or the Reversion of it, the same is not good: For of Offices, there is not any Fee, or Reversion, But a Nomination which the party hath to name what person he pleaseth when the same shall become void. Manwood, It is the Order in the Arches, and in the Prerogative Court, and of all the Courts of Paul's, to grant the Offices in Reversion, as in the Case of Doctor Drury and others, who have the Reversion of every Office which doth belong to the Spiritual Courts. Dyer, I do not care, nor regard what they do, but what they ought to do; and I do not respect the person of any one in relating the Law; But it may be, that by words of Covenant, such a Covenant may be good: And of late time here a Case hath been adjudged, That where one prescribed, that such an one might grant an Office, cuicunque personae idoneae voluerit, and the Grant was made to two, and because the prescription did not warrant this manner of grant, it was adjudged void; for when the prescription is to grant alicui personae, and not quibuscunque personis, by that, he cannot grant it but to one person, and not unto divers, because the prescription doth not extend so far. Manwood, I conceive there is a difference betwixt such persons who have Offices for life, as the Admiral of England, the Lord Treasurer, the justices of the two Benches, which have Offices incident to their Courts, they cannot grant any of those Offices in Reversion; But a Bishop hath a Fee, and therefore the Cases are not alike. Dyer, he hath not prescribed in the person of the Bishop here; but he hath said, That the Custom is, That the Bishop may grant the said Office, whereas in truth, if there were a prescription, he ought to prescribe, That the Bishop for the time being might grant the said Office in possession or in reversion: And so as I conceive here, no Office shall be granted in reversion, unless by prescription; which ought to be alleged. And in the time of this Queen, an Office of this Court was granted to Fry and his Son by the King; and the Patent was showed here in Court, and rejected: and it was said, there was no place in Court for two to sit there, and the Office might be exercised as well by one, as by two; and therefore the Patent was disallowed. And although that Offices are granted to two, as now in the King's Bench of late time, there is not any Precedent to warrant the same; and therefore, as I conceive, such a Grant is not good, nor warranted by the Law; for I do not regard in this Case, against what persons I speak. Mounson, In the Chancery, a Patent was granted to Bagot and Swirenden, of an Office in the Chancery by King Henry the 6th, and in 9 E. 4. it is is disputed, Whether the Grant were good, or not, etc. LIX. Mich. Eliz. In the King's Bench. THe Case was; A Man Mortgageth his Lands, to pay to the Mortgagee his Heirs, Executors, or Assigns, a certain sum of Money at a day certain: The Mortgagee dieth, and maketh his Heir within age his Executor; and the Mortgagor pays the Money at the day to the Heir: It was holden, The same shall be Assets in the hands of the Heir as Executor, and that he hath not the Money as Heir, and he shall be charged with it, within age. LX. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was this; A Man had made a Lease for 40 years to one by Indenture, if the Lessee should so long live; and afterwards by another Deed he demised the same Lands and Tenements to the same Lessee, To have to his Executors and Assigns for 40 years after the expiration of the first Lease. And Lovelace, Serjeant, demanded the Opinion of the Court, (the Lord Dyer being then in the Star-Chamber) Whether in this Case, the Lessee should have the Interest in the second Lease, or his Executors; or whether it was a void Lease? Harper, justice, said, That in every Lease there are 3 things incident to make it good, 1. That there be a Lessor to make the Lease. 2. That there be a Lessee to take the Lease. And, 3. That there be a thing which should be which should be let: And then he said, That here, although that there be a Lessor, and a thing which should be leased, yet here there was not any Lessee: For Executors are not until after the death of the Testator: But he said, That if a Lease be made for years, or for life, and that the Executors shall have the same for certain years after his death, the same is good; for there is an Interest of the Term. And if a Man maketh a Lease to begin at the month of Easter, his Executors may have this Term, because the same was an Interest of a Term in the Lessee, and the Term shall be executed at Easter: But here in this case, there is no person to take it, and therefore he conceived, That the Lease was void. Mounson, justice, The Case is as it is recited: And he said, That the Premises of a Deed, is to limit the person who shall have the Lease, and the Habendum shall not declare the person who shall have it, or the Lease, but to declare the Estate which shall be in the Lease; and it is but a limitation of the Estate: and if the Premises do not limit the person who shall have it, the Habendum shall not give any thing to the person, unless it be expressed in the Premises what person shall have it: and therefore when he saith, Habendum to his Executors and Assigns, these words (Executors and Assigns) are void: But when a Man makes a Lease to one, Habendum to his Executors and Assigns, the same is not void; for if Livery be made, his Heir shall take it after his death. Harper, By the Lease of the same Land by a new Deed, as the Case is here, nothing shall pass without an Habendum: And if a Lease be made to the Lessee, Habendum to his Executors, he himself hath no Estate; and when no Estate is limited, the person in the Premises gains not any thing, and without the Habendum, he cannot have any thing. Lovelace, If I may declare my Opinion, This new Lease shall be a Lease in possession as a Confirmation of the first Lease, and shall be taken to be a Lease for life, and the Habendum shall be void; and therefore he prayed the Opinion of Manwood, justice, therein: Who said, That in every Lease there are 3 Principals, as he had said, of Lessor, Lessee, and thing Let: And by the Premises, the Lessor and Lessee are expressed; and by the Habendum, the Interest which the Lessee shall have, aught to be set forth; and if not Habendum be in the Deed to express any certainty of time, the Lessee by the same shall be Tenant of your Opinion, Brother Lovelace, That the same shall be a Lease for life, unless that in the second Deed the words had been, That he Leased and Granted; by which word, Grant, it might enure and amount to a Lease for life: but if the Deed had been, Demise and Grant, that cannot be intended for the life of the Lessee; And as I have said before, by apt words it might enure to a Confirmation, and make it a Lease for life; but by the Premises it is not so, and by this Deed it is not expressed, that the Lessee shall take a Freehold; for by the Habendum, his mind appeareth to be otherwise by agreement betwixt the parties, that his Executors and Assigns should have it for a certain time after his death, and that he himself would not have it, for he hath sufficiently provided for himself, to have if for 40 years, if he liveth so long, although it cannot be intended, that he should live beyond the Term which he hath, so as it cannot be taken to be the meaning of the parties, that he should have it as a Lease for life: and when by the Premises of the Deed, the parties are not named, the Habendum shall never bring in a strange person: As, where a Lease is made to the Husband, Habendum to the Wife, the Habendum to her is a void, because it shall not introduce one who is a stranger to the Premises of the Deed. And as my Brother Mounson hath said, The Office of the Premises of a Deed is to limit the persons who shall have it, and the Office of the Habendum is to limit the Estate of the thing which is granted; and therefore when the Habendum is to such a person as was not named in the Premises of the Deed, it is but a Nugation: As if he had Leased to J.S. Habendum to the Moon for certain years, there the Habendum to that thing is a Nugation, and void; and therefore then if the words be in the Premises, that he Leaseth to J.S. for 20 years, and doth not say, that he shall have it for 20 years, it shall be intended, that the person named in the Premises shall have it, for the Habendum waits upon the Grant before; and when he gives an Estate in the Habendum without limiting of the person in it, than the person named in the Premises shall have it; and then when he names a strange person who was not named before in the Premises, or which hath no Capacity, as the Moon, or such like who are not in rerum natura, as his Executors of the Lessee, or his Assigns, these persons or things named in the Habendum, are but Nugations, and void; and than it is like unto the Case where no person is limited in the Habendum: And where apt words are, there the Law shall construe them strong against the Grantor; and therefore the Law couples the Habendum and the Premises together, that the intent of the parties may (if by any means it may) have a reasonable Construction. And therefore if a Man maketh a Lease to two, Habendum to one of them and a third person, there as to the third person he gets nothing by the Habendum, because he was not named in the Premises, and therefore the naming him in the Habendum is but a Nugation. And so here, the naming of the Executors and Assigns by the Habendum, is but a Nugation, and so there is no person named in it. But I conceive, that the Habendum, when the years are expressed, and the Estate limited by it, shall have reference to the person who is named in the Premises of the Deed, and so the Lease shall be good to him to begin after the first Term expired. Harper, It appeareth that it was the meaning of the parties, that he himself would not have any thing, but that his Will was, That his Executors should have it, and the Law shall frame his intent and meaning, and shall not subject the Law to his intent; and when he doth not so, but overthwarts the Law and frames such an Instrument, the Law shall be first served, and not their meanings, when the same doth not agree with the Law. And therefore as to the Case which my Brother Manwood hath put, Where no person is named in the Habendum, by Construction of Law, he who is named in the Premises shall have it: But when the Habendum makes express mention of his intent what person shall have it, and another than was named in the Premises, then if those cannot have it, the Estate limited shall not be carried over to him who was named in the Premises. And as to the Case put, where a Lease is made to two, Habendum to one of them, and a third person, there I well agree, That as to the third person it is but a Nugation; and the other two who are named with him in the Habendum, and have a Capacity to take it, shall have it, although the other getteth nothing; but that is not like to the Case at Bar, for no person is named there. Manwood, If a Lease be made made to J.S. except Green-Close, to J.D. who is a stranger, the Exception is good, and J.D. shall have it. The Principal Case was Adjourned. LXI. The Lord Windsor's Case. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the King's Bench. UPon an Evidence given to a jury in the King's Bench, in an Ejectione Firmae, the Case appeared to be thus; That Sir Roger Lewknor, Knight, being seized in Fee of the Manor of South Myms, made an Indenture, Anno 11. H. 8. by which Indenture, he Leased the said Manor to 20 persons, to the use of Andrew Windsor, afterwards Lord Windsor, and Henry his Son, and the Survivor of them, as long as any of the said persons named in the said Indenture should live: And further Covenanted by the same Indenture, To stand seized of the said Manor, To the use of the said Andrew and Henry, and the Survivor of them, during the lives of any of the said Feoffees named in the same Indenture; which Deed was made without Livery and Seisin; and reserved upon it an yearly Rent: and afterwards the Son died. And in 22 H. 8. A Fine was levied by a stranger upon a Release to Andrew Lord Windsor; And afterwards, 34 of Henry 8 Andrew Lord Windsor made a Lease to one for years, and died; and made William and Edmond his Sons his Executors: And afterwards William his eldest Son being Lord Windsor, 2 & 3 Phil. & Mary, made a Lease of the same Land unto another, to begin after the first Lease ended: Which William died, and the Lord Windsor that now is, accepted the Rent, and of late time agreed with one Vaughan, who had married the Heir of Sir Roger Lewknor, for the Reversion in Fee; and afterwards the Lease made by Andrew Lord Windsor, 34 H. 8. ended in the 4th year of the Reign of the Queen that now is; Whereupon, the second Lessee, that is to say, the Lessee of William Lord Windsor, entered; and being ousted, he brought the Ejectione firmae. And then, and yet one of the 20 Feoffees of Sir Roger Lewknor is alive; so as the Estate of Cestuy que Vie, is not as yet determined. And now the Question upon the first part of the Evidence is, If this later Lease made by William Lord Windsor, be a good Lease or not? And who shall be said Occupant? For when the Lord Andrew died, than the Lessee (as Catline said) shall not be said in otherwise than according to his Lease, when his occupation by Lease was lawful before: And he who shall be said Occupant, shall have a Freehold; and if he should be Occupant, he should be in by a new title. Then we are to see, If the Executors of the Lord which have the Rent, and to whom the same is paid by the Lessee, shall be said Occupant? And he conceived, That they should not, although that they enter, unless they claim the Freehold at the time of their entry; for if they enter generally, it shall be intended according to the Will, as Executors; and if he had granted his Estate to another, there after his death, the Grantee shall be said to be in by reason of his Grant, and not as Occupant; And so if he would devise his Estate, the Devisee shall be in by reason of the Devise, and not as Occupant; Which Case of Devise, Southcote denied, That he should not be in by reason of the Devise, when his Estate determines with his death: But if the Devisee entereth by force of the Devise: he shall be in as an Occupant. And also Southcote denied that which had been said, That the Lessee for years who holdeth the Lands after the death of Andrew Lord Windsor, should not be an Occupant: For, as he said, the Lessee being in possession after the death of the Lord Andrew, should be said Occupant, and no other; for the Executors of the Lord could not be Occupant by the having of the Rent, because they had not the possession of the Land; for none shall be Occupant, but he who is in possession. Whiddon said, That if the first Lease made by Andrew Lord Windsor, was now in esse, and that an Ejectione Firmae was brought upon that, that the Lessee ought to aver, That some of the Feoffees for whose lives, etc. were then living. Southcote, If a Praecipe quod reddat shall be brought, against whom shall it be brought, against him in the Reversion, or against him in possession? And if it shall be brought against the Tenant in possession, than he ought to have the Freehold; for it cannot be brought, but against one who hath a Freehold at the least: And then if the Lord William Windsor had nothing in the Land, then how could he make this Lease to the Plaintiff that now is, when the first Lessee continueth Occupant after the death of the Lord Andrew, during the life of Cestuy que Vye? And as to the Fine, the Question did further arise, If the Lord Andrew Windsor should have a Feesimple by that Fine? For being levied, (as Catline said) It cannot be to the first Uses, because a Fine upon a Release, cannot be intended to the use of any other but to him to whom it is levied, unless an use be expressed in the Fine, or by another Deed: And upon a Fine levied upon a Release made unto Tenant life by a stranger, the same is not a forfeiture of his Estate; But if Tenant for life taketh a Fine Sur Conusans de droit come ceo, etc. the same is a forfeiture. And although a Fine levied by those who have not any thing in the Lands, be void, Yet here it is not so; and it ought to be pleaded specially, and shown, that he had not anything in the Land at the time the Fine was levied, as Anderson said. And Catline said, That this Fine was not without good advice, for the Lord Brook and others who were learned in the Law, were of Counsel with the Lord Windsor in the levying of this Fine, so as the intent was to settle the Feesimple in himself by the Fine, and not that the first Uses should stand after that: And thereupon he put the Case of Putnam and Duncomb, which hath much Resemblance to this Case, which he argued when he was Sergeant, and held the same Opinion as he holdeth now; And therefore he said, That although the Purchase was but of late time of Vaughan and his Wife, yet the Fee was in the Lord Windsor before, and this manner of purchase was to no other end, but to discharge the Lands of Encumbrances, as appeareth by the small sum which was paid, the Land being of a great yearly value. And, as Vaughan confessed, he took this sum of Money, because that his Council informed him, that the Feesimple was in the Lord Windsor before, and that otherwise he would not have sold it at such a price. And he said, That before that agreement, the Lord Windsor told him, that he had the Feesimple in himself. Whereupon Vaughan asked him, Wherefore he paid the Rent? To whom the Lord Windsor answered, That he paid the same during the lives of the Feoffees, but after their deaths, he paid nothing; but notwithstanding that payment, that the Feesimple remained in him, and that his Counsel advised him to pay the Rent to the Heirs of Lewknor, who was the Wife of the said Vaughan. And Catline said, That if a Fine be levied upon a Release, in a Scire facias against the Conusor, he shall not plead, that the Conusor had not any thing in the Land at time of the Fine levied. And he said further, That if a Disseisor be, and the Disseisee levieth a Fine upon a Release, that thereby his Right is gone. And Note; That as to the principal Case, Southcote was of Opinion, That the Fee was not gained by the Fine levied by a stranger to him who had the Use before the Statute of 27 H. 8. and that if no Feesimple was in the Lord Windsor, at the time of the Lease made by him, that the Lease could not be good, nor the Action maintainable. And because the Court was divided in Opinions in both Points, Catline commanded the jury to find a Special Verdict. LXII. Mich. Eliz. In the King's Bench. NOte: That it was said by the whole Court, That if a Man delivereth Money to another Man to buy , or to Merchandise with, although that the Money be sealed up in a Bag, yet the property of the Money is to the Bailee, and the Bailor cannot have an Action for the Money, but only an Account against the Bailee, although that he never buyeth the or other things, for the Auditors upon the Account shall allow him the sum and such other allowances as they shall think fit. And that a stranger takes away the Money, after the death of the Bailee, or in his life-time, the Bailor shall not have an Action against the stranger, but the Executors of the Bailee, or the Bailee himself during his life; And yet if the Bailee dieth, no Action of Account lieth against his Executors, because the Testator had the property of the moneys. And therefore if he, who takes the Money from the Bailee, promiseth the Bailor, to pay him the like sum of Money as the Bailee had received of him in his life, and as should be truly proved by the Bailor; there, upon that Promise, an Action upon the Case doth not lie against him who took away the Money, as Catline said, In an Action upon the Case brought by the Master of the Rolls, and another, who supposed, that they delivered 100 l. to one Moor, and that he is dead, and that the Money came unto the hands of the Defendant, and that thereupon he promised to pay the like sum which might be proved that Moor had of the Plaintiffs. It was holden, That the Action upon the Case did not lie. Southcote, justice, said, That although the property of the Money be changed as before, and that no Account lieth against a stranger; Yet when he hath the Money, and for that cause promiseth to pay it as before, it is reason, that an Action upon the Case should lie upon his promise, although the Law will not charge him nor the Executors upon an Account. LXIII. The Lord Cromwell's Case. Mich. 15 Eliz. Dyer 321, 322. 2 Roll. 560, 561. JEffery recited, That a Replevin was brought by Franklin; The Defendants made Conusans as Bailiffs of the Lord Cromwell; because, that the said Lord was seized of the Manor of North-Elmes; and that the Custom of the said Manor is, That the Homagers have used to make By-Laws (when necessity shall be) within the same Manor, and upon a pain and forfeiture, and that the Lord of the Manor for the time being, might distrain in the Land of any for the Forfeiture. And further saith, That in Anno 6 of Ed. the 6th, the Homage then (whereof Franklin the Plaintiff was one) made By-Law, That none should put his Sheep to feed in the Pasture or Lands of the Lord upon a pain, etc. And that the said Franklin, in the 13th year of the Reign of the Lady the Queen that now is, had put his Sheep into the Pasture and Lands of the Lord to feed; and for that they avow the taking in the right of the Lord Cromwell, for not payment of the said Forfeiture: And Jefferies of Council with the Plaintiff, said, That the Avowry, nor the Conusans were not good; For the Custom is, as they themselves have showed, That the By-Law shall be made when necessity requireth (and without necessity a By-Law cannot be:) And it is not alleged here, That there was a necessity at the time of this By-Law made; and than if there be no necessity, they cannot make the By-Law. Also, it is not alleged, that there were any Sheep there; And when a Custom is pleaded, it shall be pleaded stricti juris. And at the Common Law, you may see divers Cases, That when a Man is to have one thing for the cause of another, that he must allege the thing for which he must have it: As in 9 H. 6. Where an Abbot had granted to one, That he should have Common, wheresoever the of the Abbot should go; there if the Commoner will justify or make Avowry for his Common, he must aver that the Beasts of the Abbot went then in such a place, Field, or Pasture; for if they did not go there at the time that he justifieth or avoweth, his justification or Avowry shall not be good: And there it was said by Babbington, Chief justice, That if a Man grants Common whensoever his shall go in such a Pasture, If the Grantor doth never put his into the Pasture, the Grantee shall not have Common there: and therefore he must say, That he put his Beasts into the Pasture. And in 15 H. 7. in the Case of an Annuity granted until he be promoted to a Benefice, in a Writ of Annuity brought, he must say, That he is not promoted, etc. And if an Obligation be made to you, to you my Lord, for Money, when J.S. shall return from Rome; you shall not have an Action upon the Bond for not payment of the Money, without alleging, that J.S. is returned. See 33 H. 6. Hillary 's Case; And before the Statute of Quia Emptores terrarum, If a Man had made a Feoffment to hold by Fealty, and the Guarding of his Castle, In an Avowry for the Castle Guard, that there was then War, and so cause of necessity; for in time of Peace he shall not be bound to Guard it. And so it appeareth, 34 H. 8. Where a Feoffment was made before the Statute, to hold by Fealty, and every year to marry a poor Maiden within the Manor, if he doth avow for not marriage, he ought to allege, that there was a poor Maid that year within the Manor. So, if the Tenure be to repair a Bridge that is for the Common wealth, and he and all others are to have advantage of it, yet the Lord shall not avow for not repairing of it, without alleging, that the Bridge was in decay. And so when the Tenure is to Cover his Hall, he shall not Avow, without alleging, that his Hall needed Reparations. And so in the principal Case, here he ought to allege, that there was a present necessity for making of the By-Law; for it may be, that there was not any Sheep within the Manor when the By-Law was made, and then there was no cause that it should be made. And in the like manner as it hath been said of the Common Law, That certainty ought to be showed, so shall it be by the Statute Laws. As if Tenant for life makes default, if one prayeth to be received for the default of the Tenant for life, he ought to show that he hath the Reversion, and that he bringeth his Action by reason thereof: And as it hath been said of the Common Law, and Statute Law, so it shall be said of Custom; As in 44 E. 3 where the Parishioners prescribe to make By-Laws, and that they made such an Ordinance, That for every Acre of Land, or for every Beast, every one should pay for the Reparations of the Church, etc. there it may be said in Avowry, that the Church wanted Reparation. And so where a Tax and Levy is to make a Wall against the See; there if the party will justify the levying of the Tax or Levy, he must say, That there was need of it, otherwise the same cannot be levied: But as to the ability of a person, he shall be enabled by Intendment. As if an Obligation be made by a Man or a Woman, in an Action brought upon the Bond, he shall not be compelled to say, That the Man was of full age, or that the Woman was a single Woman, for that shall be intended, until the contrary be showed: But by Statute Law, if a Man pleads a Grant, it shall be otherwise. As upon the Statute of 1 R. 3. If he plead a Feoffment or a Grant of Cestuy que Use, he must plead, That he was of full age, out of prison, of sound memory, and within the 4 Seas. And so where a Pardon was made in the time of King Ed. the 14th, to all, but to those who were with Queen Margaret; there, if he will take advantage of the Pardon, he must plead, That he was not with the said Queen. And if a Man plead a Feoffment of J.S. at the Common Law, it shall be good; and if he were within age, it shall be showed on the other side: But if a Man pleadeth a Feoffment by Custom; and the other saith, that the Feoffor was within, age, and the Plaintiff replieth, That an Enfant by the Custom may make a Feoffment; the same is not good, but a Departure: for he ought to have showed that at the beginning in his Declaration. And in 37 H. 6. Where a Man pleaded a Devise, and it was showed, that the Devisor was within age; there the Plaintiff need not say, that the Custom is, That an Enfant may devise; for that is a Departure. Another matter of the Custom which they have alleged, is, That they may make By-Laws for the better Ordering; and they have not taken averment, that this Ordinance was either better or worse: and if it be not better, than they have no cause to make the By-Law. If a Feoffment be made causa Matrimonii praelocuti, it shall not be intended, that the Feoffment was for any other cause than Marriage: And if a Woman brings a Writ of Dower, and the Defendant pleads a Lease for life made by the Husband, it shall not be intended that that Lease was in allowance of her Dower according to the Statute, if it be not expressly showed. And so, If Cestuy que Use in tail makes a Lease for life, it shall not be intended that Cestuy que Vie is alive, unless a special Averment be taken, That he is yet alive: And so here it doth not appear; that this is the better Order, nor that the Lands are several, or lie in Common, so as by no means or Circumstance it can appear if it be the better or not. Another cause wherefore the pleading is not sufficient, is, Because he saith, Upon a pain of Forfeiture to the Lord for the time being; and he hath not alleged in fact, that the Lord Cromwell, who was Lord of the Manor in Anno 6 E. 6. was Lord in the 13th year of the Reign of the Queen that now is; and, without showing, that shall not be intended. As in 7 H. 7. A Man pleads a Feoffment, and that J.S. was seized, and did enfeoff him, that is not good; but he ought to plead, that he being so seized, made the Feoffment; for it shall not be intended, that his seisin continued until the time of the Feoffment, without showing of it. And so where a Man pleads, That J.S. was seized of a Reversion, granted it; he ought to plead, And that he being so seized, granted it: And so where an Attornment is pleaded; for if he was not seized at the time of the Attornment, the Attornment was not good. And so where a Man will plead a Surrender, he shall show, that he who Surrendreth, and he to whom a Surrender is made, were seized. Quaere, If the one or the other were not seized, one of the Term, and the other of the Reversion, whether the Surrender be not good. And 31 H. 6. If a Man will plead a Lease by Feoffees to use, he shall say, And that so seized, they made the Lease. And see 6, 7, 10, 11 H. 7. Where Cestuy que Use makes a Feoffment, averment shall be taken, that at the time of the Lease that the Feoffees were seized to the use of the Lessor. And because that here it is not showed, nor alleged, that the Lord Cromwell is now Lord of the Manor, it shall not be so intended: Also, for divers other causes, I conceive, that the Avowry is insufficient: For he hath showed, that a By-Law was made, but doth not show when it was made, nor for what time it was to continue; And it is not showed, Whether the same were made for the better ordering of the Lands which the Lord held jointly, or in common with others, or which he held in his own Right alone: And as to the Prescription, I conceive that the same is not good; because it is against reason, and not ex rationabili causa: For if one Man keeps the Law, and another Man breaks the Law, yet according as they have alleged this Custom to be, he may be distrained who hath not offended, and his taken for the Offence done by the of another Man; and it is against reason, that any one should be punished for the default or offence of another: But the Custom of Borough English is good; and so is the Custom of Gavelkind, because that every Son is as good a Gentleman as the eldest; and therefore those 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 daytime; 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 Fowl 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 showed: 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 Avoidance, and the Count is good, without showing, that that was the next Avoidance, 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 showing, 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 showed 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 intent, that there was a necessity sufficient, without expressing of it; and if there was not, than it ought to be alleged 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 show it, but that shall come on the Defendants part; And the Statute which is, That no of the Plough shall be distrained where the party hath other of which a Distress may be taken, there the party needs not to allege, that he had other , 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 Manor where they are made, and to such only as have Lands there, and not to the Lands of others which are out of the Manor: 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 alleged in the Lord Cromwell in 6 E. 6. and it is not alleged, that the Seisin did continue in him until 13th of this Queen; It shall be intended, that he continued seized until the contrary be showed. As in 11 H. 7. A Man prescribed to have Common by reason of the House, etc. The Avowant doth not say, that he was seized of the House at the time, etc. of the disseisin of the Common, because he once alleged 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 Manor and Land: And as to that which hath been said, That the By-Law made, and the Custom alleged 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 Manor, and the 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 Money 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 judgement 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-edify 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-edify them. Meade, contrary, And that this promise shall not be taken strictly against the Lessor, Hob. Rep. 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 Rend 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 Encumbrances; 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, etc. 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 Ostler 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, etc. 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 return of them, and maketh an Account unto the Obligee, and payeth the moneys upon his Account within a certain time, that then, etc. 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, than such a Release to the Servant, did not dispense 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 Avoidance 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, Show 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 months given to the Patron, that he provide another Clerk in the mean time. And there is a good Case in 14 H. 7. which was long debated. Where the Ordinary commanded the Clerk to come to him afterwards to be examined, because the Ordinary had then other business. And there the better Opinion of the Book is, That it was a good Plea for the Ordinary, That he did not refuse the Clerk, but that the Clerk did not return to him again, and that the 6 months passed, so as he made the Collation, and that the Patron made his presentation too late, so as he had not convenient time to examine him. Then in the Case at Bar, It was moved, That when the Ability and Disability of the Clerk came in Question, by whom the same should be tried; because in the Case here, the Bishop of York was a party to the Suit, Whether by the Metropolitan of York, or by the Metropolitan of Canterbury. And he said, That as he conceived, the Trial of the Ability should be by the Metropolitan of York, and not of Canterbury: But he said, That if the party in whom the disability was alleged was dead, so as he could not be examined, the Trial of his Ability or Disability should be by the Country, as it appeareth in the Book of 39 E. 3. Manwood, justice, The Cure of Souls is to be regarded, and therefore if an Enfant be to make a Presentation, the same shall not be stayed for his Nonage; and therefore if in such case he doth surcease, and shall not present his Clerk, the Law which regardeth more the Cure of Souls than the Enfancy, will permit that the Ordinary shall collate to the Church, if a Presentment thereto be not made within the six months. And he said, That if the Patron should present one but a week before the end of the six months, and the Ordinary should refuse him for disability: If the Patron should have other six months then next after, he might then likewise present an Enfant or other disabled person to the Ordinary, and so detract the time by fraud, and so the Lapse by such great fraud should never devolve to the Ordinary, and so the Cure should be unserved; And so the Issue would be and arise upon the conveniency of the time. And as to that which hath been said, concerning the Ability and Disability of the Clerk, I conceive the same shall be tried by the Metropolitan of Canterbury, and not by the Metropolitan of York. Mounson, to that intent; and he said, There is a good case in 14 H. 7. 21. which is a short case, and not the Case which hath been vouched; by which it appeareth, that the presentment that shall be within 6 months, shall be accounted from the time of the Avoidance, and not from the time of the presentment, by the whole Court: And there it is said, That the Ordinary shall give notice to the Patron, if he be a Layman, of the Disability of the Clerk, but not if he be a Spiritual person: But if the party Presentee be Criminous, of that the Patron shall take as well notice as the Ordinary. And afterwards, the Lord Dyer caused the Record to be read, and it did not appear therein, at what day the Presentment was made to the Ordinary; which ought to have been showed: for the great point of the Case doth rest here upon the time of the Presentment, if it were before a week that the six months were ended or not. Also the Ordinary saith in his Bar, That the Clerk was insufficient, and that he gave notice to the Plaintiff, and that Nullam idoneam personam praesentavit: And the Court said, That that was no good manner of pleading; but it had been better, if it had been Nullam etiam personam idoneam praesentavit, and the first form would be a Jeosail. Manwood said That the time of the notice given to the Patron, aught to be alleged, because if the Patron sends his Clerk within a month after the Avoidance, and the Ordinary will not give notice to the Patron in the mean time; the same shall not be any default in the Patron: And as to the notice given to the Patron, he said the same was well pleaded, and it shall be intended that it was given to the person of the Patron. And as to the words in the Declaration, scil. tunc vacantem, they are but void words, because nothing is spoken before of any time. And the Incumbent pleaded the same Plea, as the Ordinary pleaded. And Dyer asked, If the Incumbent were Person impersonee, for that none should plead that Plea, but he who is Parson in fact, and Incumbent. LXVII. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was, That an Information was exhibited into the Court of Common Pleas, for the Queen and the party, upon a Penal Law; And a Subpoena issued forth against two: one of them was served with the Writ, and the other not; and now, a new Subpoena was prayed against him who was not served: And Dyer, justice, conferred with his Companions and the Prothonotary, and demanded of them, If the Plaintiff might Exhibit an Information in this Court? Who answered, That he might; for this is a Court of Record, and the Statute Law limiteth, That it may be exhibited in any of the Queen's Courts of Record. Then he demanded of them, If a Subpoena lay out of this place? And Whetley, Prothonotary, said, That it did. Dyer said, It is a strange thing to have an Attachment at the first day. Manwood said, In this Court it is the common usage, upon an Audita Querela, to award a Venire facias against the Conusee. Dyer, said to the Prothonotaries, Advise with yourselves against the morrow, What Process hath been used to issue forth upon the Precedents of Information which have been before this time, If a Subpoena shall be awarded. And afterwards it was said by Gawdy, who moved for it, That he might have a Subpoena upon this matter. LXVIII. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. NOte: A special Verdict was found at the Bar, and the Issue was taken upon a Traverse; And Dyer, justice, said, That a special Verdict could not be taken upon a Traverse, but precisely according to the Issue, and so it was agreed by the whole Court here; but some Sergeants at the Bar did doubt of it. LXIX. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN an Ejectione firmae, the Case was thus: King Henry the 8th was seized of certain Lands, and by his Letter Patents granted the same to Thomas Holt for life, the remainder to John Holt his Son, who in truth was a Bastard; and the Letters Patents were, Ex certa scientia, & mero motu, etc. And because the Plaintiff did suppose, that the same was not a good Purchase, he took a Lease from the Queen, of the Lands, intending to make void the Letters Patents, because the Defendant was nullius filius. And what difference there was in such a Case, in Case of the King and a Common Person, was moved to the Court by Lovelace, Serjeant. Dyer, justice, I conceive, That it is a good Purchase in Law as well in the Case of the King, as in the Case of a Common Person. And see to that purpose, 39 E. 3. and in this Case, If the King had granted the Land to John Holt without naming him Son, the same had been a good Purchase: But if the King had called him John, the Son of Thomas, without giving him a surname, there such a Purchase should not be good, if he were a Bastard; because he hath not Nomen Cognitum, as where he hath a surname: and a Man cannot purchase by the Name of John only; and than if he be called John, the Son of Thomas, when he is not his Son, it cannot be good. And such Case hath here lately been adjudged, Where the Lord Powis gave certain Lands to Thomas Grace his Son, by him begotten upon the Body of Jane Orwell; and in truth the said Thomas was a Bastard of the said Lord Powis, (and the name of Jane was not Orwell, but the Daughter of one Punt; and the Mother of Jane, who was first married to Punt, betwixt whom Jane was begotten, married with one Orwell;) and yet notwithstanding that wrong Name, and that the said Thomas Grace was not the Son of the Lord Powis, born of Jane Orwell, but of one Jane Punt; yet it was a good Purchase and Gift to Thomas Grace, because it was his known Name. Manwood, As I take it, the Letters Patents are Ex certa scientia, & ex mero motu; and then the Kings Grant shall not be taken in such plight as the Grant of a Common Person, void for incertainty, because that the King takes notice of the Person, of what degree he is; and in the King's Case, where he takes knowledge, by the words, Ex certa scientia, there all matter of uncertainty shall be avoided and made good; but not matter which is not true: And for uncertainty, he said, Where a thing may be taken two ways, there without the words, Ex certa scientia, etc. the best shall be taken for the King, and strongest against the Patentee. But by Dyer; by the words, Ex certa scientia, etc. that incertainty is saved, and shall be taken strong for the Patentee; and if it can any ways be taken for him, than the Patent shall not be void: and then when in the principal Case, there is the word (Son,) and the word (Son) may be taken two ways, either for a base Son, or a true Son; there by the words, Ex certa scientia, the King taketh upon him to know in what manner he is Son; and a base Son is a Son Quodam modo, so as the Letters Patents shall not be false: But where the King, in his Letters Patents recites a thing which is false, that shall not make the Patent good, although the words be, Ex certa scientia, et mero motu. LXX. Mich. 15. Eliz. In the Common Pleas. NOte; It was agreed by the Court, That if a Man in a Replevin pleadeth, and they are at Issue, and the jury is charged, and gone from the Bar, and returns to give their verdict, and the Plaintiff be nonsuit, their return irreplevisable shall not be awarded, as in case if a verdict had been given; But the party may have a Writ of second Deliverance, as well as if he had been nonsuit before declaration or appearance. LXXI. Trin. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was; The Husband levied a Fine of his Land, and died, and his Wife within the 5 years after the death of her Husband, brought her Writ of Dower, but did not pursue her Writ, until 6 years were passed, and then she would have revived her Suit. And Meade, Serjeant, demanded the Opinion of the justices, If the Wife should be barred of her Dower, or not? And by Manwood, justice, it was moved again, If they at the Bar did agree, That if a Fine be levied by the Husband, and the Wife doth not make her claim within the 5 years, if for that she shall be barred? And he conceived, That she should not be barred; For he said, That he who hath Title to the Land at the time of the Fine levied, if he doth not sue within 5 years after his Title accrued, should be barred: But where the Title accrues after the Fine, there he who hath Title shall not be barred by the 5 years; but he may come 30 years after, and make his Title and Claim. But in the principal case he said, That if the Fine had been levied after the death of the Husband, there the Wife should be barred, if she did not pursue her Right and Claim within 5 years: And he agreed, That if the 5 years be a Bar here, that then by the Wives suffering of her Writ of Dower to be discontinued till after the 5 years were passed, that she should be barred, because vigilantibus & non dormientibus subveniunt Leges. Harper said, That the Discontinuance should be no Bar unto her; For he said, That if a gift be made to one in tail, the Remainder over, and Tenant in tail dieth without Issue, and he in the Remainder brings a Formedon in the Remainder within 5 years, and discontinueth it, yet it is no Bar, but that after the 5 years ended, he may revive his Suit: Which Manwood denied: And then Dyer came into the Court, and the Case was moved to him: And he said, That the not prosecuting of the Action by the Wife, should be a Bar unto her: and that the Marriage which was before the Fine, was the cause of Dower, although she could not come to be endowed, until after the death of her Husband: And he said, That the Wife could make no other to have her Dower, but only by bringing of her Writ of Dower; and therefore if she did surcease her time until the 5 years were passed, that her new claim by her new Writ, would not revive the Ancient Claim, and that therefore she should be barred; For she could not enter into the Land to defeat the Fine: And he said, That as to the principal Case, That it was adjudged, Anno 4 H. 8. And it was also said by the Court, That an Assignment of Dower made to the Wife in the Court of Wards, was no sufficient claim of the Wife; because she cannot have a Writ of Dower there; and there by this surceasing of her demand of her Dower for the 5 years at the Common Law, that she should be barred. LXXII. Trin. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was; A Man made a Lease for years, and the Lessee Covenanted to make Reparations; The Lessor granted the Reversion to another, and the Lessee for years made his Wife his Executrix, and died: It was holden in this Case by the Court, That the Grantee of the Reversion should not recover damages, but from the time of the Grant, and not for any time before: But yet the Wife the Executrix should be charged for the not Reparations as well in the time of her Husband, as in her own time▪ And if she do make the Reparation, depending the Suit; yet thereby the Suit shall not abate, but it shall be a good cause to qualify the damages according to that which may be supposed, that the party is damnified for the not repairing from the time of the purchase of the Reversion, unto the time of the bringing of the Action. And it was said by Manwood, That by the Recovery of the damages, that the Lessee should be excused for ever after, for making of Reparations; so as if he suffer the Houses for want of Reparations to decay, that no Action shall thereupon after be brought for the same; but that the Covenant is extinct. LXXIII. Easter Term. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. LOvelace moved the Court, that in the King's Bench this case was argued upon a Demurrer there; A Feoffment was made by one Coxley, who took back an Estate for life, the remainder to him who should be his Heir at the time of his death, and to the Heirs males of his body begotten: And afterwards, the Tenant for life after the Statute of 32 H. 8. suffered a Recovery to be had against him, that that Recovery was good as it was at the Common Law, Because the Statute doth not speak but that it shall not be a bar to him who hath the Reversion at the time of the Recovery, but this remainder was in Abeyance until the death of the Tenant for life; and that in the same Court it was adjudged accordingly in an Ejectione firmae; and because the same was a discontinuance, the Plaintiff had here brought his Formedon in the Remainder; and therefore Lovelace prayed, That they might proceed without delays, (because the Plaintiffs Title appeareth) without Essoigns, and feigned delays: Which Dyer, justice, conceived to be a reasonable request, and that it should be well so to do; because, as he said, This Court is debased and lessened, and the King's Bench doth increase with such Actions which should be sued here, for the speed which is there: And he said, That the delays here were a discredit to the Court; so as all Actions, almost, which do concern the Realty, are determined in the King's Bench in Writs of Ejectione firmae, where the judgement is, Quod recuperet terminum, and by that they are put into possession; and by such means, no Action is in effect brought here, but such Actions as cannot be brought there; as Formedons, Writs of Dower, etc. to the Slander of the Court, and to the Detriment and Loss of the Sergeants at the Bar. And Lovelace shown, That divers mean Feoffments were made, etc. LXXIV. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. NOte: This Case was in Court: An Heir Female was in Ward of a common person, who tendered to her a marriage, viz. his younger Son; and she agreed to the Tender, and the Guardian died; The Heir married the younger Son according to the Tender: The Executors of the Guardian brought a Writ de Valour Maritagii, supposing the Tender by the Lord to be void by his death. But the Court was of a contrary Opinion, because the Tender of their Testator was executed. LXXV. Riches Case. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. ELizabeth Rich brought a Writ of Dower against J.S. who pleaded, and judgement given for the Defendant, and afterwards the judgement was reversed. And she brought a new Writ of Dower, and the Tenant pleaded, That he always was ready, and yet is, etc. Against which the Demandant pleaded the first Record to estop the Tenant. To which the Tenant pleaded, Nul tiel Record. It was the Opinion of the Court, That here the Demandant cannot conclude the Tenant by that Replication, to plead, Nul tiel Record; For the judgement is reversed, and so no Record, and it cannot be certified a Record. But if the Tenant had taken Issue upon the plea of the Tenant absque hoc, that he was ready; the same might well have been given in Evidence against the Tenant. Note: That the Case was, That the Demandant after the death of her Husband entered into the Land in Demand, and continued the possession of it 5 years; and afterwards the Heir entered; upon which she brought Dower. It was agreed in that Case, That the Tenant needed not to plead, Tout temps priest. after his reentry; for the time the Demandant had occupied the same, is a sufficient recompense for the Damages. LXXVI. Vavasors Case. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. NIcholas Ellis, seized in Fee of the Manor of Woodhall, Leased the same to William Vavasor, and E. his Wife, for the life of the Wife, the remainder to the right Heirs of the Husband; The Husband made a Feoffment in Fee to the use of himself and his Wife for their lives, the remainder to his right Heirs: The Husband died, the Wife held the Land, and did Waste in a Park, parcel of the Manor: It was moved to the Court, If the Writ of Waste should suppose, that the Wife held ex dimissione Nicholai Ellis, or ex dimissione of her Husband: It was the Opinion of the Court, That upon this matter, the Writ should be general, viz. that she held de haereditate J.S. haeredis, etc. without saying any more, either ex dimissione hujus, vel illius. For she is not in by the Lessor, nor by the Feoffees, but by the Statute of Uses; and therefore the Writ shall be ex haereditate: It was also the Opinion of the justices, That the Wife here is not remitted, but that she should be in according to the Term of the Feoffment. Note in this Case, The Waste was assigned in destroying the Deer in the Park. And Meade, Serjeant, conceived, That Waste could not be assigned in the Deer, unless the Defendant had destroyed all the Deer: And of that Opinion also was Dyer. Manwood said, If the Lessee of a Dove-house destroyed all the old Pigeons, but one or two couple, the same is Waste. And if a Keeper destroy so many of the Deer, so as the ground is become not Parkable, the same is Waste; although he doth not destroy them all. See 8 R. 2. Fitz. Waste 97. If there be sufficient left in a Park, Pond, etc. it is enough. LXXVII. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. AN Action upon the Case was brought against Executors; They were at Issue, Upon nothing in their hands: It was given in Evidence on the Plaintiffs part, That a stranger was bound to the Testator in 100 l. for performance of covenants; which were broken; For which the Executors brought Debt upon the Obligation, depending which Suit, both parties submitted themselves to the Arbitrament of A. and B. who awarded, That the Obligor should pay to the Executors 70 l. in full satisfaction, etc. and that the Executors should release, etc. which was done accordingly. And it was agreed by the Court, That by the Release, it shall be taken in judgement of Law, That the Executors have Assets to the value of the whole 100 l. And although the Executors were compelled by the Award to make the release; yet it was their own act to submit themselves to the Arbitrament. LXXVIII. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Court of Wards. NOte: It was Ruled by Kellaway and Wilbraham in the Court of Wards, That where the King's Tenant of Lands holden by Knight service in Capite, made a Feoffment of the same Land to the use of himself for life, and after to the use of his younger Son in tail, the remainder to the right Heirs of the Feoffor, and died, the eldest Son within age, That the Queen should have the Wardship of his body, and of the third part of the Land; and when the eldest cometh at full age, the younger shall sue Livery, and pay Primer Seisin according to the rate of the value of the whole Land, viz. of the third part, as in possession; and of the two parts as a Reversion: For the remainder to the right Heirs of the Feoffor, is in truth a Reversion. For the Feesimple was never out of him, because there was not any Consideration as to that, nor any use expressed. And also because that Livery shall not be by parcels, the younger Son shall not be suffered to sue Livery of the third part presently, and respite the residue as to the two parts in Reversion, until the Reversion fall, but shall sue Livery presently, as well of the two parts in reversion, as of the third part in possession: And if the eldest Son had been of full age, at the time of the death of his Father, the younger Son should pay Primer Seisin as to the third part of the full value of it for one year as in possession; and as to the two other parts, the moiety of the value of a year as a Reversion. And at that time Breers Case was vouched; which was, Oliver Breers, Tenant in Chief by Knight's Service, made a Feoffment in Fee to the use of himself for life, and after to the use of A. his Son and Heir for life, and after to the use of the first begotten Son of A. in tail, and after to the use of the second Son of A. etc. and for default of such Issue, to the right Heirs of the Feoffor: Oliver died, the said A. his Son being of full age: It was ruled by the said Council of the said Court of Wards, That he should pay for his Primer Seisin, a third part of the Land in possession, and two parts as a Reversion. LXXIX. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Post. 56. THe Case was; A Man was seized of a Pasture, in which was two great Groves, and a Wood, known by the name of a Wood; And also in the same Pasture were 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 Premises: And further, That it should and might be lawful to the Lessee to cut down and carry away the same at all times during the Term. Harper, justice, The Hedge-Rowes did not pass by these words, Hedge-Rowes sparsim. Dyer, The Hedge-Rowes shall pass, for the Grant is general, All Woods. Mounson, contrary; For the words of the Grant may be supplied by other words. It was moved further, If by these words, the Lessee may cut them oftener than once? And by Harper, Manwood, and Mounson, He can cut them but once. Dyer, contrary; And so it should be, if the words had been, Growing upon the Premises. And this word (Growing,) although it sounds in the present Tense, yet it shall be also taken in the future Tense, if the word (tunc) had not been alleged; for it is a word of restraint. The Case which was argued in the Chancery, 27 H. 8. where I was present, was such, The Prior of St. John of Jerusalem Leased a Commandry; Provided, That if the said Prior, or any of his Brethren there being Commanders, will dwell thereupon, than the said Lease to be void. It was doubted, If that did extend to the Successors, for the word (Being) is in the present Tense. And yet it was holden by Fitzherbert, That it should be taken in the future Tense, and so extend to the Successors: Otherwise, if the words had been (Nunc) Being. LXXX. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A Man seized of Lands in Fee, devised, 1 Len. 101. That his Wife should take the profits of his Lands, until Mary his Daughter and Heir came to the age of 16 years; And if the said Mary died, That J.S. should be her Heir. Manwood, The Daughter after she hath attained the age of 16 years, shall have the Land in tail; For Devises ought to be construed according to the intent of the Devisor, so far forth as any certainty with reason may be collected, but no intent shall be taken against all reason and certainty. It is certain, That the Daughter shall not have the Land in Fee; for that shall descend to her without any Devise: And these words (If she dieth) cannot be intended a Condition; for it is certain she shall die. But if the words had been, That after the death of Mary, J.S. should be his Heir; in such case, Mary had had but an Estate for life, for there it is limited what Estate she should have. And when it is said, J.S. shall be his Heir, it shall be meant his Collateral Heir, so as the Estate tail remains in the Daughter. Mounson and Harper, to the contrary, and that she shall have but for life. And by Mounson, If Mary had been a stranger to the Devise, she should take nothing. And this Case was put by Barham, Serjeant, A Man deviseth 100 l. to his youngest Daughter, 100 l. to his middle Daughter, and another 100 l. to his eldest Daughter; and that all these sums shall be levied of the profits of his Lands. It was holden by the better Opinion of the Court in this Case, That the youngest Daughter should be first paid, and then the middle, and then the eldest Daughter; and that was said to be Coniers Case. LXXXI. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was; The King granted to the Bishop of Salisbury, That he should have Catalla felonum & fugitivor', and Fines and Amercements of all Tenants and Resiants within the Manor of D. which Manor, the Bishop Leased for years, and that the Lessee should have all profits and hereditaments within the same Manor. Manwood, justice, conceived, That the Lessee should have the Post Fines: For all things have a being somewhere, although they be not visible; As Rents, Fines, have their being in the Lands out of which they are issuing, and that is in the Son, of a Fine levied of the Land within the Manor, which is due by Land of him who ought to pay the Fine. And this Fine is due be reason of the Land, therefore it is in the Land, or within the Land; i. e. the Manor. 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 Manor, but rather in the Exchequer, or Court where the Record is. LXXXII. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was; A Man seized 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 Premises: 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 supplied 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 Premises. 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, than 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, than 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 judgement 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 Robin's Case. Mich. 17 Eliz. In the King's 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 judgement 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 itself, 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 westmerland's Case. Hill. 18. Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Earl of Westmoreland seized of a Manor, whereof the Demesnes were usually let for three Lives by Copy, 2 Len. 152. 2 Brownl. 208. according to the Custom of the Manor, granted a Rent-charge to Sir William Cordell, pro consilio impendendo, for the term of his Life, and afterwards conveyed the Manor to Sir William Clifton in tail. The Rent is behind, Sir William Cordell dieth; Sir William Clifton dieth, the Manor descended to Sir John Clifton, who granted a Copyhold 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 Copyhold 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 shown 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 completed 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, etc. Upon the Lands, etc. 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 aught 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 liable, 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, etc. shall be good against the Donor, etc. his Heirs, etc. 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, etc. 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 Assize; 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 seized of a Manor, 2 Cro. 53, 123. Yel. 90, 91. 1 Cro. 240. 2 Roll. 371. Hob. Rep. 242. to which an Advowson is appendent; A stranger presents, and his Clerk is in by 6 months; The King grants the Manor with all Advowsons' appendent 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 appendent, and the Inheritance of the same passed to the Grantee; for it was not made disappendant by the Usurpation: 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 Avoidance, he shall make his Title by the presentment of the King, not making mention of the Usurpation; 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 King's Bench. IN an Ejectione firmae, upon an Evidence, the Case was this; The Bishop of Rochester, 4 E. 6. Leased to B. for years, rendering Rent; and afterwards granted the Reversion to C. for 99 years, rendering 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 former Lease determined. And as to the Attornment, it was given in Evidence, That B. after the notice of the Grant to C. had speech with C. to have a new Lease from him, because he had in his Term but 8 years to come; but they could not agree upon the price. And it was the Opinion of the justices, That the same was an Attornment, because he had admitted the said C. to have power to make to him a new Lease. Also the said B. being in Company with one R. and seeing the said C. coming towards him, said to the said R. See my Landlord, meaning the said C. Bromley, Solicitor, The same is no Attornment, being spoken to a Stranger. Barham, contrary; Because that C. was present. And it was holden to be a good Attornment: But if that Attornment was not before that the Bishop was translated to Winchester, the Lease should be void. And although the Confirmation of the Dean and Chapter was before the Attornment, so as no Estate was vested in C. yet it was good enough; For an assent of the Dean and Chapter is sufficient, be it before or after; as it was holden by Catline, Southcote, and Whiddon. But Wray contrary. XCI. Norwich and Norwich's Case. Trin. 18 Eliz. In the King's Bench. HEnry Norwich was bound by Obligation to Simon Norwich, upon Condition, To stand to the Award of J.S. who awarded, That the said Henry should pay to Simon 150 l. at such a day. And that the said Henry should find 3 Sureties to be bounden with him to the said Simon for the payment of another sum of Money to the said Simon. In Debt, upon this Obligation, Henry pleaded, As to the 150 l. payment; and as to the other point, That he was always ready to become bounden, etc. And as to the finding of Sureties, he demanded judgement; for that, as to that, the Arbitrament is void. See 22 H. 6. 45. 17 E. 4. 5. 21 E. 4. 75. It was holden, That in such a case of such Award to find Sureties, the Defendant is not to find Sureties, but is only to tender his Obligation. And of that Opinion, was the whole Court, Because it was an Act to be done by a stranger to the Award. But if the Award had been of an Act to be done to a stranger, by him who was party to the Award, than the Award had been good: But if the stranger will not accept of the moneys awarded, his Obligation is saved. So if the Award be, That one of the parties to the Award shall discontinue a Suit, which he hath against another; If the Court where the Action is depending, will not suffer the discontinuance of it, the Award is performed: And in the principal Case, It was ruled accordingly. Note; The same day another Case was in the same Court, Between Dudley and Mallery: The Condition was, to perform an Award, etc. The Defendant pleaded performance of the Award. The Plaintiff assigned the breach of the Award in this, because the Award was, That the Servant of Mallery should pay to the Servant of Dudley 5 l. which the Defendant had not paid. It was the Opinion of the Court, That the Bond was not forfeited, for the Servants utriusque are strangers to the Submission. But if the Award had been, That Mallery should pay to the Servant of Dudley 5 l. it had been good, for that Mallery is a party to the Submission, etc. XCII. Rivers and Pudsey's Case. Hill. 19 Eliz. In the King's Bench. JOhn Rivers, Alderman of London, brought a Writ of Account against Pudsey; who said, That at the time, etc. and now, he is the Plaintiffs Apprentice; and demanded judgement, etc. And it was holden by Wray, justice, That it is no Plea: for although an Apprentice cannot be charged by this Action, for ordinary Receipts upon his Master's Trade; yet upon collateral Receipts, which do not concern the ordinary Trade of his Master, he shall be charged as well as another. See 8 E. 3. tit. Acc. 94. And, F.N.B. 119. XCIII. Potkins Case. Hill. 19 Eliz. In the King's Bench. IN Debt upon an Obligation by Potkin; The Defendant pleaded, That he himself borrowed of one Watson a certain sum of Money, paying for the forbearance thereof excessive Usury; And that the Plaintiff was bound with the said Defendant to the said Watson, for the payment thereof; and that he himself by this Obligation upon which the Action is brought, was bound to the said Plaintiff to save him harmless against the said Watson, etc. And because that this Bond was a Counterbond for the payment of Excessive Usury, etc. And it was holden by Manwood, That the same was a good Bar; for here, the Plaintiff when he was impleaded upon the principal Bond, might have discharged himself upon this matter, and therefore his Lachess shall turn to his prejudice; and therefore the Issue was joined upon the excessive Usury. XCIV. Abrahall and Nurse's Case. Hill. 19 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. JOhn Abrahall brought a Writ of Right-Close against John Nurse, in the Court of George Earl of Shrewsbury, and made protestation to prosecute that Writ in the form and nature of the Writ of the Lady the Queen, of Assize of Novel disseisin, at the Common-Law, and made his Plaint accordingly. And afterwards the Assize was taken, who spoke for the Plaintiff; Whereupon Abrahall had judgement to recover. After which, Nurse brought a Writ of False Judgement, and assigned Error in this. That whereas the said Writ of Right-Close was directed to the Bailiffs of George Earl of Shrewsbury of his Manor, etc. that the said Bailiffs should do full Right, etc. that it appeareth by the Record, that the Plea was holden before the Suitors, and not before the Bailiffs of George Earl of Shrewsbury. For all the Precepts in the Plea aforesaid, are, Quod sint hic ad proximam Curiam coram Sectatoribus tenend. An other Error was in this, and false judgement was given therein, because that the Roll is, Praeceptum est Ministro Curiae predict. that he cause to come 12 Free and lawful Men, etc. videre illud tenementum, etc. & nomina eorum imbreviare, etc. and the Minister of the Court returned 12 Recognitors of the Assize aforesaid; whereas by the Law of the Land, 24 Recognitors in a Plea of Land ought to be returned. But notwithstanding that these Exceptions were taken; Yet upon due consideration of the Court, notwithstanding these Exceptions, the judgement was affirmed. See the Record, Mich. 17 & 18 Eliz. Rot. 1301. XCV. The Master and Scholars of Linckfords' Case. Hill. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN an Ejectione firmae, the Case was; That the Master and Scholars of Linckford were seized of the Manor of Haldesley in the Town of Laberhurst; which Town extended into the County of Sussex, and also in the County of Kent; and they made a Lease to one Clifford of all their Lands in the Town of Laberhurst, except the Manor of Haldesley; whereas in truth they had not any Lands in the said Town, but the said Manor: And the Ejectione firmae was brought of that Manor 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 Manor: 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. Hind and Lion's Case. Mich. 19 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Post. 70. Dyer 124. 2 Len. 11. IN Debt by Hind, against one as Son and Heir of Sir John Lion, who pleaded, Nothing by descent, but the third part of the Manor of D. the Plaintiff replied, Assets; and shown for Assets, That the Defendant had the whole Manor of D. by descent: Upon which they were at Issue. And it was given in Evidence to the jury, That the said Manor was holden by Knights-Service; And that the said Sir John the Ancestor of, etc. by his Will in writing, Devised the whole Manor 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 Manor 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 entire Manor, and then his Plea is false, That but the third part descended. And a general judgement shall be given against him as of his own Debt; And an Elegit shall issue forth of the moiety 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, justice, conceived, That if a general judgement 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 show a Precedent, where such an Action was maintainable against the Executors of the Heir. XCVII. Mich. 19 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was; A. seized 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, justices, 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 show 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 seized in Fee of the Manor of Orchard, alias Lydcots-Farm, to which the Advowson is appendent, and presented such a one, etc. And afterwards leased to the Plaintiff the said Manor per nomen of the Manor of Orchard, alias Lydcots-Farm, with the appurtenances for 21 years, and the Church became void, etc. And the truth of the Case was; That there is the Manor of Orchard, and within the said Manor, the said Farm called Lydcots Farm, parcel of the said Manor, and the Lease was of the said Farm; and not of the said Manor, and so the Advowson remained to the Lessor, as appendent to the Manor: In this Case, It was moved, What thing the Defendant should traverse: Dyer, He shall say; That the Advowson is appendent to the Manor of Orchard, absque hoc, that it is appendent to the Farm of Lydcots: But it seemed to Manwood, That the Defendant shall say; That the Advowson is appendent to the Manor of Orchard, and that the Farm of Lydcots, is parcel of the said Manor, and that he Leased to the Plaintiff the said Farm, with the appurtenances, absque hoc, that the Manor of Orchard, and the said Farm, are all one; For if he traverse the Appendancy to the Farm of Lydcots, than he confesseth, That the Manor and Farm are all one, etc. 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 showed, That Licet the Plaintiff had married the Defendants Daughter, and that he had required the Defendant to find, ut supra, etc. the Defendant refused, etc. The Defendant 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, etc. for 3 years' next following. Upon which they were at Issue, and found for the Plaintiff. It was moved in Arrest of judgement, That here is no Issue joined; For the Plaintiff hath declared upon a promise to find, etc. 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 joined Issue upon the Assumpsit traversed by the Defendant, and so there is no Issue joined, 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 misjoining of Issue, but a not joining 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 alleged 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. Blow. 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 justices, That the Condition was broken, Because he had done as much as lay in him, to have devised the Landlord 2 Roll. 684. 1 Roll. 24. 9 Co. 94. Styles 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 King's Bench. NOte: It was said by the justices in this Case, That if an Executor promiseth to pay a Debt when he hath not Assets, no Action upon the Case lieth 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 King's 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 Manor of a Copyhold, to the use of A. and B. Two of the Defendants swore, That no such Surrender was made, etc. 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 joined with the third person not grieved, It was the Opinion of Wray and Southcote, justices, That the Writ should abate. CIII. Mich. 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 1 Len. 263. NOte: It was said by Dyer and Manwood, justices, If one be condemned in an Action upon the Case or Trespass, upon Nihil dicit, or Demurrer, etc. And a Writ issueth to inquire of the Damages, and before the return of the Writ, the Defendant dyeth; The Writ shall not abate for that; For the Awarding of the said Writ is a judgement. And Manwood said; In a Writ of Account, the Defendant is awarded to Account, And the Defendant doth Account, and is found in arrearages, and dieth; The Writ shall not abate, but judgement shall be given, That the Plaintiff shall recover, and the Executor shall be charged with the Arrearages; and yet Account 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 justices, 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 expressly 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, justices, 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 Plaintiff had acquitted and discharged him of the Reparations. Upon which the Plaintiff demurred in Law. Manwood, The same is an Acquittal and Discharge of the Reparations as well for the time past, as for the time to come, by force of the said Covenant, and amounts to as much as if he had Released the Covenant. And it was moved, If the Covenant being broken for want of Reparations, If now that Acquital and Discharge, or Release of the Covenant, should take away the Action upon the Obligation which was once forfeited before? And it was the Opinion of Manwood, That it should not; For if one be bound in an Obligation for the performance of Covenants, and before the breach of any of them, the Obligee releaseth the Covenants, and afterwards one of the Covenants is broken, the Obligation is not forfeited, for there is not now any Covenant which may be broken, and therefore the Obligation is discharged: But if the Release had been after the Covenant broken, otherwise: all which, Dyer and Mounson Concesserunt. CVI Mich. 20. Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Husband and Wife, seized in the right of his Wife of certain Customary Lands in Fee, he and his Wife by Licence of the Lord, make a Lease for years by Indenture rendering Rend, have Issue two Daughters: The Husband dieth; The Wife takes another Husband, and they have issue a Son and a Daughter: The Husband and Wife die, The Son is admitted to the Reversion, and dieth without Issue. It was holden by Manwood, That this Reversion shall descend to all the Daughters, notwithstanding the half-blood; For the Estate for years which is made by Indenture by Licence of the Lord, is a Demise and Lease according to the Order of the Common Law; and according to the nature of the Devise, the possession shall be adjudged; which possession cannot be said, possession of the Copyholder; For his possession is Customary, and the other is mere contrary, therefore the possession of the one shall not be said the possession of the other; and therefore there is no possessio fratris in this Case: But if he had been Guardian by the Custom, or this Lease had been made by surrender, There the Sister of the half-blood should not inherit. And Meade said, That the Case of the Guardian had been so adjudged. Mounson to the same intent; And if the Copyhold descend to the Son, he is not Copyholder before admittance; 1 Len. 174, 175. but he may take the profits, and punish Trepass, etc. CVII. Hind and Lion's Case. Hill. 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 2 Len. 11. Dyer. 124. Ante 64. DEbt by Hind, against one as Son and Heir of Sir John Lion, who pleaded, Nothing by descent, but the third part of the Manor of D. The Plaintiff replied, Assets; And shown for Assets, That the Defendant had the entire Manor of B. by descent; Upon which they were at Issue; And it was given in Evidence to the jury, That the Manor was holden by Knights-Service, and that the said Sir John the Ancestor of the Defendant by his Will in writing devised the whole Manor to his Wife, until the Defendant his Son and Heir should come to the age of 24 years; And that at the age of the Son of 24 years, his Wife should hold the third part of the said Manor for the Term of her life, and his Son should have the residue: And if his Son do die before he come to the age of 24 years without Heir of his body, that the Land should remain over to J.S. the Remainder over to another. The Devisor died, the Son came to the age of 24 years: Dyer and Mounson, justices, conceived, That here was not any Estate tail, and then for two parts he is not in by descent; For no Estate tail shall rise unless that the Son dieth before his said age, and therefore the Tail never took effect, and the Feesimple descends and remains in the Son, if not that he dieth before the age of 24 years, and then the whole vests with the Remainder over; but now having attained the said age, he hath a Fee, and that by descent of the whole Manor; and then his Plea is false, that but the third part descended. And a general judgement shall be given against him as of his own debt; And an Elegit shall issue forth of the moiety of all his Lands, as well those which he hath by descent from the same Ancestor, as of his other Lands; And a Capias lieth also against him. But Manwood, justice, conceived, That if a general judgement be given against the Heir by default, in such case a Capias doth not lie, although in case of a false Plea it lieth: But Dyer held the 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 show a Precedent where such an Action was maintainable against the Executor of the Heir. CVIII. Hill. 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A Seized of Lands in Fee, Devised them to his Wife for life; and after her decease, she to give the same to whom she will; Latch 9,39. had issue two Daughters, and died; The Wife granted the Reversion to a stranger, and committed Waste; And the two Daughters brought an Action of Waste: It was holden by the justices, That by that Devise, the Wife had but an Estate for life, but she had gained authority to give the reversion by his Will to whom she pleased. And such a Grantee should be in by A. and his Will: For A. had given expressly to his Wife for life, and therefore by Implication she should not have any further Estate: But if an express Estate had not been appointed to the Wife; by the other words, an Estate in Feesimple had passed. CIX. Hill. 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Lessor Covenanted with his Lessee, That the Lessee should enjoy the Lands demised without any lawful Eviction: And afterwards upon a Suit depending in Chancery by a stranger against the Lessor for the Land demised; The Chancellor made a Decree against the Lessor, and that the stranger should have the Land. It was moved, If that Decree were a lawful Eviction by which the Covenant was broken? It was holden by the Lord Dyer, That the same was not any Eviction; For although that in Conscience it be aequum, that the said stranger have the possession; yet the same is not by reason of any right paramount the title of the Lessor; which was in the party for whom it was decreed. CX. The Marquis of Northamptons' Case. Hill. 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. PArre, Marquis of Northampton, took to Wife the Lady Bouchier, the Heir of the Earl of Essex, 1 Roll. 430. who levied a Fine of the Land of the said Lady, Sur Conusans de droit, etc. with a Grant and render to them for life, the Remainder to the right Heirs of the body of the Lady: And afterwards by Act of Parliament, 35 H. 8. it was Enacted, That the said Lady should hold part of her Inheritance, and dispose of the same as a Feme sole, and that the Marquis should have the Residue, and that he might Lease the same by himself without his Wife for 21 years or less, rendering the ancient Rent, being Land which had been usually demised, etc. The Marquis Leased for 21 years, and afterwards durante Termino predict. Leased the same Land to another for 21 years, to begin after the determination of the first Lease. It was moved in this Case, That this last Lease was void, and that for 3 Causes; 1. Because the Marquis had but an Estate for life, and then it could not be intended that the Statute did enable one who had but such an Estate determinable, to make such a Lease, which peradventure might not commence in his life-time. 2. The Letter of the Statute is, 21 years, or under; and the word (Under) strongly expounded the meaning of the Statute to be, not to extend to such an Estate; For here upon the matter is a Lease for 40 years. 3. Because the Land demised, is the Inheritance of the Wife: And in this Case it was said, That in the Case of one Heydon, such a private Act was strictly construed; which was, That it was Enacted, That all Copies for 3 Lives, granted by the Lord Admiral of the Lands of his Wife, should be good. The Admiral granted Leases in Reversion for 3 Lives: And it was holden, That that Grant was not warranted by the Statute. Dyer said, The words are general, Omnes dimissiones, and therefore not to be restrained unto special Leases; scil. to Leases in possession. Manwood said, A Feme Covert by duresse, joins in a Lease with her Husband, the same shall bind her. CXI. The Queen and Sir John Constables Case. Hill. 20 Eliz. In the King's Bench. 5 Co. Constable's Case. A Quo Warranto was brought by the Queen against Sir John Constable, who claimed certain Wreck in the County of York; The Defendant pleaded, That Edward Duke of Buck. was seized of such a Manor, to which he had Wreck appendent, and that he was de alta proditione debito modo attinctus, and that found before the Escheator; And shown further, That the said Manor descended to Queen Mary, who granted the same to the Earl of Westmoreland, who granted the same to the Defendant: Upon which, It was demurred. And Exception was taken to the Plea, because the Attainder is not fully and certainly pleaded. It was argued by Plowden, That the Attainder was certainly pleaded, scil. debito modo attinctus; And it is showed, That the Wreck is appendent to the Manor, and then if the Defendant hath the Manor, he hath the Wreck also; and if he hath the Manor, it is not material as to the Queen how he hath it, for the Queen doth not claim the same, but impeacheth the Defendant for using there such a Liberty; But if the Heir of the said Duke had demanded the Manor there against him, the Attainder ought to have been pleaded certainly. And it was said by him, That the Interest of the Queen in the Sea, extends unto the midst of the Sea betwixt England and Spain; But the Queen hath the whole jurisdiction of the Sea between England and France, because she is Queen of England, France, etc. And so it is of Ireland. CXII. Hill. 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. TEnant for life made a Feoffment of White-Acre, of which he was seized for life, and made a Letter of Attorney to deliver Livery and Seisin secundum formam Chartae; before Livery, the Tenant purchased the Fee; and afterwards Livery was made: It was resolved by the Court in this Case, That all passed: But if the Feoffment had been of all his Lands in D. and the Letter of Attorney accordingly; and before Livery made, the Feoffee had many Lands there; If he purchased one Acre after, the Livery should not extend to that Acre, because the Authority was satisfied by the other Acre. CXIII. Banks and Thwaits Case. Mich. 21 Eliz. In the King's Bench. IN an Action upon the Case, the Case was, That A. had pawned an Indenture of Lease for years, of a Message and Lands to Banks; Thwaits, intending to purchase the same, required Banks to deliver him the said Lease, and he would give Banks 10 l. whether he bought it or no, at what time he would request the 10 l. Post. 200. And Banks delivered the same to Thwaits accordingly. Post. 200. And afterwards brought an Action upon the Case, and declared upon the whole matter; and concluded, Licet saepius requisitus, etc. without alleging a request express in certain, and the day and place of it. It was said by Cook, That here the moneys did not grow due before Request, nor is payable before Request, and therefore a Request ought to be made in facto; And so, he said, It was ruled in this Court, in an Action upon the Case, betwixt Palmer and Burroughs; and he said, that the Money was not due by the Promise, but by the Request. And it was the Opinion of the whole Court, That although it be a duty, Yet it is not a duty payable before Request; And the Request makes a Title to the Action: But if A. selleth to B. a Horse for 10 l. there is a Contract, and a Request in facto, need not be laid. And the Opinion of the Court was also, That upon this matter the Plaintiff could not have an Action of Debt; for there is not any Contract, for the thing is not sold, but it is a Collateral promise grounded upon the delivery: And by Clench, Here the Request is traversable: And afterwards judgement was given against the Plaintiff. And it was said, It was so ruled in Alderman Pullisons Case, in the Exchequer. Post. 201. CXIV. Segar and Boyntons' Case. Mich. 21 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 2 Len. 156. IN Trespass, the Case was this; King Henry the 8th, Anno 27 of his Reign, gave the Manor of D. to Sir Edward Boynton, Knight, and to the Heirs Males of his body; Sir Edward Boynton had Issue Andrew his eldest Son, and C. the Defendant his younger Son, and died: Andrew Boynton Covenanted by Indenture with the Lord Seymore, that the said Andrew Boynton would assure the said Manor to the use of himself for life, the Remainder to the said Lord and his Heirs: The said Lord Seymore in recompense thereof, should assure other Lands to the use of himself for life, the remainder to the use of the said Andrew Boynton in tail; who 37 H. 8. levied a Fine of the said Manor without proclamations to two strangers, to the uses according to the said Agreement; and before any Assurance made by the said Lord, The said Lord was Attainted of Treason, and all his Lands were forfeited to the King: And afterwards the said Andrew Boynton made a Suggestion to Queen Mary, of the whole matter; and upon his humble Petition, the said Queen by her Letters Patents reciting the said Mischief, etc. et praemissa considerans, et annuens Petitioni illius, granted to him the Manor aforesaid; and further de ampliori gratia sua, Released to the said Andrew Boynton all her Right, Possession, etc. which came to her ratione attincturae praedict', vel in manibus nostris existant, vel existere deberent: After which, viz. 5 Eliz. Andrew Boynton levied a Fine to the Plaintiff with proclamations, and died without Issue. And, the Defendant as Issue in tail entered. Puckering, Serjeant; It is to see, 1. If by the words of the Letters Patents of Queen Mary, viz. de ampliori sua gratia, etc. the Reversion in Fee which the Queen had, passed or not. 2. Admitting that the Reversion did not pass, Then if the Fine levied by Andrew Boynton, 5 Eliz. to the Plaintiff, the Reversion being in the Queen, be a Bar to the Issue; For when the first Fine was levied 37 H. 8. which was levied without proclamations, the same shall not bind the Issue in tail, neither as to the Right, nor to the Entry, for it is not any Discontinuance, because the Reversion is in the King, as of things which lie in Discontinuance, Rent, Common, etc. For such Fine is a Fine at the Common Law, and not within the Statute of 4 H. 7. And such a Fine is void against the Issue: But if such a Fine without proclamations be levied of a thing which lieth in Discontinuance, than such a Fine is not void, but voidable by a Formedon: And therefore this Fine, in the Case at Bar, being levied without proclamations of Lands entailed, whereof the Reversion is in the King at the time of the Fine levied, shall not bind the Issue; And by such Fine the Conusee hath which Fee was forfeited to the Queen by the Attainder of the Lord Seymore, and that the Queen immediately restored to Andrew Boynton, because the Lord Seymore had not according to Agreement betwixt them, assured his Lands to the said Andrew Boynton in Recompense; For the Indentures themselves were not sufficient to raise any use. See acc. 1 Mar. Dyer, 96. As to the point he conceived, That nothing passed of the Reversion, For the Grant hath reference to the words, All his Right, Possession, etc. which came to her ratione attincturae, and all the residue of the Grant, aught to have reference to that, to the ratione attincturae predict. which was the foundation of the whole grant; And here the intent of the Queen was not to other intent, but only to restore Andrew Boynton to the said Manor, and to his ancient Estate in it; And nothing appears in the said Letters Patents by which it might appear, that the Queen was apprised of her Reversion which she had by descent, and therefore the same cannot pass by general words: If the King grants the Goods and Chattels of all those who have done any Trespass for which vitam amittere debent, The Goods of him who is Attainted of Treason, shall not be forfeited or granted by such general words: 8 H. 4. 2. Vid. Roll. Tit. Prerogat. The King grants omnia catalla Tenentium suorum qualitercunque damnatorum, the same doth not extend to the Goods of him who is condemned for Treason. See 22 Ass. 49. So in our Case, the Patent shall not serve to two Intents, and not to pass two Interests by these general words; and then nothing passeth but the Fee determinable which was conveyed to the Lord Seymore, and forfeited by the Attainder. Then it is to be considered, How after the said Grant, the said Andrew Seymore is seized; And he conceived, That he should be in of the said Fee determinable, and not of an Estate in tail, against his own Fine; and than if he be not seized by force of the Tail at the time of the Fine levied, 5 Eliz. the same Fine cannot bind the entail: But admitting, That at the time of the second Fine levied, that he was in of an Estate in tail, yet that Fine shall not bar the Issue; For first, This Fine cannot make any Discontinuance, because that the Reversion in Fee is in the King, which is not touched by the Fine. See the Case of Saunders, Where A. makes a Lease for years, to begin at a day to come, and afterwards levies a Fine to a stranger with proclamations, and the 5 years' pass, and afterwards at the day of the beginning of the said Lease, the Lessee enters; his Entry is lawful, and he shall not be bounden by the Nonclaim; and so it was adjudged in Saunders and Starkies' Case. Vide inde Saffins' Case, 3 Jac. Cook 5 Part, 123, 124. After the making of the Statute of 4 H. 7. of Fines, It was much doubted, If the Issues of Common Tenants in tail should be bound by a Fine with proclamations, because upon the death of their Ancestors, they are as new Purchasers per formam Doni. And therefore it was provided by 32 H. 8. That the said Statute of 4 H. 7. should extend to such Common entails; but there was no doubt of an Estate tail of the gift of the King. And see Mich. 15 & 16 Eliz. Rot. 1474. between Jackson and Darcy, in a Partitione facienda, the Case was, Tenant in tail, the remainder to the King, after the Statute of 32 H. 8. levied a Fine with proclamations, and it was adjudged, That the same should bind the Issues; The Act of 32 H. 8. doth not extend but where the Reversion is in the King, but no mention is there of a Remainder, because that the words of the said Act are general of all Tenants in tail; The makers of the Act perceiving, That it might be doubted, that the generality of the words might include all Estates tails of the gift of the King, they restrained the words in a special manner; as appeareth by the last Proviso of the same Act, Nor to any Fines heretofore levied or hereafter to be levied by any person or persons of any Manors, etc. before the levying of the said Fine, given, granted or assigned to the person or persons levying the said Fine, or to any of his or their Ancestors in tail by Letters Patents, or Act of Parliament, the Reversion whereof at the time of the levying of such Fine was in the King: And so such Estates are excepted, And that in such Cases, where such Fines are levied, they shall be of such force as they should be if the said Act had not been made. And therefore it seemed to the said Parliament, That such Estate tails of the gift of the King were not bounden by the Statute of 4 H. 7. for otherwise, the said Proviso or Exception had been frivolous. Walmesley, Serjeant, to the contrary; And he agreed, That the first Fine was not any Discontinuance; and yet he conceived it is not altogether void against the Issues before that they entered; For no right remains in the Conusor against his Fine: And also he conceived, That this Clause, ex uberiori gratia, did extend to pass more than passed before; For he conceived, That the Queen intended more liberally, viz. the Reversion; For this is not any matter of Prerogative, but the same is a matter of Interest, which might also in the King's Case pass out of the King by general words. See 3 H. 7. 6 & 7 Br. Patents, 48. A Grant of the King ex insinuatione, doth not hinder the force of the words, ex mero motu. And it was the Opinion of the whole Court, That the Reversion which was in the King did not pass by that Grant; For the whole scope of the Patent was, as he conceived, to grant only that which the King had then ratione attincturae. Anderson conceived the Patent insufficient, because the Petition was not full and certain; Also he said, That ex speciali gratia, etc. would not help this Case; For the Estate tail is not recited, but only that he was seized de Statu haereditario, etc. so the Queen was deceived, etc. Periam contrary, The Queen was advised of the Mischief, and granted such Estate with which he parted by the Fine. And as to the other Point, Walmesley conceived, That the Fine with proclamations should bind the tail: And as to the Objection which hath been made, That the Conusor at the time of the Fine levied, was not seized by force of the entail; The same had been a good matter to have alleged to avoid a Common Recovery in the Tenant to the Praecipe, but not to this purpose: For if there be Tenant in tail, and he levieth a Fine, although he was not seized at the time of the Fine levied by force of the entail, yet such a Fine shall bind the issue; So if Tenant in tail discontinueth, and disseiseth the Discontinuee, and so levies a Fine. And he conceived, That the issue in tail is bound by the Statute of 4 H. 7. even of the Gift of the King. See 19 H. 8. 6 & 7. Where it is holden, That the Issue in tail is bound by the Statute of 4 H. 7. And where it hath been Objected, That it doth not extend but to such Fines which make Discontinuance at the Common Law, The same is not so: For if Tenant in tail of a Rent, or Common, levieth a Fine with proclamations, it is clear, that the issues shall be barred by it. And he much relied upon 29 H. 8. Dyer, 32. Tenant in tail of the Gift of the King levieth a Fine, or suffereth a Common Recovery, although it be not a Discontinuance, because that the Reversion is in the King; yet it is a bar unto the Issue. But Note, That that was before the Statute of 34 H. 8. See Wiseman's Case, 27 Eliz. Cook 2 Part. And see the Lord Staffords Case, 7 Jac. Cook 8 Part, 78. CXV. Mich. 21 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A Man seized of Lands called Hays, 3 Cro. 674. 2 Cro. 21, 22 which extended into two Towns, A and B. Devised Hayes-Land in A. to his Wife for life, and after to his Son; and if the Son die without issue, than Hayes-Land shall remain to his 3 Daughters, etc. The Son died without issue: It was the Opinion of Anderson and Periam, justices, That all Hayes-Land should not pass by the said Devise, but only that which was in A. CXVI. Henry and Brode's Case. Mich. 21 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN an Action of Trespass, the Plaintiff declared, That the Defendant simul cum J. S. and another Clausum suum fregit; 1 Len. 41. And Exception was taken to it, because here it appeareth upon the Plaintiffs own showing, That the Trespass whereof, etc. was made by the Defendant and another; and therefore the Writ brought against Brode only, was not good. But if it had been simul cum aliis ignotis personis, It had been good enough. But here the Plaintiff hath confessed another person trespassor with the Defendant. See 2 H. 7. 15. 8 H. 5 5. 14 H. 4. 22. Yet afterwards in the principal Case, judgement was given for the Plaintiff. CXVII. Barker and Tailor's Case. Mich. 21 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 3 Co. Sir George Brown's Case THe Case was; A Woman Tenant in tail within the Statute of 11 H. 7. accepted a Fine Sur Conusans de droit come ceo, etc. and by the same Fine rendered the Land to the Conusor for 1000 years: It was moved, If this Conveyance and Disposition was within the penalty of the Statute: For the Statute speaks of Discontinuances, etc. And it was the clear Opinion of the Court, That the same is within the Statute, for by such practice, the meaning of the Statute might be defeated: And if such Render for a 100 years should be good, by the same reason for 1000 years, which is as great a mischief and as dangerous to those in Reversion, as Discontinuances. And by Rhodes, justice, It hath been adjudged, That if a Woman who hath title of Dower, if before she be endowed, she will enter and levy a Fine, the same is within the said Statute, and yet she is not Tenant in Dower. See 5 Mar. Dyer 148. Penicocks Case. And 36 Eliz. Cook 5 Part. Sir George Brown's Case. CXVIII. Mich. 21 Eliz. In the King's Bench. 2 Len. 221. Ante 9 A By his last Will, willed, That his Lands should descend to his Son; but willed, That his Wife should take the profits thereof until the full age of his said Son of 21 years to maintain, and bring him up, and died; The Wife took Husband, and died, during the nonage of the Son: It was the opinion of Wray and Southcote, justice, That the second Husband should not have the profits until, etc. For nothing is devised to the Wife but a Confidence; and she is as a Guardian or Bailiff, to aid the Enfant, which by her death is determined, and cannot accrue to the Husband; But if the Husband had devised the profits of the Land to the Wife, until the age of the Enfant, for to bring up and educate, Ut supra. Wray said, The same amounted to a devise of the Land and so a Chattel in the Wife, which should accrue to the Husband. CXIX. Stamps Case. Mich. 24 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was: John Stamp being possessed of a Term for years granted the same to Thomas Stamp his Brother 12 May 20 Eliz. And afterwards, 8 Octob. 21 Eliz. he himself being in possession of it, Mortgaged the same to one P. who suffered him to continue his possession: Thomas Stamp granted his Estate to John Stamp, who mortgaged the same to one G. who suffered the said John Stamp to continue in possession until 10 December, 22 Eliz. G. entered, John Stamp came to the said P. and requested him, that he would grant all his Estate to B. and C. to whom the said John Stamp was indebted for security of their moneys; To whom the said P. said, That if he would find him any other surety for his Debt, he is contented so to do. And John Stamp offered to the said P. the said B. and C. and he accepted the same, and at the request of the said John Stamp, granted his Interest to them 2 Feb. 22 Eliz. P. having notice of the Grant before made to the said G. Upon which G. informed against P. upon the Statute of 32 H. 8. It was holden in this Case by Periam and Meade, justice, That P. was not within the penalty of the Statute: For P. granted his Interest to B. and C. at the suit and at the request of John Stamp, who was the Mortgager, for assurance of his Debt which he ought to them; And therefore it shall not be intended, that that Grant was made for any maintenance, or for any unlawful cause against the Statute. And also John Stamp who granted unto P. had possession, and received the Issues and Profits of the said Lands for a whole year before the Grant, notwithstanding that he was not in possession by a whole year next before the day of the date of the Grant. Godb. 450. As if a Man be in possession, or hath received the Issues and Profits for a whole year, and afterwards a stranger enters upon him, and hath the possession for the space of a Quarter of a year, or half a year; yet he who was in possession by a year before, may grant his Interest without danger of the Statute, etc. CXX. Pasch. 24 Eliz. In the King's Bench. NOte: Per totam Curiam; 2 Len. 35. A man made his Will in this manner; scil. I Will and Bequeath my Land to A. And the name of the Devisor is not in the whole Will; Yet the Devise is good enough by Averment of the name of the Devisor. And for proof that the same is his Will, If one lying in extremis, having an intent to devise his Lands by Word, makes such devise, but doth not command the same to be put in writing, but another without the knowledge or Commandment of the Devisor, putteth it in writing in the life-time of the Devisor, the same is a good Devise; For it is sufficient, if the Devise be reduced into writing during the life of the Devisor. CXXI. Pepy's Case. Pasch. 25 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. WAste was brought by F. and his Wife against Pepy; and declared, That the said Pepy was seized, and enfeoffed certain persons to the use of himself for life, and afterwards to the use of the Wife of the Plaintiff, and her Heirs: The Defendant pleaded, That the said Feoffment was to the use of himself and his Heirs in Fee, etc. absque hoc, that it was to the uses, as in the Count; Upon which they were at Issue: And it was found by Verdict, That the said Feoffment was to the uses contained in the Count; but further found, That the Estate of the Defendant by the Limitation of the use was privileged with the impunity of Waste; scil. without Impeachment of Waste. It was moved, If upon that Verdict, The Plaintiff should have judgement. Anderson and Rhodes, justices, conceived, That he should, for that the matter in Issue is found for the Plaintiff; and that is, the Feoffment to uses contained in the Count, and this impunity of Waste is a Foreign matter not within the Charge of the jury; and therefore the finding of the same is but matter of surplusage: As if I plead a Feoffment of J. S. to which the other pleads, That he did not enfeoff, and the jury find a Conditional Feoffment, the Court shall not respect the finding of the Condition, for it was not in Issue, and no advantage shall be ever had of such a Liberty if it be not pleaded, 30 H. 8. Dyer 41. In Dower, the Tenant pleaded, Ne unque seisi que Dower, etc. The Tenant pleaded, That before the Coverture of the Demandant, one A. was seized, and gave the Land whereof Dower is demanded to the Husband of the Demandant in tail, who made a Feoffment; A stranger took the Demandant to Wife, took back an Estate in Fee, and died seized, having Issue inheritable: Now although upon the truth of the matter she is n●t Dowable de jure, yet forasmuch as the parties were at Issue upon a point certain, no foreign, nor strange matter not in Question betwixt the parties shall be respected in the point of judgement: But if the Defendant had pleaded it in Bar, he might have foreclosed the Demandant of her Dower. See 38 Ass. 27. 47 E. 19 In a Praecipe quod reddat upon the default of the Tenant, came one and showed, How that the Tenant who made default, was but Tenant for life of the Lands in demand, the Reversion in Fee to himself, and prayed to be received: The Demandant counterpleaded the Resceit, Dicendo, That the Tenant had Fee, etc. Upon which, Issue was taken: And it was found, That neither the Tenant, nor he who prayed to be received, had any thing in the Land. And in that Case, The Court did not regard the matter which was superfluous in the Verdict; For they were at Issue upon a point certain; scil. whether the Tenant was seized in Fee: For it is confessed of the one side, and of the other, that he had an Estate for life, and of that matter the jury was not charged, and they are not to inquire of that; And so it is found against the Demandant, by which the Resceit was granted. See 7 H. 6. 20. The parties were at Issue upon a Dying seized; which is found by Verdict; but the jury find further, That the other party made continual Claim: The said continual Claim shall not be respected in point of judgement, because it was not pleaded in Avoidance of the Deceit, etc. Windham, justice, to the contrary, because it appeareth to us upon the Verdict, That the Plaintiff hath not cause of Action, and therefore he shall not have judgement: As in Detinue, the Plaintiff declares upon a bailment by his own hands; The Defendant pleads, Ne Detinue pas, the jury find the Detinue but upon bailment by another hand: In that case notwithstanding that the Detinue be found; yet the Plaintiff shall not have judgement. But Anderson, Rhodes, and Periam conceived, That in the principal Case judgement should be given for the Plaintiff: For in no case the party shall have advantage of that liberty of impunity of Waste, if he doth not plead it; And the jurors are not to meddle with any matter which is not in issue; and if they do, It is but matter of surplusage, and to no purpose; and afterwards, judgement was given for the Plaintiff. See the Number Roll, Pasch. 25 Eliz. Rot. 602. CXXII. Skipwith's Case. Pasch. 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN an Action of Trespass: It was found by a special Verdict; Godbolt 14, 143. Co. of Copy-holds 94. That the Lands were Copyhold Lands. That the Custom of the Manor was, That Quaelibet Foemina Viro Co-operta poterit devise Lands, of which she was seized of an Estate of Inheritance in Fee simple according to the Custom to her Husband; And also Surrender the same in the presence of the Steward and 6 other of the Tenants. And it was further found, That one J.S. was seized of the Copyhold Lands, wherein the Trespass was; And that he had Issue 2 Daughters and died seized of the said Lands: And that after his Decease his two Daughters entered into the said Lands, and afterwards, they both took Husbands; And that afterwards, one of the said Daughters made a Will in writing, and by her said Will, in the presence of the Steward, and six of the Tenants, she Devised her part of the said Copyhold Lands to her Husband and his Heirs; and at the next Court, surrendered the said Copyhold Lands in the presence of the Steward and six other of the Tenants, to the uses in her Will expressed, and shortly after she died; and that after her death, her Husband was admitted to the said part of her Lands: who continued the possession thereof; And the Husband of the other Daughter and his Wife entered upon him: Upon whom, he reentered; And the Husband brought Trespass. This Case was argued at the Bar, by Rhodes: And he said, That the Custom was not good; neither for the Devise, nor for the Surrender. First, for the incertainty of the Estate, what Estate she might Devise, for that is not expressed in the Custom; but generally that she might Devise her Copyhold Lands of Inheritance, without expressing for what Estate. And secondly, the Custom is not good; for that it is against reason, that the Wife should surrender to the use of her Husband; And that a Custom to devise is not good where it is incertain, he vouched many Cases; As 13 E. 3. tit. Dum fuit infra aetatem. 3. The Tenant said, That the Lands lay in the County of Dorset, where the Custom is, That an Enfant might make a Grant or a Feoffment when he could number 12 d. and because it is incertain when he could do it, It was holden to be a void Custom. So 19 E. 2. tit. Gard. 127. In a Ravishment of Ward, It was alleged, that the Custom was, That when an Enfant could measure an Ell of Cloth, or number 12 d. that he should be out of Ward; And it was holden to be a void Custom for the incertainty: Also he said, That in the principal Case, the Custom was void; for that it was against reason, that the Wife should surrender to her Husband; for every Surrender is a Gift: and a Woman cannot give unto her Husband; for the Wife hath not any disposing Will, but the Will of her Husband only. And therefore the Case is in 21 E. 3. That if the Husband be seized of Lands in the right of his Wife; and he maketh a Feoffment in Fee of the Lands, and the Wife being upon the Lands doth disagree, and saith, She will not departed with the Land during her life; yet the Feoffment is a good Feoffment, and shall bind the Wife during the life of the Husband. And see 3 E. 3. Br. tit. Devise, 43. That a Feme Covert cannot Devise to her Husband, for that should be the Act of the Husband to convey the Lands to himself. And whereas the Case in 29 E. 3. was Objected against him, where the Case was, That a Woman being seized of Land deviseable, took a Husband, and had Issue by him; and the Wife Devised her Lands to her Husband for his life, and died; and a Writ of Waste was afterwards brought against him: And it was there holden, That the Writ did lie. He said, That that Case did make rather for him than against him, for that Case proves, that the Husband did not take the Land by virtue of the Devise in his own right; but that he held the Lands having Issue by the Wife as Tenant by the Courtesy, and so under another Title; and therefore it appeareth, that the Writ of Waste was there brought against him as Tenant by the Courtesy. Also he said, That the Devise was void by the Statute of 34 H. 8. Cap. 5. where it is Enacted, That Wills and Testaments made of any Lands, Tenements, etc. by Women Coverts shall not be good or effectual in the Law; and he said, That that Statute did extend to Copyhold Lands: But as to that, all the justices did agree, That Copyhold Lands were not within the words of that Statute. But Anderson said, That the Equity of that Act did extend to Copyholds: And further Anderson said, That the Prescription, or Custom in the principal Case was not good; for it is laid to be, That Quaelibet Foemina Viro Co-operta poterit, and it ought to be potest; and by the Custom have used to Devise to the Husband: And a Prescription must be in a thing done, and not in posse. Also he said, That the Custom if it were good, is not well pursued; For the Custom is, that she may Devise and Surrender in the presence of the Steward and six Tenants, and that must be intended to be done all at one time; for the words of a Custom are to be performed, if it may be: but in the principal case, the Devise is laid to be at one time, and the Surrender at another time, and so it is not in pursuance of the Custom: But to that it was not answered. But than it was said, Admit that the Custom to devise, and the Devise were not good; yet the Action did not lie against the Defendant, because that the Husband was admitted, and his Entry into the Land was countenanced by a lawful Ceremony; and also he was Tenant in Common with the other Husband by such Entry. It was adjourned. CXXIII. Rosse's Case. Mich. 26 Eliz. In the King's Bench. IN Trespass brought by Rosse, for breaking of his Close, and beating of his Servant, and carrying away of his Goods: Post. 94. Upon Not guilty pleaded, the jury found this special matter; scil. That Sir Thomas Bromley, Chancellor of England, was seized of the Land where, etc. and leased the same to the Plaintiff and one A. which A. assigned his moiety to Cavendish; by whose Commandment the Defendant entered. It was moved, That that Tenancy in Common betwixt the Plaintiff, and him in whose right the Defendant justified, could not be given in Evidence; and so it could not be found by Verdict, but it ought to have been pleaded at the beginning. But the whole Court were clear of another Opinion; and that the same might be given in Evidence well enough. It was further moved against the Verdict, That the same did not extend to all the points in the Declaration, but only to the breaking of the Close, without enquiry of the battery, etc. And for that cause, it was clearly holden by the Court, That the Verdict was void; And a Venire facias de novo was awarded. CXXIV. Absalon and Andertons Case. Mich. 25 & 26 Eliz. Rot. 479. In the King's Bench. WIlliam Absalon Master of the Savoy, and the Chaplains there, brought Debt against Anderton; The Case was, That the said Master and Chaplains leased Lands to the Defendant for certain years; and afterwards he accepted of them an Indenture of Bargain and Sale to him and his Heirs, by express words of Bargain and Sale, without other words; And one of the Masters of the Chancery within the 6 months came unto them into their Chapterhouse, and before him they acknowledged the said Indenture to be their Deed, and prayed that it be enroled; which was done accordingly. It was moved, If that acknowledgement and enrolment were good or not; or if the Master and the Chaplains ought to have appointed one by their Warrant, to be their Attorney, to acknowledge the said Deed? And it was also moved, 1 Len. 184. If there needed any enrolment at all of it, because Anderton had then an Interest in the Land for years; in which case it is to be considered, If the words Barganizavi & Vendidi, shall be of such effect, as the words Dedi & Concessi? And it was said by the Court, That a Warrant of Attorney to acknowledge a Deed were a strange thing. And it was agreed, That the Indenture being once Enrolled, it was not material by what means it was Enrolled; but was good being done. CXXV. Savell and Badcocks Case. Mich. 26 Eliz. In the King's Bench. SAvell brought an Action of Trespass against Badcock, and declared, That Edw. Savell was seized of the Manor of D. and leased the same for years to Henry Savell, who died, having made the Plaintiff his Executor, who entered, and was possessed until the first day of January, at which time the Trespass was done. The Defendant pleaded, Not guilty. And it was given in Evidence on the Plaintiffs part, That the said Ed. Savell was seized, and leased to the said Henry Savell for years, who so possessed, reciting the said Lease, Demised the said Manor to Sir William Cordell, Master of the Rolls, to have to him immediately after the decease of the said Henry for so many years of the said Term which at the time of his death should be unexpired, if Dorothy the Wife of the said Henry should so long live: Henry died, Sir William Cordell entered; Dorothy died within the Term; the Plaintiff the Executor of Henry entered, and was possessed until the first day of Januarii, 23 Eliz. at which day the Trespass was done. On the Defendants part it was given in Evidence, That after the Grant to Sir William Cordell, the said Henry and Edward joined in a fine Sur Conusans de droit, etc. to a stranger, who granted and rendered the Land to the said Henry and his Heirs, who devised the same to the said Dorothy his Wife for life, the remainder to Cordell Savell in tail, the remainder over, and died; Dorothy entered, and died; Cordell Savell, 22 Eliz. conveyed the Manor by Fine to one Williamson, who entered; and afterwards and before the Trespass aforesaid, viz. 14 January, 23 Eliz. leased to the Defendant for years, by force of which the Defendant entered. And upon this Evidence, there was a Demurrer in Law. And it was argued by Shuttleworth, who was made Sergeant the last Term. And he said, That the Demise made by Henry Savell is not in the inconveniency of the maxim, that Henry by the said Grant should reserve a lesser Estate to himself, than he had before; For here by this Grant, no present interest passeth by Sir William Cordell, but the effect of the Grant rests upon a Contingency; scil. if he himself dieth within the Term, etc. until which time the whole interest of the Term doth remain in the said Henry Savell subject to the Contingency aforesaid, and amounts to so much; as if the said Henry had granted the same to Sir William Cordell, if he himself should die within the Term: in which Case, it is a limitation when the said Grant shall take effect. As if I grant unto you my Lease for so many years as J.S. shall name, the same is a good Grant to take effect upon the naming of J.S. Then the Case being so, When Henry Savell the Lessee, and Edward Savell the Lessor join in a Fine, ut supra, now the possibility of the remnant of the Term which upon the death of Henry Savell and Dorothy his Wife within the Term might accrue to the Executors of the said Henry Savell, is not extinct by the Fine, but doth remain Quodam modo in Henry Savell, to vest in his Executors, if it should happen; And here is not any conclusion by the Fine in this Case; for Henry at the time of the Fine had not in him any Interest, which is now claimed, and so cannot be bound by the Fine: For the Interest in respect of which the Plaintiff hath cause of Action, beginneth after the death of Henry who levied the Fine; and first accrueth to his Executors, and so shall not be touched by the Fine: and therefore if such a Lessee for years granteth his Term to J.S. Proviso, That if J.S. dieth within the Term, that he himself shall have it again; and afterwards the Grantor joins with his Lessor in a Fine, and afterwards within the Term J.S. dieth, now the Grantor notwithstanding the Fine shall have the residue of the Term; Then, when the Conusee by the Fine regrants the Land to Henry in Fee, that possibility to have after the death of the Donor cannot be drowned in the Fee simple for the reason aforesaid; And then when Henry deviseth the same to his Wife, that possibility doth pass to Dorothy, because it was never in the Devisor; and then when Dorothy dieth within the Term, the Residue of the said Term shall accrue to the Plaintiff as Executor of Henry. Cook, contrary, And he held, The Grant to Sir William Cordell is utterly void; And he agreed, That Grants although in themselves they be uncertain; yet if they may be reduced to certain, they are good: but here is no expectance of any certainty in the life of Henry; for the Term limited to Sir William Cordell, is not to begin till the death of Henry, and is to end upon the death of Dorothy, so as here is not any certain beginning, nor certain end; and here this Grant cannot be reduced to any Certainty during the life of the Grantor, and so for that cause is void, See Blow. Com. 6 Eliz. Say and Fuller's Case, 273. by Weston, justice, If A. makes a Lease for so many years as J.S. shall name, if J.S. in the life of A. name a certain number of years, than the Lease is good; but if the Lease had been for so many years as my Executors shall name, that can never be made good in my life; And upon that reason it is, That an Attornment ought to be made in the life of the Grantor, or else no Reversion shall pass. So 33 E. 3. Entry, 79. A Bishop aliens, and after his death, the Dean & Chapter 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 shows 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 alleged; 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, rendering Rend 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 premises, 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 seized 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. entered, 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. etc.) 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, etc. That 22 Eliz. Cordell Savell levied a Fine to Williamson, by force of which the said Williamson entered, and was seized; and so seized, 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 entered 22 Eliz. And at length, after deliberation had of the premises 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 judgement without any other Exception. But the Plaintiff would not agree to it. Wherefore it was said by Wray, Chief justice, with the consent of his Companions, Begin again at your peril; for we are all agreed, That you cannot have Judgement upon this Action. CXXVI. Mich. 26 Eliz. In the King's 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, Upon a Motion at the Bar, it was said by Wray, justice, 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 King's 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 judgement for want of sufficient Consideration, It was said die Wray, Chief justice, 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 showed; and therefore the Law shall intent, 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, justice, granted. Gawdy, justice, 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 King's Bench. A Writ of Error was brought in the King's Bench by Amner against Luddington, Mich. 26 Eliz. Rot. 495. 2 Len. 92. 8 Co. 96. And the Case was, That one Weldon was seized, 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 Lease of my House during her life; and after her death, I will it go amongst my Children unpreferred. Peerepoint died, his Wife entered, and was possessed virtute legationis praedictae, And took to Husband one Fulsehurst, against whom Beswick recovered in an Action of Debt 140 l. Upon which Recovery, issued a Scire facias; and upon that a Vendit' Exponas; upon which the Sheriff sold the Term so Devised to one Reynolds: Fulsehurst died; his Executor brought Error, and reversed the judgement given against the Testator at the Suit of Beswick; the Wife reentered, sold the Term, and died; Alice a Daughter of Peerepoint, unpreferred, entered: And upon this matter found by Special Verdict in the Common Pleas; The Entry of Alice was adjudged lawful. Upon which judgement, Error was brought in the King's Bench: And it was argued upon the words of the Devise, because here the Lease is not Devised, but all his Interest in the thing Devised: And it is not like to the Case between Welden and Elkington, 20 Eliz. Blow. Com. 519. where the Case was, that Davies being Lessee for years, Devised, That his Wife should have and occupy his Land demised for so many years as she should live. Nor unto the Case betwixt Paramour and Yardley, 21 Eliz. Blow. Com. 539. For there the Lessee Devised, That his Wife should have the Occupation and Profits of the Lands, until the full age of his Son; For in those Cases, the Land itself is quodam modo devised: But in our Case, all the Estate is Devised; i. e. the Lease itself. And also in those two Devises, a certain person is named in the Will, who should take the residue of the Term which should expire after the death of the Wife; but in the Case at Bar, no person in certain is appointed, etc. but the Devise as to that is conceived in general words, Children unpreferred; Ergo, neither any Possibility, nor any Remainder is in any person certain; therefore all the whole Term is entirely in the Wife, and then she may well dispose the whole. But the whole Court was to the contrary, and that in this Case the Possibility should rise well enough upon the death of the Wife, to the Daughter Alice unpreferred. Another Point was moved; If the said Term being sold in the possession of the Wife of the Devisor, by force of the Execution aforesaid; If now the judgement being reversed, the sale of the Term should be also avoided; for now the party is to be restored to all that which he had lost. And by Cook it was argued, That notwithstanding the reversal of the judgement, the sale should stand; For the judgement for the Plaintiff in a Writ of Error is, That he shall be restored to all that which he lost ratione Judicii predict. and the judgement was, That the Plaintiff should recover 140 l. and therefore by the judgement in the Writ of Error, he shall be restored to so much; but the mean Act, scil. the Sale of the Lease shall stand, and shall not be defeated and avoided: As 7. H. 6. 42. A Statute Staple is bailed in Owel Main, the Conusee brings Debt against the Bailee, and hath judgement to recover the Statute, and upon that Suit he had Execution, and the Bailee brought a Writ of Error to reverse the judgement in Detinue, yet the Execution shall stand, and an Audita Querela doth not lie for the Conusor. And see 13 E. 3. Fitz. tit. Bar. 253. Accountant found in arrearages, committed to the Goal, escaped; and reversed the judgement given against him in the Account Ex parte talis: yet an Action upon the Escape did lie. And as to that Point, the whole Court was of the same Opinion with Cook: But that Point did not come in judgement: For by the sale, nothing passed but the Interest in praesenti which was in the Wife of the Devisor, but the Possibility to the Children unpreferred was not touched by it. And afterwards the judgement was affirmed. CXXIX. Bunny and Bunny's Case. Hill. 26 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN an Action of Covenant between Bunny and Bunny, the Plaintiff declared, That the Defendant had Covenanted to find unto the Plaintiff, Meat and Drink at the House of the Defendant. The Defendant pleaded, That he was always ready to find the Plaintiff Meat and Drink, if he had come to his House to have taken it, Et de hoc ponit se super Patriam: And it was found for the Plaintiff; And in this Case, the Court awarded, That the parties should replead; For in all Cases where the Defendant pleads matter of excuse not contained in the Declaration as here, he shall say, Et hoc paratus est verificare, in the perclose of his Plea: But if the Defendant had pleaded, That he had given the Plaintiff according to the Covenant, Meat and Drink, than the Conclusion of his Plea had been good, Et de hoc ponit se super Patriam, etc. CXXX. Hill. 26 Eliz. In the King's Bench. IN an Action upon the Case, supposing certain Goods to have come to the hands of the Defendant, and that he had wasted them, and shown in what manner: The Defendant pleaded Not guilty; And it was found by Verdict, That the Goods, etc. came to the Defendants hands, and that he had wasted them, but in another manner than the Plaintiff had declared: It was the Opinion of the whole Court, That upon this Verdict, the Plaintiff should not have judgement. As in an Action of Trespass, the Plaintiff declared, That the Defendant had distrained his Horse, and traveled riding upon him; And the jury found, That the Defendant did distrain the Horse, and killed him; In that case, it was holden, The Plaintiff should not have judgement. So in an Action upon the Case, the Plaintiff declares upon a Promise upon one Consideration, and the jury find the Promise, but that it was upon another Consideration; in such case, the Plaintiff shall not have judgement. Adjudged for the Defendant. CXXXI. Merry and Lewes's Case. Pasch. 26 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. MErry brought an Action upon the Case against William Lewes, 2 Len. 53. Executor of David Lewes late Master of St. Katherine's juxta London; And Declared, That the said David, in Consideration, That whereas Quaedam pars Domus fratrum & sororum Sanctae Katherinae fuit vitiosa & in decasu, the said Merry ad requisitionem dicti Davidis repararet eandem, promised to pay the said Merry all such moneys as the said Merry expenderet in such Reparations. And declared further, That eandem partem Domus praedict. reparavit, etc. And upon Non Assumpsit, It was found for the Plaintiff. It was Objected in Arrest of judgement, That the Declaration is too general, Quaedam pars Domus; For the Plaintiff ought to have showed especially what part of the House in certainty, as the Hall, Chamber, or other Rooms: But the Exception was disallowed. Another Objection was, Because he set forth in the Declaration, That the Plaintiff ad requisitionem dicti Davidis repararet; And the Plaintiff declares, That reparavit generally, without saying, 2 Cro. 404. That ad requisitionem Davidis reparavit: And that is not the Reparation intended in the Consideration, i. e. reparatio ad requisitionem, etc. but a Reparation of his own head, and at his pleasure. And for this Cause, the judgement was stayed. CXXXII. Wrennam and Bullman's Case. Pasch. 26 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 2 Len. 52. 1 Len. 282. WRennam brought an Action upon the Statute of 1 & 2 Phil. & Mar. against Bullman, for unlawful impounding of Distresses; and was Nonsuit: It was moved by Shuttleworth, Serjeant, If the Defendant should have Costs upon the Statute of 23 H. 8. And it was Adjudged, That he should not; And that appears clearly upon the words of the Statute, etc. for this Action is not conceived upon any matter which is comprised within the said Statute; and also the Statute upon which this Action is grounded, was made after the said Statute of 23 H. 8. which gives Costs; and therefore the said Statute of 23 H. 8. and the remedy of it cannot extend to any action done by 1 & 2 Phil. & Mary. And Rhodes, justice, said, It was so adjudged in 8 Eliz. CXXXIII. Mich. 26 Eliz. In the King's Bench. 2 Len. 161. Dyer 291. IN a Formedon of a Manor, The Tenant pleaded joint-tenancy by Fine with J.S. The Demandant averred the Tenant sole Tenant as the Writ supposed; and upon that it was found and tried for the Demandant: Upon which a Writ of Error was brought; and Error assigned in this, Because where joint-tenancy is pleaded by Fine, the Writ ought to have abated, without any Averment by the Demandant against it, and the Averment had been received against Law, etc. Shuttleworth, At the Common-Law, If the Tenant had pleaded joint-tenancy by Deed, the Writ should have abated, without any Averment; but that was remedied by the Statute of 34 E. 1. But joint-tenancy by Fine doth remain as it was at the Common Law; For he hath satis supplicii, because by his Plea, if it be false, he hath by way of Conclusion given the moiety of the Land in demand to him with whom he hath pleaded joint-tenancy: And the Law shall never intent that he would so slightly departed with his Land for the abatement of a Writ. As in a Praecipe quod reddat, the Tenant confesseth himself to be a Villain of a stranger, the Writ shall abate without any Averment Free, and of Free estate; for the Law intends, that the Tenant will not enthral himself without cause. Wray, to the same purpose; But the Demandant may confess and avoid the Fine; as to say, That he who levied the Fine, was his Disseisor, upon whom he hath before entered. And if Tenant in Feesimple be impleaded, and he saith, That he is Tenant for life, the remainder over to A. in Fee, and prayeth in Aid of A. the Demandant shall not take Averment, That the Tenant at the time of the Writ brought was seized in Fee. Note: In this Formedon, joint-tenancy was pleaded but as to parcel; And it was holden by Wray and Southcote, That the whole Writ should abate, the whole Writ against all the Defendants. And so where the Demandant enters into parcel of the Land in demand, if the thing in demand be an entire thing, the Writ shall abate in all. In this Writ, the Demandant ought to have averred in his Writ an especial foreprise of the Land parcel of the Land in demand whereof the joint-tenancy by the Fine is pleaded: For this dismembering of the Manor and distraction of the Land of which the joint-tenancy is pleaded, is paravail and under the gift whereof the Formedon is conceived; and therefore in respect of the title of the Demandant, it remains in right parcel of the Manor, and therefore aught to be demanded accordingly with a foreprise. But if A. giveth unto B. a Manor, except 10 Acres in tail, there, if after upon any Discontinuance, the issue in tail is to have a Formedon; in such case, there needs not any foreprise for the said 10 Acres, for they were severed from the Manor upon the gift: But if Lands in demand be several, as 20 Acres, except 2 Acres, this foreprise is not good. See Temps E. 1. Fitz. Brief, 866. Praecipe, etc. unam bovatam terrae forprise, one Sellion, and the Writ was abated, for every demand ought to be certain: but a Sellion is but a parcel of Land uncertain as to the quantity; in some places an Acre, in some more, in some less. Another Point was, Because the Tenant hath admitted, and accepted this Averment; scil. sole Tenant as the Writ supposeth And the Question was, If the Court, notwithstanding the Admittance of the Tenant, aught without Exception of the party Ex Officio, to abate the Writ? And it was the Opinion of Wray, Chief justice, That it should: For it is a positive Law, As if a Woman bring an Appeal of Murder upon the death of her Brother, and the Defendant doth admit it without a Challenge or Exception, yet the Court ought to abate the Appeal, 10 E. 4. 7. See the principal Case there, Non ideo puniatur Dominus, etc. And if an Action be brought against an Ostler upon the Common Custom of the Realm, and in the Writ he is not named Common Hostler, yet the Court shall abate the Writ Ex Officio. See 11 H. 4. and 38 H. 6. 42. CXXXIV. Mich. 26 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A. Seized of Lands in the right of his Wife for the Term of the life of the Wife, made a Feoffment in Fee to the use of his said Wife for her life; It was holden in that Case, That the Wife was remitted. And it is not like Amy Townsends Case, Blow. Com. 1 & 2 Phil. and Mar. 111. For in the said Case the Entry of the Wife was not lawful, for she was Tenant in tail; which Estate was discontinued by the Feoffment of her Husband. And Periam, justice, cited a Case, Sidenham's Case; Bacon seized in the right of his Wife for the Term of the life of the Wife; They both surrendered, and took back the Lands to them and a third person: And it was holden, That the Wife was not presently remitted, but after the death of her Husband she might disagree to the Estate. CXXXV. Harper and Berrisford's Case. Mich. 26 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Writ of Partition, The Defendant demanded judgement of the Writ, because the Writ is, Quare-cum A. teneat, etc. pro indiviso, &c: 4 mille acras; whereas it should be, Quatuor Mille acrarum. And many Grammarians were cited; all which agreed, That it was good both ways; viz. Mille Acras, or Mille Acrarum. And Rhodes, justice, said, That Cowper, in Thesauro suo Linguae Latinae, saith, Quod Mille fere jungitur Genitivo, Ergo non semper. Wherefore Anderson, with the assent of the other justices, Ruled, That the Defendant should answer over. CXXXVI. Hearing and Badlock's Case. Trin. 26 Eliz. In the King's Bench. 2 Len. 80. IN a Replevin, the Defendant avowed for Damage-feasant; and shown, That the Lady Jermingham was seized of such a Manor whereof the place where, etc. and leased the same to the Defendant for years: The Plaintiff said, That long time before, King Henry 8th was seized of the said Manor, and that the place where, etc. is parcel of the said Manor Demised and Demiseable by Copy, etc. and that the said King by such a one his Steward, demised and granted the said parcel to the Ancestor of the Plaintiff, whose Heir he is by Copy in Fee, etc. And upon that there was a Demurrer, because by this Bar to the Avowry, the Lease set forth in the Avowry is not answered; for the Plaintiff in Bar to the Avowry, aught to have concluded; and so was he seized by the Custom, until the Avowant praetextu of the said Term for years, entered, etc. And so it was adjudged. CXXXVII. Rosse's Case. Mich. 26 Eliz. In the King's Bench. Ante 83. IN Trespass brought by Rosse, for breaking of his Close, and beating of his Servant, and carrying away of his Goods: Upon Not guilty pleaded, the jury found this special matter; scil. That Sir Thomas Bromley, Chancellor of England, was seized of the Land where, etc. and leased the same to the Plaintiff and one A. which A. assigned his moiety to Cavendish; by whose Commandment the Defendant entered. It was moved, That that Tenancy in Common betwixt the Plaintiff, and him in whose right the Defendant justifies, could not be given in Evidence; and so it could not be found by Verdict, but it ought to have been pleaded at the beginning. But the whole Court were clear of another Opinion; and that the same might be given in Evidence well enough. It was further moved against the Verdict, That the same did not extend to all the points in the Declaration, but only to the breaking of the Close, without enquiry of the battery, etc. And for that cause, it was clearly holden by the Court, That the Verdict was void; And a Venire facias de novo was awarded. CXXXVIII. Gurney and Saers' Case. Trin. 26 Eliz. In the King's Bench. AN Ejectione firmae was brought by Gurney against Saer; who pleaded, That Verney was seized, and leased the same to Baker for 21 years, 8 Eliz. Baker, 14 Eliz. assigned his Interest to Rolls; who, 15 Eliz. leased the same to Top for 10 years; and afterwards Rolls granted the residue of his Term to A. Verney, 16 Eliz. leased the same Land to Stephen Gurney for 21 years, to begin after the determination, surrender, or forfeiture of the first Lease, rendering Rend, with Clause of Reentry; And afterwards Verney granted over the Reversion in Fee to Hampden; To which Grant, A. and Topp attorned; Topp leased to B. at Will; A. and Topp surrendered; B. held himself in by force of the Tenancy at Will: And the said Surrender was made privily and secretly, without the notice of the said Stephen Gurney; The Rent reserved upon the Lease made to Stephen Gurney is demanded, as now begun by the said Surrender. Hampden entered as for the Condition broken for the nonpayment of the said Rent: And the Lease made to the said Stephen Gurney was pleaded, Quod praedictus Johannes Verney per Indenturam suam sigillo ipsius Stephani Gurney sigillat, demisit, etc. And that was holden a material Exception; For here upon the matter doth not appear any Lease made by Verney. For here upon the pleading it appeareth, That Verney had accepted a Deed of Gurney, purporting a Demise by Verney to Gurney, which Gurney had sealed; but there did not appear any such Deed sealed by Verney, and therefore no Lease ut supra. And although a Condition may be pleaded by Indenture sealed with the seal of the other party, yet a Conveyance cannot be pleaded by Deed as it is here, unless sealed with the seal of the party Agent; scil. the Feoffor, Grantor, Lessor: And for that cause, judgement was given for the Plaintiff. Another Exception was taken, because that after the Grant of the Reversion by Verney to Hampden, the surrender of A. and Topp is pleaded; whereas A. ought not to surrender; for his Estate was not a Reversion for years, but a Lease in Reversion, and a Lease for years to begin at a day to come, which could not be surrendered. See 4 H. 7. 10. But if A. had granted his Interest by way of Reversion, where Attornment had been, as one Releaseth to him the Reversion for years, it is good; contrary to him who hath a Lease in Reversion. But as to that, it was said by the Court, That this surrender by A. was good enough, for in as much as the Interest which A. had at the time of the surrender was in Rolls a Reversion after his Grant to Topp, and there it remained and continued in its nature as to that point; notwithstanding that by the Grant it passed in another manner, than as a Reversion. Another Exception was taken, because that in the pleading of the Surrender, it is not alleged, That at the time of the Surrender, Hampden was seized of the Reversion. 7 E. 3. 3. He who claims by Cestuy que use, aught to allege the Seisin and Continuance of Seisin to the said use at the time of the Feoffment or Grant, notwithstanding that Seisin was alleged before. And 10 H. 7. 28. Hewbade's Avowry, he there pleaded, That A. was seized of a Manor, and thereof levied a Fine to B. & that C. the Tenant upon whom the Avowry was made, attorned, etc. And Exception taken, because it is not showed in the Avowry, That B. the Conusee was seized of the Manor at the time of the Attornment. And it was holden a good Exception. On the other side it was said, and affirmed by the Court, That in all Cases where an Inheritance is once alleged in a Man, the Law shall presume the Continuance of it there, until the contrary be showed. See 1 Eliz. the Case between Wrotesley and adam's, Blow. Com. 193. And 15 Eliz. between Smith and Stapleton, Plow. 431. Which Wray and Gawdy, justices, granted: Ayliff, justice, to the contrary. Another point was moved, If upon this secret Surrender notice ought to have been given to Gurney, who had an Interest for years to begin upon the said Surrender; For some conceived, That Gurney, without notice given him of the said Surrender, should not be prejudiced by the Condition aforesaid. And of that Opinion clearly was Wray, Chief justice, Note, In this Case, That Saer, the Defendant, presently after the judgement entered, cast in a Writ of Error into the Court; and assigned an Error in fact; scil. That Gurney the Plaintiff in the first Action within age, appeared by Attorney; whereas he ought by Garden or Prochein Amy. And it was the Opinion of the justices upon the first Motion, That that matter could not be assigned for Error; for it is not within the Record, and we cannot reverse our own judgement, but only for matter of Process. See for that, Fitzh. Na. Br. 21. f. CXXXIX. Partridge and Pools Case. Pasch. 26 Eliz. In the King's Bench. TRespass of Battery was brought by Partridge against Poole, 2 Len. 79. 1 Cro. 842. and supposed the Battery at D. in the County of Middlesex; The Defendant justified by reason of an Assault at S. in the County of Gloucester, absque hoc, that he beat the Plaintiff at D. in the County of Middlesex: Upon which traverse, the Plaintiff did demur in Law. It was argued by Popham the Queen's Attorney General, That the traverse of the County is good: And he put the Case of 21 H. 6. 8 & 9 In Trespass of Battery at D. in the County of York; the Defendant justified by an Assault at London in such a place in such a Parish, etc. absque hoc, that he was guilty de aliqua transgressione in Comitatu Eborum. Upon which issued a Venire facias into Yorkshire; and, as the Book is, This traverse as to the County was taken with great deliberation. See also 22 E. 4. 39 And this traverse de jure ought to be allowed; For the jury in Middlesex are not bound to find the Assault in the County of Gloucester. See 2 Mar. Br. Jurours, 50. In Actions upon transitory matters, although they be laid in Foreign Counties, yet the jurors if they will, may thereof give their Verdict, but they are not bound to do it. Egerton, Solicitor General, to the contrary: And he put a difference, where the justification is local, and where transitory: As in False Imprisonment, the Defendant justifies as Sheriff the taking of the Plaintiff by force of a Capias directed to him at D. within his County of G. Where the Plaintiff declareth of an Imprisonment in another County; there the traverse of the County is good, for the Defendant cannot take the Plaintiff by force of the said Process in any other County than where he is Sheriff; and so the justification is local, 11 H. 4. 157. But in our Case, the matter of the justification is merely transitory. And at last, after many Motions, It was adjudged for the Plaintiff. Gawdy, justice, being of a contrary Opinion: And by Wray, Chief justice, clearly, The jurors upon pain of Attaint, are to take notice of such a transitory thing done in another County. See 2 Mar. Br. Attaint, 104. 9 H. 6. 63. CXL. Gerrard's Case. Pasch. 26 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 2 Len. 168. 4 Len. 7. GErrard, Master of the Rolls, presented Chatterton Bishop of Chester, to the Church of Bangor; to which Church also, one Chambers presented his Clerk; by which several Presentments, the same Church became Litigious: The Archbishop of York being Ordinary of the place, awarded Jure Patronatus, etc. depending which, the Archbishop admitted the said Bishop; upon which, the said Chambers Libelled in the Spiritual Court, against the said Bishop; For that the said Archbishop praedicto Episcopo plus aequo fidens, admisit dictum Episcopum, pendente the Jure Patronatus; in which Case by the Law of the Church, the Admittance is void; For, pendente Lite nihil movetur. And now came the said Bishop, and upon this matter prayed a Prohibition; and he had it, because that the right of the Patronage came in debate. After which came the said Chambers, and prayed a Consultation, because he meddled not with the right of Patronage, but only with the wrongful admittance. To whom it was said by the Court, That the awarding of the Jure Patronatus, is not a thing of necessity, but at the Will of the Ordinary, and for his better Instruction: But if he will at his peril take notice of the right of the Patronage, he may receive which of them he will, without a Jure Patronatus awarded. And it may be, in this Case, That after the Jure Patronatus awarded, and before any Verdict given upon it, the Archbishop was satisfied of the right of the now Plaintiff in the Prohibition to the Patronage, and thereupon admitted the Clerk; And by the clear Opinion of the Court, the Consultation was denied. CXLI. Rampston and Bowmer's Case. Trin. 26 Eliz. In the King's Bench. IN an Action upon the Case, the Plaintiff declared, That whereas the Plaintiff occupied a Brewhouse; And whereas one Gilbert Bowmer was the Beer-Clark of it, and had the government and disposition of the Beer brewed there, by reason whereof he became indebted to the Plaintiff in such a sum; For which the Plaintiff procured the said Gilbert to be Arrested, and put into the Prison of the marshalsea; And whereas the said Gilbert in dicta prisona existente, the Defendant tunc & ibidem in Consideration that the said Plaintiff would let the said Gilbert out of Prison, Promised, That if the said Gilbert should not account with the Plaintiff, and pay him all the Arrearages, which upon such Account should be found before such a day, That then the Defendant would pay it: Upon which the said Gilbert was dismissed ad largum: And further declared, That no Account had been made by Gilbert, or any other satisfaction. And upon Non Assumsipt, the jury found, That the said Gilbert so indebted to the Plaintiff, was arrested at the Suit of the Plaintiff; and that after, the Defendant came unto the Bailie of the Marshal who arrested the said Gilbert, and took upon him to the said Bailie, That the said Gilbert should be at the next Court holden for the said marshalsea; by force and reason of which promise, the Bailie suffered the said Gilbert to go at large to his House, etc. and that after and before such Court, the Defendant promised the Plaintiff modo & forma, as the Plaintiff had surmised in his Declaration: And upon that Verdict, the Plaintiff could not have judgement; For here the Consideration laid in the Declaration is not found by the Verdict; For Gilbert was discharged of the Imprisonment before the promise of the Defendant to the Plaintiff: And the Declaration is, That in Consideration quod dictus Gilbertus ad largum dimitteretur, etc. And judgement was given Quod Querens Nihil Capiat per Billam. CXLII. Mich. 26 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. ONe recovered certain Copyhold Lands in the Court of the Lord of the Manor by plaint in the nature of a Writ of Right: It was moved in the Common Pleas, If a Precept might be made and awarded out of that Court for to execute the said Recovery, and to put him in possession who recovered, with the Posse Manerii, as in such Cases at the Common Law, with the Posse Comitatus. But it was clearly Resolved, It could not be done; For force in such cases is not justifiable, but by Command out of the King's Courts. CXLIII. Iplett and Williams' Case. Mich. 26 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. I Plett brought an Action upon the Case against Williams, and declared, Whereas one J. had affirmed a Plaint of Debt against the Plaintiff in the Queen's Court of her Manor of D. in the County of Cornwall; and demanded against him 100 l. And whereas the Defendant now Plaintiff sued a Corpus cum Causa, etc. and delivered the same to the now Defendant, being then Vnder-Steward of the said Court, That notwithstanding that the now Defendant proceeded to judgement, and awarded Execution against the Plaintiff and his Sureties, by force of which the Goods of the Plaintiff and of his Sureties were taken in Execution; Upon which Declaration, the Defendant demurred in Law, because the judgement was given in a Court-Baron, which could not hold plea above the sum of 40 s. And notwithstanding that Exception, and notwithstanding also that the Action was brought against the Vnder-Steward, etc. The Plaintiff had judgement to Recover. CXLIV. Denton and Goddard's Case. Pasch. 26 Eliz. In the King's Bench. DEbt was brought against Denton Administrator of the Goods and Chattels of James Newton; and the Plaintiff declared upon an Obligation made to the Intestate bearing date the 4th day of April, 24 Eliz. The Defendant prayed Oyer of the Deed and Condition; and then pleaded to the Action: For he said, That the aforesaid James Newton, ante Confectionem praedicti suppositi scripti, scilicet ultimo die Septembris 23 Eliz. apud N. obiit, and so Non est factum, etc. The jury found, That the said Deed was delivered to the Intestate 3 July, 23 Eliz. in the life of the Intestate, bearing date 24 Aprilis, 24 Eliz. before which day, the Intestate died: And upon the whole matter, judgement was given for the Plaintiff. CXLV. Lichfield and Gage's Case. Pasch. 26 Eliz. In the King's Bench. 2 Len. 167. IN an Ejectione firmae the parties were at Issue; And by Order of the Court, the Trial was stayed: And yet the Plaintiff against the Order, obtained privily a Nisi Prius: Upon which Gawdy, justice, being informed of it after the Term, awarded a Supersedeas to the justices of Assize, before whom, etc. And notwithstanding that, the Enquest at the Instance of the Plaintiff, was taken, and found for the Plaintiff. All this matter was showed to the Court, in the King's Bench, and there examined and proved; And it was Ordered by the Court, That the Verdict should not be entered of Record, nor any judgement upon it: And so was it put in execution in a Case between Vernon and Fowler. And then the Counsel moved and took Exception to the Supersedeas, because it was not subscribed by the hand of justice Gawdy. But it was not allowed, because his Seal was sufficient. CXLVI. Fuller and Cook's Case. Pasch. 26 Eliz. In the King's Bench. 1 Roll. 111. IN an Action upon the Case, the Plaintiff declared, That the Defendant had informed one Tho. Colby a justice of the Peace, That the Plaintiff had stolen the Defendants Hogs; By force of which, the said Colby ad Querimoniam Defendentis, made a Warrant, and directed it to the Constable of H. to apprehend the Plaintiff, and to bring him before the said Colby; By force of which, the Plaintiff was Arrested, and brought before the said Colby, and there was examined upon the said matter, and bound over by Recognizance to appear at the next Sessions, and there to Answer; at which Sessions he appeared; And Proclamation was made, That if any one would inform against the Plaintiff, etc. and none came; For which the Plaintiff was discharged, and so by this matter he was discredited, etc. And all this matter was found by Special Verdict; And thereupon judgement was given for the Plaintiff. And in this Case the Court took a difference, Where one whose Goods a stolen comes to are justice of Peace, and shows him the matter, and prays that the matter be examined and that such a one is examined upon it; here in this case, No Action lieth. But if such a person in such case will expressly say, That such a one hath stolen, etc. Hob. 192. and procure a Warrant from a justice of Peace upon such Surmise to arrest the party; upon such matter, an Action upon the Case will lie. CXLVII. The Queen and the Lord Lumley's Case. Trin. 26 Eliz. In the Exchequer. IT was moved in the Exchequer, 2 Len. 80. Hob. 304. That Queen Mary seized of the Rectory of D. granted Advocationem Ecclesiae de D. If now by this Grant, the Advowson should pass as now disappropriate; Or that the Rectory itself should pass as appropriate; Or that nothing at all should pass? And by Manwood, Chief Baron, the Advowson shall not pass, but remain appropriate as it was before: For the Church as it was appropriate by a judicial act, so without such an Act it cannot be disappropriate. And he said, That by the Grant of the said Advowson, the Rectory did not pass; For by the Appropriation, the Advowson was gone, and it was not in esse, and by consequence, could not be granted: And it is not within the Statute of 4 & 5 Philip & Mary, of Confirmations of Grants of the King; For the said Statute helps not, but misrecital, misnaming, etc. But here there is not such a thing in rerum natura, as the Patentee pretends to be passed by the Letters Patents; And if it were in the Case of a Common person, nothing should pass; As it was adjudged in Sands Case, 11 Eliz. And he said, That at this time a Parsonage might be disappropriated; but that aught to be by a judicial Act; as by Presentment, and not by any private Act of the Proprietor: And so he said, a Church was disappropriated by the Lord Dyer, by a Presentment which of late he made to it. CXLVIII. Cox's Case. Mich. 26 Eliz. In the King's Bench. IN Debt upon an Obligation against Cox, the Case was; A Parson made a Lease for years, and became bounden to the Lessee, to perform the Covenants in the Lease: The Defendant pleaded, That the Lease is void, by the Statute of 14 Eliz. because he was absent from his Benefice above the space of 80 days; part of which time encurred depending the Action, and before the Pea was pleaded: It was the Opinion of the Court, That the Plea was good. But Exception was taken to the pleading; The Defendant saith, That the said Church is a Parochial Church cum Cura animarum, but doth not say. That it was so at the time of the Lease and Obligation made: For it may be, that at the time of the Lease there was a Vicar; and than it was not Cura animarum. And afterwards upon that Exception, judgement was given for the Plaintiff. CXLIX. Wroth and Capell's Case. Pasch. 26 Eliz. In the King's Bench. 4 Len. 197. THe Case was; A. was Indicted upon the Statute of 8 H. 6. And Exception was taken to the Indictment, because no word of Freehold was in it; or to prove, that the party grieved had any Freehold whereof he might be disseised. But because the words of the Indictment were, Expulit & disseisivit, which could not be true, if the party expelled and disseised had not Freehold; the Exception was disallowed. Another Exception was taken to the Indictment; For these words, In unum tenementum intravit; and this word Tenementum, is too general, and an uncertain word; and therefore as to that, the party was discharged. But the Indictment was further, In unum Tenementum & decem acras terrae eidem pertinent. And therefore as to the 10 Acres, the party was enforced to Answer. CL. Pasch. 26 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A. Granted to B. a Rent-charge out of his Lands, to begin when J.S. died without Issue of his body; J.S. died, having Issue; which Issue died without Issue. Dyer said, The Grant shall not take effect; For J.S. at the time of his death had Issue: and therefore then the Grant shall not begin; and if not then, than not at all. And by Manwood, If the words had been, To begin when J.S. is dead without Issue of his body, than such a Grant should take effect when the Issue of J.S. dieth without Issue, etc. Dyer, If the Donee in tail hath Issue, and dieth without Issue, The Formedon in Reverter shall suppose that the Donee himself died without Issue; For there is an Interest, and there is a difference betwixt an Interest and a Limitation: For if I give Lands to A. and B. for the Term of their lives, if any of them dieth, the Survivor shall have the whole. But if I give Lands to A. for the life of B. and C. now, if B. or C. die, all the Estate is determined, because but a Limitation, and B. and C. had not any Interest. See Cook 5 Part, Bradnell's Case. CLI. Pasch. 26 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A. Enfeoffed B. upon Condition, That if he pay 10. l. to the Feoffee, his Executors or Assigns, 4 Len. 232. 1 Len. 285, 286. Hill. 12. Car. 2 B.R. Goodyer and Clarks Case. within 3 year's next ensuing, that then it should be lawful for him and his Heirs to re-enter. The Feoffee hath Issue two Sons, whom he makes his Executors, and dieth before the day of payment. The Ordinary commits ●etters of Administration to J.S. during the minority of the Executors. Manwood conceived, That it is a most sure way for A. to pay the moneys to the Executors, for they remain Executors notwithstanding the Administration committed to another: For the Administrator in such case is but as Bailiff or Receivor to the Executors, and shall be accountable to them; Which Harper and Dyer, Concesserunt: And Manwood said, If in this Case the moneys be paid to one of the Executors, it is sufficient, and the same well paid; but that Conditional Feoffments are as a Sum in gross, and not in nature of a Debt: Which the rest of the justices granted. CLII Pasch. 26 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A. Seized of a Manor seized the same for years, rendering Rend, with Clause of reentry; and afterwards levied a Fine Sur Conusans de Droit, to the use of himself and his Heirs; The Rent being demanded, is behind. Dyer, A. cannot re-enter; for although in right the Rent passeth without Attornment, yet he is without remedy; for it is without Attornment: and it would be hard without Attornment to re-enter, etc. It was moved further, If here the Conusor be Assignee within the Statute of 32 H. 8. Manwood, The Reversion of a Termor is granted by Fine, there wants privity for an Action of Debt, Waste, and Reentry: But if the Conusee dieth without Heir, although that in right it was in the Conusee; yet the Lord by Escheat shall make Avowry, and yet the Conusee by whom he claimeth, could not. And in the Case at Bar, the Conusee himself could not, but the Conusor being Cestuy que use, who is in by the Act of Law, 1 Inst. 309. shall avow, and shall re-enter without Attornment: For the Conusor is in by the Statute of 27 H. 8. Harper, The Heir of the Conusee shall avow and re-enter before Attornment. Dyer, 13 H. 4. The Father leaseth for years rendering Rend, with Clause of reentry; the Father demands the Rent, which is not paid; the Father dieth, the Son cannot re-enter, For the Rent doth not belong unto him: And therefore in the Case at Bar, the Conusee cannot avow for the Rent before Attornment; therefore not re-enter. CLIII. Trin. 26 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IT is Enacted by the Statute of 5 Eliz. Cap. 8. That no person shall cut down any Oak Trees but between the first day of April, and the last day of June, but Timber employed and bestowed in or about Buildings or Reparations of Houses, etc. And upon an Information upon that Statute, the Defendant pleaded, That he cut down the said Oak Trees and thereof made Laths to be bestowed in building, and that he had sold them to J.S. who had employed part of them in building, and is employing the residue in the same manner. Windham, The intent of the Defendant in cutting down the Oaks, was not to have them employed in building, but to sell them: Although it is not necessary for the satisfaction of that Statute, that the Oaks presently after the cutting be employed about building; For if the Lessee of a Message, who is to have House-bote, seeing that his Message will want reparation, cutteth down a Tree for such intent, although there be not such urgent occasion at present, that it ought to be presently repaired, the same shall not be said Trespass; for it is good Husbandry to have such Timber to be seasonable, which cannot be, without some reasonable time between the cutting down and the employment. Periam, If at the time of the cutting, the Vendor or Vendee had an intent to employ them about building, it is good enough: And it is a strong Case here, because the Defendant employs the Timber himself in Laths, which is not of any use but for building; and cannot be made but of Timber. CLIU Eve and Finch's Case. Trin. 26 Eliz. In the King's Bench. PEter Eve and John Finch brought an Action of Trespass against Nathaniel Tracy and Margaret his Wife: and upon the pleading, the Case was, that John Finch, Father of J.F. the Plaintiff, seized of the Manor of St. Katherine's, held the same of the Queen by Knight service in Chief, and was also seized of the Land where the Trespass was done, being holden in Socage; and so seized, 6 Junij, 20 Eliz. for the preferment of the said Margaret then his Wife, enfeoffed of the said Manor A. and B. unto the use of himself and the said Margaret, and their Heirs. And that the said John the Father had not any other Land but that before mentioned; and that the said Manor at the time of the said Feoffment, and at the death of the said John the Father attingebat ad duas parts of all the Lands and Tenements of the said John the Father in three parts to be divided. And afterwards, the Father by his Will devised the Lands holden in Socage, unto his said Wife for life, with divers Remainders over: It was the Opinion of the Court in this Case, that the Devise was utterly void by the Statute. CLV. Brett and Peagrims' Case. Pasch. 26 Eliz. IN an Action upon the Case, the Plaintiff declared, that whereas he himself and the Defendant submitted themselves to the Award of A.B. and C.D. and whereas the said Arbitrators upon the hearing of the Causes between them, did intent, and were resolved, amongst other matters of their Award, to award, that two Obligations by which the Plaintiff was severally bounden to the Defendant for the payment of certain sums of Money to the Defendant, should be delivered by the Defendant to the Plaintiff to be canceled: The Defendant promised, in Consideration, that that Article of the delivery of the said two Obligations should be left out of the Award, that he himself would gratis deliver them to the Plaintiff without any Coercion or direction of the Award: and further declared, that the said Article ad specialem instantiam ipsius Querentis was left out by the said Arbitrators out of their Award; and notwithstanding that, that the Defendant had not redelivered, ut supra, etc. but had put the same in suit against the Plaintiff. In this Case, upon the matter, ut supra, etc. it was adjudged for the Plaintiff. CLVI. Nich. Lee's Case. Pasch. 26. Eliz. In the King's Bench. 1 Cro. 26. 1 Len. 285. 1 Inst. 113. Dyer 177. 219. a. 2 Len. 220. NIch. Lee by his Will devised his Land to W. his second Son; And if he do departed this World, not having Issue, than I Will my Sons-in-Law shall sell my Land. The Devisor at the time of the Devise having six Sons-in-Law, died; W. had Issue John and died; John died without Issue; one of the Sons-in-Law of the Devisor died; the five surviving Sons-in-Law sold the Land. 1. It was clearly agreed by the whole Court, that although the words of the Will be, ut supra, If W. my Son departed this World, not having Issue, etc. And that W. hath Issue which dieth without Issue, there although it cannot be said Literally, that William did departed this World not having Issue; yet the intent of the Devisor is not to be restrained to the Letter; but Construction shall be made, that whensoever W. dieth (in Law upon the matter) without Issue, the same Land shall be subject to sale according to the Authority committed by the Devisor to his Sons-in-Law: And now upon the matter W. is dead without Issue. As in a Formedon in the Reverter or Remainder, although the Donee in tail hath Issue, yet if afterwards the Estate tail be spent, the Writ shall suppose, that the Donee died without Issue: a fortiori in the case of a Devise, such Construction shall be made. As to the other point concerning the sale of the Land, Wray demanded, if the Sons-in-Law were named in the Will? The Clerks answered, they were not. See 30 H. 8. Br. Devise, 31 and 39 Ass. 17. Fitz. title, Executors, 117. Such a sale is good in case of Executors. See also, 23 Eliz. Dyer, 371. And see 4 and 5 Mar. Dyer, Land devised in tail, and if the Devisee shall die without Issue, that then the Land shall be sold pro optimo valour by his Executors una cum assensu of A. if A. dieth before sale, the power of the Executors is determined. And afterwards it was clearly resolved by the whole Court, that the sale, by the manner aforesaid was good; and judgement given accordingly. CLVII. Rag and Bowley's Case. Trin. 26 Eliz. In the King's Bench. ERror was brought upon a Fine, and the Error was assigned in the Proclamations: Whereupon issued a Certiorari to the Custos Brevium, who certified the Proclamations; by which Certificate it appeared, that two of the said Proclamations were made in one day: upon which the Defendant prayed another Scire facias to the Chirographer; in whose Office it appeared, that all the Proclamations were well and duly made. It was the Opinion of Wray, Chief justice, in this Case, that the Defendant ought to have his preyer; for the Chirographer maketh the Proclamations, and he is the principal Officer as to them. And the Custos Brevium, hath but the abstract of the Proclamations; and we may in discretion amend them upon the matter appearing. But the other justices seemed to be of a contrary Opinion; for that the Proclamations being once certified by the Custos Brevium, who is the principal Officer, we ought not afterwards to resort to the Chirographer, who is the inferior Officer: And afterwards, the Clerks of the Common Pleas were examined of the matter aforesaid by the justices of the King's Bench; and they answered according to that which was said by Wray, Chief justice. Wherefore it was awarded by the Court, that a new Certiorari be directed to the Chirographer: who Certified the Proclamations to be well and duly made. And thereupon the Court awarded, that the Proclamations in the Office of the Custos Brevium, should be amended according to the Proclamations in the Custody and the Office of the Chirographer. Note, In the same Case, before the Writ brought, a stranger had brought a Writ of Error against the same Defendant upon the same Fine; upon which the transcript of the Fine and Proclamations are removed in Banco, and after the Plaintiff is Nonsuit. Now another who hath Cause, may have a Writ of Error, quod coram vobis residet. CLVIII. Taverner and Cromwell's Case. Trin. 26 Eliz. In the King's Bench. UPon an Evidence unto a jury, 3 Cro. 353. containing difficulty and matter in Law; it was found, viz. that the Bishop of Norwich, 10 H. 8. was seized of the Manor of Northelman in the right of his Bishopric; and, at his Court holden within the same Manor, granted parcel of the Demesnes of the said Manor to one Taverner and his Heirs, where, of the said Land in truth, there was not any Demise by Copy before: And so the said Land continued in Copy until 23 H. 8. at which time, Taverner committed a forfeiture; which being presented, the Bishop seized the Land as forfeited; and granted the same again by Copy to Taverner in Fee: And so from thence it continued in Copy until 8 Eliz. (which Interval between 23 H. 8. and 8 Eliz. amounted to 47 years:) It was the Opinion of the whole Court in this Case, that the Continuance for 50 years, is requisite to fasten a Customary Condition upon the Land against the Lord. It was also agreed by the Court, that although the Original Commencement, and that Customary Interest did commence 10 H. 8. ut supra, from which time, unto 8 Eliz. 60 years passed; yet the seizure for a forfeiture which happened 23 H. 8. interrupted utterly the Continuance from the time which might by the Law have perfected the Customary Interest. So that now, the time before the forfeiture ought not to be accounted in this Case: But the Orginal beginning of the Copyhold shall be holden to be 23 H. 8. when the Grant de Novo by Copy was made; between which time, and 8 Eliz. is an interval but of 47 years; within which time, a Customary Interest cannot be attached upon the Land: And then before sufficient time encurred, etc. the Lord may well enter upon such a Tenant at Will: For as yet, there is not any Custom begotten by sufficient time to bind him. It was also agreed by the justices, That if the Lord of a Manor is seized of an ancient Copyhold for forfeiture, or by reason of Escheat, and Let the same at Will without any Copy for divers years, one after the other, that that is not any Interruption of the Customary nature of the Land; but that the Lord may grant it again by Copy. As to other parcel of the Land, It was given in Evidence, That at a Court lately holden at Northelman, It was presented by the Homage there, That Taverner the Plaintiff being a Copyholder of the said Manor, had forged a Customary of the said Manor, containing divers false Customs, pretending them to be true Customs of the said Manor, and that he had forged, and put a Seal to it, about which, this word, viz. (Northelman) is engraven; And that he had procured divers Copyholders of the said Manor to set their seals to it; and that he said unto them, That that Customary should be put into the Church of Northelman amongst the Charters and Evidences of the said Church: And that he had now made his Copyhold as good as his Freehold. And, If the said Offence committed by the Plaintiff, ut supra, be a forfeiture of his Copyhold, was the Question? It was argued by Popham, who was of Counsel with the Plaintiff, That without further matter, it was not any forfeiture; And yet he confessed, It is a forgery against the first branch of that Statute of 5 Eliz. cap. 14. And so he said it was lately adjudged in the Star-Chamber: But as to the point of Forfeiture, he put this difference; If the Lord demand his Services of his Copyholder, there, If the Copyholder upon debate between the Lord and himself, showeth forth such a forged Customary, and Counterpleads the Demand of the Lord with it; now it is a forfeiture, for that the Inheritance of the Lord is thereby hazarded: As, if the Copyholder after the forfeiture keep it himself, and doth not encounter his Lord in his demand with it in his services, the same is not any forfeiture: As, if the Copyholder, before any Rent be due, saith, That he will not pay any Rent to the Lord hereafter: Or when a Court is to be holden, That he will not after appear to do any Suit at the Court of his Lord, etc. But if, his Rent being due, he denyeth it; Or when the Court is holden, he saith, That he will not do any Suit; the same is a foreiture: As it was lately adjudged in the King's Bench, in the Case between Sir Christopher Hatton, and his Copyholders of his Manor of Wellingborough. So if a Copyholder being with the other Copyholders charged upon Oath to inquire of the Articles of the Court-Baron, and sufficient matter being given to them in Evidence, to induce them to find a matter within their Charge, and they or any of them obstinately refuse to find the same, the same is a forfeiture of his Copyhold; As it was adjudged in the Case of Sir Rich. Southwell, Knight, and Thurston. Clench, justice, conceived, That in the principal Case, the Offence of the Plaintiff, is not any forfeiture, no more, 1 Roll. 508. than if a Copyholder makes a Charter of Feoffment of his Customary Land, and delivereth the same as his Deed to the party, but doth not execute it by Livery, the same is not any forfeiture. It was argued by Gawdy, Serjeant, who was of Counsel with the Defendant, to the contrary: For he said, That if a Copyholder will forge a Deed of Feoffment, purporting, That the Lord of the Manor hath enfeoffed him of the said Customary Land, notwithstanding that he keepeth such Charter himself, without showing it forth, yet it is a Forfeiture. At the length, The Court wished the jury to find the special matter, and to refer the same to the Court, Whether it was a Forfeiture, or not. In this Case, another matter was moved, viz. The Ancestor of the Plaintiff had purchased divers several Copyholds from several Copyholders by several Copies whereof he died seized; Or committed several Offences by which he forfeited to the Lord all his Copyholds, for which the Lord seized, and granteth them again to his Ancestor wtih the Ancient Rent, and to his Heirs, Tenendum per antiqua servitia & consueta, etc. And afterwards, the same Copyholder committeth Waste, whether the same shall now trench to forfeit all the Copyhold Lands which were granted ut supra, by one entire Copy; Or only that which was before the seizure holden by the same Rent, Et nihil ultra: For these words, Tenendum per antiqua servitia, do not trench only to the Quantity of the Services, but also to the Quality; scil. severally, so as there shall be several Services as before: As if A. be seized of Copyhold Land on the part of his Father, and of other Copyhold Land on the part of his Mother, and thereof dieth seized, and his Son and Heir be admitted to it by one Copy, and by one Admittance; Now if that Son dieth without Issue, the Copyholds shall descend severally, the one to the Heir on the part of his Father, and the other to the Heir on the part of his Mother, etc. And afterwards the jury found the Special Verdict, and the special matter, ut supra, &c CLIX Vincent Lee's Case. Trin. 26 Eliz. In the Exchequer. 1 Inst. 138. b. VIncent Lee seized of Lands in Fee, had Issue 3 Sons, F.G. and I: and by his last Will in writing Devised, That J. his Son should have the Land for the Term of 31 years, without impeachment of Waste, to the intent that he pay certain Debts and Legacies set down in his said Will, The remainder after the said Term expired to the Heirs Males of the Body of the said J. begotten. And further willed, That if the said J. die within the Term aforesaid, that then G. his Son shall have such Term, etc. and then also shall be Executor; but made the said J. his present Executor, and died, J. entered by force of the Devise: F. died without Issue, by which the Feesimple descended upon J. who had Issue P. and died within the Term, P. entered; G. as Executor entered upon him; and he reentered; upon which reentry, G. brought Trespass. Pigott said, That the Term by the descent of the Fee from F. to J. being the second Son of Vincent, and Heir of F. is not extinct, but only suspended. It hath been Objected, that J. cannot be said to die within the Term, because by the descent of the Fee, the Term is extinct, or suspended, and so not in esse at the time of the death of J. therefore nothing did accrue to G. because J. did not die within the Term: but that is but a Conceit; for the intent of Vincent was, that the Heir should not meddle with the Land Devised as Heir, until the 31 years be expired: and words, During, or Within the Term, extend unto the time of the Term, and not unto the Estate: And although, that the Term as to J. be extinct, yet the right or possession of G. shall stand, and shall be expectant upon the death of J. before the expiration of the said 31 years. As, A. leaseth for life to B. and afterwards granteth the Reversion with Warranty to C. who releaseth to B. in Fee, who is impleaded in a Praecipe: although now B. hath a Feesimple, yet during his life he shall not recover in value. And in the principal Case, This further Interest limited to G. cannot be extinct or prevented. See Blow. Com. Welden and Elkingtons' Case. Beaumond, contrary. And that the Term is extinct, because he hath the said Term in his own right, and not as Executor, but as a Man trusted with payment of Debts and Legacies; But the same Term which J. had, G. cannot have, for some of the years are expired; and the words of the Will are, He shall have such Term; but here the Term is utterly extinct: As where a Rent, Common, or Way, etc. descendeth upon the Tertenant; 2 H. 4. A Prior had an Annuity out of a Parsonage, and afterwards he purchaseth the Advowson, which is afterwards appropriated to his House; now the Annuity is extinct; and although the Prior afterwards presenteth to the Advowson, yet it isnot revived; Br. Extinguishment, 54. A Man hath a Lease for years as Executor, and purchaseth the Inheritance, his Term is extinct, yet it is Assets, &c. And it is said in Bracebridges Case, Blow. Com. 419. 14 Eliz. that Parson, Patron and Ordinary, Lease for years the Glebe Lands of the Parsonage; the Parson dieth; the Lessee for years becomes Parson and dieth, his Executors shall not have the residue of the said Term; for the Term is extinct, 1 Inst. 338. b. 2 Roll. 472. although he had the Term in his own right, and the Freehold in the right of his Church; and so in several Capacities. And it was holden by some, that if the Term for years comes to the Lessor as Executor, who dieth, the Term is revived. Manwood, Chief Baron, asked this Case of those who Argued; A Lease is made for 21 years, Proviso, That the Lessee shall suffer the Lessor to enjoy the same, or to take the profits thereof during the life of the Lessor, or so long as the Lessor shall live; if the same were a good Proviso, or not? Pigot Conceived, that the Devise to G. was a new Devise, and not dependant upon the first Devise to J. nor any parcel of it; but this second Devise to G. did take away the absolute Devise to J. before, and qualified it, so as it determined with his death. The words, Such Estate, shall be intended an Estate to G. to be granted from the death of the Testator. Land is Devised to A. and his Heirs, and he if dieth without Heir, that it shall remain to another; the same is no good Devise: But a Devise to one and his Heirs, and if J.S. dieth living the Devisee, B. shall have it; the same is good: for it is a new Devise, and an Estate created de Novo, and doth not depend as a Remainder upon the first Devise, or upon the first Estate devised; as the Case is, 29 Ass. 17. Br. Condition, 111. and Devise, 16. So here are several Estates limited, one to J. and another to G. which Estate of G. cannot be extinct by unity of possession in J. These words, If he die within the Term, shall be construed for Effluxion of the time of 31 years, and not for the Termination of the Term. Cooper, Serjeant, to the contrary; J. took this Term as purchasor, and not as Executor, for that no Term was in the Testator. See 14 Eliz. Dyer, 309. Granmers Case; G. shall have such Term and Interest as before I have willed unto J. Manwood, Such Term, that is to say, The Residue of the Term. Now at another day, the Barons delivered their Opinions, that the Plaintiff should recover, and that was now G. to whom the second Term was devised: And by Manwood, in Construction of Wills, all the words of the Will are to be compared together, so as there by not any repugnancy between all the parts of the Will, or between any of them, so that all may stand: And the Intent of the Testator was, That his Son J. should have the Lands for 31 years, if he so long lived, and if he died within the Term, That G. his Son should have such Term. And he held, That the same was in J. an Estate by Limitation, and he could not sell it, nor could it be extinct by Act in Law, or of the Law. It was a Lease determinable by his death, and so shall be the Lease of G. determinable upon his own death; and G. upon the death of J. within the Term, shall have the residue of the number of the years limited by the former Devise; scil. so many in number as were not expired in the life of J. who was first Executor to that special purpose. Gent, Baron, to the same intent; here he hath the same Term as Executor; and it is not like a-Term devised, which the party hath as Legatee; but in our Case, he hath only authority in this Lease as Executor, and the Land was tied to the time and the Authority; and when the same determines in his person, than the Land departs from him to G. who was a special Executor to that purpose, as J. was before. And G. had not the same Term which J. had; but such a Term. Clerk, Baron, acc. And he said, that the Will was further, that if G. died before his Debts paid, and his Will performed; and the jury finding all the special matter, concluded, that if the Term limited to J. be extinct, than they find for the Defendant. And he held clearly, that J. had this Term of 21 years as Executor, and that by the descent of the Inheritance to J. the Term as to himself was gone: But as to Creditors and to the Legatees, it shall be said in esse, and be Assets in his hands: And because that the Term as to that purpose shall be said in esse, he died within the Term, within the intent of the said Will. And this word, Term, is, Vox polysema, Terminus status, Terminus temporis, Terminus loci. And in our Case, the word, Term, hath reference to time, and not to estate; for the Testator did respect the time in which his Will might be performed, and that was 31 years; as if I make a Lease during the Term that J. S. hath in the Manor of D. and J. S. hath 40 years in it; now although that I S. surrendreth or forfeiteth it, yet he shall hold over, but he shall have it for 40 years; for my Lease refers to the time, and not to the estate. In the like manner here, G. cannot have the same Term which J. had, nor for 31 years after the death of J. but so much of the said 31 years shall be cut off in the interest of it, as J. had enjoyed it; and G. shall have as many years as J. hath left; and G. shall perform so much of my Will as J. at his death within the Term aforesaid shall not have performed: As if I Lease my Land to one until he hath levied 100 l. and if he dieth before that he hath levied it, then J. S. shall have such Term for the levying of it: the first Lessee levieth 50 l. and dieth, J. S. may levy the residue, but not the whole. And although that the jury saith, that if the Term be extinct, than they find for the Defendant; although that it be extinct, yet they are not to take Conusance what the Law is thereupon: but that is the Office of the judges. As 13 E. 3. the jury found, that the Son was born during the Elopement, and so Bastard; that Conclusion of the Verdict is not to the purpose, but the Court ought to judge upon the premises of the Verdict, If upon the birth, during the Elopement, the party be Bastard or not? And afterwards, Manwood, with the assent of his Companions the Barons, Commanded, That judgement should be entered for the Plaintiff; Which was done accordingly. CLX. The Bishop of Bristow's Case. Trin. 26 Eliz. In the Exchequer. NOte, It was holden by Manwood, Chief Baron, in this Case, That if a Lease be made for years rendering Rend, 1 Cro. 398. More Rep. 891. with Clause of Distress; And afterwards, the Rent and Reversion are extended upon a Statute, or seized into the King's hands for Debt; if the Lessee payeth the Rent according to the Extent, the same is not in any danger of the Condition, for that now the Lessee is compellable to pay it according to the Extent. CLXI. Hill. 26 Eliz. In the Exchequer. THe Queen by her Letters Patents granted to J. S. catalla Utlagatorum, & Felonum de se, within such a Precinct; More Rep. 126, 127. One who was indebted unto the Queen, is felo de se, within the Precinct. It was the Opinion of all the Barons, and so Ruled, That notwithstanding the Grant by the said Letters Patents, That the Queen should have the Goods for to satisfy her Debt. CLXII. Tuker and Norton's Case. Pasch. 26 Eliz. In the King's Bench. THe Case was; An Infant being in Execution upon a Condemnation in Debt, brought a Writ of Error: His Father and his Brother was his Bail: It was the Opinion of the justices, That they two only should enter into the Recognizance, That the Enfant shall appear; and that if the judgement be affirmed, that they shall pay the Money, and not that they shall render the Body of the Enfant again to Prison: for that, when once he is discharged of the Execution, he shall never be in Execution again. CLXIII. Marsh and Jones' Case. Mich. 27 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 2 Len. 117. IN a Replevin, the Case upon the Evidence was, That before the Statute of Quia emptores terrarum, A Man made a Feoffment in Fee to hold of him by the services, Solvend. post quamlibet vacationem sive alienationem, the value of the annual profits of the Lands, etc. It was holden by the Court, That value shall be intended, which at the time of the Feoffment was the value, and not as it is now improved by success of time. CLXIV. Annesley and Johnsons' Case. Mich. 27 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN an Ejectione Firm, upon Evidence, the Case was, That Roger Wake was seized, etc. and before 27 H. 8. enfeoffed certain persons to his use, etc. and they being so seized to the use aforesaid, The said Roger by his Will willed, That his Feoffees and Executors should found a Chantry in perpetuity, and a Priest there, to say Mass pro anim', etc. and that they procure a Licence to alien in Mortmain, and also an Incorporation for such Chantry Priory; And that the said Lands should be conveyed to such a Priest, etc. And also that every such Priest should be Schoolmaster there; And that post dictam Cantariam sic fundatam & stabilitam, the said Priest should say Mass, etc. Roger Wake died: The Feoffees and Executors did not procure any Corporation, or Licence to alien in Mortmain, nor make any estate to the Chantry Priest: But the appointing a Priest who said Mass according to the Will of the said Roger, and was also a Schoolmaster, and took the profits of the said Lands as owner of them, and died: After which, one Vere was appointed to be Schoolmaster there, but he was merely a Lay-person, and so continued until his death, and took the profits of the Land; And upon part of the Land he built a House, and there dwelled, and kept a School. And after his death, one Curtis was appointed by the Executors to teach there, and he was a Layman, and there taught many years; and afterwards he took Orders, and became a Priest, and said Mass, and other Divine Service, and continued Schoolmaster also: And 26 H. 8. the same was presented for a Chantry for First-Fruits, and first-fruits were paid for it, as appeared by a Particular which was showed in Evidence. And also, 2 E. 6. it was presented for a Chantry, and the possessions of it seized into the King's hands. And it was much insisted upon, That Vere being a mere Layman, that the same was a forcible Interruption of the Reputation of the Chantry. But it was the Opinion of the whole Court to the contrary: And that notwithstanding, That no Corporation was obtained, yet because that the Priest was appointed by colour of the Will, and he said Mass according to the Will, although Vere who succeeded him was a mere Layman, and not a Priest; yet afterwards when Curtis came being appointed but a Schoolmaster, being also a mere Layman, yet afterwards when he took upon him Orders, and demeaned himself as a Chantry Priest there ratione institutionis by the Will of Wake, which is confirmed by the Certificate, and also by the Presentment; The first Reputation is revived, and the Law shall not construe, That Curtis took the profits in the Quality of a Schoolmaster, but as a Priest; for the Law hath respect to the Will of the said Wake, which was the ground of all these proceed, and that, although he did not say Mass within 5 years before the Statute of 1 E. 6. And Note, That the Certificate of 26 H. 8. was, That Rich. Curtis was Cantarista: And it hath always been adjudged, That a Chantry 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 seized in Fee according to the Custom of the Manor of C. of certain Lands, and surrendered 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 newman's; 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 Money 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 Cousin 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 moiety of the Lands called Lakins and Brox, parcel of the place where, etc. 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 Cousin and Heir to the said Devisor, and that he as Heir entered 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, etc. 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 jointly, 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, etc. 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, etc. And as unto the last words, And if it fortune they three to die without Issue, etc. 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, Sergeants, 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, etc. are to be taken distributive; If John live until, etc. 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 created by this Will, but the Feesimple settled in them, when they came at their lawful age, and had Issue; so as the residue of the Devise was void, and judgement was given accordingly. CLXVI. Griffith and Agard's Case. Mich. 27 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Deceit by Griffith against Agard and his Wife; 1 Len. 290. For that a Fine was levied of a Message, 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 Cousin 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, Cousin 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 alleged, that the Lands were, De antiquo Dominico Dominae Reginae Angliae; whereas it ought to have been, De antiquo Dominico Dominae Coronae suae, etc. 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 King's Bench. 2 Len. 101. Styles Rep. 148. THe Case was, The Father was seized 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, justices, That the Son should be adjudged in by Descent; and so bounden with the Debt. CLXVIII. Branthwait's Case. Mich. 27 Eliz. In the King's 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 Manor 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, etc. and also deliver the said Lease to the Plaintiff, that then, etc. The Defendant pleaded, That the said J. F. had not any such Lease, and that after the making of the said Obligation, until 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, etc. But the Exception was disallowed by the Court; For if he were not damnified ratione dimissionis, than 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, etc. 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, judgement was given for the Plaintiff. CLXIX. Mich. 27 Eliz. In the King's 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, etc. 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 Plaintiff. 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, judgement was given for the Plaintiff. CLXX. The Queen and Kettells Case. Trin. 27 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Queen brought a Writ de Valour 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, etc. CLXXI Mich. 27 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A. Seized 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 Money 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 seized, 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, etc. and their Heirs in Fee: And afterwards, the Lord of the Manor of whom the Land was holden, brought a Writ of Deceit, 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 entered upon the Lessee for years; and he brought an Ejectione firm. And it was found, that the Land was Frank-Fee. And the sole Question was, If by the Reversal of the Fine by the Writ of Deceit, without suing a Scire facias against the Tertenant, should bind him? Atkinson, It shall not bind the Lessee for years; For a Fine may bind in part; and in part, not: as, bind one of the Conusees, and not the other. As. 7 H. 4. 11. a Fine levied of Lands part Ancient Demesne, and part at the Common-Law, and by a Writ of Deceit, the Fine was reversed in part; scil. as to the Land in Ancient Demesne; and stood in force for the Residue. See 8 H. 4. 136. And there by the Award of the Court, issued a Scire facias against the Tertenant; And the justices would not admit of the Fine without Certificate that the Land is Ancient Demesne, notwithstanding that the Defendant had confessed it. But as to those which were parties to the Fine, the Fine was become void between the parties; and he who had the Land before, might enter. See 8 E. 4. 6. And it would be a great inconvenience, if not Scire facias, or other Process, should be awarded against the Tertenant; For he should be dispossessed and disenherited without privity or notice of it. Whereas upon a Scire facias he might plead matter of discharge, in bar of the Writ of Deceit, Release, etc. which see, Fitzh. Na. Br. 98. and so, although that the Fine be reversed; yet he may retain the Land. And he resembled the same to the Case of 2 H. 4. 16, 17. In a Contra formam Collationis against an Abbot; A Scire facias shall issue forth against the Feoffee: and by the same reason, here in this Case. And for the principal matter, he conceived, That the Fine should be awarded between the parties, but not against the Lessee. Kingsmill conceived, That a Scire facias brought against the parties only, was good enough; For they were parties to the Deceit, and not the Ter-Tenants, etc. it was Adjourned. CLXXIII. Trin. 27 Eliz. In the King's Bench. ERror was brought upon a judgement in a Quid juris clamat: It was assigned for Error, That the Tenant appeared by Attorney; which Act he ought not to do in his own proper person, if it be not in case of necessity; where in such case an Attorney may be received by the King's Writ, and plead matter in bar of the Attornment. As if he claim Fee, etc. or other peremptory matter, after which Plea pleaded, he may make an Attorney, 48 E. 3. 24. 7 H. 4. 69. 21 E. 3. 48. 1 H. 7. 27. Another Error was assigned, Because it is not showed in the Quid juris clamat, what estate the Tenant hath. Another matter was, If the Grantee of the estate of Tenant in tail after possibility of Issue extinct, should be driven to Attorn? And conceived, He should not, Because the privilege passeth with the Grant. See 43 E. 3. 1. Tenant in tail after possibility of Issue extinct, Post. 241. shall not be driven to Attorn, 46 E. 3. 13. 27. therefore neither his Grantee. Williams, contrary, As to the appearance of the Tenant by Attorney, because the same is admitted by the Court, and the Plaintiff, the same is not Error. Which see, 1 H. 7. 27. by Brian and Conisby, 32 H. 6. 22. acc. And he conceived, That the Grantee should be driven to Attorn; For no other person can have the estate of the Tenant in tail after possibility of Issue extinct, but the party himself, therefore not the privilege: And although he himself be dispunishable of Waste; yet his Grantee shall not have such privilege; As if Tenant in Dower, or by the Courtesy, grant over their estates, the Heirs shall have an Action of Waste against the Grantees for Waste done by the Grantees. But if the Heir granteth over the Reversion, than Waste shall be brought against the Grantees. See Fitzh. Na. Br. 57 And if two Coparceners be, and one taketh Husband, and dieth, the Husband being Tenant by the Courtesy, A Writ of Partitione facienda lieth against him; but if he granteth over his estate, no Writ of Partition lieth against the Grantee. 27 H. 6. Statham, Aid; Tenant in tail after possibility, etc. shall not have Aid, but his Grantee shall. Clark conceived, That the Grantee should not be driven to Attorn: If the Tenant in tail grant all his estate, the Grantee is dispunishable of Waste: So if the Grantee grant it over, his Grantee is also dispunishable. It was Adjourned. CLXXIV. Trin. 27 Eliz. In the King's Bench. Hob. Rep. 66. IN Action of Trespass against J.D. for breaking of his Close, etc. The Defendant pleaded, That the Trespass whereof, etc. was done by the Defendant, and one J.S. against which J.S. the Plaintiff at another time had brought an Action of Trespass, and Recovered, etc. and had Execution of the Damages, etc. Plowden said, It was a good Bar, for that all is but one Trespass; and satisfaction by one of the Trespassors, is satisfaction for the other: And if the Plaintiff had Released to the other Trespassors, the Defendant if he had it in his hand might well plead it. Wray conceived it a good Bar; For it is but one Trespass and one wrong, although in respect of the several persons of the Trespassors, there are several Corporeal Acts. Atkinson conceived, That the Bar was not good; and it is not like the Case of Release, for that taketh away the whole Trespass whosoever doth it: And this Action may be sued jointly or severally against the Trespassors: and when the joint suit is Released, the several suit is Released. Clench, If an Action of Trespass be brought against two, and they plead several Pleas, and afterwards one of them is found guilty by a several jury, That jury shall assess all the Damages; and if the other be afterwards found guilty, he shall be subject to the said Damages, although he was not party to the said jury: and by the same Reason that he shall be charged with the same Damages, by the same Reason he shall have advantage of the satisfaction of them made by his Companion. See Br. Trespass, 2. CLXXV. Hitchcock and Thurland's Case. Trin. 27 Eliz. In the King's Bench. IN an Action upon the Statute brought for taking of Lands to Farm by a Spiritual person, 21 H. 8. It was holden, That if any such Lease be made at this day to any Spiritual person, such a Lease is not void: But such a Lease extends to such Leases made before the Feast of St. Michael mentioned in the said Act, and not aliened before the said Feast, etc. And so it was said, It was lately adjudged in one Underwood's Case. CLXXVI. Cutter and Dixwell's Case. Trin. 27 Eliz. In the King's Bench. AN Action upon the Case brought by Cutter against Dixwell: for that the said Defendant had exhibited a Bill to the justices of Peace against the Plaintiff, containing, That the Plaintiff is an Enemy to all Quietness, seeking all means to disquiet his Neighbours, and hath used himself as a Lawless person; and having Process to serve upon one in the Parish; viz. the Parson, did keep the Process, and would not serve it but on the Sabbath day in the time of Divine Service, not having regard to her Majesty's Laws, or the Quiet of his Neighbours. Upon which Bill, the justices to whom it was exhibited, awarded Process against the Plaintiff, to find Sureties for his good behaviour. It was the Opinion of the justices, That upon this matter, an Action would not lie. CLXXVII. Mason's Case. Trin. 26 Eliz. In the King's Bench. MAson Leased certain Lands to one R. for years; and afterwards leased the same Lands to one Tinter for years; Tinter Covenanted with the Defendant, That if the said R. should sue the said Mason by reason of the later Lease, that then he would discharge or keep harmless without damage the said Mason, and also would pay to him all the Charges which he should sustain by reason of any suit to be brought against the said R. in respect of the said former Lease: And Mason by the same Indenture Covenanted with Tinter, That the said Land demised, should continue to the said Tinter discharged of former Charges, Bargains, and Encumbrances: And now upon the second Covenant, Tinter brought an Action of Covenant, and shown, That the said R. had sued him in an Action of Ejectione Firm upon the said first Lease, and had recovered against him, etc. And Mason pleaded in Bar, the said second Covenant, intending that by that later Covenant, the Plaintiff had notice of the said former Lease made unto R. so as the first Lease shall be excepted out of the Covenants of former Grants; for otherwise, there should be circuity of Action. But the Opinion of the whole Court was to the contrary: For the Covenant of Mason shall go to the discharge of the Land; but the Covenant of Tinter only to the possession. CLXXVIII. Knight and Beech's Case. Pasch. 27 Eliz. Rott. 1127. In the Common Pleas. 1 And. 173. Coke 5. Rep. 55. 1 Len. 12. 2 Len. 134. WIlliam Knight brought Ejectione Firm against William Beech. The Case was, That the Prior of St. John's of Jerusalem, 29. H. 8. with the assent of his Covent, leased by Indenture divers Houses in Clarkenwell, in the County of Middlesex, for fifty years, to one Cordel, rendering Rend 5 l. 10 s. and 11 d. at four Feasts of the year, usual in the City of London, viz. for such a Message, called The High-House, 14 s. for another House, 3 s. 11 d. for another House, xx s. etc. Et si contingat dictum annualem redditum, 5 l. 10 s. 11 d. a retro fore, in parte vel in toto, ultra aut post aliquem terminum solutionis, in quo solvi deberet, per spatium trium mensium, etc. quod tunc, & ad omnia tempora deinceps, ad libitum, etc. liceret dicto Priori, & Successoribus suis, & omni tali personae & personis, quam vel quas dictus Prior & Successores sui nominarent & appunctuarent, sine scripto, in omnia dicta tenementa totaliter reentrare, etc. And afterwards, 32 H. 8. the said Hospital of St. John's was dissolved, and the possessions of it granted to the said King; and afterwards the said King, 36 H. 8. gave the said House, upon which the said Rend of 20 s. was reserved, to one Audley, etc. in Fee: And afterwards the now Queen being seized of the residue, a Commission issued out of the Exchequer bearing Date 8 Maii, 23 Eliz. Ad inquirendum, Utrum the Defendant to whom the Interest of the said term did appertain, perimple visset & performasset omnes Provisiones fact. & reservat. in & super praedict. Indenturam, necne? Office was found before the Grant, and after 25 August following, the said Queen, by her Letters Patents, gave the said House, called The High-House, to Fortescue the Lessor of the Plaintiff; and afterwards Tres Mich. the Commission was returned, by which it was found all as aforesaid; Et quod Termini & Festi Solutionis in London, are Michaelmas, Christmas, Annunciation, and Midsummer; and that at the Feast of Michaelmas, such Rent was behind for the space of three Months, etc. It was argued in this Case by Gawdy, Serjeant, on the part of the Plaintiff, That here are several Rents; for the entire Sum by the viz. is distributed into several Portions, which make several Rents; and to that purpose he cited Winter's Case, 14 Eliz. Dyer, 308. A Lease for years is made of the Manors of A.B. and C. rendering for the Manor of A. xx s. and for the Manor of B. x s. and for the Manor of D. x s. with a Condition for the Nonpayment of the said Rents, or any of them, or any part or parcel of them, within one Month, etc. then a Reentry; Here are several Rents: And he conceived, That a Condition in the Case of the King might be apportioned; For a Rent-charge, and a Condition, are in the King in better Condition than in a Subject, for the thing may distrain for a Rent-charge in all the Lands, of him who is seized of the Land out of which such a Rent is issuing; and if a Rent-seck be due to the King, he may distrain for the same; and the King shall never demand his Rent which he hath reserved with Clause of Reentry; and it appeareth in the Register, That if before the Statute of Westm. 3. the King purchaseth parcel of the Land holden of him, the Rent shall be apportioned, which was not in the Case of a Common person, and there are in the Exchequer divers Precedents to that effect, scil. If A. be bounden in a Recognizance to B. and afterwards enfeoffeth the King of part of his Land, and C. of the other part: If B. be afterwards attainted of Treason, so as the said Recognizance accrueth to the King; that now, notwithstanding that he hath part of the Land liable to the Recognizance, he shall have Execution of the residue. And see F. N. B. 266. If, after the Recognizance acknowledged, the Conusor enfeoffeth of certain parcels of his Lands several persons, and of the Residue enfeoffeth the King; that Land which is assured to the King is discharged of the Execution, but the residue shall be charged: So that the possession of the King doth alter the Nature of the Rent, Condition, and Execution. Fenner, Sergeant, Contrary. And he said, That this Grant before Office returned was not good; for without Office the King cannot enter, multo minus his Patentee; and that the King by the Grant hath interrupted the Relation of the Office, As if a Man by Indenture bargaineth and selleth his Lands, and afterwards makes Livery to the Bargainee, and afterwards the Deed is enroled. Now the party shall not be said to be in by the Bargain and Sale, but by the Livery; for the Livery hath interrupted the force of the first assurance by way of Bargain, and the Relation is utterly gone: So in our Case, The Grant of the Queen, mean between the Award of the Commission, and the return of it, hath destroyed the force and effect of the Commission, so as no appearance shall be had of it: And he agreed, That here are several Rents, but the Condition is entire; and admit, that a Condition may be apportioned in some Cases, yet in some Cases it cannot. And the Statute of 32 H. 8. gives the Condition and the Reversion, to which it is annexed, to the King, in such sort as it was in the Prior: But the Condition in the Prior was not capable of Apportionment, and therefore no more it shall be in the Case of the King. As where a Recognizance is acknowledged, whic● cometh to the King by the Attainder of the Conusee; Now, if the King will sue Execution upon it, he shall not have the whole Land of the Conusor in Execution, but only the moiety by Elegit, etc. This Case afterward, Trin. 28 Eliz. for Difficulty, was adjourned into the Exchequer-Chamber, and there argued before all the justices, and Barons of the Exchequer. And Shuttleworth, Sergeant, argued for the Plaintiff; And first he said, Here are several Rents, and so several Conditions, especially when all the things demised are of such a Nature, that they may yield a Distress: but if any of the things demised cannot yield Distress, than it shall be one entire Rent, and shall issue out of the Residue, etc. Which see, 17 Ass. 10. An Assize was brought of 20 s. Rent, and the said Rent was reserved upon a Lease for life made of 100 Acres of Lands, and 15 Acres of Wood; scil. for the Land 10 s. and for the Woods 10 s. And by the Assize it was found the Disseisin in the Wood, but not in the Land. Wherefore it was awarded, That the Plaintiff should recover seisin of the 10 s. and for the residue, that he should take nothing. And although these words (reddendo inde) Trench unto all the things demised entirely, yet this word (viz.) is a distributive, and makes an Apportionment; And the viz. is not contrary to the premises; scil. to the reddendo inde. As if I enfeoff A. and B. of an Acre of Land, Habendum the one moiety thereof to A. in Fee, and the other moiety to B. in Fee; this is good, for it well stands with the premises. But if I enfeoff A. and B. of two Acres of Lands, Habendum the one Acre to A. and the other to B. the same Habendum is void, because contrary to the premises, for each of them is excluded out of one Acre which was given to him in the premises. And in our Case, If the Rent set forth in the (Viz.) had been greater or less than that which is reserved upon the Reddendo, than the (Viz.) should be void for the contrariety, and the Reddendo stand. Walmesley, contrary; And that here is one entire Rent. Which see to be so, by the close of the Condition, Si Redditus praedict' aut aliqua inde parcella, etc. And the Lessor may distrain in any part of the Land demised for the whole Rent, notwithstanding the (Viz.) And it was moved by Shuttleworth, That admit the Rent and Condition be entire; Yet now when the King grants the Reversion of one of the things demised in Fee to a stranger, the Condition remains, and not determined by the destruction of the Reversion, as in the case of a Subject: For the King hath divers Prerogatives, by which he is exempted and protected from such Mischiefs and Inconveniences which happen to Subjects by their own Acts and their Laches and Folly, which shall not be imputed to the King; And the reason of Extinguishment of a Condition in such case in the case of a Common person, is his own Folly, that he will distrahere his Reversion; And Folly shall never be imputed to the King: And as the Case is here, the King is not bound to take notice of a Condition made by a Common ●erson; For it is not matter of Record, and by this Grant of the King, the Rent doth not pass; for the Grant is only of the Reversion, without any mention of the Rent. And the King hath divers Prerogatives in a Condition; As in the creating of a Condition, 35 H. 6. 38. The Abbot of Sion's Case, Ad effectum, is a good Condition in the Case of the King, by Prison: And where the King grants Lands in Fee to one upon Condition, That the Grantee shall not alien, the same is a good condition. So for a Rent-Seck, the King may distrain; And the King may reserve a Rent and a Condition to a stranger; and if he doth reserve a Rent and a Condition to himself, he may grant the same over to a Subject, 2 H. 7. 8. And the Condition in the case of a Common person may be apportioned: As if Lessee of two Acres upon Condition, alien one of them in Fee, and the Lessor entereth for the forfeiture, or recovereth part in an Action of Waste, etc. but of a surrender, it is otherwise. Walmesley contrary; The Condition is gone; For a Condition in the hands of the King is of the same Nature, as in the case of a common person, impatient of any Division, Partition, or Apportionment: As, if the King hath a Rent out of 3 Acres of Land, and afterwards purchaseth one of them, the Rent is utterly gone, and shall not be apportioned as well as in the Case of a common person: So of a Common. And as this Case is, If the Condition doth remain, then, upon the breach of it, the King shall enter into the whole; for the words of the Condition are, Wholly to re-enter; and so he should defeat his own grant. And he cited a Case adjudged at the Assizes at York; The King gave Land in Fee-Farm, rendering Rend, with Clause of reentry: The King granteth the Rent over to a stranger; And after, the Rent is behind; The King cannot re-enter, nor the Grantee. It was also moved, If the jurors of Middlesex might inquire of the usual Feast days in London. Shuttleworth, That they might do so. See 5 H. 5. 23. Where a Commission issued out to inquire in the County of Surrey, of Escheats, words, etc. who found, that A. held of the King in Chief, and took to Wife one E. Cousin of A. within the Degrees they then knowing of it, and had Issue betwixt them; and afterwards they were Divorced in the County of Kent, etc. And Exception was taken to that Office, Because the Enquest of Surry had found a Divorce in the County of Kent. Another matter was, Because the jurors have found the breach of the Condition; And before the jurors had put their Hands and Seals to the Inquisition, the Queen granted part of the things demised in his hands, to Fortescue; After which Grant, the Inquisition was sealed, and Returned into the Exchequer: If now, the Grant to Fortescue be good, or not? Vide inde, Dyer, 2 Eliz. 17. Upon 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 justices, 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 seized of a Common out of the Lands of the Abbey of S. as appendent unto certain Lands of the said Abbey 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, etc. After which, the King so being seized, granted the said possessions of the said Abbey of D. to A. and the possessions of the said Abbey 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 seized 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, justices, 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 Unity 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 seized 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 seized, 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 Attorney in it, and delivered the same to the said Lessee; who delivered the same to him who was made Attorney 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 seized of the Land, either by Feoffment, or by Confirmation: And it appeareth here, That when the Lessee delivered the Charter to the Attorney; And also when the Lessee accepted Livery from the Attorney, 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 Attorney, and delivers the same to the Disseisor, who delivers the same to the Attorney, 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 indebted 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 Antonius in Consideratione inde super se assumpsit, etc. 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. etc. CLXXXII. Stransham and Collington's Case. Trin. 28 Eliz. In the King's Bench. THe Plaintiff sued in the Spiritual Court for Tithes against the Defendant within the Parish of C. The Defendant said, 1 Cro. 128. That the Tithes 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 justice, said, It hath been taken, That it is tryable by our Law. Fenner, The Pope hath not distinguished Parishes, but hath Ordained, That Tithes 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 seized 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, etc. 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 justice, That in the time of Sir Anthony Brown, it was holden, That if a Man be seized 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 hath not any estate in the later Acre, for the cause aforesaid: Afterwards, It was moved, What thing passed to the second Son by that Devise? And the Lord Anderson conceived, That the words in the Will, Usually Occupied with it, did amount to as much, as Land let with it; and then the 60 Acres were not let with it, and therefore did not pass. Windham, justice, held the contrary; and he said, Although they do not pass by the words, Occupied with it; yet it shall pass to the Son by the name of Jacks, or, the Lands appertaining to Jacks, To which Anderson, mutata opinion, afterwards agreed. CLXXXIV. Wroth and the Countess of Sussex Case. Pasch. 28 Eliz. In the King's Bench. Co. 6. Rep. 33. 1 Len. 35. 4 Len. 61. THe Case was this, In Anno 4 & 5 of King Philip and Queen Mary; A private Act of Parliament was made, by which it was Enacted, That the Manor of Burnham was assured to the Countess of Sussex for her jointure; with a Proviso in the Act, That it should be lawful for the Earl of Sussex to may a Lease or Leases for 21 years; and afterwards, a year before the first Lease was ended, he made another Lease for 21 years, and this second Lease was to begin and take effect from the end of the first Lease. And if this second Lease were a good Lease within the intent and meaning of the Act, was the Question? Popham, the Queen's Attorney General said, That it was not; 1. Because it was a Lease to begin at a day to come: And, 2. Because it was made before the first Lease was ended. But he said, It may be Objected, That the Act saith (Lease or Leases,) It is not the sense of the Act, that he might make Leases in the Reversion: but the sense and meaning of the Makers of the Act, was, That he might make Leases in possession, and not Leases in futuro; for if it should be so, than he might make a Lease for 21 years to begin after his death: which should be a great prejudice to the Countess, and against the meaning of the Act, which was made for her advantage. The Lord Treasurer, and Sir Walter Mildmay, Knight, have a Commission from the Queen to make Leases of the Queen's Lands for 21 years, because the Queen would not be troubled. It was holden, That by virtue of that Commission, they could not make any Leases, but Leases in possession only: But all other Leases which did exceed the Term of 21 years, and in Reversion, were to pass by the hands of the Queen, and her Attorney General, and not by them only by virtue of their said Commission. And if I grant to one power before the Statute to make Leases of my Land for 21 years, he cannot make any Lease, but only Leases in possession; and he cannot Lease upon Lease, for by the same reason, that he might make one Lease to begin in futuro; by the same reason he might make 20 several Leases to begin in futuro; and so frustrate the Intent of the Act. It was marshal's Case upon the Statute of 1 Eliz. of Leases to be made by Bishops; The Bishop of Canturbury made a Lease to him for one and twenty years; and afterwards he made a Lease unto another for 21 years to begin at the end of the first Lease. And it was holden, That the second Lease was void. But in the great Case which was in the Exchequer-Chamber, upon this Point, There the second Lease was in possession, and to begin presently, and to run on with the other Lease; and therefore it was adjudged to be good, because the Land was charged with more than 21 years in the whole. And if the Earl had done so here, it had been a good Lease. Wray, justice, said, That if the second Lease had been made but two or three years before the expiration of the first Lease, that then it had been utterly void; but being made but 2 or 3 days or months before the expiration of the first Lease, he doubted, If it should be void, or not. The Statute of 32 H. 8. makes Leases for 21 years, to be good from the day of the date thereof: And a Lease was made to begin at a day to come: And yet it was holden by two of the justices in the Court of Common Pleas, That it was a good Lease: And by two other justices of the same Court, it was holden, the Lease was not good. And Clench, justice, said, That there was no difference, If it be by one Deed, or by two Deeds: And therefore he held, That if the Earl had made a Lease for 21 years, and within a year another, the same had been void, if it were by one Deed, or two Deeds, for that he did exceed his authority. And he said, In the principal Case, If there had not been a Proviso, he could not have made a Lease; and therefore the Proviso which gave a power to make a Lease for 21 years, should be taken strictly. There was a Case of the Lord Marquis of, etc. that it should be lawful for him to make Leases for 21 years by a Statute; And he made another Lease to begin after the end or expiration of the first Lease; and it was doubted, Whether it were a good Lease or not, because he had not made any Lease before: But if both were made by force of the Statute; all held, That the second Lease was void. At another day, the Case was argued by Daniel, for the Lease in Reversion to begin at a day to come. And he said, That in a Statute the words alone are not to be considered, but also the meaning of the parties, and they are not to be severed. Also he said, That a Statute-Law is to be expounded by the Common-Law: And by the Common-Law, If one giveth power unto another to make Leases of his Lands, he might make Leases in Reversion, because an Authority is to be taken most beneficially for them for whose cause it was given. So that if a Man grant an authority to another to make Estates of his Lands, by those general words he may make Leases for years or for life, Gifts in tail, Feoffments, or any Estates whatsoever; If one gives a Commission to another to make Leases for one and twenty years of his Lands, he may make a Lease in Reversion; and so it was holden in the Duchy in the Case between Alcock and Hicks. Also he said, That this Lease was a good Lease by the Statute-Law: For the Statute of Rich. 3. gives authority to Cestuy que Use, that he may make Estates in Reversion. The Statute of 27 H. 8. which gives authority to the Chief Officer of the Court of Surveyors to make Leases, if it had stayed there, he might have made Leases in Reversion; Therefore the Statute goes further, and saith, Proviso, That he shall not make a Lease in Reversion. See 19 Eliz. Dyer 357., The Statute of 35 H. 8. of Leases to be made by the Husbands of the Lands of their Wives, By the general words of the Statute they might have made Leases in Reversion; And therefore the Case there was, That where the Husband had made a Lease of his Wives Lands for 21 years; and afterwards he made another Lease for 21 years, to begin after the Lease in esse: It was conceived, That such a Lease was good, because in the Act there was no restraint of Leases in Reversion, as there is in the Statute of 32 H. 8. In all Cases of Statutes which are with Prouisoes, the Law upon them shall be taken generally, but in such Particulars only as are restrained by the Proviso; and here in this Case, the Proviso went to the Ancient Rent to be reserved, and that the Countess should have remedy for the said Rent; and therefore it shall be construed at large as unto all other points which are not restrained by the Proviso. As if the Wife be within age, and she and her Husband join in a Lease, yet such a Lease shall be good, by the Statute of 32 H. 8. because the Law is general, and doth not restrain these imperfections expressly. So if a Feoffment in Fee be made with warranty, Proviso, That he shall not vouch; yet that restraint goes to the Voucher only, and he is at large to Rebutt, or to have a Warrantia Chartae. A Lease is made for life, Proviso, That he shall not do voluntary Waste; he is at large to do any other Waste: Otherwise it would be, if there were no Proviso,; and there a Proviso makes the precedent words to be expounded more liberally. The Stat. of 33 H. 8. Cap. 39 of Surveyors, which giveth authority to the Chief Officer to set, or let for 21 years, he might have made a Lease for 21 years, if by the Proviso he had not been restrained; and yet the words are put singularly: But the words of this Act, upon which the Case in Question doth arise, are Lease or Leases; and therefore it shall be expounded most liberally for the party. Again, he argued, That as to the intent of the Statute, that this Lease was within the meaning of it; for the meaning is to be collected out of the words, and shall not be drawn to any private construction or intent against the words, which should be here, if this Lease should be avoided: For by such construction and exposition, the Earl, his Heirs, Executors, etc. should be prejudiced, and the Countess only should be benefited. Also by this Act remedy is given to the Countess against such Lessees, that she should have the Rent, by Debt, or Distress; as if she had been party or privy: therefore it is reason, via versa, that the Lessees have remedy against her for their Leases. Also he said, That the same remedy should be for them against the Countess, as they had against the Earl himself if he had been alive; and therefore they should have such remedy against the Countess, as they had against the Earl. And further he said, That the Statute is to be expounded according to the words where such an Exposition is not rigorous, nor mischievous: And private Laws are to be expounded by the letter, and strictly, as the Deed of the party shall be. As 14 E 4. 1. Br. Parliament, 61. A Particular Act was made, That the Chancellor calling unto him one justice, might award a Subpena between A. and B. and end the matter betwixt them: And there, by all the justices, except Littleton, He shall not award a general Subpena, but a special Subpena, making mention of the Act; for he shall pursue the particular Act strictly: But an Act which is for the common profit, shall be expounded largely. Also a Statute shall not be expounded largely, or by Equity to overthrow an Estate. As the Statute which gives, That if the Woman doth consent to the Ravisher, that the next Heir shall enter: If the Daughter entereth; and after a Son is born; he shall not put out the Daughter, because the Statute shall not be drawn to a private intent, to the overthrow of the Estate before lawfully vested in the Daughter: And so in the principal Case, the Statute shall not be drawn to a private intent for the benefit of the Countess, to overthrow the Lease for years. And it is not like to the Case which hath been put, That if he maketh a Lease for 20 years, and so for 20 years; that the same is not good by the Statute; For I will agree, That that is a Lease for 40 years. Egerton, Solicitor, contrary; First, as to the word (Demise, or Dimission,) it is nothing else but the letting of the Land, and so (Lease) comes from (Laiser) a French word; and such a Lease itself, for he hath not left the Land. As if I say to you, I Let you my Lands for 21 years; When shall you have my Land? Not at a day to come, but presently. If I sell you Land, and Covenant, that it is discharged of another Lease for 21 years, and there is a Lease to Commence after the Lease for 21 years, I have broken my Covenant. If I be bounden to make you a Lease for 21 years, and I say to you, I make you a Lease to begin 200 years hence, I have forfeited my Bond. If the Custom of the Manor be, that Dominus pro tempore may make a Lease for 21 years, may he make a Lease to begin at a day to come? Truly no, if there be not a special Custom so to do. If I give authority to my Steward to make Leases of my Lands for 21 years, he cannot make a Lease to begin 100 years after. As to the Case of the Duchy, there the Commission was, That he might make Leases according to his discretion, therefore there he might make what Lease he pleaseth. As to the Statute which enableth Cestuy que Use, of 1 R. 3. that Case is not like to our Case, for that Act is, All Feoffments, Estates, etc. therefore he might make such Leases without doubt. And if I devise, That my Executors shall make Leases of my Lands for 21 years, they cannot make Leases to begin at a day to come; and if they do not make the Leases within convenient time, the Heir shall enter, and avoid their authority. And Statute-Law shall have such an Exposition, as that the precise time ought to be observed; As the Statute of 14 E. 3. Rastal Vourcher, 8. If the Tenant voucheth to warranty a dead Man, and the Demandants will aver, That the Vouchee is dead, or that there is no such, their Averment shall be received without more delay. Upon this Statute the Case was, 21 E. 3. Whereone was vouched to warranty, and the Summoneas ad Warrantizandum issued, and then came the Demandant and would have averred, That the Vouchee was dead; And the Tenant said, That he ought to have averred that upon the voucher to warranty, and that now he had surceased his time: And the Demandant said, That the Statute did not bind him to that, nor did prescribe any time, but left the same generally. Yet it was the Opinion of the whole Court, That he should have the Averment at the time of the Voucher, or not at all. So the Statute of 11 H 7. Cap. 20. If a Woman who hath a jointure for life or in tail, suffereth a Recovery, and afterwards the Issue in tail releaseth all his Right by Fine, and dieth, his Issue may enter; for the assent ought to be by Vourcher in the same Action, or the like: for if there be a mean instant between the Recovery and the Assent, than any assent after is nothing to the purpose; for the Recovery being once void by the Statute, cannot be made good by an assent afterwards. See Doctor and Student, 54. And yet the Statute is, Provided, That the Statute shall not extend to any such Recovery, etc. if the next Heir be assenting to the same Recovery, etc. so as the same assent, or agreement be of Record, or enrolled. And it doth not say, That the Assent should be at one time, or at another. But to come to Leases upon Statutes. Before the Statute of 2 E. 6. Cap. 8. If Leases had not been found by Offices, the Lessees should have been ousted, and put to their traverse: But put Case, that after that Statute, a Lease made to begin at a day to come, were not found by Office, should it be helped by that Statute? No truly; And so it is holden in the Court of Wards at this day; and the Lord Chief justice of England held so in his Reading at Lincolns-Inn. The Statute of 1 Eliz. of Leases to be made by Bishops, is, That Leases other than for 21 years from the time that they begin; that is, when they may take effect as Deeds, and not when they shall take effect to be executed; For so they might make Leases infinite, etc. It was adjourned, etc. CLXXXV. Lewen and Modies Case. Mich. 28 & 29 Eliz. Rot. 2494. In the Common Pleas. IN a Replevin brought by Lewen, Doctor of the Civil Law, against Mody; who made Conusans as Bailiff to one Fowke, and shown, That 14 Elizabeth, the morrow of the Purification, a Fine was levied between Lovelace and Rutland Plaintiffs, and the said Fowke and other Deforceants: by which Fine, the said Deforceants acknowledged the said Manor to be the right of the said Lovelace and Rutland, come ceo, etc. And the said Lovelace and Rutland, by the same Fine, granted and rendered to the said Fowke a Rent of 20 l. per annum in Fee out of the said Manor; And for the Rend arrear, etc. And the Plaintiff in bar of the Conusans, showed, That the said Fowke being seized of the said Rent, granted the same to one Horden, etc. Upon which Grant they were at Issue: And the jury found, That the said Fowke being seized of the said Rent, by Indenture reciting, That whereas a Fine was levied between Fowke and 7 others Plaintiffs, and Lovelace and Rutland Deforceants; as the rest ut supra, granted redditum predict. to Horden; and further found, that no other Fine was levied between the parties aforesaid but the said Fine, and that the parties to the Fine were seized of the Manor at the time of the Fine levied, and of no other Land: And if this Rent so described by the said Indenture, should pass or not, was the Question? And it is to be observed, That the Indenture of Grant between Fowke and Horden, recited a Fine of the Manor of Coleshall inter alia, where the jury have found, That the Fine was levied of the said Manor only. And it was argued by Shuttleworth, That the said Rent did not pass to Horden by the said Indenture; for the Rent, bescribed by the Indenture, is not the Rent which was granted by the Fine: And if I let Lands for years to A. and afterwards A. grants the Land which B. holds of me, the Grantis void; As 13 E. 3. Grants, 63. Land is given to Husband and Wife for their lives; And the Lessor grants the Reversion of the Land which the Husband holdeth for life, nothing passeth. Walmesley, contrary; The variance in the Fine shall not avoid the Grant; For the Indenture of the Rent agrees with the Fine, in the Term, in the year of the Reign, and in the name of the parties to the Fine, in the quantity of the Rent, and in the Land charged; the only difference is in the phrase of Law, Deforceant for Plaintiff; and it is granted, that that is but a matter of Circumstance, and not of substance. Snag, Serjeant, contrary. And first he took Exception to the Verdict; for this, that a special Verdict is given upon a special Absque hoc. And the Lord Anderson interrupted him, That it was a clear Case, That such a Verdict upon such an Issue might be found. And so it was adjudged in the Case between Vavasour and Doleman. Fenner argued, as Walmesley, The Grant agrees with the Fine in the points of greatest importance, and one falsity shall not prejudice it where there are so many verities which may induce the Court to judge, That the Rent granted by the Indenture, is the Rent created by the Fine: and in a Fine, the substance is not, Who was Deforceant, who was Plaintiff; but who was party to the Fine? And that some of the parties to the Fine were seized of the Land of which the Fine is levied: And if the Indenture had been, Whereas such a Rent was granted by a Fine levied between A. and B. without showing who was Plaintiff, and who Deforceant, it had been good enough. And although that in this Case, the Plaintiff and Deforceant are mis-set down, yet the same shall not make the Grant void; for utile per inutile non vitiatur. So if I reciting, The Original Grant was made to me by Indenture Tripartite between A. of the first part; B. of the second part; and myself of the third part; whereas the Indenture itself is, Between myself of the first part, the same is not material, etc. For, such a small mistaking shall not avoid the Grant. So if I by my Deed reciting, That whereas I am possessed of certain Lands for Term of years of the Demise of Sir Christopher Hatton, Knight, Treasurer of England; whereas in truth he is Chancellor; that mistaking of the Dignity shall not prejudice the Grant. And it was Agreed by all the justices, If the said Fine had been pleaded at it is recited in the Indenture, mistaking the Plaintiff and Deforceant; he who had so pleaded it, had failed of his Record; But in the Case at Bar, the reciting who was Plaintiff, who Defendant, was matter of surplusage, and therefore it shall not hurt the party. As 23 Eliz. Dyer, 376. A., seized of a House in D. which he purchased of Tho. Cotton, he made a Feoffment thereof by these words; A House in D. late Richard Cotton's. And notwithstanding this variance, it was good enough; 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. etc. CLXXXVI. Lucas and Picroft's Case. Pasch. 28 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was, That an Assize 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 Foreign County. Upon which the Assize was adjourned into the Common Pleas, and from thence into the foreign County; Where, by Nisi prius, It was found for the Plaintiff; and now in the Common Pleas, Snag, Serjeant, prayed judgement for the Plaintiff; and cited the Book, 16 H. 7. 12. Where an Assize is adjourned into the Common Pleas for difficulty of the Verdict, they there may give judgement. But all the Court held the contrary; For here is another Acre of which the Title is yet to be tried before the justices of Assize; before the trial of which, no judgement shall be given for the Acre of which the Title is found. And the Assize is properly depending before the justices of Assize, before whom the Plaintiff may discontinue his Assize. And it is not like to the Cases of 6 E. 4. and 8 Ass. 15. Where in an Assize, a Release was pleaded, dated in a foreign County; which was denied: Wherefore the Assize 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 judgement of the Freehold presently. But in our Case, parcel of the Land put in View, remains not tried; which the Plaintiff cannot release, as he may his Damages, 2 Len. 199. and therefore the Court remanded the Verdict, to the justices of Assize. 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 Philip 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 Cozening; And also, that he had published the matter of the said Bill at Westm. etc. In this Case, it was said by the Court, That the exhibiting of the Bill to the Queen, is not in itself any Cause of Action; For the Queen is the Head and Fountain of justice, 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 expressly showed, That the Plaintiff hath used perjury, forgery, etc. And it may be, that the Attorney, or Solicitor 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, etc. 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. Moor 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, etc. It was found for the Plaintiff; and thereupon issued forth a Writ to the Bishop, which was not returned; Upon which an Alias issued forth: Upon which the Bishop returned, That after judgement 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, etc. And if that was a good return, 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 judgement 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 return of the Bishop was not good. Wherefore, he was fined 10 l. and a Sicut alias awarded upon pain of 100 l. CLXXXIX. Parrot and Doctor Matthews Case. Mich. 28 Eliz. In the King's Bench. A Praemunire was brought and prosecuted by the Queen's Attorney General and Parrot, 1 Len. 292. against Doctor Matthews Dean of Christ-Church in Oxford, and others, for that they procured the said Parrot 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, Parrot pleaded his Freehold, and so to the jurisdiction of the Court; and yet they proceeded there, and Parrot was Condemned and Imprisoned: And afterward, the said Suit depending, the Queen's Attorney 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 Precedent 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 Queen's Attorney 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 King's protection; and the damages are but accessary; and then the Principal being Released, the damages are gone. And it was also holden, That the Precedents in the Book of Entries, are not to be regarded; For there is not any judgement upon any of the plead there. CXC. Archeboll and Borrell's Case. Mich. 28 Eliz. In the King's 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 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 indicted of the said death in the County of S. scil. of the stroke, 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 proceed are not by due process; For upon the Writ of Appeal, no Pledges are returned. 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 judgement of life and member: Which shall not be, upon an insufficient Appeal, 9 H. 5. 2. 2. Because it is not showed in the Declaration, If the Defendant did fly, or not. 3. The Declaration wants these words, Falso & Malitiose, as they are in the Writ of Conspiracy. And also it is not showed, 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 itself, 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. Fleming, to the contrary, It needs not to be showed, 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 employed 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 Deceit was brought, for that the Defendant by Fraud and Collusion had procured J.S. to brign a Formedon against the Plaintiff of such a Manor, 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 execution 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 Deceit lieth. And as to the matter of the Endictment, I conceive, that it is not any bar; For the Endictment is merely 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 Battle, 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 trial 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 adjoining 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, etc. 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, justice, 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 maliciously, notwithstanding the Endictment. Walmesley, Serjeant, conceived, That the Action doth not lie at the Common Law; For in no case where the party useth but the means of the Law by the King's Writ, without any Corruption or Covin of the party, he shall be amerced only pro falso clamore, and no Action lieth against him, because he hath not used but the means of the Law. Which see, 2 R. 3. 9 by all the justices. But yet in an Appeal, because it toucheth the life of a Man, the Defendant shall have his damages against the Plaintiff, but not in any other Action which is a vexation by suit, if no Corporation or Covin be in the party who prosecutes such suit. See such matter justifiable in Conspiracy, 35 H. 6. 13, 14. Afterwards, the principal Case was adjourned. CXCI Parker and Howard's Case. Pasch. 28 Eliz. In the King's Bench. 2 Len. 102. IN Debt upon an Obligation, the Condition was, That whereas the Plaintiff and Defendant be now jointly seized of the Office of the Register of the Court of Admiralty, If the Defendant shall permit the Plaintiff to exercise the said Office, and take the profits of it wholly to his own use during his life, without let or interruption done by him, That then, etc. The Defendant pleaded, That the Custom of the Realm of England is, That the Lord Admiral for the time being, might grant the said Office, and that such Grant should be good but for the life of the Grantor. And further showed, 1 Len. 103. That the Lord Clinton, Lord Admiral, granted the said Office to the Plaintiff and the Defendant, and died; And that the Lord Howard was appointed Lord Admiral: And that he 27 Eliz. granted the said Office to one Wade, who put him out, and interrupted him; before which time the Defendant suffered the Plaintiff to enjoy the said Office, and to take the profits of it: Upon which the Plaintiff demurred in Law. Cook argued for the Plaintiff, That the Defendant's Plea was not good, for he hath not entitled the Lord Admiral to grant the Office; For he saith, That the Custom of the Realm of England is; which he hath pleaded in such manner, as no Issue can be taken upon it; for it is pleaded, Quod usitatum est quod Admirals pro tempore existens, Non potest Concedere Officium predict, nisi pro termino vitae suae; and that cannot be, for it cannot be tried; for the Venire facias cannot be, Of the Realm of England: Also, if it be, Through the whole Realm of England, than the same is the Common Law, and not Consuetudo. Which see, Br. Custom, 39 And see 4 & 5 Mar. Dyer, 152, 153. An express case of this Office; And there he prescribes in Consuetudine in Anglia, etc. And also, that such Grant is good but during the life of the Admiral who granted it. Also he doth not answer to any time of the Grant of the Admiral Howard; For if he were lawfully put out by Wade, yet the Defendant against his own Obligation cannot put us out, or interrupt us. As L. 5 E. 4. 115. In a Quare Impedit against an Abbot and the Incumbent, who make default upon the distress; upon which a Writ to the Bishop was awarded for the Plaintiff: Upon which the Bishop returned, That the Incumbent resigned; of which the Bishop gave notice: And afterwards Lapse encurred, and the Bishop collated the said former Incumbent, and then that Writ came to him. Now although the Incumbent be in by a new title, yet he is bound by the judgement. So here, although the Defendant had another title, and the former title of the Plaintiff be determined; yet against his own Deed and Obligation, he shall not put out the Plaintiff. And the Court was clear, That the judgement should be given for the Plaintiff. But afterwards, the Cause was Compounded by the Order of the Lord Chancellor. CXCII. manning's Case. Mich. 28 Eliz. In the King's Bench. NOte: It was agreed by the justices in this Case, That where an Enfant Executor sold the Goods of his Testator at less undervalue than they were worth; And afterwards brought an Action of Detinue against the Vendee upon it in retardatione executionis Testamenti; That this sale of the Enfant Executor was good; and should bind him notwithstanding his Nonage. CXCIII. Mich. 28 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was; A Man made a Feoffment in Fee to the use of himself for life, and afterwards to the use of his eldest Son in tail, and afterwards to the use of his right Heirs, not having at the time of the Feoffment any Son: Afterwards, he suffered a Common Recovery, had Issue a Son, who died in the life of his Father, having Issue a Son, and afterwards he himself dieth: It was holden in this Case, That the Son and Heir of the Son, should not avoid this Recovery by the Statute of 32 H. 8. For there was not any remainder in him at the time of the Recovery had, but the remainder than was in abeyance; for then the Son was not born: And the words of the said Statute are, That such Recovery shall be void against such person to whom the Reversion or Remainder shall then appertain; i. e. at the time of the Recovery. And it was said, That if Lands be given to E. for life, the Remainder to B. in tail, the Remainder to C. in fee; B. dieth, his Wife with Child with a Son; A Recovery is had against E. with the assent of C. and afterwards the Son is born, he shall not be helped by this Statute, for that the Remainder was not in esse at the time of the Recovery. But it was holden in the principal Case, That the Heir might avoid this Recovery by the Common Law: For the Recompense could not extend to such a Remainder which was not in esse. CXCIV. The Countess of Sussex and Wroth's Case. Hill. 28 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IT was moved in this Case by Gawdy, Serjeant, If the Disseisee Licence J.S. to put his Cattle into the Land whereof he was disseised; If it were a good Licence? And, If by the Execution of the said Licence, the Freehold should be revested in the Disseisee, so as if the Disseisor distrain the of J.S. for Damage-feasant, and in a Replevin avow, the Plaintiff may plead, That the Freehold was in the Disseisee who so Licenced him? Periam, justice, The Licence is void; For at the time of the grant of it, the Disseisee had but a Right before he had recontinued the Land by reentry. Windham, If the Disseisee make a Lease for years of the Land, whereof he is Disseised, it is a void Lease. Anderson, If the Disseisee command one to enter into the Land, and he doth accordingly, the same is good. The Case was adjourned. CXCU. Payn's Case. Mich. 28 Eliz. In the Exchequer. 2 Len. 205. A Writ of Error was brought by pain, Treasurer of the Records in the Kings-Bench, in the Exchequer-Chamber, upon a judgement given in the Court of the Exchequer for the Queen, upon an Assignment of a Lease for years by the Countess of Oxford to the Queen; One Error was assigned, because whereas the Issue was joined upon the Intrusion, and the taking of the profits, and so two matters put in Issue; and the jury have found pain guilty of the Intrusion; but have said nothing of the taking of the profits, and so the Verdict doth not meet fully with the Issue. The great matter of the Case was upon this Point; The Information is, That the Assignment of the Queen was, 16 Maii, the Intrusion 17 Maii, the enrolment of the Deed of Assignment 18 Maii; And so it appeared upon the Record, that the Intrusion is supposed to be done before that the Queen had any Interest in the Land in which the Intrusion is supposed, for nothing was in the Queen before the enrolment: For the Queen is a Corporation of State, of such Prerogative and Excellency, That she cannot give or take an Interest in Land without matter of Record; And this Lease is a Chattel-real, and an Interest in Landlord See as to the enrolment, 1 H. 7. 30. 31. 5 E. 4. 7. 7 E. 4. 16. But I agree, That if Lessee for years be Outlawed, the Lease shall be in the King without Office, for the Outlawry itself is a sufficient Record to entitle the King unto it. If the Queen makes a Lease for years of Lands rendering Rend, with a Clause, That if the Rent be behind, that the Lease shall cease, if the Rent be not paid. It was agreed here in Sir Moil Finch's Case, That the Lessee continuing his possession, shall not be accounted an Intruder before Office thereof found, but he shall be Accountant to the Queen for the profits as Bailiff of his own wrong: but here we are charged with Intrusion. It hath been doubted, If personal things are in the King without Office, 37 H. 6. But now it is clear they are. As 35 E. 3. Br. Prerogat. 113. The Villain of the King purchaseth goods, the property thereof is in the King without seizure; and so it is of all personal Chattels, because they are transitory, 1 H. 7. 17. 4 H. 7. 1. 39 H. 6. 26. And here it appeareth upon the Record, that this Deed of Assignment was delivered to Baron Clark, 16 May, at Westm. and that was Ascension-day, and so non dies Juridicus, and so no Court there then holden, and then the said Deed was not delivered in Court of Record, and then not delivered to him as a judge, but as a private person, although that it was delivered to the use of the Queen. But in 37 H. 6. there is some Opinion, That if such a Deed be delivered in Court to one of the Barons, or be put into the King's Coffers, that then it is a Record. Atkins, to the contrary: And to the first Exception, It is to be known, That in every Plea where a Contempt is laid to the charge of the Defendant, he ought first to excuse his Contempt: And therefore here the Exordium of the Plea is, Quoad venire vi & armis, & quicquid est in Contemptu Dominae Reginae, necnon de tota ulteriore transgressione & Contemptu per ipsos supposit. Quod ipse in nullo est inde Culpabilis: And afterwards plead over: And so it is in an Action of Trespass. And also upon the Statute of 8 H. 6. of Forcible Entry; and here the Issue upon the Contempt doth ensue the other Issue; For if the other Issue is found against the Defendant, so also is this. As to the other point I agree, That a Corporation cannot take or speak without writing: And the King being a Corporation, and who only makes Corporations, cannot take but by writing of as high a nature; scil. by Record: And we have here a Record (as is granted by the other side) being enroled 18 May, which was delivered 16 May; and being once enroled, it hath relation to the time of the delivery; i. e. to 16 May; And then pain upon the whole matter was an Intrudor 17 May: and an Intrudor by his Entry doth not gain any thing against the Queen; and therefore the Information of the Intrusion is, diversis diebus & vicibus intrusit; althought it be but one continued possession; and therefore every Instant during his possession, he is an Intrudor. As to the delivery of the Deed of Assignment upon the day of the Ascension, which is not dies Juridicus, that is not material. As 12 E. 4. 8. by Pigot, If the day of return of a Writ, i. e. 4 to die, falls upon a Sunday, it is good enough, although no Court can then be holden but the day following, and the Plea is not discontinued; And this delivery of the Deed of Assignment might be made out of Term there upon any day in the Term which is not dies Juridicus. Contrary, where the thing is of necessity to be done in the Term; as in the Case between Fish and Brocket, of Proclamations made upon a Fine; For a Man may acknowledge a Recognizance or a Deed to be enroled in the time of Vacation, etc. Tanfield, As to the Interest, the enrolment hath relation, not as to the profits; for pain cannot be Intrudor 17 May, by any Relation. Popham, The Queen's Attorney, When an Information of Intrusion and taking of the profits is here exhibited, the Defendant ought to justify his Entry; and if the Entry be found against him, so as his Entry is an Intrusion, than the illegal taking of the profits is found also. And he said, That the Deed acknowledged and delivered to the Baron, is a Record, although not enroled, be the acknowledgement thereof in Court, or out of Court. If an Information upon a penal Law be exhibited to a Baron of the Exchequer out of Court, and afterwards another Informer exhibits another Information upon the same Statute for the same Offence against the same person, and that is exhibited in the Court before the first; The first Information shall be preferred, and the Defendant shall answer to that, and not to the other: and for exhibiting the same in Court, or out of Court, it is not material. And the Assignment when it is enroled, hath relation unto the acknowledging of it. A Reversion is granted to one for life, the Remainder to the King; the particular Tenant attorns to the King, the Remainder is not in the King by the Attornment; but if the Deed be afterwards enroled, it shall be said to be in the King from the time of the Attornment: And the King shall have the benefit of all the mean profits from the time of the Attornment. A Lease for years is made by the King, reserving Rend, with a clause, That if the Rent be not paid, that the Lease shall be void: the Rent is not paid 10 years, after an Office is found, the King shall be answered all the profits from the time of default in payment of the Rent. And although no Intrusion can be laid in the Information 17 May, yet it shall be good for the 18th day. Cook, The judgement for the Queen upon an Information of Intrusion, is, Quod defendens, de Intrusione, transgressione, & Contemptu praedict. convincatur, etc. And afterwards, a Commission shall issue forth, for to inquire of the Mean profits, and there the Defendant may show this matter in taking of the damages: And if the Intrusion be at any time in the Information, it is sufficient enough to have judgement upon it: and in our Case, the Continuance is laid 18 May. Egerton, Solicitor, The Record warrants the judgement given upon it; For possession laid in the Queen, is sufficient to this Information. And here pain doth not answer the Queen's title, but traverseth the Intrusion, And therefore he being found Intrudor by Verdict, judgement ought to be given upon it. For the jury have found the Intrusion generally, and specially, 17 May. And that cannot be assigned for Error; for it is part of the Verdict, of which Error doth not lie, but Attaint: For if any Error was, it was in the jury, and not in the Court. Which Manwood Concessit. Tanfield, As to the Case of Continuance of an Intrusion, it is clear, That every continuance ought to have a beginning; for a thing, which hath no beginning, cannot be continued; and here is not any beginning: for the beginning which is laid in the Information, is pretended to be 17 May; and that cannot be, causa qua supra. Popham, If an Information be brought of an Intrusion, where in truth there is not any Record to prove it, and the jury find the Intrusion, shall you have a Writ of Error upon it? And every continuance of Intrusion, is an Intrusion. This Matter had been good Evidence to the Iury. Sed non habet locum hic, etc. CXCVI Sir John Southwell's Case. Hill. 28 Eliz. In the Exchequer. SIr John Southwel of the County of Lanc. 7 July, 2 Len. 132. 19 Eliz. made a Conveyance of all his Land to divers Feoffees and their Heirs, upon Condition, That they should find him and his Wife, and so many persons in his House, etc. prefer his Daughters in Marriage, pay his Debts, etc. And if there fell out at the years end upon Account made by the Feoffees any surplusage, that then at the end of every such year they should answer such surplusage as should then remain in their hands unexpended of the Rents and Profits of his said Lands, with Clause of Revocation, etc. Afterwards, the said Conveyance being in force, came the Statute of 23 Eliz. concerning Recusants: Upon which Statute, the said Southwel was now Indicted: And afterwards, a Commission issued out of the Exchequer to the Sheriff of Lancast. to inquire of the Lands of the saith Southwel; And although against the said Conveyance it was given in Evidence, That after that Conveyance, the said Sir John Southwel had granted Trees out of the said Lands, and had taken Fines and Incomes for Leases, etc. Yet the jurors, charged to inquire, would not find, That the said Sir John had any Lands, etc. And by special Commandment of the Queen, it was referred out of the Exchequer, to all the justices of England, If the Lands of the said Sir John Southwel contained ut supra, were subject to the said Statute, and the penalties thereof? And upon great deliberation had, It was by them all Resolved and Agreed, That notwithstanding that Conveyance, the said Lands were liable to the said Statute. And as to the jurors which against their Evidence given unto them for the queen, gav their Verdict, ut supra; process was awarded against them out of the said Court, for to appear before the Lord Treasurer, and the Barons of the Exchequer: And for their said Contempt, they were committed to the Fleet, and each of them fined 20 l. CXCVII. Hill. 28 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Writ of Entry Sur Disseisin, The Tenant said, That the House in demand is within the City of London; and that the said City is antiqua Civitas; And that King Hen. 3. Concessit civibus Civitatis praedict. quod non implacitentur de Terris & Tenementis suis, etc. extra muros Civitatis praedict. And further said, That he himself is Civis London, etc. and demanded judgement of the Writ: (Note, in the pleading before, the Tenant said) & illis rectum teneatur intra Civitatem praedictam secundum Consuetudinem Civitatis praedict. And to this Plea, Exception was taken, because that the Tenant doth not show before whom by their Custom they ought to be impleaded. It was the Opinion of the whole Court, That the Tenant ought to have showed, That the Citizens for their Lands ought to be impleaded in the Hustings, etc. And the general words in the plea; scil. Sed illis rectum teneatur intra Civitatem praedictam secundum Consuetudinem Civitatis praedict. did not supply the defect aforesaid. After, It was awarded by the Court, That the Tenant answer further, etc. CXCVIII The Lord Anderson's Case. Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Lord Anderson, Chief justice of the Common Pleas, 1 Roll. 189. brought an Action of Trespass by Bill, for breaking of his House in the City of Wor. against one A. Citizen of the said City: Now came the Mayor and Communality of the said City, and shown their Charter granted to them by King E. 6. and demanded Conusans of Pleas. And by the Award of the whole Court, the Conusans shall not be granted, because that the Privilege of this Court whereof the Plaintiff is a principal Member, is more ancient than the Patent, upon which the Conusans is demanded. For the justices, Clarks and Attorneys of this Court, aught to be here attending to do their Offices and Services, as belongs unto them, and shall not be impleaded, or compelled to implead others elsewhere than in this Court. And this Privilege was given to this Court upon the Original Erection of it. And such was the Opinion of the whole Court. And as for the Conusans, it was denied. CXCIX. Cocket and Robston's Case. Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. ARthur Cocket, Thomas Andrews, and A. his Wife, 2 Len. 118. Post. 192. 230. 1 Len. 219. 1 Len. 302. brought an Action of Account against Robston, and Declared, That one Mountford by the hands of Jo. Wase, had delivered 100l. to the Defendant pro relevamine of the said Arthur and Anne. The Defendant pleaded, Ne unque Receiver pur account render: Upon which they were at Issue. And judgement was given, That the Defendant should account: Who, before Auditors assigned, alleged, That he had expended the said 100ls. in the Education of the said Arthur and Anne, by the space of 8 years after the delivery of the said 100ls. Upon which they were at Issue. And upon Evidence it was showed on the Plaintiffs part, That heretofore the said Arthur brought a Writ of Account against the said Robston, as Guardian in Socage for the Land of the said Arthur descended; And upon the said Account, 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 Account of the said 100ls. and that was fully proved to the Iury. It was moved, How the jury should demean themselves in their Verdict? For the Issue is, That the Defendant had expended the whole 100ls. 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 jury ought to find for the Plaintiffs: For the Issue is entire upon the expending of the said 100ls. 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, justices, were clear to the contrary: Wherefore they advised the jury 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 jury found against the Defendant, That nothing was expended, etc. And gave damages 20l. And the justices at the first doubted, If damages should be given in an Account? But at length they received the Verdict, by the manner, de bene esse. See 2 R. 2. Fitz. Account. 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.) judgement was given for the Plaintiff; And now upon the return 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 judges cannot know what prejudice and damage the Plaintiff hath sustained, by the wrongful detaining of the said Recognizance, but the jury 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 jury had found the promise, they might have given 1000ls. 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, etc. 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 Archdeacon 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 judgement 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, etc. 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 mere affirmation. But after many motions; It was holden by the whole Court, That upon those words, an Action did well lie. CCIU Allen and Hill's Case. Mich. 29 & 30 Eliz. In the King's Bench. 1 Cro. 238. IN an Ejection Firm by Allen against Hill of a House in Cornhill in London; Upon Not guilty pleaded, The jury found this special matter; viz. That one Francis benison was seized 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. benison his Brother in Fee: Proviso, That if Anne clearly (the words of the Verdict are totaliter) departed out of London, and dwell in the Country, that then she shall have a Rent out of the said House. And the jury 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 entered. 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 entered upon him. And so in our Case, although Anne hath clearly departed out of London, etc. 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, etc. And here it is found, That she clearly departed out of London; but they have not found, that she dwelled in the Country, etc. but only that she went to Melton; but she ought to do doth before her Estate shall cease. It was argued by Towse for the Plaintiff, That the Defendant ought to be found guilty of the Ejectment; For it is found, That the Defendant entered before the Commandment of Anne; but they have not found, that Anne was alive. Fenner, justice, the same is well enough: and so it was holden, 18 Eliz. in this Court; for although her life be not found, yet it shall be intended, that she was alive: For the jury did not doubt of it; and the Conclusion of the Verdict is, That if it shall seem to the Court that his Entry is lawful. Then the Defendant is not guilty. So as the doubt of the jury is only upon that point. Which Wray concessit. Gawdy, justice, If one Deviseth Land to one for life, upon Condition, That his Estate shall cease (which is all one with the Case at Bar,) and after the breach of the Condition he continueth in possessions, he is not Tenant for life, but Tenant at sufferance. Wray, Chief justice; Tenant for the life of another continues in possession after the death of Cestuy que vie, he hath not any Freehold remaining in him; for if he dieth, nothing descends. And so it was lately adjudged by all the justices of England, upon a Conference had between them: And the Book of 18 E. 4. is not Law. Which Gawdy, justice, concessit. See 35 H. 8. 57 acc. And he said, That the same shall be as a Limitation by which the Estate shall cease without an Entry. And here in this Case, because they have not found, That Anne had dwelled in the Country, here is no breach of the Condition in the Case. And afterwards, by the Advice of the whole Court, judgement was given for the Defendant, Quod querens nihil Capiat per Billam. CCV. Cadee and Oliver's Case. Mich. 29 & 30 Eliz. In the King's Bench. IN an Ejectione Firmae by Cadee against Oliver, 1 Cro. 152. Roll. Tit. Grant. 48. of a House in Holborn, etc. The Case was, The Lord Mountjoy, and the Lady Katherine his Wife, seized of the said House, and of other Lands in Fee in the right of the Wife; 6 Eliz. acknowledged a Statute-Staple of 1200 l. to Sir Lyonel Ducket: Afterwards, 9 Eliz. the said Lord Mountjoy and his said Wife Leased the said House to Hoskins for 21 years; And afterwards by Indenture, 11 Eliz. they Leased the same to Sir Tho. Cotton for 99 years, to begin at Michaelmas last passed: 12 Eliz. Sir Lyonel Ducket extended his Statute; and the Land extended was delivered to him at 53 l. 7 s. per annum; who held the same until 22 Eliz. Anno 23 Eliz. the Lord Mountjoy and his Wife levied a Fine to Perry, to the use of Perry and his Heirs: 27 Eliz. Sir Thomas Cotton not being upon the Land, granted omnia tunc bona & catalla sua, to Robert Cotton his Son: 28 Eliz. the Lady Mountjoy died. Mich. 29 Eliz. the Lease to Hoskins expired: Perry entered, and Leased the House to Oliver the Defendant for 21 years; And afterwards, Robert Cotton entered, and Leased the House, etc. to the Plaintiff. It was first moved by Brantingham, and argued by him, If this Lease for 99 years which was made to begin after the Lease made to Hoskins, should pass to Robert Cotton by the words aforesaid? But the Court eased him from arguing of that point; for it was holden, That it passed, notwithstanding the word tunc. 1 Cro. 386. Another matter argued by him, was, because at the time of the Grant, the Lands were in extent, and so the said Sir Thomas Cotton had but a possibility, If therefore the said Grant, made during the Extent, was good? And he argued, That it was; for it is more than a bare possibility, for it is an Interest vested: And in some Cases, a possibility may be granted. As 19 H. 6. 2. The King granted to a Prior, That when any Tenth is granted to the King by the Clergy, his House shall be discharged of it, etc. And 19 E. 2. Avowry, 224. The Lord grants to his Tenant, That if he dieth, his Heir within age, that such Heir shall not be in Ward. So 21 E. 4. 44. A Grant unto an Abbot to be discharged of the Collectorship of Tenths when it shall be granted by the Clergy. It hath been Objected, That the Term for 99 years is suspended, therefore it cannot be granted during the suspension. But the same is not so; for, a thing suspended may be granted: As 15 Eliz. Dyer 319., Husband and Wife joint-tenants of Lands in Fee, The Queen having a Rent out of it in Fee, giveth the Rent to the Husband and his Heirs; now the Husband Deviseth the said Rent, and dieth; the same is good a Devise, notwithstanding the suspension: And he cited the Cases, 16 E. 3. Quid juris clamat, 22. And 20 E. 3. ibid. 31. A Lease is made to one for life; and if he dieth within 20 years, that his Executors and Assigns shall hold the Land until the expiration of the 20 years, the said Interest may be granted. Which Wray, Chief justice, denied. See Gravenors' Case, 3 & 4 Ma. Dyer, 150. such Interest is void. It was further moved by him, and argued, If the Conusee of the Fine might avoid the Lease made to Sir Thomas Cotten? And he said, He could not; for he is in under the Lessors. So is 34 E. 1. Recovery in value, 36. see the Case there. And here, although the Wife after the death of her Husband may affirm, or disaffirm the Lease at her Election; yet this Election is not transferred to the Conusee by the Fine; but the Conusee shall be bound by the Fine. See 33 H. 8. Dyer, 51. As Tenant in tail makes a Lease for years not warranted by the Statute, and dieth, the Issue alieneth the Land by Fine, before affirmation or disaffirmation of the Lease by acceptance or Entry, the Conusee cannot avoid this Lease; for the Liberty is not transferred. Which Gawdy, justice, concessit. And Election cannot be transferred over to the prejudice of another person. As if a Rent de novo be granted to the Father in Fee, who dieth before Election, the Heir cannot make it an Annuity to defeat the Dower of the Wife, quod Curia concessit. It was also moved by Brantingham, If the Lessee might enter upon the Conusee of the Statute after his Extent expired, without suing forth a Scire facias: But the Court discharged him from arguing that Point; for that by the Death of the Lady Mountjoy, the Extent was void; and therefore the Feoffee or Conusee might avoid it by Entry: And so Wray, Chief justice, said, it had been adjudged in the Court of Common Pleas. At another day, the Case was argued by Stephens on the part of the Plaintiff; who said, That the Extent by computation of time according to the value to which it was extended, is not yet satisfied: The Verdict hath found, that the Extent continued until 22 Eliz. hut doth not say, that it was then expired and ended. And I conceive also, that this Extent doth not evict the Interest of Sir Thomas Cotton, or turn it into a possibility; The extent is Quousque leventur denarii; but yet a Limitation of time is in Law understood, although by a Casualty such time may be abridged or extended. Which see, 15 H. 7. 16. by Fairfax, Where a Man is bounden by Statute to pay 40 l. and the Conusee sueth Execution upon it, and the Land extended is rated at 10 l. per annum: now it shall be intended, by a common intent, that in 4 years the party may be satisfied; and therefore after the 4 years the Conusor shall have a Scire facias: so upon the matter it is a Lease for 4 years. So 7 H. 7. 12. by Keble to the same purpose. And 15 E. 4. 5. by Brian; for the Law shall not intent a casualty without alleging of it; for the same shall not be by imagination. And therefore, If the Conusor will have the Land within the Term, he ought to allege, That the Conusee hath levied the duty by an extraordinary Casualty, and show it specially. And so where the Conusor sueth a Scire facias, and the Conusee will hold the Land over, he ought expressly to surmise some extraordinary occasion wherefore he could not levy the duty upon the Land within the Term: Which see by Brian, 15 E. 4. 5. and 44 E. 3. The Conusee of a Statute after extent maketh a Lease for 3 years; yet it may be that the duty shall be levied within one year; but if it be so, than a Scire facias shall issue forth against the Conusee, and not against the Lessee; for the Law intends, that the whole estate of the Conusee is not granted, but that he hath a Reversion in him; but if he hath granted his whole estate, than a Scire facias shall issue forth the Grantee. So here, although that this extent in our Case would continue by computation of time for some of the years of the Term granted to Sir Thomas Cotton: yet it is intended, that the extent did run out, and was determined before the expiration of Sir Thomas Cotton's Term; so as, notwithstanding that, Sir Thomas Cotton hath an Interest left in him which he may grant. It will be Objected, How can it be said an Estate for years, when as he might hold over the years? As to that, such an Interest may be put off in divers Cases; As, 15 H. 7. A Man grants to another the third Avoidance of such a Church, and dieth seized, his Wife is endowed of the Church, she shall have the third Avoidance, and the Grantee shall have the 4th Avoidance, and so per talem intervenientem occasionem, the benefit shall be delayed; and so here in our case: And then the estate by Extent being prima fancy certain, so as it cannot by intendment surmount the Term of Sir Tho. Cotton, as it appeareth upon the Extent; the estate shall be taken to continue according to the extent of the years, and then a certain Interest doth remain in Sir Thomas Cotton, which he may grant over, which is not a possibility, but rather a Reversion: So, and to such purpose, is the Case of 7 H. 5. 3 & 4. If the eldest Son entereth after the death of his Father, and afterwards his Mother recovereth Dower, that shall take away the possessio fratris; but if the Son maketh a Lease for life, and the Wife recovereth Dower against the Lessee, there shall be possessio fratris, for the Reversion doth remain in the Lessor, notwithstanding the eviction of the estate for life. And 7 H. 6. 2. there it is holden by Goddard and Strange, That where the Term of the Wife was extended upon the Statute of the Husband, who died, the Wife shall have the residue of the Term, and avoid the extent as to her Term, which proves that all the Term is not drawn to the Conusee by the Extent, but that an Interest doth remain in the Lessee notwithstanding that. And see by Seton, 29 Ass. 64. If Lessee for life Leaseth to him in the Reversion for life, yet he hath a Reversion in him, And 31 Ass. 6. A. is bound by Statute to B. and his Land extended by force of it: C. recovers against B. in Debt, and the Land extended by him upon the Statute, 1 Roll. 887. is now extented by Elegit; A. grants his Estate to the Conusee, it is no surrender; which proves, that B. hath an Interest. And so in our Case, an Interest doth remain in Sir Thomas Cotton, notwithstanding the Extent. A. makes a Lease for years to begin at a day to come, and before the day, A. is disseised; The Lessee notwithstanding this Disseisin, may grant his Interest, for he never was in possession, and therefore it cannot be turned into a Right. As to the second point, If Robert Cotton may enter within the time of the Extent, without a Scire facias: and that rests upon this point; If this Lease shall be subject to the Extent? I conceive clearly, that it shall not. It hath been said, That our Lease is not good: But I conceive it without question, that our Lease is good enough; For it is made by the Husband and Wife: and the Wife after the death of her Husband by Acceptance of the Rent, might affirm the Lease: But the Statute is the act of the Husband alone; therefore the Conusee of the Fine shall not avoid the Lease, for it is but voidable. So the King grants Lands durante beneplacito, and afterwards grants the Reversion over, the Patentee shall not avoid the Estate; But if this Lease had been made by the Husband only, it had been void, and then the Conusee of the Fine should avoid it; as it was lately adjudged in Harvy and Thomas 's Case. And I conceive, That if Tenant in tail acknowledgeth a Statute, and afterwards makes a Lease according to the Statute of 32 H. 8. and dieth, the Lessee shall not hold the Land subject to the Statute, for then the Rent should not be paid to the Issue in tail during the Statute, which is against the Stat. of 32 H. 8. And see also, 8 Eliz. Dyer, 252. The Chaplain of a Donative Chappel Leased for 99 years, which was confirmed by the Patron, who was Tenant in tail of the Patronage which was appendent to a Manor, whereof he was seized in tail; and afterwards he had Issue, and died; The Statute of Chauntries cometh; after the death of the Incumbent, the King shall avoid this Lease. And in our Case, after the Coverture, the Conusee is in by the Wife, and then he shall avoid the Statute extended upon it: And if so, then there needeth not any Scire facias; as the Issue in tail may enter upon the Conusee of a Statute acknowledged by his Father; For if Execution had been sued against the Issue in tail, it had been a Disseisin. And see 2 R. 3. 7. That in such case, the Wife, or her Heirs, may enter upon the Conusee; And by Consequence, the Conusee who is in by her, etc. Cook, contrary; I conceive, that this Grant of this Lease by Sir Thomas Cotton to his Son, is not good; 2 Roll. 48; 1 Cro. 15. 1 Inst. 22. b. for it is but a possibility, and no Interest: I agree all the Cases which have been put before, for Law, but they cannot be applied to this Case; The Book in 7 H. 6. 2. is, That if the Term of the Wife be extended upon the Statute of the Husband, that the Wife shall have the residue after the death of the Husband; but it doth not say, that the Wife or her Husband may grant it during the Extent; which is the matter now in Question. And I conceive, That Sir Thomas Cotton hath but a possibility; For the Conusee upon the Extent hath but an incertain Interest: And although it may be by some means reduced to a certainty in the Chancery, where the Costs and Damages shall be assessed; yet until it be reduced to a certainty, it cannot be granted. And therefore it is clear, That if I have a Term for 8 years in Land, and grant it unto another until he hath levied 100 l. and all his Costs of suit for it, by this Grant all the Interest of the Term is in the Grantee, and nothing is in me, but a possibility. 8 Co. manning's Case. And so it was holden in the Common Pleas by the Lord Anderson, the day when he was made Chief justice there, At which time, this Case was put; Lands of the yearly value of 20 l. are Leased to one until he hath levied 100 l. And the matter was, What estate the Grantee hath? And it was holden, That if Livery be not made, that he hath but an estate at Will, for the profits of the Lands are incertain, the one year more, and the other year less: And Bromley, Lord Chancellor was then of the same Opinion. Then, if in case of a Lease it be so, it shall also be so in case of an Extent; and in both the Cases, the whole Interest is out of the parties. And 19 Eliz. the Case was in this Court, That the Lessee for years devised his Term to his Executors for the payment of his Debts and Legacies; and after the payment of them, the residue of the years he devised to his Son: The Executors enter, which is an assent to the remainder; he in the remainder grants his Interest: And it was holden void, because it was but a possibility, and so incertain: and although it might be reduced to a Certainty afterwards, yet the same is not sufficient; for it ought to be reduced to a certainty at the time of the grant. And 17 Eliz. in this Court the Case was, That Land was given to the Husband and Wife, and to the Heirs of the Husband; the Husband makes a Lease for years, and dieth; the Wife enters, and entermarrieth with the Lessee: And it was moved, If the Interest of the Lessee by the entermarriage, was extinct? And it was holden, That it was not; for it was but a possibility, and not an Interest, quod fuit concessum per totam Curiam. And if a possibility cannot be extinct, than it cannot be granted. And he denied the Case put by Stephens, Where a Man seized of Lands Leaseth the same for years to begin at a day to come, and afterwards before the day, the Lessor is disseised; now during that Dissesin, the Grantee cannot enter for his future Interest; For the Feesimple being turned into a Right, so also shall be the Interest. And that is proved by Delamere's Case, A Feoffment in Fee was made to the use of A. for life, and afterwards to the use of C. for life, and afterwards to the use of D. in Fee; and afterwards A. enfeoffed a stranger, who had notice of the use; The same doth take away all the other uses; and said Feoffee although he had notice of the use, yet he shall not be seized to the first use, for the estate out of which the first uses do arise, is taken away; and then also the uses. And he said also, That the Lease made to Sir Thomas Cotton is not good; for it was made, 11 Eliz. And it is found by Verdict, That 10 Eliz. a Writ of Extent issued forth upon the Statute, than was the Lands in the hands of, etc. during which time, the Lord Mount joy and his Wife could not make the Lease aforesaid to the said Sir Thomas Cotton. And as to that, see 5 E. 3. return of the Sheriff, 99 See the Case of 3 E. 6. Dyer, 67. Stringfellow's Case. Then admitting the Lease to Sir Thomas Cotton, yet the Lessee cannot put out the Conusee without a Scire facias; for the Conusee is in by matter of Record. Also here, this Lease made by the Husband and Wife without any Rent reserved, is utterly void, and then the Conusee shall take advantage of it, 9 H. 7. 24 18 E. 4. 2. And so was it ruled in the Case of Seniori puero, in the case of an Enfant. And see 7 Eliz. Dyer 239., Where the Provost of Wells being Parson impersonee of the Patronage of W. Leased the Tithe for 50 years, rendering Rend, which was confirmed by the Dean and Chapter, but not by the Patron and Ordinary: And afterwards by Act of Parliament, the Provostry was united to the Deanery cum primo vacare contigerit; The Provost died, the Dean accepteth the Rent; The same shall not bind the Church, for the Lease is void, as it is of a Parson, or Prebend, etc. And so the Dean shall take advantage of it, although not privy to it. See 16 Eliz. Dyer 337., Lands given to a Parson and his Successors for to find Lights, and he Leaseth the same for life; The Rent is so employed accordingly: The Incumbent dieth, The Successor accepteth the Rent; the King grants it over, The Patentee shall avoid the Lease, as the Successor might have done before the Statute, if he had not accepted the Rent: but the acceptance before the Statute shall bind the Successor, for that it was but a voidable Lease. And the Case between Harvy and Thomas, which hath been put on the other side, serves to our purpose, for there the Conusee shall avoid a Lease in Law which is void; and here, in the Principal Case, the Lease is void; for that no Rent is reserved upon it. Wherefore, etc. It was adjourned. CCVI Beadle's Case. Mich. 29 & 30 Eliz. In the King's Bench. THe Case was, That A. Leased to B. certain Lands for 40 l. per annum; 2 Len. 115. And a stranger Covenanted with A. That B. should pay him 40 l. for the Farm and Occupation 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 Assize of Novel Disseisio, against one Morton, before the justices of Assize; 1 Len. 55. upon which judgement, Morton brought a Writ of Error, retornable before the justices of the Common Pleas; And after many Motions at the Bar, it was adjudged, That a Writ of Error upon such judgement doth not lie in the said Court. Which see 8 Eliz. Dyer, 250. See also, N. B. 22. e. That upon Erroneous judgement given in the King Bench in Ireland, Error shall be in the King's 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 justices of Assize, 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 judges there; and then out of the Chancery by a Mittimus to the justices of Assize: But Fenner made a doubt to take such Course for such remanding. Then Anderson, Chief justice, 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 King's 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 judgement was given for the Queen; And now Hurleston brought a Writ of Error against the Queen in the King's 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 Erroneous judgement, 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, King's Bench, Exchequer, and Chancery; And that if judgement Erroneous be given in the Chancery at Westminster, It cannot be reversed, but by Parliament; and so it is of an Erroneous judgement given in the Chancery at Chester. Also he said, They have a Custom in London, That within one month they may reverse their own judgement. See 23 Eliz. Dyer 376. Erroneous judgement 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 Attorney General hath subscribed our Writ of Error. Egerton, Solicitor General, It was the Case of Eliz. Mordant, who was to reverse a Fine levied during her Nonage; and the proceed 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 judgement given against him in a Writ of Conspiracy in the Eyre of Derby; and there it was said by Thorp, justice, 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 seized of the Rectory of Aldingfleet in the County of York, discharged of all Encumbrances; 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 seized 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 judgement given for the Plaintiff. And Note, That the Venire facias was, de Vicineto Castri de York. And upon that judgement, a Writ of Error was brought in the Exchequer upon the new Statute; and Error was assigned, because all the Covenanters ought to have joined 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 judgement was Reversed. Another Error was assigned, because the Issue is not well and duly tried; For the Issue is upon the seisin of the Rectory of Aldingfleet; in which case, the Venire facias ought to have been the Vicineto de Aldingfleet. And of that Opinion was Manwood and Anderson, justices. 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 and his diet for himself, his servants, and horses: Upon 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 justice, That upon that matter, an Action of Debt did not lie. And therefore afterwards, the jury 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 mere Right. Upon which the Grand Assize 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 jurors 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, justice, That so it was late adjudged in the Case betwixt noel and Watts; And upon the Evidence, the Case was, That King Hen. the 8th by his Letters Patents gave to the Demandant the Manor 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, than 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 Money 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 borough 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 joint-tenancy, or in Common of Lands whereof such joint-tenants or Tenants in Common are seized in their own right. And also it is further said, That every such joint-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, justices, 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 meler, 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 Cozenage; And also that he had published the matter of the said Bill at Westm. etc. It was said by the Court, That the exhibiting of the Bill to the Queen, is not in itself any cause of Action; for the Queen is the Head and Fountain of justice, 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 expressly showed, That the Plaintiff had used Perjury, Forgery, etc. And it may be, that the Attorney, or Solicitor in the Cause, hath used such indirect means, the Plaintiff not knowing it; and in such case the Plaintiff hath recovered by Forgery, etc. 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 remembered 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. CCXIU Cheverton's Case. Hill. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. HEnry Cheverton brought a Quare Impedit, and Counted, That he was seized of the moiety of the Church of D. that is to say, To present qualibet prima vice; and that J.S. is seized of the other moiety; that is to say, To present qualibet secunda vice, etc. And Exception was taken to the Count, Because it was not showed how the special Interest did begin; scil. by Prescription, Composition, or otherwise; for it is clearly against common Right, and therefore that aught to be showed. See Dyer, 13 Eliz. 229., CCXV. Edmond Case. Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN an Action upon the Case against edmond's, 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: Upon 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 judgement 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 Len. 55. 1 Len. 333. The Abbot and Covent of D. 29 H. 8. makes a Lease of certain Lands for 3 Lives, to begin after the death of one J.S. if they shall so long live: And afterwards, 30 H. 8. within a year before the Dissolution, they make another Lease to JS. If the first Lease in the life of J.S. be such an Estate and Interest, which by virtue of the said Statute shall make the second Lease void, was the Question; For it was not in esse, but a future Interest. Manwood, All the reason which hath been made for the second Lease is, because the first Lease is but a possibility; for J.S. by possibility may survive all the 3 Lives, and so it shall never take effect: But notwithstanding, be it a possibility, etc. or otherwise, It is such a thing as may be granted or forfeited, and that during the life of the said J.S. And Note also the words of the Statute, If any Abbot, etc. within one year next before the first day of the Parliament, hath made, or hereafter shall make any Lease or Grant for years, life, or lives of any Manors, etc. whereof and in which any Estate or Interest for life or years at the time of the making of any such Lease or Grant, than had his being or continuance, or hereafter shall have his being or continuance, and then was not determined, etc. shall be void, etc. And here is an Interest, and that not determined at the time of the making of this Lease to J.S. And of that Opinion was the whole Court, and all the Barons, and divers other of the justices; And therefore a Decree was made against that Lease, etc. CCXVII. The Master and Chaplains of the Savoy's Case. Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Exchequer. THe Master and Chaplains of the Savoy aliened a parcel of their possessions unto another in Fee, and afterwards surrendered their Patents, and a Vacat is made of the enrolment of them: It was now moved, How the Alienee should be adjudged to make title to the said Lands, claiming the same by the Letters Patents; For the Clerks would not make a Constat of it. For the Patents were canceled, and a Vacat made of the Enrolment. And the Case of Sir Robert Sidney was vouched; in which Case, the Statute of 3 E. 6. was so expounded upon great advise taken by the Lord Chancellor; who thereupon commanded, That not Constat be made in such case. Manwood, If Tenant in tail by Letters Patents of the King, surrendreth his Patent, and cancelleth it, and a Vacat be made of the enrolment, by that the Issue in tail shall be bound; For no other person at the time of the cancelling hath Interest: But in the Case at Bar, a third person, scil. the Alienee hath an Interest; And therefore he was of Opinion, That he should have a Constat, etc. CCXVIII. Inchely and Robinson's Case. Hill. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN an Ejectione Firmae, It was found by Verdict, That King E. 6. was seized of the Manor and Hundred of Fremmington; 2 Len. 41. Owen Rep. 88 and granted the same by his Letters Patents to one Barnard in Fee, rendering 130 l. per annum, and also to be holden by Homage and Fealty; And afterwards Queen Mary reciting the said Grant by King Ed. 6. and the Reservation upon it, granted unto Gertrude Marchioness of Exeter, the Manor of Fremmington, and the said Rent and Services, and also the Manor of Camfield, and other Lands and Tenements, Tenendum per vicesimam partem unius feodi Militis; Gertrude being so seized, Devised to the Lord Mountjoy the Manor of Fremmington, the Manor of Camfield, etc. And also bequeathed divers sums of moneys to be levied of the premises. And further found, that the said Rend of 130 l. was the full third part of the yearly value of all the Lands and Tenements of the Devisor. The Question was, If by these words of the Devise of the Manor of Fremmington, the Rent and the Services pass; i.e. the Rent, Homage, and Fealty reserved upon the Grant made by King Ed. 6. of the Manor and Hundred of Fremmington; And if the said Rent and Services are issuing out of the Manor: For if the Rent doth not pass, than the same is descended to the Heir of the Marchioness; and then being found the full third part of the value, the King is fully answered and satisfied, and then the residue of the Inheritance discharged, and is settled in the Devisee. And if the Rent doth not pass, then is the Heir of the Marchioness entitled by the Statute to a third of the whole, etc. And Shuttleworth conceived, That if the Marchioness had Devised by express words the said Rent and Services, they could not pass; For as to the Services, they are things entire: as Homage and Fealty, they cannot pass by Devise in case where Partition is to follow; for such things cannot receive any partition or division, therefore not divideable: For the Statute enables the Proprietary to give or devise two parts of his Inheritance in three parts to be divided: As Catalla Felonum cannot be devised, for the reason aforesaid, Quod fuit Concessum per totam Curiam. But as to the Rent, the Court was clear, That the same was deviseable by the said Statute; and in respect of that, the mischief of many distresses which the Common Law abhors, is dispensed with, and is now become distrainable of common right. And as to the Devise, he argued much upon the grounds of Devises; and put a ground put by Fineux, 15 H. 7. 12. Where every Will aught to be construed and taken according as the words purport, or as, it may be, intended, or employed by the words, What the intent of the Devisor was: so as we ought to inquire the meaning of the Testator out of the words of the Will. And see also a good Case, 19 H 8. 8 & 9 And he much relied upon the Case of Bret and Rigden, Blow. Com. 343. See there the Case. So in this Case, for as much as such Intent of the Devisor doth not appear upon the words of the Will, that this Rent shall pass; It shall not pass, for there is not any mention of any Rent, in the whole Will. Fenner, argued to the contrary; and he argued much upon the favourable Construction which the Law gives to Wills. 14 H. 8. by Reversion, for remainder, & e contra. 17 E. 3. 8. A Man may make a Feoffment in Fee of a Manor, by the name of a Knight's Fee, a multo fortiori, in the Cases of Devises: And in our Case, the Marchioness conceived, That the Rent and Services reserved out of the Manor of Fremmington, was the Manor of Fremmington, and that the Law would give strength to that intent. Walmesley conceived, That the Rent did not pass by the name of the Manor, etc. for this Rend not in veritate nec in reputatione was ever taken for a Manor. Also the words, Of the Manor of Fremmington and Hundred, are put amongst others which are Manors in truth. By which he conceived, That the Devisor did not intent to pass but one Manor, and no other Herediatments, by this Manor of Fremmington. There is a Rule in Law, That in the Construction of a Will, a thing employed, shall not control a thing expressed: But here, If by implication the Rent shall pass, than the Manor of Camfield is not passed, which was the intent of the Testator to pass, and that by express words. See 16 Eliz. Dyer, 330. Clatches Case. No Implication of any Estate in remainder can serve when a special Gift and Limitation is made by the Devisor himself. See also, 16 Eliz. Dyer, 333. Chapman's Case. But in our Case here, there are not sufficient words to warrant any Implication; for neither in truth, nor in common reputation was it taken for a Manor. 27 H. 6. 2. Green-Acre may pass by the name of a Manor, although it be but one Acre of Land, because it is known by the name of a Manor. See acc. 22 H. 6. 39 And see, Where before the Statute of Uses, A Man had recoverors to his use, and he willeth by his Will, That his Feoffees sell his Lands; they might sell. And he said, That if a Man seized of a Manor, parcel in Demesne, and parcel in Service, and he granteth the Demesnes to one and his Heirs, and afterwards deviseth his Manor, peradventure the Services shall pass; but this Rent hath not any resemblance to a Manor. Gawdy, This Rent shall pass by the name aforesaid. Favourable Construction is always given in Wills, according to the meaning of the Devisor, and no part of his Will shall be holden void, if by any means it may take effect; Then it here appeareth, that his intent was, That upon these words, something should pass to the Devisee concerning the Manor of Fremmington; for otherwise, the words, Of the Manor of Fremmington, are void and frivolous; which shall not be in a Will, if any reasonable Construction may be made; For it is found expressly by the jury, That neither at the time of the Will made, nor at the time of the death of the Testator, the Devisor had any thing in the said Manor of Fremmington, but the said Rend of 130 l. per annum. And it may well be taken, That the Devisor being ignorant what thing a Manor is, thought that this Rent was a Manor, because that she had Rents and Services out of the said Manor. For in Construction of a Will, the words shall serve the intent; And therefore if a Man Deviseth, That his Lands shall be sold for the payment of his Debts, his Executors shall sell them; for the intent of the Devisor, names the sellers sufficiently. And See Plowden, 20 Eliz. 524. L. after the Statute of 27 H. 8. deviseth, that his Executors shall be seized to the use of A. and his Assigns in Fee; whereas then there was no Feoffees to use: the same was holden a good devise of the Land to A. But the justices conceived, That the Devisor was ignorant of the operation of the Statute in that case, and therefore his ignorance was supplied. See Br. Devises, 48. 29 H. 8. A. had Feoffees to his use; and afterwards after the Statute of 27 H. 8. and 32 H. 8. he willed, That his Feoffees should make an Estate to B. and his Heirs; It was holden by Baldwin, Shelley, and Montague, justices, That it was a good Devise. And see, 26 H. 6. Fitz. tit. Feoffments & Faits, 12. A Carve of Land may pass by the name of a Manor; therefore a fortiori a Rent; for Rents and Services have more affinity, and more resemble a Manor, than a Carve of Land. And it cannot be intended, that the meaning of the Testator was, to grant the Manor itself, in which he had not any thing, especially by his Will; for Covin, Collusion or indirect dealing, cannot be presumed in a Will. Also, The Marchioness for 4 years together before her death, had the Rent and Services of the said Manor; and she well knew, that she herself had not any thing in the said Manor but the said Rent and Services, and therefore it shall be intended, that the same was her Manor of Fremmington. A. seized of a Capital Message, and great Demesnes lying to it, Leased the same for years, rendering Rend, and afterwards devised to another all her Farm in such a place: And it was Ruled in that Case, That by that Devise, the Rent and the Reversion passed. See the Case between Wrottesley and adam's, Plow. 19 1 Eliz. by Anthony Brown and Dyer. Periam justice, conceived, That this Rent might be divided well enough. But by Anderson, It is but a Rent-Seck. Periam, It is distrainable of Common right; Anderson doubted of it. But all the justices agreed, That the Rent might be divided; but there should not be two Tenors. The Lord Mountjoy being advised, that this Rent did not pass, but descended to the Heir, being the full third part of the Lands, entered into the Residue, and made a Lease of the Manor of Camfield unto the Plaintiff; upon which the Ejectione firmae is brought: And afterwards, the Plaintiff seeing the Opinion of the Court to be against him, and for the Devise of the Rent, for the reasons aforesaid Discontinued his Suit, etc. CCXIX Williams and Drew's Case. Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Widow of Williams who was Speaker of the Parliament, brought Dower against Williams and Drew: upon the Grandee Cape, Williams made default; And now came Drew and surmised to the Court, That he is not Tenant of the Land: But further he saith, That the Husband of the Demandant Leased the said Lands to him for 50 years, and that this Action is brought by Covin to make him lose his Term; and prayed to be received. And the Opinion of the whole Court, was, That although he was party to the Writ, yet he should be received, and that by the Statute of Gloucester, for he is in equal mischief. And the Court was also clear of Opinion, That upon the default of Williams, the Demandant should not have judgement for a moiety, for that the Cause of the receipt trenched to the whole. And by all the justices, but Rhodes, If judgement had been given upon the deault of both, i. e. Williams and Drew, yet the Term of Drew should stand, but Drew should be put out of possession, and put to his Action. And Anderson conceived, That the Resceit upon that Statute did not lie, unless that Covin be alleged betwixt the Demandant and the Tenant, to make him to lose his Term; and that Covin is traversable: Which all the other justices denied; for the Covin ought to be averred, but ought not to be traversed. And also they all but Anderson, were clear of Opinion, That in this Case of Receipt, the party shall not plead upon his Receipt, as upon the Statute of Westminster; but he shall be received, 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 judgement given in an Assize of Freshforce; Upon which, Dicksey sued a Commission, directed to Anderson, Manwood, and Periam, to examine the said judgement, & 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 justices 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 joins the Mice upon the mere 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 judgement in the Assize of Freshforce was, that ambo Capiantur, where no force is found in Clark, one of them; yet such a judgement is good enough: For the Assize have found a joint Disseisin, and that Clark was present at the said Force; and then he particeps Criminis. And of that Opinion were all the 3 justices. And it way Objected, That forasmuch as Clerk is Convicted of force upon the matter, for both aught 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 Assize; And after many Arguments, the said justices moved the parties to a friendly course, to compound the matter: For if we reverse the judgement given in the Hustings, Then Spencer may have his Writ of Error upon the judgement in the Assize of Freshforce, & sic infinite. And afterwards, the parties put themselves to the Mediation and Order of the said 3 justices, 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 justices, 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 justices 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 justices were of Opinion, That the said Court might punish those offences as misdemeanours 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 King's Bench. MIddlemore brought an Action upon the Case for these words; scil. Middlemore is a Cozening Knave; for he had me to Coventry, and there cozened me of 40 s. And afterwards had judgement 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 remembered, Thou art a Cozening Knave Coroner, For thou hast Cozened me of my Land. The Plaintiff in that Case could not have judgement; 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 shown the Letters of Excommunication: Upon 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 judgement 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, etc. And pleads in facto quod impeditus fuit, quo minus gaudere potuit Mineris praedictis, etc. And it was found for the Plaintiff. And it was moved by Cook in arrest of judgement, That here is not any place shown, 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 such a County, the same is not good, Causa qua supra. The Issue here is Non potuit fodere in praedicta Minera de Greenbourn, by the space of 7 years and a half. From whence shall the Visne come for the trial of this? Not from Durham where the Lease was made, for there is no nearness between the place where the Lease was made, and this Issue: But if the Issue had been, That the Lessor had not any thing in the Mines tempore dimissionis, it might have been tried where the Lease was made. Another Exception was taken, because the Plea is, Quod non potuit fodere in 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. dimidio 10 & 11. and that appears to be 7 years and a half; And the jury find, Quod non potuit fodere per spatium 7 annorum tantum, without speaking of the half year, and so they have not given a full Verdict. As to the first Exception, It was said by Cook, If a thing be alleged in pleading, which is Issuable, and there is not laid down any place of it, although that no Issue be joined upon it; yet because he hath prevented the other of his Plea to it, judgement given in such case shall be reversed: And so it was Ruled between Matthew and Stransham. So upon the Statute of Usury, the Informer charged the Defendant, For that by way of corrupt bargain, he had received so much, and did not show the place, although that no Issue was joined upon it, but they were at Issue upon another point; yet if judgement in such case be given, it shall be reversed. And in all Actions upon the Case, where request is necessary, and the Plaintiff ought to allege it, the place of the Request ought to be showed. And he said, That this Issue ought to be tried where the Mines demised are, and here no place is alleged where the Mines are, but only in Com. Dunelmens'. and yet a Visne of the City of Durham hath tried this Issue, which ought not to be; but the Visne should come de Corpore Comitatus. Clark, Baron, If Issue be joined upon taking of the profits, it shall be tried where the Land is, but non Debet or Detinet where the Lease was made: so, Ne lessa pas. By Cook, The Issue is, Non potuit fodere, and that is local, therefore it shall be tried where the Mines are. Manwood, Non potuit fodere, non potuit gaudere, are not local; but non fodit, non gavisus fuit, is local, and shall be tried where the Mines are. And here it is not showed, how he was hindered to dig, etc. and the Issue is, de potentia & non de actu. Tanfield, As to that which Cook hath said, That the Visne in this Case shall come de Corpore Comitatus; It is not so, for such Visne never shall be, but where the Issue is, No such Town, Hamlet or place known. Tanfield, In another Case, the Trial shall be de Corpore Comitatus; As in False Imprisonment, The Defendant justifies, That the common voice and fame was, etc. there the Visne shall be de Corpore Comitatus, 11 E. 4. 4 & 5. And see also, 21 Eliz. the Case of Constantine and Gynne, (which see now Reported by the Lord Cook, in Dowdell's Case) Cook 6. Part, 48. And as to the defect of the Verdict, upon the half year, the Record is not so, for the Record is, Dimidio anni decimi, & undecimi, and so two half-years, make one whole year, and so but 7 years in which the disturbance is supposed to be done. And see as to the Visne de Corpore Comitatus, 22 E. 4. 4. Fitz. Visne, 27. Another Exception was taken, because the Declaration is, That the Lease was made at Durham in Comitatu Dunelm. and doth not say also in Setberg, for such is the name of the County Palatine. But as to that it was said, Every Writ of Execution which goes into the County Palatine, is directed Episcopo Dunelmens'. & Cancellario suo, Quod det in mandatis Vicecom. suo, etc. And Durham was called Setberg in Ancient time, and the name of the County Palatine there is commonly called Dunelm. & Setberg; and their Pleas there are entered, Placita coram Justiciariis Dunelm. & Setberg,. but the same is amongst themselves only, and all directions from hence to them are, Episcopo Dunelm. without any mention of Setberg; and a Precedent was showed to the Court to such effect. Manwood, Levied by Distress, and so nothing arrear, shall be tried where the Lease is made. Clark, That is true, For by the (So) the Plea before is waived. And see 8 H. 5. 10. Where an Issue is to be tried in Lincoln, etc. or such a Town which is a Franchise, The Venire facias shall be of Lincoln, and not the Vicineto Lincoln; for then the jury should be as well of the County adjoining, as of Lincoln itself; which the Visne of Lincoln cannot do: But Venire facias de Suburbiis of Bristol, was awarded good. And if in the Case at Bar, the Defendant had pleaded, That the Plaintiff had entered into part of the Mines, and so suspended his Rent, upon which they are at Issue, the some by Manwood, shall be tried by a jury de Corpore Comitatus: The Issue here is, If the Defendant might enjoy these Mines secundum veram intentionem dimissionis predict. and that is referred to the Demise which was made at Durham, and therefore this Issue may be well tried there. And afterwards at another day, It was holden, That all the Issues are Jeofails. But as to the want of the place, the same was holden a material Exception. See the Case of Mines, Blow. Com. 337. Exception was taken to the Information, because it was not laid down there, in what Town or Hamlet newland's lay. And it was holden, The same had been a material Exception, if the Defendant had not demurred upon the Information; in which case, no Trial by jury is to be, etc. And he said, Misnosmer shall be tried, where the Writ is brought, etc. so never administered as Executors, etc. Manwood, Here the Lease is laid to be made at Durham in a place certain. If then there be not any other local thing laid which may draw the Trial elsewhere, it shall be tried at Durham where the Lease is made. An Enfant makes a Lease for years, rendering Rend, and afterwards reenters, and avoids his Lease by reason of his Nonage, and title is found against him by that Lease, upon which he pleads Nonage, it shall be tried where the Lease is made, etc. And afterwards, judgement was given for the Plaintiff. CCXXIU Blunt and Ward's Case. Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Exchequer. WHere an Order was made, That such a one should have the mean profits and issues of such Lands; It was holden, The same is not to be intended, That the party shall have the Crop which grows upon the Land by the manurance of another, but the value of the Land as it might be Leased. And so it is where the Sheriff retorns Issues, etc. for the Corn there growing may be of the value of 40 l. where the Land is but of the value of 10 l. CCXXU. Weshborn and Mordant's Case. Mich. 29 Eliz. In the King's 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 adjoining to a certain River, from the 20th of May, 29 Eliz. usque diem impetrationis istius Brevis, etc. 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 judgement, 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 Nuisance is laid to be done the said 20th day: and if so, than he cannot complain of any wrong, the Nuisance 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, etc. 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 Nuisance, is Quasi a new Nuisance, 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, judgement 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. seized 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 returned; 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 entitled 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' 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 Bailie to Tho. Lord Howard, and shown, That the Prioress of the late dissolved Priory of Hallywell was seized of the Manor 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 seized; and that the said Manor (inter alia) descended to Mary, Daughter and Heir of the said Tho. Lord Audley, who died thereof seized; by force of which, the said Manor descended to the said Tho. Lord Howard, etc. And shown, That the Conveyance by the Prioress bore date, 4. Novemb. 29 H. 8. and then enroled in the Chancery. The Plaintiff in bar of the said Conusans, showed, 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 showed, 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 Manor to the said Lord Audley. Upon which it was demurred. And it was the clear Opinion of the Court, That the Averment de primo deliberatum against a Deed enroled, 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 seized 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 King's 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, etc. And now the Bishop and S. the Incumbent brought a Writ of Error; And, If this Writ of Error brought jointly 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 judgement, because he had nothing, nor claimed any thing in the Church, etc. 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 judgement in this Case be reversed, the usual judgement cannot be given; scil. That the Bishop shall be restored to all which he lost, etc. Wray, The Bishop shall join for Conformity of Law, and for privity of Record; and the Plea of the Bishop is not so strong as a disclaimer: For in case of a Disclaimer, the judgement is, That the Plaintiff shall take nothing by his Writ; but in the case of the Bishop here, the judgement 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 King's 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 Manor 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 Manor of D. for his Manor 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 Encumbrances than 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 judgement to recover: Upon which a Writ of Enquiry of Damages issued forth; and now came the Woman and showed to the Court, That the jury 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 denied it; For so there might be infinite Inquiries. But some time at the request of the Defendant, when excessive Damages are found, or any misdemeanour is alleged 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 Derby borough a Writ of Dower, and had judgement to recover; and she surmised, That her Husband died seized, 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 seized 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 shown, That at a Leet there holden 5 July, 26 Eliz. etc. The Plaintiff replied, absque hoc, that they used to distrain; And it was found for the Defendant. And it was moved in arrest of judgement, Because the Defendant in making his Title to the Leet by Prescription, Conveys the Hundred to him by a Que Estate, without showing a Deed of it. See 11 H. 4. 242. Quod fuit concessum per Anderson & Windham. Periam and Rhodes, contrary; But if the Hundred itself had been in Question, than the Exception had been material, but here the Defendant entitles himself to a thing by reason of the Hundred, and then it is sufficient for him to say, That he is seized of the Hundred, be it by right, or by wrong. Admit, That by this not showing, the Avowry be vicious and defective, It is to be considered, if it be not helped by the Statute of Jeofails, 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 return of the , if the Distress be adjudged lawful; yet in truth he is Defendant, and not Plaintiff; And if the Defendant will justify the taking, and not avow, he is merely Defendant: And although that he avow to have a return, 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 showing 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 showing of the Deed, and have had judgement. 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 showed 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, than no Leet-Fee; and then the Avowant hath no cause to distrain. Another Exception was taken to the Avowry, because the Avowant hath not showed any Seisin of the Leet-Fee. And by Periam, Such a seisin ought to be showed in some person certain. For although it needs not always to lay a Seisin, in showing by whose hands the seisin was had, (for the Inhabitants are charged, and no person certain) yet the seisin ought to be laid in a person in such sort as it may be laid: and therefore in this Case, forasmuch as the seisin cannot be showed by the hands of the Inhabitants, it ought to be laid in the lord See 4 H. 6. 29. Br. Avowry, 71. In a Recordare the Defendant avowed, because the King is seized of the Castle of C. in jure Ducatus sui Cornub. to which he had 20 s. Rend out of the Town of D. Solvend. annuatim at Michaelmas, of which Rent, the King and all the Dukes of Cornwall aforesaid had been seized time out of memory, etc. by the hands of the Inhabitants of the same Town, etc. and the same was holden a good Avowry. For although that seisin ought to be laid in some person certain by his hands; yet in that case it is good enough; For the seisin by one of the Inhabitants, is the seisin of them all. And in the principal Case by Periam and Walmesley, It was agreed, That the seisin here was well enough confessed; For when the Plaintiff hath taken Issue, That they have used to distrain, all other matters are holden confessed, because that the Plaintiff hath not saved them to him by protestation. Which Rhodes granted. Another Exception was taken to the Avowry, because that the Leet by it is supposed to be holden in July; therefore void: which see, Magna Charta, 35. But it was holden by Anderson, Windham, and Rhodes, That by reason of this Prescription, the Court is well holden in July, notwithstanding the said Statute of Magna Charta, and it might be holden at what day he pleased; For his Liberty and Election is not restrained by the said Statute, and such is the common experience. And note the words of the same Statute, Ita quod quilibet habeat Libertates suas quas habuit, vel habere consuevit, tempore Regis H. avi nostri, etc. vel quod postea perquisivit, etc. And Rhodes conceived, That the said Statute is to be intended of Turns only, and not of Leets. Which see, 24 H. 8. Br. Leet, 23. in the end of the Case. But by Periam, A Leet cannot be holden but according to the said Statute, for to that purpose was the said Statute made: But if a Leet hath been time out of mind, etc. holden at any other day than that which is limited by the Statute, it is a good prescription, and it is saved by the Statute. The Prescription is, That he and all. etc. have used to hold a Leet once in a year, and hath not showed when the said year gins; for it may be, that a Leet hath been holden there in this year before July, and then this is a void Leet, and so no Leet-Fee due; and of that Opinion was Periam, viz. That the Avowant ought to have showed the beginning and end of the year, viz. That he held the said Leet pro uno anno finito, such a day: for it may be he hath holden two Leets in one year: But it was said by the other justices, That that shall come on the other side; for prima fancy it shall be intended that it hath been but once holden in the same year, until the contrary be showed. And Note, by Anderson and Rhodes, If the King grants to one a Leet to hold semel quolibet anno, without saying, At the Liberty of the Grantee, the Grant is good, and the Grantee may hold it at what day he pleaseth. CCXXXII. Putnam and Cook's Case. Mich. 29 Eliz. In the King's Bench. 2 Len. 129.193. 1 Cro. 52. IN Ejectione Firmae, It was found, That one Hawkins was seized of 3 Messages in Bury in Fee, and had Issue Robert his Son, and Christien and Joan, Daughters; And Devised all his said Messages to his Wife for life, the remainder of one of the said Messages to his Son Robert and his Heirs; the remainder of another of his said Messages to his Daughter Christien and her Heirs; the remainder of the third to Joan and her Heirs; And further willed, That if any of his said Issues died without Issue of his body, that then the other surviving should have totam illam partem, etc. between them equally to be divided. The Devisor died; The Wife of the Devisor died; Joan died having Issue; Robert died without Issue; Christien entered into the whole Message of Robert, and died; and her Husband held in as Tenant by the Courtesy. Cook, The surviving Child shall have the whole, and the Issue of Joan shall have nothing. And he conceived, That by this Devise they have an Estate in tail; for the Fee is not vested in them, for that it is incertain which of them shall survive: but when one doth survive, than he shall have the Fee; for these words, totam illam partem, go to the whole Estate, as well as to the whole Land. If I Devise my whole Land to J.S. he hath a Fee. And he conceived, That the three had an Estate in tail with a Fee expectant, each severally to the House limited to him. Golding, contrary; Each of them hath an Estate tail in the House Devised to him, and but an Estate for life expectant upon the death of the other without Issue; for there are no words by which it might appear what Estate they shall have by the Survivor, etc. I grant the Case which Perkins denies, but Littleton affirms; scil. A Devise of Lands to one in perpetuum; for there the intent appeareth: but where there are not words of Inheritance, nor words amounting to so much, than it shall be but an Estate for life; And as to these words, totam illam partem, the same is all one, as if he had Devised, totam illam, without partem. Also he conceived, That where one only survived, no estate further vested, for there aught to be two to take by the Survivorship; for the words are, aequaliter inter eos dividend. And then if it cannot accrue by Survivor, than it shall descend: And if it had accrued by Survivor, they should thereof have been Tenants in Common, and not joint-tenants, by reason of these words, aequaliter dividend. Clench, justice, The words, totam illam partam, go to the House, and not to the Estate in it. Shute, to the same intent, If both the Daughters had survived; they should have Fee in the House of Robert, but not by the Will; but by descent in Coparcenery. Also when two are dead, the Son and one Daughter, than it cannot be decided; therefore the Will as to that is void, and then the Common Law shall take place, and put the Message to the Issue of one Daughter, as to the Sister surviving. Gawdy, justice, Here is but an Estate for life in the survivor, It hath been Objected, That then being but an Estate for life, that Estate is drowned by the descent of the Feesimple, so as now the Estate limited by the Will, is void. To which it may be answered, That although now upon the matter it be void, yet ab inition, it was not so, for it became void by matter of later time; scil. by the descent of the Feesimple; For if one of the Daughters had died without Issue before the death of Robert, so as the House of such Daughter had come to Robert and the other Sister; there had been no Coparcener, for the Son had all the Fee, and the moiety of it is executed, and the moiety expectant, and the Sister hath the moiety for life; and then the Devise is not good. Also here are two survivors, so as nothing is to be divided, and therefore the Law shall say, That the House of Robert is descended, scil. the Fee of it to the Daughter of Christien and Joan. And so judgement was given against the Husband, who claimed to be Tenant by the Courtesy of the whole Land and Message. CCXXXIII. Large's Case. Mich. 29 Eliz. In the King's Bench. 2 Len. 82. IN an Action upon the Case, the Case was this; A. seized of Lands in Fee, Devised the same to his Wife, till William his younger Son should come to the age of 22 years, the remainder when the said William should come to such age, of his Lands in D. to his two Sons Alexander and John, the remainder of his Lands in C. to two other of his Sons, upon Condition, Quod si aliquis dictorum filiorum suorum circumibit vendere terram suam before his said Son William should attain his said age of 22 years imperpetuum perderet eam. And before such age, two of his Sons Leased their parts which accrued to them by the Will of their Father for 60 years; and so from 60 years to 60 years, till 240 years were expired: It was Argued by Bois, That Alexander and John are joint-tenants, and not Tenants in Common; notwithstanding the Opinion of Audley, 30 H. 8. Br. Devises, 29. And he argued also, That the said Leases from 60 years to 60 years, is not within the Condition of the Devise, for it is not a sale from which they only are restrained: and so is it of a jointure made by any of the Sons to their Wives. On the contrary, It was argued, because this remainder doth not vest presently, for it is incertain if it shall vest or not; For if William should die before he came to the age aforesaid, it was conceived, that the remainder was void. 34. E. 3. Fitz. Formedon, 68 A Man deviseth Land to his Wife for life, so that if the said Wife be disturbed, that the Land shall remain over in Fee; scil. to D. here is not any remainder until the Wife be disturbed. So a Devise unto a Woman so long as she shall remain sole; and that then it shall remain to B. here this remainder shall not begin till the marriage: And this Condition of restraint of Alienation is good, for he is not altogether restrained, but for a time, scil. until his Son shall come to the age of 22 years: As a Feoffment upon Condition, That he shall not alien to J.S. See 29 H. 8. Br. Mortmain, 39 A Lease made for 100 years, and so from 100 years, to 100 years, until 800 years be expired, is Mortmain. And see the Statute de Religiosis, The words are, emere praesumat, & vendere. A Lease for years is within such words, emere, & vendere. Also, by this Lease, the Will is defrauded; and where the Statute of Gloucester, Cap. 3. Wills, That if a Man aliens Tenements which he holdeth by the Law of England, with warranty, the Son shall not be barred; and yet if Tenant by the Courtesy be disseised, to whom he releaseth with warranty, the same is within the said Statute: and yet a Release and an Alienation are not the same, because they are in the like mischief; and if the Sons might make a Lease for 240 years, they might make a Lease for 2000 years. So if the Sons had acknowledged a Statute of such a sum as amounted to the value of the Land, it had been within the Condition. It was holden, That where the words are, Circumibit vendere terram imperpetuum perdert, this word imperpetuum, should be referred to perdere, and not to vendere. Fenner, This Lease is not within the word (Sell;) For if the Custom be, That an Enfant of the age of 15 years may sell his Land; yet by that he cannot devise it. Note: That afterwards the words of the Condition set down in the Will in English, were read, viz. Shall go about to sell his part, shall for ever lose the same. And then it is clear, that this word imperpetuum, shall be referred in Construction to perdere, and not to vendere; for this word (Shall) is inserted betwixt both. CCXXXIV. Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Formedon, The Tenant pleaded a Fine with proclamations: The Demandant replied, Nul tiel Record; And the truth of the Case was, That the Record of the Fine which remained with the Chirographer did warrant the Plea; but that which remained with the Custos Brevium did not warrant it; and both these Records were showed to the Court. And Rhodes, justice, cited a Precedent, 26 Eliz. Where, by the advice of all the justices of England, where such Records differ; the Record remaining with the Custos Brevium was amended, and made according to the Record remaining with the Chirographer. Which Windham concessit. And afterwards, the said Precedent was showed, in which was set down all the proceed in the amending of it, and the names of all the justices, by whose direction the Record was amended, were set down in it; And that the said Precedent was written, and the amendment of the said Record recorded, by the Commandment and appointment of the said justices in perpetuam rei memoriam. And the reason which induced the said justices to make such Order, is here written, because they took it, That the Note remaining with the Chirographer, est principal Recordum. CCXXXV. Sir Gervase Clifton's Case. Mich. 29 Eliz. In the King's Bench. 4 Len. 199. IN a Quo Warranto against Sir Gervase Clifton, It was showed, That the said Sir Gervase was seized of a Manor, and of a House, in which he claimed to have a Court, with View of Frankpledge; and that he without any Grant or other authority usurpavit Libertates praedictas. The Defendant pleaded, Quod non usurpavit Libertates praedictas infra Messuagium praedict. modo & forma. And upon that, there was a Demurrer in Law; For the Defendant ought to have said, Non usurpavit Libertates praedictas, nec eorum aliquam; for he ought to answer, singulatim: And also he ought to have pleaded as well to the Manor, as to the House; For if the Defendant hath holden Court within any place within the Manor, it is sufficient. See 33 H. 8. Br. Franc. sans ceo, 364. An Information was in the Exchequer, That the Defendant had bought Wool of A.B. contra Statutum. The Defendant pleaded, That he had not bought of A. and B. The Plea was not allowed; but he shall plead, That he had not bought modo & forma: For if he hath bought of A.B. or J.S. the same is not material nor traversable. Which Case, Cook denied to be Law. And he also conceived, That the Information upon the Quo Warranto, is not sufficient; For by the same, the Defendant is charged to hold a Court, and it is not showed what Court; For it may be a Court of Pipowders, Turn, etc. See 10 E. 4. 15 & 16. acc. Shute, justice, The Quo Warranto contains two things in itself; 1. A Claim. And, 2. An usurpation; and here, the Defendant hath answered but to the Usurpation, but saith nothing to the Claim. And it hath been holden in this Court heretofore, That he ought to answer to both. And he said, That it hath been holden in a Reading upon the Statute of Quo Warranto, which is supposed to be the Reading of justice Frowick, That a Quo Warranto doth not lie upon such Liberties which do not lie in Claim; as Felons goods, etc. which lieth only in point of Charter. CCXXXVI. Venable's Case. Mich. 29 Eliz. In the King's Bench. THe Case was; 1 Inst. 351. a. Hugh's Queries 13. A Lease was made to A. and B. for their lives, the remainder to Tho. Venables in tail; who 3 Eliz. was attainted of Felony: 23 Eliz. there was a General Pardon. Tho. Venables, 24 Eliz. levied a Fine, and suffered a Recovery to the use of Harris, Serjeant: Office is found, Harris traversed the Office; and thereupon was a Demurrer: It was argued by Leake, That Traverse did not lie in this Case; 4 H. 7. 7 Where the King is entitled by double matter of Record, the party shall not be admitted to his Traverse, nor to his Monstrans de Droit, but is put to his Petition. Which see, 3 E. 4. 23. in the Case of the Earl of Northumberland; Where Tenant of the King is Attainted of Treason, and the same is found by Office. See also 11 H. 4. in the Case of the Duke of Norfolk; And the same is not helped by the Statute of 2 E. 6. Cap. 8. for the words are, Untruly found by Office, but here the Office is true: By this Attainder, Tho. Venables is utterly disabled to do any Act; For by Bracton, a Person attainted forisfacit Patriam, Regnum, & Haereditatem suam, 13 E. 4. One was attainted of Felony: And before Office found, the King granted over his Lands. Also he is not helped by the General Pardon; For before the General Pardon, he had a special Pardon; therefore the General Pardon nihil operatur as to him: But by the justices, the forfeiture doth remain until the General Pardon. Harris, to the contrary. And he put the Case of Sir James Ormond, 4 H. 7. 7. Where the King is entitled by matter of Record, and the subject confesseth the title of the King, and avoids it by as high matter as that is for the King, Traverse in that case lieth: and if the King be entitled by double matter of Record, if the party avoids one of the said Records by another Record, he shall be admitted to his Traverse; And so here we have the Pardon which is a Record, and that shall avoid the Record for the King: And here the Pardon hath purged the forfeiture in respect of the Offence. And he said, That Tenant in tail being attainted of Felony, shall not lose his Lands, but the profits only, for he hath his Interest by the Will of the Donor, and it is a Confidence reposed in him; and as Walsingham's Case is he cannot grant over his Estate. And see, in Wroth's Case, Annuity granted pro Consilio impendendo, cannot be granted over, or forfeited, for there is a Confidence. See Empson's Case, Dyer, 2. and, 29 Ass. 60. If the Issue in tail be Outlawed of Felony in the life of his Father, and gets his Pardon in the life of his Father, after the death of his Father he may enter. But by Thorp, If the Issue in tail gets his Pardon after the death of his Father, than the King shall have the profits of the Lands during the life of the Issue. And the Case of Cardinal Pool was debated in the Parliament, 27 Eliz. That he being Dean of Exeter, was seized of Lands in the right of his Church, and was attainted of Treason. It was holden, he should forfeit the profits of such Lands. But admit, That by this Attainder, the Land be forfeited; yet the party hath the Freehold until Office found. See nichols Case, Blow. Com. And also the Case of the Duchy, in Blow. Com. acc. And here, the Pardon hath dispensed with the forfeiture. A Tenant of the King aliens in Mortmain before Office found, the King pardons it, it is good. The Lord Poynings conveyed all his Lands to Sir Adrian Poynings who was an Alien, and after made a Denizen, and the King pardoned and released to him all his right in the said Lands without any words of grant; and adjudged, the same did bind the King: And he said, he had a good precedent, 14 H. 7. Where a General Pardon before seizure into the hands of the King, was allowed good; contrary, after a seizure without words of Grant. See Br. 29 H. 8. Br. Charter of Pardon, 52. If a Man be attainted of Felony, and the King pardons him all Felonies & executiones eorundem, and Outlawries, etc. and releases all forfeitures of Lands and Tenements, and of Goods and Chattels, the same will not serve but for life of Lands, if no Office be found, but it will not serve for the goods without words of restitution and grant; for the King is entitled to them by the Outlawry without office: But the King is not entitled to Land, until Office be found. See Ibid. 33 H. 8. 71. The Heir intrudes, and before Office found, the King pardons, now the Heir is discharged as well of the Issues and profits, as of the Intrusion itself. But a Pardon given after the Office found, is available for the Offence, but not for the Issues and profits. And he cited the Case of Cole in Plowden, where a Pardon was granted, mean between the stroke and the death. See 35 H. 6. 1. 16 E. 4. 1. 8 Eliz. Dyer, 249. Brereton's Case. 11 Eliz. Dyer, 284, 285. Egerton, Solicitor, contrary, This Traverse is not good, for he who traverseth, hath not made title to himself as he ought, upon which the Queen may take Issue; for it is in the Election of the Queen to maintain her own title, or to traverse the title of the party. At the Common Law, no Traverse lay but where Livery might be sued; but that is helped by the Statute of 34 E. 3. but where the King is entitled by double matter of Record (as in our Case he is) no Traverse was allowed until 2 E. 6. Cap. 8. And in such Case, two things are requisite, 1. That the Office be untruly found. 2. That the party who is to be admitted to his Traverse, have just title or Interest of Estate of Freehold, etc. But in our Case, the Office is confessed by the Traverse to be true, although that the conveyance be not truly found. And also Harris, at the time of the Office found, had not just title, but his Interest came to him, long time after the Office found. Also the traverse is not good, for he traverseth the matter of the Conveyance, which is not traversable; For if the Queen hath title, non refert, quo modo, or by what Conveyance she hath it. As to the matter in Law, Tenant in tail in remainder is Attainted of Felony, If the King during the life of the Tenant in tail, shall have the Freehold. And he conceived, she should; For it shall not be in abeyance, and it cannot be in any other; for when he is attainted, he is dead as unto the King: The chief Lord cannot have it; For the Tenant for life is alive; and also he in the remainder in Fee; etc. The Donor shall not have it, for the Tenant is not naturally dead, but civilly; and the Land cannot revert before the Tenant in tail be naturally dead without Issue. But if there were any other in whom the Freehold could vest, than the King should not have the Freehold, but only the profits. So if the Tenant be attainted, the Lord shall have the Land presently, 3 E. 3. 4 E. 3. The Husband seized in the right of his Wife, is attainted of Felony, the King shall have but the profits, because that the Freehold rests in the Wife; and if the Lord entereth, the Wife shall have an Assize. And Tenant in tail may forfeit for his life, as he may grant during his life. See Old N.B. 99 If Tenant in tail for Life, Dower, or by the Courtesy, be attaint of Felony, the King shall have the Land during their lives; and after their decease, he in the Reversion shall sue to the King by Petition, and shall have the Lands out of the King's hands: And there it is further said, That the Lord by Escheat cannot have it; for the party attainted was not his very Tenant, but he in the Reversion; for the term yet endures: But now is to see, If the Freehold be in the King without Office; And I conceive that it is, Where the King is entitled to an Action, there the King ought to have an Office, and a Scire facias upon it: As where the King is entitled to a Cessavit, Action of Waste, etc. 14 H. 7. 12. Where entry in the Case of a Common person is necessary, there behoves to be an Office for the King. As where the King's Villain purchaseth Lands, or an Alien born, etc. so is it, for a Condition broken, Mortmain, etc. In some Cases an Office is only necessary to instruct the King how he shall charge the Officer for the profits, which may be supplied as well by Survey as by Office: As if the King be to take by descent, or as the Case is here. And it is true, That a person attainted of Felony, may during his Attainder purchase Lands, and yet he cannot keep it against the King. And it is clear, That by the Common Law in such Cases, the Land was in the King, but not to grant. For the Statute of 18 H. 6. was an Impediment to that; But now that defect is supplied by the Statute of 33 H. 8. So as now the King may grant without Office. See 26 Eliz. Cook 3 Part, Dowty's Case. And in our Case, Office is not necessary to entitle the King, but to explain his Title. See 9 H 7. 2. The Lands of a Man attainted of High Treason, are in the King without Office; so where the King's Tenant dieth without Heir; or Tenant in tail of the gift of the King dieth without Issue. See Br. Office before the Escheator, 34. See 13 H. 4. 278. A Man Attainted of Treason, the King before Office, grants his Lands and Goods; Things which lie in Grant, as Advowsons', Rents, etc. such things upon Attainder are in the King without Office. As to the General Pardon of 23 Eliz. He conceived, That the same did not extend to this Case, and that this Interest of the Queen by this Attainder did not pass by the Pardon out of the Queen; So if the Queen had but a Right and title only. Popham, Attorney General, By this Attainder, the Estate of him in the Remainder in tail accrued to the Queen for the life of him in the Remainder: For by our Law, Felony is punished by the death of the Offender, and the loss of his Goods and Lands for the example of others, therefore nothing is left in him. Tenant for life is attainted of Felony, The King pardons to him his life, yet he shall have his Lands during his life; for he himself cannot dispose of them for his life: And so it is of Tenant in tail, etc. for he may forfeit all that which he hath, and that is an Estate for his life which is the Freehold. If Lands be given to one and his Heirs for the life of another, and the Donee be attainted of Felony, the King shall have the Land during the life of Cestuy que vie, for the Heir cannot have it, because the blood is corrupt, and there is not any Occupancy in the Case: For 17 E. 3. the justices would not accept a Fine of Lands for the life of another, because an Occupant might be in the Case; But for a Fine of Lands to one and his He is for the life of another, they accepted a Fine, for there is no mischief of Occupancy. Land is given to A. for life, the remainder to B. for life, the remainder to the right Heirs of A. who is attainted of Felony: A. dieth; now the King hath a Fee executed: And here in our Case, If this Tenant for life had been dead, no Praecipe would lie against him in the remainder being in possession, but the party who had right was to sue to the King by Petition. 4 E. 3. If one seized in the right of his Wife of Lands for life, be attainted, the King shall have exitus & proficua: But I conceive that Case is not Law: For see F.N.B. 254. D. The Husband seized in the right of his Wife in Fee, is Outlawed of Felony; the King seizeth, the Husband dieth; Now shall issue forth a Diem Clausit extremum; the words of which Writ are in such case, Quia A. cujus terra & Tenement. quae ipse tenuit de jure & haereditate N. uxoris suae, adhuc superstites occasione cujusdam utlagariae in ipsum pro quadam felonia inde indictatus fuit, etc. in manu Domini H. Patris nostri extiterunt, etc. therefore, the King hath not exitus tantum, but also the Land itself. See to the same purpose, the Register, 292. b. And see also now in the Book of Pleas of the Crown, 186, 187. which affirmeth, That Tenant in tail being attainted of Felony, shall forfeit the Land during his life. And he conceived, That this Estate of Tho. Venables was in the King without Office; not to grant, for he is restrained by the Statute of 18 H. 8. but it is in him so before Office, that he who hath right aught to sue to the King by Petition, if he will have the same; Yet he conceived, That before the said Statute of 18 H. 6. the King might grant it before Office; as it appeareth by Thirning, 13 H. 4. 278. which was before the Statute. So if the King's Tenant makes a Lease for years, the remainder over to another in Fee, who dyeth without Heir, the said remainder is in the King without Office, because a common person in such case cannot enter, but a Claim is sufficient; and therefore it shall be in the King without Office. As to the Pardon, He conceived, That it did not extend to this Estate; For the same is a Freehold, therefore not within the Pardon: As if the King's Tenant be attainted of Felony, and the King pardons him all Offences, and all which he may pardon; these words will not go, or extend to Freehold, but only to personal matters, and such punishments and pains which do concern Chattels. But it may be Objected, That in this Pardon, title of Quare Impedit, and Re-entries for Conditions are excepted; and therefore if they had not been excepted, they had been released by the Pardon; And therefore this Pardon doth extend to Inheritances and Freeholds. As to that, I say, That such Exceptions were not in use in the time of King Ed. 4. and such Inheritances and Freeholds were not taken to be within such Pardons; And such Exceptions began 5 Eliz. And he said, he had been of Counsel in such Cases, where it had been taken, That such Pardons did not extend to Freeholds. As, an Abbot was disseised, and during the Disseisin, the Abbey was dissolved; the King made such a Pardon, the same did not transfer the King's right. And in this Case, there are divers Exceptions of Goods and Chattels in many cases, and therefore it cannot be intended that this Pardon doth extend to Freeholds. And see the said Act of Pardon; There, the Queen gave and granted all Goods, Chattels, Debts, Fines, Issues, Profits, Amercements, Forfeitures, and Sums of Money; which word (Forfeiture) shall be intended personal forfeiture, and not otherwise, for it is coupled with things of such nature. And as to the Traverse, he conceived, That it did not lie in this Case; For the Office is not untrue in substance, although it be void in Circumstances: And also the King here is entitled by double matter of Record; i. e. the Attainder and the Office. And he said, That the Statutes of 34 & 36 E. 3. which gave Traverse, are to be meant of Offices found virtute Officii, and not virtute Brevis; for then Escheators were very troublesome. And 2 E. 6. doth not give traverse, but where the Office is untruly found. As if the King's Tenant be disseised, and the Disseisor be Attainted; The Queen seizeth the Land; Now the Disseisee hath no remedy by traverse upon the Statute of 2 E. 6. but is put to his Monstrans de Droit, for that the Office is true: But if I be the King's Tenant, and seized of Lands accordingly; and it is found that J.S. was seized of my Land, and attainted, etc. whereas in truth, he had not any thing in my Land, there Traverse lieth; For the Office is false; And so our Case for the Traverse, is at the Common Law. And it is true, that Venables was seized, etc. Cook, to the contrary; And he conceived, That by the Attainder, the Queen had gained but a Chattel; And that notwithstanding this Forfeiture, If Venables had been in possession, a Praecipe should be brought against him. And whereas it hath been said by Mr. Attorny, That the Writs set down in the Register, are the best Expositors of our Law; the same is not so: For the Register saith, That Waste lieth notwithstanding a mean Remainder, which is not now Law, but it hath been clearly ruled to the contrary. See acc. 50 E. 3. The Register therefore, and the Writs, are subject to the judgements of our Law. And the Writ of Diem clausit extremum, is not to the contrary: For I confess, that in such case, Hob. Rep. 342. the Land shall be seized into the King's hands, but the King shall have but a Chattel in it. It hath been argued, He may grant, therefore he may forfeit. Nego Consequentiam; For a Man, seized in the right of his Wife, may grant, but not forfeit. Guardian in Socage may grant, but not forfeit; The Husband may grant a Term for years which he hath in the right of his Wife, but he cannot forfeit it. A Woman enheritrix taketh Husband, and afterwards is attainted of Felony, the King pardons him, they have Issue; the Woman dieth, the Husband shall be Tenant by the Courtesy, which proveth, that the King hath no Freehold by this Attainder. Before the Statute of West. 2. Tenant in tail post prolem suscitatam might forfeit the Land, but now the Statute hath so incorporated the Estate tail to the Tenant in tail, that it cannot be devested: yea, a Fine levied ipso jure est nullus, although as to the possession it be a discontinuance: And that is the reason, wherefore Tenant in tail shall not be seized to another's use. See Stamford, 190. b., The Husband seized in the right of his Wife, is attainted of Felony, the King shall have the Issues of the Land of the Wife during the life of the Husband, etc. So if Tenant in tail be Attainted of Felony, that is but a Chattel in the Lands of the Wife, and also in the Lands of the Tenant in tail; and if the possessions of a Bishop be seized into the King's hands for a Contempt, In such case the King hath possession, and not only the profits: The same Law of Lands of Tenant in tail or for life, being attainted of Felony. So seizure for alienation without Licence, or of the possessions of Poor Aliens. See Br. Reseisure, 10. So where the seizure is for Idiocy. And he conceived, That nothing is in the King without Office. And as to the Case of 13 H. 4. 6. I confess it; For all that time many, and amongst them Lawyers and justices, were attainted by Parliament; And so was Sir John Salisbury, whose Case it was, and their Lands by Act of Parliament given expressly to the King; and therefore I grant, that their Lands were in the King without Office. Tenant in Fee of a Common Lord is attainted of Felony, his Lands remain in him during his life, till the entry of the Lord; and where the King is Lord, until Office be found: but in the case of a Common person, after the death of the person attainted, it is in the Lord before Entry; and in the Case of the King, before Office, for the Mischief of Abeyance. And see the Lord lovel's Case, 18 Eliz. Blow. Com. 485, 486. Where it is holden, That upon Attainder of Treason by Act of Parliament, the Lands were not in the King without Office in the life of the person attainted, upon the words of the Act, shall forfeit. See Stamford, 54, 55. acc. 3. He conceived, That this Interest which came to the King by this Attainder, was but a Chattel, and then it is released by the Pardon; And so he conceived, If it be a Freehold. For the words of the General Pardon are large and liberal; Pardon and Release all manner of Treasons, etc. And all other things, causes, etc. and here forfeitures are pardoned; And also this word (Things) is a transcendent, etc. And although it be a general word, yet by the direction of the General Pardon it ought to be beneficially expounded and extended, as if all things had been especially set down. Also the words are, Pardon them and their Heirs; therefore the same extends to Inheritances for any Offence not excepted, for there is the word Heirs; And the third branch doth concern only Chattels, and that is by the word Grant; where the former is, by the words, Release and Acquit. See Br. Charter of Pardon, 71. 33 H. 8. Tenant of the King dieth seized, the Heir intrudes, Office is found; in that case by Pardons of all Intrusions, the Offence is pardoned, but not the Issues and Profits. But by the Pardon aforesaid, all is pardoned. And here in our Case, the Office is void; For the Statute makes all Precepts, Conditions, void, etc. being awarded upon such Forfeitures. See also in the second Branch, Vexed and inquieted in Body, Good, Lands, etc. And see also amongst the Exceptions, That persons standing indicted of wilful Murder, and forfeiture of Goods, Lands, Tenements, grown by any Offence committed by such person; By which he conceived, That if that Exception had not been, the Land of such a person, if he had been attainted upon such Indictment, should be forfeited. As to the Traverse, he conceived, That in as much as the Office is true, our plea is a Monstrans de Droit, although it concludes with a Traverse. We vary from the Office in number of persons, and in the day of the Feoffment; and every Circumstance in the King's Case is to be traversed, and our plea in substance doth confess and avoid the Office. Although the King here be entitled by double matter of Record; i. e. the Attainder and the Office; yet one of the said Records is discharged by another Record; i. e. the Pardon, and then there is but one Record remaining; scil. the Office, and therefore our Traverse doth lie. And he conceived, That at the Common Law there was a Traverse; as where it was found by Office, That the Lessee of the King had done Waste, or cessed for two years; and there it is said, That the Lessee and Tenant in an Action brought against them, may traverse the Office, Therefore traverse was at the Common Law, where the King was entitled by single matter of Record. So upon an Office finding an Alienation without Licence, Traverse was by the Common Law. See Traverse in such Case, in the Case of William de Herlington, 43 Ass. 28. See Br. Traverse, 54. Petition is by the Common Law, and Traverse by the Statute; Frowick in his Reading. See Stamf. Prerogat. 60. That Traverse in the Case of Goods was at the Common Law, but Traverse for Lands found by Office, by 34 E. 3. Cap. 14. therefore the remedy was by Petition. See now, Cook 4. Part, the Sadler's Case, 55, 56. Traverse was at the Common Law concerning Freehold and Inheritance, but that was in special Cases, when by the Office the Land is not in the King's hands, nor the King by that is in possession, but only by the Office, and entitled to the Action, and cannot make seizure without suit there: in a Scire facias brought by the King in the nature of such an Action to which he is entitled, the party may appear unto the Scire facias, and traverse the Office by the Common-Law. CCXXXVII. Mich. 27 Eliz. In the King's Bench. A Writ was awarded out of the Court of Admiralty, against Sir Tho. Bacon, and Sir Tho. Heydon, to show cause wherefore, Whereas the Earl of Lincoln late High Admiral of England, had granted to them by Patent to be Vice Admirals in the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, the said Letters Patents ought not to be repealed and annulled. And so the said Writ was in the nature of a Scire facias. It was moved by Cook, That although the Admiral had but an Estate for life; yet the Patent did continue in force after his death: As the justices here of the Common Pleas, although they have their places but for life, may grant Offices which shall be in force after their death: And because the same matter is determinable at the Common Law, he prayed a Prohibition; For in the Admiralty they would judge according to the Civil Law: The Court gave day to the other side, to show cause, why the Prohibition should not be awarded. CCXXXVIII. Mich. 29 Eliz. In the King's Bench. 1 Len. 302. Ante 150. Post. 230. Account was brought by Harris against Baker, and damages were given by the jury: It was moved to the Court, That damages ought not to be given by way of damages, but the damages of the Plaintiff shall be considered of by way of Arrearges. But see the Case, Hill. 29 Eliz. in C. B. betwixt Collet and Andrews. And yet, 10 H. 6. 18. in Account, the Plaintiff Counted to his damage, but did not recover damages, 2 H. 7. 13. 21 H. 6. 26. The Plaintiff shall not recover damages expressly, but the Court shall given Quoddam incrementum to the Arrearages. Cook said, That it had been adjudged, That the Plaintiff should recover Damages in an Account ratione Implicationis, & non Detentionis. CCXXXIX. Long's Case. Mich. 29 Eliz. In the King's Bench. NOte: It was holden in this Case, If a Feoffment in Fee be made of a Manor, to which an Advowson is appendent, and Livery is made in the Demesnes, but no Attornment; that in such case the Advowson shall pass, but none of the Services. CCXL. Barns Case. Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. BArns brought an Action of Trespass, for taking of his sack of Corn; The Defendants justified in the behalf of the Town of Lawson in the County of Cornwell; because, That King Phil. and Queen Mary granted to them of the said Town, a Market to be holden within the said Town; and that the Plaintiff came to the said Town with a sack of Corn, and the Vendor would not pay Toll, for which cause, they took the said sack of Corn. And judgement was given for the Defendant. Upon which, Error was brought, and assigned for Error, because that the Defendant pleads the Letters Patents with the date of the place, year, and day, without saying, Magno sigillo Angliae sigillat. For it was holden, that (hic in Curia prolat.) is but form. And afterwards the judgement was reversed, for default of the said matter, Magno sigillo Angliae (sigillat.) And by Anderson, justice, Patents are good without enrolment; and that was adjudged in Hungate's Case. CCXLI Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Exchequer Chamber. DEbt brought upon an Obligation; Post. 266. The Defendant pleaded payment apud Lockington, in the Parish of Killmerston: And the Venire facias was awarded the Lockington. And that was assigned for Error in the Exchequer Chamber, upon a judgement given in the King's Bench, That the Venire ought to be de Killmerston. See 6 H. 7. 3. 11 H. 7. 23, 24. 9 E. 4. 3. Trespass for Entry in the Manor of D. in S. the Visne shall come de Vicineto de S. and not from the Manor. Contrary, if it be for the entry into the Manor of D. only, for there it shall be de Vicineto Manerii. Cook said, There was a Case very late adjudged in the King's Bench; A Lease was pleaded to be made at Ramridge End in Luton; and that he himself was of Opinion, That the Venire ought to have been of Ramridge End, and not of Luton. But the Court overruled the same against him. It was said in the principal Case, That Lockington shall be intended a Town as this Case is; For a Parish may contain many Towns. And afterwards, the judgement was affirmed. CCXLII Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Trespass, for breaking his Close; The Defendant pleaded That heretofore he himself brought an Ejectione Firmae against the now Plaintiff of the same Land in which the Trespass is supposed to be done, and had judgement to recover, etc. and demanded judgement, if against, etc. It was moved, That the Bar was not good, 1 Len. 313. because that the Defendant had not averred his title, And the Recovery in one Action of Trespass, is no Bar in another, etc. Quod Curia concessit. But as to the matter, the Court was clear, That the Bar was good. And by Periam, Who ever pleaded it, it was well pleaded: For as by Recovery in an Assize, the Freehold is bound; so by Recovery in an Ejectione firmae, the possession is bound. And by Anderson, A Recovery in one Ejectione Firmae, is a Bar in another. Especially (as Periam said) if the party relieth upon the Estoppel. And afterwards, judgement was given, That the Plaintiff should be barred. CCXLIII. Peter's Case. Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. WIlliam Peter, being Plaintiff in an Action of Debt in the Common Pleas, came to London this Term to prosecute his Action; And afterwards he was committed to the marshalsea by the Lord Hunsdon, Chamberlain of the Queen's household, and one of her Privy Council: And now an Habeas Corpus issued out to the Keeper of the marshalsea, to have the body of the said Peter in Court: And at the day, the Keeper returned the said Writ, That the said Peter's was committed to the said Prison, by the said Lord, and shown the Warrant for it, there to remain and to Answer before the Lords of her Majesty's Council to such matters, etc. Causa vero detentionis mihi omnino incognita est. The Court examined the said Peter upon his Oath, If he came to London to prosecute his said Cause? Who answered, That he did. And the Court also examined the said Keeper, If he had acquainted the said Lord with the said Writ? Who said, That he had so done; but he shown him not any Cause. Wherefore by the Award of the Court, Peter was discharged of his Imprisonment. CCXLIV. Hill. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleass Sergeant Fenner demanded the Opinion of the Court in this Case; A. Devised Lands to his Wife for life, 1 Co. 155. and afterwards to B. his Son, and his Heirs, when he should come to the age of 24 years; and if his Wife died before his said Son should attain his said age of 24 years, that then J.S. should have the said Land until the said age of the said Son: A. died; J.S. died; the Wife died, the Son being within the age of 24 years: If the Executors of J.S. should have the Land after the death of J.S. until the said age of the Son, was the Question. Anderson and Periam conceived, That he should not; For this Interest limited to J.S. by the Will, was but a possibility, which was never vested in him, and therefore could not by any means come to his Executor. Rhodes and Windham doubted of it. Fenner put the Case, in 12 E. 2. Fitz. Condition, 9 Where Land is mortgaged to J.S. upon payment of Money to J.S. such a day, or his Heirs; and before the said day, J.S. by his Will deviseth, That if the Mortgagor pay the Money, that then A. B. should have them; That this Devise of this possibility is good; Quod omnes Justiciarii negaverunt. And Windham put the Case between Weldon and Elkington, Blow. Com. 20 Eliz. 519. Where Lessee for years devised his Term to his Wife for so many years of the said Term as she should live; And if she died within the Term, that then his Son Francis should have the Residue of the Term not encurred: Francis died Intestate; the Wife died within the Term; The Administrator of Francis had the residue of the Term, and yet nothing was in Francis the Intestate, but a Possibility. A Lease was made to one Hayward, his Wife, and one of his Children; Habendum to Hayward for 99 years, if he should so long live: and if he die within the said Term, that then his said Wife should have the said Term for so many years which should be to come at the time of the death of her Husband; And if she died also before the said Term, That then the Child party to the Devise, should have it for so many years of the said Term as should not be expired at the time of the death of the Wife. And the Case of Cicill was vouched, 8 Eliz. Dyer 253., A Lease was made to William Cicill, pro termino 41 annorum, si tam diu vixerit. Et si obierit infra praedictum terminum, extunc Uxor praedicti William Cicill habebit & tenebit omnia & singula praemissa pro residuo termini praed. incompleto, si tam diu vixerit. Et si the said Eliz. obierit, infra praedict. terminum, tunc William Cicill filius, etc. And it was holden by Catlyn and Dyer, That these remainders were void; For the Term is determinable upon the death of William Cicill the Father, and the Residue of the said Term cannot remain. And by Anderson, The remainders of the Term limited ut supra, are void; For every remainder ought to be certain, but here is no certainty; for it may be, that the first possessor of the Term may live longer, or die sooner, so as he in the remainder doth not know what thing he shall have. And so also conceived Rhodes, justice; And he put the Case between Gravenor and Parker, 3 & 4 Mar. Dyer, 150. A Lease was made to A. for life by Indenture; and by the said Indenture, a Proviso was, That if the Lessee died within the Term of 60 years then next ensuing, that then his Executors should have it in right of the Lessee for so many of the years as should amount to the number of 60 years, to be accounted from the date of the Indenture. And it was holden, That the secondary Interest to the Executor was void: And that the words concerning the same went only in Covenant. CCXLV. The Lord Compton's Case. Trin. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 2 Len. 211. Kellow. 41. 4 Inst. 85. NOte: It was holden by the Lord Anderson, Chief justice, in this Case, That if Cestuy que Use after the Statute of 1 R. 2. Leaseth for years, and afterwards the Feoffees Release to the Lessee and his Heirs, having notice of the Use; that that Release is to the first Use: But where the Feoffees are disseised, and they Release to the Disseisor, although that they have notice of the use, yet the same is to the use of the Disseisor: And no Subpoena lieth against the Disseisor. See 11 E. 4. 8. CCXLVI. Sir Thomas Gorge and Dalton's Case. Trin. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. SIr Thomas Gorge and the Lady Helen his Wife, brought a Quare Impedit against Francis Dalton; Who pleaded, That the Queen was seized of the Manor of D. to which the Advowson, etc. was appendent; and so seized, the Church became void: And that afterwards the Queen granted the said Manor with the Advowson to J.S. who presented the Defendant. It was the clear Opinion of the Court, That by that Grant of the Queen the Advowson did not pass; although that the King by his Prerogative, may grant a thing in Action. Quod vide Dyer, 13 Eliz. 300., against F.N.B. 33 & 16 H 7. CCXLVII Hill. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A Copyholder with the leave of the Lord Leased for years, 1 Len. 297. Hob. Rep. 177. and afterwards surrendered the Reversion with the Rent, to the use of a stranger; who was admitted accordingly. It was moved, If in this case there needed any Attornment, either to settle the Reversion, or to create a privity? It was holden in this Case by- Rhodes and Periam, justices, That the surrender and admittance, ut supra, are in the nature of an enrolment, and so amount to an Attornment; or at the least, do supply the want of it. CCXLVIII. Carter and Marten's Case. Mich. 29 Eliz. In the King's Bench. TWo Men made an Obligation jointly for Debt. The principal in the Obligation made him who was surety only for him in the said Obligation for payment of the Money, his Executor, who paid the Money generally; And, whether it shall be said, that he paid it as Executor, or as an Obligor, was a Quaere, not resolved by the Court. CCXLIX. Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Exchequer. A. Was indebted to B. who was indebted to the Queen; B. assigned his Debt unto the Queen: By all the Barons, Process shall be awarded out of the Exchequer, to inquire what Goods A. had at the time of the Assignment; and not what he had tempore Scripti praedict. facti, etc. CCL. Hill. 30 Eliz. In the Exchequer. A. Was accountable to J.S. and afterwards J.S. was Outlawed in an Action personal: A. died; The Queen by her Letters Patents granted unto B. omnia bona & catalla, exitus, proficua, forisfactur. & advantagia quaecunque which came to her, or accrued by reason of the Outlawry of the said J.S. And now B. brought an Action of Account against the Executors of the said A. as Executors of their own wrong. The Defendants pleaded, That they had Letters of Administration committed to them by the Ordinary, and demanded judgement of the Writ. The Plaintiff in maintenance of his Writ, Replied, That the Defendants did Administer of their own wrong, before that Administration was granted unto them. Upon which the Defendants did demur in Law. It was the Opinion of some of the justices, That the wrong is urged by taking of Letters of Administration; and now they are to be charged as Administrators only, and not otherwise. See 50 E. 3. 9 20 H. 6. 1. And see the Case of the Cardinal of Canterbury, 9 E. 4. 33. If one Administereth of his own wrong, and afterwards takes Letters of Administration, he shall be sued not as Executor, but as Administrator. See 21 H. 6. 8. But Gawdy, justice, conceived, That the Defendants might be charged as Executors. As to the Grant of the Queen of this Action of Account. See Br. Pat. 98. 32 H. 8. that the King may grant a thing in action which is personal, as debt and damages, or the like; Or a thing mixed, as the Wardship of the body; but not a thing real, as an Action concerning Lands, Rights, Entries. But it was agreed on all sides, That if this Action had been granted specially, it had been clearly good. And it was Observed, That in the principal Case the Accountant was dead before the Grant; so that his Executors were chargeable to the Queen, to render an Account, and the Queen was entitled to it. It hath been Objected, That this Action of Account came to the King by reason of his Prerogative Royal, and in virtue thereof the Executors are accountable to her, and therefore the Queen cannot grant the same over to a Subject: Certainly the same is not an Incident inseparable from the Crown, nor a Flower of the Crown; as the King cannot grant over to a Subject power to pardon Felons, for that is proper and peculiar to the person of the King; nor that a Subject may have a Court of Chancery: And although this matter of Account is at the first, i. e. at the time of the Grant, uncertain; yet by matter ex post facto, it may be reduced to certainty, i.e. by the Account; and although the Account be not expressly named in the Letters Patents, yet the words of the Grant, ut supra, do amount to as much. And Gawdy, justice, conceived, That this Account ought to be brought in the name of the Queen: And all the justices were of Opinion, That if the said A. had been living at the time of the said Grant of the Queen, the Grant had not been good; for then the Action against the Executors, which is the matter of Prerogative, had not been vested in the Queen. CCLI. Specot's Case. Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 5 Co. 57 HUmphry Specot, and Elizabeth his Wife, brought a Quare Impedit against the Bishop of Exeter, etc. of the Church of Tedcole in the County of Devon: The Bishop pleaded, That the Plaintiffs presented to him one John Holmes, quem super Examinationem invenit Scismaticum inveterat', and so non habilem to be instituted, vel ad acceptandum aliquod Beneficium cum Cura Animarum, for which he refused him, and of such Refusal gave notice to the Plaintiffs, and of the cause of it; upon which the Plaintiffs did demur in Law. It was argued by Fleetwood, Serjeant, for the Bishop, but to little purpose, therefore I will report but certain passages of his Argument: He conceived, That that general Pleading of Schismaticus inveteratus was good enough; as, if the Bishop certifieth Bastardy, It is sufficient to say, Bastardus, sive Spurius, without other Circumstances, as to say, On the body of such a Woman begotten: Lollard derivatur à Lollio. i e. Anglice, Tares. Samson was Dean of Christ Church in Oxford, and was convented before the Ordinary for Schism, because he would not use a Surplice; and for that he was condemned for a Schismatic, and deprived of his Deanery, in the time of the Queen that now is. Shuttleworth, Serjeant, for the Plaintiffs, That the Bishop in his Plea ought to have showed specially, how and in what point the Presentee of the Plaintiffs was Schismaticus: There are divers manners of Schisms. 1. In Doctrine. 2. In manners; and of each kind there are many, etc. And therefore, for doubt of enveigling the Metropolitan, who is to try that Issue, the Defendant ought to have showed the Schism in certain, in which the Metropolitan was to examine the Clerk readily. See 38 E. 3. 2. the Case of the Countess of Arundel, where in a Quare Impedit the Ordinary pleaded, That the Presentee was Criminosus & Perjurus, and shown the Cause in what and when he was Perjured. And although this Issue is to be tried by the Metropolitan, yet it ought to be formally pleaded in the Temporal Court, and with certainty: As where a Divorce is pleaded, It is not sufficient to say, That a Divorce was had; but the party ought to show for what cause, and before what judge the Divorce was had, which see 18 E. 4. 29. where the Divorce is specially pleaded for cause of Consanguinity; for by one Divorce the Issues are bastardized, by others not. See as to the Pleading of a Divorce 11 H. 7. 9 Profession, although it be a Spiritual thing, yet the general Pleading of it, is not good; but he who pleads it, aught to show, of what Order, and under whose Obedience, 40 E. 3. 37. which see the Book of Entries 444. Intravit Religionem, viz. in Domo Carmelitarum de London, & ibi fuit professus sub Obedientia R. Prioris Domus illius. So Deprivation shall not be generally pleaded, which see Book of Entries 458. Ecclesia vacavit per Privationem, etc. per J.S. Legum Doctor. Delegat. etc. so of Resignation, 7 E. 4. 16. Resignavit in manus I.L. Bishop of London, Ordinary of the said place. Now, It is to see, If by this general Demurrer the matter in Fact be confessed, scil. That the Presentee was Schismaticus inveteratus; and as to that, the Rule is, That all matters in Fait, which are well and duly pleaded, by a general Demurrer be confessed; but that which is not well alleged, by no Demurrer shall be holden confessed: Which Learning see in the Commentaries, in Partridge and Stranges' Case. And here for as much as Scismaticus is not not well pleaded, for the cause aforesaid, it shall not be holden confessed. Now, It is to see, If upon the Statute of 27 Eliz. this defect be helped; and he conceived it was not, for here the defect is in matter, and not in form: As if, in Trespass of his Close breaking, the Defendant justifies by a Lease for years, and doth not show the place where the Lease was made, and the Plaintiff demurs generally upon it; the said defect is not helped by the said Statute, for that it is Matter. So in a Formedon in Discender, The Defendant pleads a Warranty with Assets, without showing the place where the Assets is, and the Demandant demurs upon it generally, the same defect is not helped by the said Statute: See a good Case adjudged upon the Statute, Mich. 28 & 29 Eliz. between Henly and Broad. Periam and Windham, justices, conceived, That the Plea of the Bishop is not good, because it is not showed in what point the Presentee was Schismaticus; for by this genral Pleading, if it should be allowed, the Metropolitan, to whom the Trial of the Cause belongeth, shall be driven to peruse all Schisms, in the Examination of the Presentee, which is a thing infinite and inconvenient. Rhodes, and the Lord Anderson, to the Contrary: And Rhodes vouched an Old Book, 30 E. 1. out of a written Book of the Lord Catline. In a Quare non admisit, the Defendant pleaded, That the Clerk presented was Schismaticus & Adulter, and the Court commanded, that he hold himself to one of them, for which he said, Adulter; so as the Court did not mislike the Plea for the generality, but for the doubleness. And by Anderson, Our Case is not like the Cases put by Shuttleworth; for they concern things tryable by our Law, in which Case, to have convenient trial, all matters issuable ought to be specially alleged; but here the Case is otherwise, and no peril of Trial. And by the said Statute of 27 Eliz. we ought to judge according to the right of the Cause, and matter in Law. See this Case adjudged upon a Writ of Error brought in the King's Bench. Hill. 32 Eliz. in Cook 5 Part, 57 Specot's Case. CCLII. Estrigge and Owles' Case. Trin. 30 Eliz. In the King's Bench. IN an Action upon the Case by Estrigge against Owls, It was holden by the justices, Ante 73. That forbearance per paululum tempus, is a good Consideration. Then it was moved, That in the Action, the Request was not sufficiently laid in respect of the place and time. And Cook said, That the difference had always been agreed, That where the promise is to do a Collateral thing upon Request, there in the Declaration, the place and the time ought to be certainly set down; As it was holden in the Case of Alderman Pulison; where he promised to give a Cun of Wine upon request, Ante 73. in such case the request is traversable, and therefore it ought to be certainly showed, for the request is parcel of the Issue: But if such Action be brought, and the Plaintiff declares upon an Indebitatus, then if the Plaintiff prove the Debt, it is not material to prove the promise; for every Contract executory implies a promise: and in such case, the request is not traversable. And the truth of the Case was, That one Tickil was indebted to the Plaintiff in 30 l. and died Intestate; B. his Wife took Letters of Administration, and took to Husband the Defendant; And he, for the Consideration aforesaid, and that the Plaintiff would forbear his Debt for a little time, promised to pay it: And further declared, That he had forborn, etc. from such a day, until such a day; but yet the Defendant would not pay it, licet saepius requisitus: And upon this Declaration, the Plaintiff had judgement: And now a Writ of Error was brought, and it was assigned for Error because that in the Declaration it is alleged, That the Wife Administered the Goods of the Intestate, and did not show, that she was Administratrix, etc. and took Letters of Administration. 2. It is not alleged, That the Wife had Goods of the Testator at the time of the promise, for otherwise she shall not be bound. For it is but Nudum pactum; for Executors or Administrators, not having Assets, shall not be charged. And it was holden here, That Request is not necessary, for the debt was before the promise, so as the Request is not any cause of the Action. CCLIII. Matthews' Case. Pasch. 30 Eliz. In the King Bench. NOte; That a Bill of Perjury, upon the Statute of 5 Eliz. was sued by the Queen and the party, because that the Defendant being one of the Homage, etc. did present with the rest of the Homagers, That the Plaintiff had cut down certain Trees, etc. Whereas in truth he had not cut down any. And it was holden by all the justices, That for this matter, the Bill did not lie upon this Statute; For this branch of the Statute is to be intended of Perjury in Depositions only. And by Tanfield, A Bill doth not lie upon the Statute upon Perjury committed in an Answer to a Bill in Chancery. See 41 Eliz. Flower's Case. CCLIV. Trin. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Co. Rep. Gatewards' Case. IN a Replevin, The Defendant avowed for Damage Feasant; The Plaintiff in bar of the Avowry, showed, That every Inhabitant in every Message in the said Town had used to have Common in the place where, etc. Glanvile argued, That the prescription was not good, for want of Capacity in the party who pretends Interest, for it is not certain, but applied to a Multitude: and he put divers Cases in proof of it: 22 H. 6. 21 H. 7. 1. Mar. Dyer, 100 The King grants a Rent probis hominibus of Islington; the same is void, for they are not capable. Harris, I conceive, That the Prescription is good; And he granted, That a confused Multitude cannot prescribe in a matter of Interest, but in an Easement, or discharge; As in a Way to the Church, and that by reason of Custom in the Land, and not in the persons. See 7 E. 4. 26. Where it is pleaded, That all the Inhabitants within such a Town time out of mind, etc. have used to have Common there, etc. And for a Township to have a Way to the Church; And good, by Danby. And, by Littleton, it ought to be pleaded by way of usage. And, 18 E. 4. 3. All the Inhabitants of such a Town, may well prescribe. And he cited Bracton, 222, 223. Communia quandocunque ex longo usu sive constitutione cum pacifica possessione continue & non intermixta, ex scientia, negligentia, & patientia Dominor', ita etiam amitti potest per negligentiam, & non usum. And he vouched Britton, fol. 144. Common is obtained by long sufferance; and also it may be lost by long negligence, etc. CCLU. Pie and Grunway's Case. Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Trespass brought by Pie against Grunway, and one B. The Plaintiff declared against Grunway only, who pleaded not guilty: And it was found for the Plaintiff. And in Arrest of judgement, it was moved, That the Plaintiff in declaring against one only, had falsified his own Writ. To that it was said, That at the uttermost it is but a discontinuance, so but matter of form, and so relieved by the Statute of 18 Eliz. But it was said by the Court, that it may be, That B. was outlawed at the Plaintiffs suit, and then the proceed is determined as against him. And the Court demanded of the Clerks, If the use of the Court be not so in such case to declare, That Grunway simul cum B. utlagat. ad sectam Querentis did the Trespass? Who answered, Not in this Action: but in an Action of Debt, it is otherwise: And afterwards, notwithstanding that Exception, judgement was given against the Plaintiff. CCLVI Thorp and Wingfield's Case. Trim. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Waste, the Plaintiff declared upon a Lease for years generally; and the truth of the Case was, That the Plaintiff had made a Lease for years to one A. which Lease being in force for two years, he Leased the same Lands for years, as he hath declared, to begin presently; and the Waste which is assigned in the Declaration, was done during the first Lease: And now, If the Defendant upon this matter might plead, No waste done, was the Question. And it was said by the Court, That such a plea should be perilous for the Defendant, for it shall be found against him; and if he pleadeth the special matter aforesaid, scil. The former Lease in esse at the time of the Waste committed; after the expiration of which Lease, no Waste was done: If the second Lease be not by Indenture, it should be a good Plea; but if by Indenture, than the Plaintiff would estop him by the Indenture, to show, that the second Lease hath another beginning than the Indenture purports, and then the Waste shall charge the Defendant; And although the Plaintiff had not declared upon a Lease by Indenture, yet if the Defendant pleaded the special matter aforesaid, he by way of Replication shall estop the Defendant to plead any other beginning of the Term than the Letter of the Indenture doth purport; and the same shall be no Departure, for it is matter which strengtheneth the Declaration. CCLVII. Botham and the Lady Gresham's Case. Pasch. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Prohibition by Botham and Couper, 1 Len. 94. 1 Cro. 71. 1 Len. 128. Post. 265. against the Lady Gresham who had impleaded them in the Spiritual Court for Tythe-Hay, and made their Suggestion, That time out of mind, etc. they had paid to the Vicar of the said Parish 4 d. for the Tithe of Hay of every Acre; It was moved, That upon that surmise a Prohibition ought not to be granted, for that a Modus Decimandi shall never come in Question: But the party ought to have pleaded the same matter in the Spiritual Court, scil. That the same doth appertain to the Vicar, and not to the Parson: and then if the Vicar sueth for the Tithe of the Hay, the Modus Decimandi will come in Question; and although that he hath averred in his surmise, that the Tythe-Hay belongeth to the Vicar, yet that is not material: And afterwards a Consultation was awarded. CCLVIII Rush and Heighgate's Case. 30 Eliz. In the Exchequer. 2 Len. 121. Co. 4. Rep. Palmer's Case PRocess was awarded out of the Exchequer, against Rush, for the levying of the sum of 200 l. which he owed to the Queen; Upon which, It was found by Office, That Rush, 22 Junii, 22 Eliz. was possessed of Lands for the Term of divers years then and yet to come; And the Debt of the Queen began 12 Feb. 17 Eliz. And upon the return of this Office, came one Heighgate, and shown, That the said Rush, 16 Eliz. was possessed of the said Lease, and the same year assigned the same to the said Heighgate, and traversed the Office. Exception was taken to the Inquisition, Because that the Lease is not certainly set forth; scil. the number of the years in certainty. Cook, The Office is sufficient enough, notwithstanding this Exception, for the Queen is a stranger to the Lease, and therefore she shall not be driven to set forth the certainty. See 7 E. 6. Plowden, 85. Partridge's Case, upon the Statute of 32 H. 8. concerning pretended Titles, etc. there the Informer declared, That ihe Defendant had Leased Lands for years against the said Statute, etc. without showing the number of the years; and the Information was holden good enough: for it is impossible, that a stranger have notice of every certainty, etc. and it is dangerous to meddle with such a particular certainty of the Lease, and to miss it: And in this Case, for as much as Heighgate comes to this Lease not by voluntary Contract, but by compulsory means; scil. by Execution upon the Statute, he cannot by common Intendment have notice of every particular Circumstance and Article of the Lease, as he may in case of a voluntary Contract. And also, although in pleading, the number of the years ought to be expressed, yet in an Inquisition such precise pleading is not requisite. See 15 H. 7. 7. An estate tail, and dying seized of it, was found by Office, without showing of whose gift it was; and good enough. CCLIX. Trin. 30 Eliz. In the Exchequer. ONe exhibited a Bill in the Exchequer Chamber, upon the Statute of 2 E 6. Cap. 13. to have the triple value, for not setting forth his Tithes according to the said Statute. But it was clearly holden by the Court, That the Bill did not lie upon that matter; for the Plaintiff hath his remedy for the same in the Court of Pleas in the Exchequer: And also for that there shall be no suit or proceed according to the Order of the Exchequer Chamber in Cases of Conscience, upon any penal Statute. CCLX. Body and Tassell's Case. Trin. 30 Eliz. In the Exchequer. NOte: That in the Case between Body and tassel, It was holden by Baron Clark, That if a Man dareth Money, and for the forbearing of it, contracts for more than 10 l. in the 100 l. That the Bond made for it, is void presently; and that if he doth receive excessive Interest, that he shall forfeit triple the value. CCLXI. Markham and Pitts' Case. Trin. 30 Eliz. In the King's Bench. IN an Action upon the Case upon a Trover by Markham against Pitts; the Defendant after an Imparlance, pleaded an Outlawry of the Plaintiff: And it was holden by some, to be a good Bar, and therefore it may be pleaded after Imparlance; As 16 E. 4. 4. in Debt upon a Specialty: But not in Debt upon a Contract, Trespass, Battery, Imprisonment, etc. for, such matters the King shall not have by Outlawry. CCLXII. Crane and Juniper's Case. Trin. 30 Eliz. In the King's Bench. THomas Crane brought an Action upon the Case against Juniper, and one John Matthew, upon an Assumpsit; and declared, That in Consideration that the Plaintiff took upon him, That whereas William Matthew was indebted unto him in divers sums of Money at the time of the death of the said William, that he would not molest the said Defendants being Executors of the said William Matthew before the 10th day of May next following, the Defendants promised to pay to the Plaintiff debitum predict. at the said 10th day of May; And declared further, Quod non molestavit: and yet, although saepius requisite. the Defendants had not paid him, etc. And upon Non Assumpsit pleaded, It was found for the Plaintiff. And it was Objected, That the Plaintiff had not maintained nor averred his Assumpsit; for the words of it are, Non molestavit nominatos Executores Testamenti & ultimae Voluntatis William Matthew; but he ought to have averred more specially, quod non molestavit Juniper & Matthew, named Executors of William Matthew, nor any of them, by their names: Also he ought to have pleaded, Quod non molestavit, before the said 10th day of May, according to his promise. And also he ought to have showed in his Declaration, how that he did not trouble them for the Debt of the Testator, etc. CCLXIII. Walcot and Powell's Case. Pasch. 30 Eliz. In the King's Bench. THe Case was, That in an Action of Debt brought against the Husband and Wife, The Plaintiff declared upon an Obligation made by the Wife dum sola fuit; and the Writ was in the Detinet tantum: And upon judgement given in that Action, a Writ of Error was brought in the King's Bench; And that matter was assigned for Error; And by Cook, The Writ ought to be in the Debet & Detinet; for the Husband hath the Goods of the Wife in his own right; and so is the Register, 140. CCLXIV. Wigmore and Wells' Case. Pasch. 30 Eliz. In the King's Bench. THree were bound in a Bond by these words, Obligamus nos & quemlibet nostrum Conjunctim. And it was holden by the Court to be a joint Bond, and not several; for the word Quemlibet is expounded by the word Conjunctim. CCLXU. Pasch. 30 Eliz. In the Exchequer. IT was holden by the Court in this Case, That if a stranger entereth upon the Farmor of the Queen, that by such Entry, he hath gained the Estate for years: and if he doth make a Lease unto another, his Lessee may maintain an Ejectione Firmae. CCLXVI Abbot's Case. Pasch. 30 Eliz. In the King's Bench. ALice Abbot brought an Action upon the Case upon 5 several Assumpsits, and in the close of her Declaration, it was Et praedict. J.S. licet saepius requisitus, etc. and so there was but one licet saepius requisitus to all the 5 Assumpsits; whereas every several Assumpsit ought to have his several demand; for one general Request for all is not sufficient: For it hath been adjudged, Where one is indebted to me severally in several sums of Money, made upon request, or demand made; And I go to him, and say to him, Pay me what you own me; the same is not a sufficient demand or request. Wray, If one dareth me Money, to repay it when he shall be required; Licet saepius requisitus is not sufficient: but if the Plaintiff declareth upon a Cum indebitatus fuisset, the Defendant assumed to pay; there Licet saepius requisitus is sufficient. CCLXVII. Stackford's Case. Pasch. 30 Eliz. In the King's Bench. STackford, was indicted for disclosing the Counsel of the Queen, and of his Companions, being sworn upon the Grand Enquest for the County of Middlesex in this manner: It was intended by the jury to endict the Brother of the said Stackford as a common Barrettor, and he disclosed the same to his Brother, and upon that matter he was indicted, and exception was taken to the Endictment, because it is not showed in what thing he had disclosed their Counsel; 2. It is said, in Trinity Term, 29 Eliz. he disclosed; but it is not said what day of the month it was done; 3. The Endictment is that he being sworn coram Justiciariis Dominae Reginae, etc. and it is not showed in what Court he was sworn, but generally at Westminster. The justices were all of Opinion, that it was a lewd part, and that he should be fined for it; but he was discharged from the Endictment. CCLXVIII. The Town of Green in Sussex's Case. Pasch. 30 Eliz. In the King's Bench. THe Town of Green in Sussex was amerced for the escape of a Felon, and that Amercement was grounded upon an Inquisition taken before the Coroner by whom the Escape was found; and it was moved for the Town, that there is not any such Escape found, for which the Town ought to be amerced: For it is found that he who escaped 10 Die Januarij. 30 Eliz. circa horam quartam post meridiem, with a Pitchfork mortally struck one A. which A. of the said stroke died 8 hours in the Evening of the same day, and that then the other escaped; For which Escape being done in the night, the Town by the Law ought not to be amerced, for it is not Felony until the party dieth. Which see 11 H. 4. and in Cole's Case 13 Eliz. Blow. Com. 401. And therefore the Town nor any other was charged with the offendor before the party wag dead. Wray, It should be a hard thing that the Town should be amerced upon this matter; for, although the Town in discretion might have stayed the party, yet it is not bounden to do it, etc. CCLXIX. Bland and Riccard's Case. Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 1 Cro. 225. THe Case was, that process of Attachment issued out of the Chancery against the Defendant, by force of which he was taken by the Plaintiff being Under Sheriff; who took Bond of him, upon which Bond Debt was brought; the Bond being for his appearance at the day contained in the Attachment. It was the clear Opinion of the whole Court, That the Bond was void; for that the Defendant was not bailable upon the Attachment: See the Case of Dive and Manningham, 4 E. 6. Plowden, 61, 62. CCLXX. Fetherstone and Huttchinson's Case. Trin. 30 Eliz. In the King's Bench. IN an Action upon the Case, the Plaintiff declared, That whereas one Hill had recovered in an Action of Debt against J.S. 10 l. upon which a Capias was awarded against J.S. that by force thereof he was Arrested, and being under Arrest, the Defendant in consideration that the Plaintiff would suffer the said J.S. to go at large circa negotia sua, and to go to his own House, and also in consideration of 2 d. paid to the Defendant, he promised to pay to the Plaintiff the said 10 l. It was holden by the Court, a void promise within the Statute of 23 H. 6. For, the consideration to let a Prisoner go at large is not lawful or good; and if part of the Consideration be not good, the whole is naught, and so it was adjudged. CCLXXI Stretton and Brown's Case. Trin. 30 Eliz. In the King's Bench. IN a false Imprisonment brought, the Defendant justified, because at the time he was Constable of D. and appointed the Plaintiff to watch, and he refused, by reason of which he set him in the Stocks; upon which the Plaintiff did demur in Law, because the Defendant had not alleged, that the Plaintiff was an Inhabitant within the Town; For the Constable cannot compel strangers which pass, to watch: And it was moved, If for such a Cause the Constable might set one in the Stocks; for it was said, he ought to complain of his refusal to a justice of the Peace. Also the Constable cannot appoint any to watch at his pleasure, but only in his turn, for otherwise the Constable might upon a private revenge vex his Neighbours. See 22 E 4. 35. Wray, Chief, justice, The Defendant ought to show, That the Plaintiff was Inhabitant in the Town, and that it was his Turn to Watch: and if such Inhabitant refuse to Watch in his Turn, the Constable may set him in the Stocks. CCLXXII. Paramour and Tho. Robinson's Case. Trin. 30 Eliz. In the Exchequer. THe Case was, George Robinson Lessee for years of the Manor of Drayton-Basset, the Reversion to the King, devised his Term to his Wife, as long as she should keep herself a Widow, the remainder over, if she married; and died, and made his Wife and William his Son his Executors, the said William being within age; And therefore Administration was committed to the Wife alone, and she only proved the Will: And afterwards the Wife granted all her Interest to the said William, and died. Cook, Nothing passeth by the Grant, for William had the Term before; for every Executor hath an entire Interest. Popham, Contrary; for at the time of that Grant, the Son was within age, and had not administered, nor proved the Will; therefore in effect the Wife was sole Executrix. Egerton, Solicitor, If during the sole Executorship of the Wife, one committeth a Trespass upon the Land, the Wife alone shall have the Action of Trespass without naming her Co-executor: Which Cook denied. And he cited the Case, 16 H. 7. 4. If two Executors be, and one of them only is possessed of the Goods of the Testator, and a stranger takes them out of his possession, to whom the other Executor doth release; and afterwards the Executor out of whose possession the Goods were taken, brings an Action of Trespass against the Trespassor, who pleads the Release of the other Executor; It was holden a good Plea; for the possession of the one, was the possession of the other. The Case was further, That Tho. Robinson the Defendant in pleading had showed, That George Robinson was possessed, and devised the same to his Wife, who granted the same to William, who devised the same to the Defendant. On the other side, it was showed, That Tho. Robinson the Defendant granted the said Term to Paramour the Plaintiff; upon which they were at Issue. And the Question now was, If Tho. against his own pleading might give in Evidence, That Thomas did not grant; For if the gift by the Wife to William was void, and he had the Term as Executor, Then he could not Devise it. And it was showed also, That Thomas granted it by Indenture to Paramour: And now, If against that Indenture, he might give in Evidence such special matter, was the doubt. And, If the party shall be concluded if the jury shall be concluded ad dicendum veritatem? And by Popham and Egerton, As well the jurors as the parties are concluded by the confession of the parties in the Record. For here, Thomas confesseth, That William devised to him; virtute cujus, 2 Co. 4. he was possessed. To that the Queen's Attorney said, That it is true, that Thomas Robinson was possessed; but it is further said, That Thomas granted it to Paramour, and so the Interest of Thomas is confessed on both sides, and therefore the jury shall not be received to say the contrary. But the Opinion of Manwood, Chief Baron, was, That if the parties do admit a thing per nient dedire, the jury is not bound by it; but where, upon the pleading a special matter is confessed, there the jury shall be bound by it. And afterwards, the Issue was found against Robinson the Defendant. CCLXXIII. Trin. 30 Eliz. In the King's Bench. IN an Action of Debt by A. against B. upon an Obligation, the Defendant pleaded tender of the Money according to the Condition; upon which the parties were at Issue. And after the Defendant pleaded, That after the Darrein Continuance, the Debt now in demand was Attached in the Defendants hands according to the Custom of London, for the debt of C. to whom the Plaintiff was indebted. It was the Opinion of the Court, That the Plea was insufficient, for it is altogether contrary to the first Plea. And also the Court held, That, in an Action for the debt depending here in this Court, the debt cannot be attached; and the Court would not suffer a Demurrer to be joined upon it, but overruled the Case without any Argument; For it was said by Wray, Chief justice, That it was against the jurisdiction of the Court, and the Privilege of it. CCLXXIV. Trin. 30 Eliz. In the King's Bench. NOte: It was holden by the Court, That if a Copyholder in Fee dieth seized, and the Lord admits a stranger to the Land who entereth, that he is but a Tenant at Will, and not a Disseisor to the Copyholder who hath the Land by descent, because he cometh in by the assent of the Lord, etc. CCLXXV. Trin. 30 Eliz. In the King's Bench. AN Ejectione firmae was brought de uno Cubiculo; and Exception was taken to it: But the Exception was disallowed. The Declaration was special, viz, & Leas unius Cubiculi, per nomen unius Cubiculi, being in such a House, in the middle story of the said House. And the Declaration was holden good enough; and the word Cubiculum, is a more apt word, than the word Camera: And such was the Opinion of Wray, Chief justice. And it was said, That Ejectione firmae brought de una rooma, had been adjudged good in this Court. CCLXXVI. Johnson and Bellamy's Case. Rot. 824. Mich. 30 & 31 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN an Ejectione firmae, It was holden by Special Verdict, 1 Cro. 122. That W. Grant was seized of certain Lands, and by his Will devised the same to Joan his Wife for life: And further he willed, That when Rich. his Brother should come to the age of 25 years, that he should have the Land to him and the Heirs of his body lawfully begotten. W. Grant died, having Issue of his body who was his Heir. Rich. before he attained the age of 25 years, levied a Fine of the said Lands with proclamations in the life and during the seisin of Joan to A. sic ut partes finis nihil habuerunt: And, If this Fine should bar the Estate in tail, was the Question? And the justices cited the Case of the Lord Zouch, which was adjudged, Mich. 29 Eliz. Where the Case was, Tenant in tail discontinued to E. and afterwards levied a Fine to B. That although that parts finis nihil habuerunt, yet the said Fine did bind the Estate tail. But the Sergeants at the Bar argued, That there was a difference between the Case cited, and the Case at Bar: For in the Case cited, the Fine was pleaded in Bar; but here it was not pleaded, but found by Special Verdict. To which it was said by the Court, That the same is not any difference; For the Fine by the Statute is not any matter of Estoppel or Conclusion, but by the Statute binds and extincts the entail, and the right of it. And Fines are as sufficient to bind the right of the entail when they are found by Special Verdict, as when they are pleaded in Bar. And Periam, justice, said, A Collateral Warranty found by Special Verdict, is of as great force, as pleaded in Bar. And afterwards judgement was given, That the Estate tail by that Fine was utterly barred and extinct. CCLXXVII. Mich. 30 Eliz. In the King's Bench. THe Case was, A Man made a Lease for life, rendering Rend at Michaelmas; and further Leased the same to the Executors of the Lessee until Michaelmas, after the death of the Lessee. It was affirmed by Cook, That in that Case, it was adjudged, That the word (Until) shall be construed to extend to the Term unto the end of the Feast of St. Michael, and so the Rent then due payable by the Executors; for without such Construction, no Rent should be then due, because the Term ended before Michaelmas. CCLXXVIII. Pasch. 30 Eliz. In the King's Bench. ONe was bounden to stand to the Award of two Arbitrators, who awarded, That the party should pay to a stranger or his Assigns 200 l. before such a day: The stranger before the day died; B. took Letters of Administration. The Question was, If the Obligee should pay the Money to the Administrator, or if the Obligation was discharged. It was the Opinion of the whole Court, That the Money should be paid to the Administrator, for he is an Assignee. And by Gawdy, If the word (Assigns) had been left out, yet the payment ought to be made to the Administrator; Which Cook granted. CCLXXIX. Pasch. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Defendant in Debt, being ready at the Bar to wage his Law, was examined by the Court, upon the points of the Declaration, and the cause of the Debt; upon which it appeared, that the Plaintiff and Defendant were reciprocally indebted the one to the other: And accounting together, they were agreed, That each of them should be quit of the other. It was the Opinion of Periam and Anderson, justices, That upon that matter, the Defendant could not safely wage his Law; For it is but an agreement, which cannot be executed, but by Release or Acquittance. CCLXXX. Pasch. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. TEnant in tail Covenanted with his Son to stand seized to the use of himself for life, and afterwards to the use of his Son in tail, the remainder to the right Heirs of the Father: The Father levied a Fine with proclamations, and died. It was moved by Fenner, If any Estate passed to the Son by that Covenant? for it is not any discontinuance, and so nothing passed but during his life; and all the Estates which are to begin after his death, are void. Anderson, justice, The Estate passeth until, etc. And he cited the Case of one Pitts, where it was adjudged, That if Tenant in tail of an Advowson in gross, grants the same in Fee, and a Collateral Ancestor releaseth with warranty, and dieth, that the same is a good bar for ever. CCLXXXI. Ognell's Case. Pasch. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Replevin against Ognel, who avowed for Rent; Clayton Rep. 91. the Plaintiff was Nonsuit; the Question was, Whether the Court might assess Damages, without a Writ of Enquiry of Damages? It was the Opinion, That they might; for they are not in respect of any local matter, but they accrue to the Avowant, for the delay in the nonpayment of the Rent: Contrary, where judgement is given for the Plaintiff, there, the Court shall not assess the Damages, for he ought to recover for the taking of his , of which the judges cannot take notice; and the Damages may be greater or less according to the value of the , and the Circumstances of the taking and delaying of them. CCLXXXII. Hitchcock and Harvy's Case. Mich. 30 & 31 Eliz. In the King's Bench. HItchcock brought an Action of Trespass for breaking of his Close, and spoiling of his Grass, against Harvey: and the Case was, That A. was seized of the Land in which, etc. and granted to the Plaintiff proficuum of such a Mead called Tentry Mead, post falcationem inde; scil. the Ear-grass. And it was found by Verdict, That Ear-grass is such Grass, which is upon the Land after the mowing, until the Feast of the Annunciation after. It was moved, If such a Grantee might have Trespass, Quare Clausum fregit? And it was the Opinion of the Court, 1 Cro. 421. That he could not; but for spoiling the Grass he might Clench, justice, If a Man be Outlawed in an Action personal, The Queen hath the profits of the Land, and lets the same to another, He shall have an Action of Trespass, Quare Clausum fregit; Which Shute granted: And afterwards because the jury had given Damages entire, as well for the breaking of the Close, as for the spoiling of the Grass, the Plaintiff could not recover the Damages. CCLXXXIII. Chard and Tuck's Case. Hill. 30 Eliz. In the King's Bench. 1 Cro. 41. 1 Cro. 15, 16 114, 170.130. Shep. Touch. 94. Bro. Tit. Judgement 83. IN an Ejectione firmae by Chard against Tuck, It was found by special Verdict, That A. was seized of a Message, and of a Curtilage, and of a Garden to the same belonging in Fee; and that the Curtilage was on the back side of the said House, and the Garden next beyond the said Curtilage, the Garden being divided from the Curtilage by a Wall, and a Door through the Wall into the Garden from the said Curtilage, and no Way to either of them, but through the House. And it was further found, That the said A. by his Will devised the said Message to B. The Question was, If by that Devise, the Curtilage and Garden did pass. Vide inde Br. 23 H. 8. Feoffments, 53. Where a Feoffment is made of such a Message cum pertinentiis, they shall pass. Curtilage, is a member, at the least an Appendix of a Message. And by the clear Opinion of the whole Court in the Case at Bar, It was Resolved, That by this Devise, the Curtilage and Garden did pass. And it was said by Wray, Chief justice, It matters not, Whether the Curtilage and Garden be before the House, or behind it; for in both Cases they shall pass. CCLXXXIV. Baxter's Case. Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Exchequer. AN Information in the Exchequer, was exhibited against Baxter of Cambridge, upon the Statute of 7 E. 6. Cap. 5. of Wines, and the selling of them against the purview of the said Statute. To which the Defendant pleaded, That King Rich. the second in the 5th year of his Reign, Granted unto the Chancellor and his Deputy, and the Scholars of the University of Cambridge, Custodiam assisae panis, vini, & Cervisiae, & correctionem & punitionem eorundum; 4 Inst. 229. And that the Queen that now is, confirmed the said Grant in the third year of her Reign by her Letters Patents; which were after confirmed by Act of Parliament, 13 Eliz. And so pleaded to the jurisdiction of the Court. Upon which, It was demurred in Law. Harris argued for the Queen; and said, That the Defendant could not plead that matter to the jurisdiction of the Court at that time, for it is now too late, for that he hath oftentimes imparled, and that generally: In which case, the Court having general and ordinary jurisdiction and Authority to hold plea of such matters, shall have Conusans of them, notwithstanding the matter which hath been showed, and set forth. On the other side, It hath been said, Quod Assisa venit de assidendo; that is, to have the Assize, as well in respect of the price, as of the measure: Which although it be admitted, yet the same shall not help them; For they of Cambridge have not Assisam ipsam; but only, Custodiam assisae, i.e. that the Assize, set down by the Queen and her Council, be well kept; And that no other price, or measure be used in the uttering of Wines. Popham, The Queen's Attorney, to the same intent. The Statute of 51 H. 1. Ordains, That when Wheat is at such a price in the Market, than every penny Loaf is to weigh so much; and so when Barley is at such a price, than so much Beer shall be sold for a penny: And that was the general Assize limited by the said Statute: In these Cases, the University cannot appoint another Assize, than that which is set down by the said Statute; but to take care, that the said Statute be well executed in such Assize. See the Statute of 31 E. 1. of Wines, scil. That Wines shall be sold according to the Assize of the King; i. e. 12 d. the Gallon: And in that matter, the University hath Custodiam only; i.e. the survey of the Assize, and the execution of it, and authority to punish the Offences against the said Statutes, as well in the price, as in the measure according to the said Statutes, and not otherwise, etc. And as to the Statute of 7 E. 6. Cap. 5. By which it is provided, That the said Statute shall not be prejudicial to any of the Inhabitants of Oxford, or Cambridge, or unto the Chancellor, or Scholars there to impair their Liberties, etc. The same aught to be intended, that the Liberties and Franchises which the Universities had before by the Grant, ut supra, etc. i. e. to punish such Offences against the Assize, according to the old Statutes. For the said Statute of 7 E. 6. Cap. 5. being in the Affirmative, doth not take away the punishment appointed by any other Statute; but doth continue the same. And a further penalty is appointed, propter ulteriorem poenam. And as to that which hath been said, That by the said Grant of Rich. the 2d, 3 Cro. 52, 62 they have granted to them Cognitionem omnium Actionum personalium inter partem & partem, That will not help the University in this Case: For the Informer by the Statute, hath Liberty to sue in what Court he will in any of the King's Courts of Record. And in this Case, the Queen is quodam modo a party; For she is to have the moiety; And so this cause is not merely betwixt party and party, etc. CCLXXXV. Willoughby's Case. Trin. 30 Eliz. In the King's Bench. 2 Len. 117. WIlliam Willoughby, and two other were Indicted, That where the Parson of the Church of D. and all his predecessors have used to have Common in such a place; The said Defendants, Willoughby and others, had enclosed the same, and that enclosure was upon their own Land. It was moved, That upon this matter they ought not to have been indicted; but the party grieved was put to his Action; As, where a presentment is made of a Disseisin. See 27 Ass. 20. And it was the Case of one Marden, 29 Eliz. upon the stopping of a Highway upon his own Land; and if it were upon other Land, it were not material; for it is but an Impeachment to take Common, which cannot be Vi et armis, etc. Also this Endictment is Recorded and Certified as found before justices of Assize and Gaol-Delivery, and they cannot take such presentment. And although the justices of Assize and Gaol-Delivery were in rei veritate also justices of Peace; yet the Endictment being recorded and certified to be taken before them in quality of justices of Peace, shall not help it; for the Court shall not respect any Authority but that which appears upon the Record. And for these Causes, the parties were discharged. CCLXXXVI. Gates and Hollywell's Case. Pasch. 30 Eliz. In the King's Bench. A Man having Issue two Sons, devised, That his eldest Son with his Executors should take the profits of the Lands, until his younger Son should come to the age of 22 years; and then the younger Son should have the Lands to him and his Heirs of his body: It was the clear Opinion of all the justices, That the eldest Son should have a Feesimple in the Lands, until the younger Son came to the said age of 22 years. CCLXXXVII. Coney and Beveridge's Case. Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 2 Len. 146. IN Debt upon an Obligation, the Case was, That the Plaintiff Leased to the Defendant certain Lands in the County of Cambridge, rendering rend; And afterwards, the Defendant became bounden to the Plaintiff in an Obligation for the payment of the said Rent: upon which Bond, the Plaintiff brought an Action of Debt in the County of Northampton. To which the Defendant pleaded payment of the Rent, without showing the place of payment, and upon that they were at Issue. And it was found by Nisi prius, in the County of Northampton for the Plaintiff; It was moved in Arrest of judgement, That the Issue is mis-tryed; for here the payment of the Rent being pleaded, without showing the place of payment, it shall be intended, that the Rent was paid upon the Land, which is in the County of Cambridge, and there the Issue ought to be tried. See 44 E. 3. 42. And it was the Opinion of Anderson Chief justice, That no judgement should be given for the Plaintiff, for the Cause aforesaid. But Rhodes and Windam justices, were of a contrary Opinion; For it doth not appear, That the Issue is mis-tryed, because that no place of payment is pleaded, and it may be, for any thing that is showed, That the Rent was not paid in the County of Northampton. CCLXXXVIII. The Blacksmith's Case. Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A Blacksmith of South Mimmes, in the County of Middlesex, took an Obligation of another Blacksmith of the same Town, upon Condition that he should not exercise the Trade or Art of a Blacksmith within the same Town, nor within a certain precinct of the same. And upon that Obligation, the Obligee brought an Action of Debt in the Common Pleas; depending which Suit, the Obligor complained to the justices of Peace of the County against the Obligee, upon which the matter being found against him by Examination, the justices committed the Obligee to Prison; and now, upon the whole matter, Puckering Sergeant prayed a Habeas Corpus for the said Obligee to the Sheriff of Middlesex, and hat it. And Fleetwood Recorder of London being at the Bar, the Court openly admonished him of that matter; For by the Law, justices of Peace have not Conusans of such Offences, nor can intermeddle with them; for their power is limited by the Commission, and the Statutes. And the Recorder relied much upon the Opinion of Hull. in 2 H. 5. 5. But it was said by the Court, Although that this Court be a high Court to punish such Offences appearing before them of Record; yet it doth not follow, That the justices of Peace may also do so: But as to the Obligation itself, the Court was clear of Opinion, That the same was void, and against the Law. CCLXXXIX. Russell and Broker's Case. Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 2 Len. 209. IN Trespass, for cutting down of 4 Oaks; The Defendant pleaded, That the place where, etc. And that he is seized of a Message in D. and that he, and all those whose Estate he hath, etc. habere Consueverant rationabile estoverium suum for fuel, ad Libitum suum Capiendum in boscis, subboscis & arboribus ibidem crescentibus, and that in Quolibet tempore anni, unless in Fawning time. The Plaintiff by Replication said, That the place where is in the Forest of D. etc. And that the Defendant, and all those whose Estate, etc. habere Consueverunt rationabile estoverium suum de Boscis, etc. per Liberationem Forestarii, aut ejus Deputati, prout Boscus pati potuit, & non ad exigentiam petentis, And upon that Replication, the Defendant demurred in Law. And it was the clear Opinion of the Court, That judgement should be given against the Plaintiff: For if he would have ousted the Defendant of his Prescription by the Law of the Forest, he ought to have showed the Law of the Forest in such Case: Lex forestae talis est; For the Law of the Forest, is not the Common Law of the Land; and we are not bounden to take notice of it, but it ought to be pleaded; Or else the Plaintiff ought to have traversed the Prescription of the Defendant; For here are two Prescriptions, one pleaded by the Defendant by way of Bar; The other set forth by the Plaintiff in his Replication, without any traverse of that which is set forth in the Bar, which cannot be good. But if the Plaintiff had showed in his Replication, Lex forestae talis est, than the Prescription of the Defendant had been answered without any more; for none can prescribe against a Statute. Exception was taken to the Bar, because the Defendant hath justified the cutting down of Oaks, without alleging, That there was not any Vnderwoods': But that Exception was not allowed, for he hath his Choice, ad libitum suum. Another Exception was taken to the Bar, because he hath not showed, 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 replied, and upon his Replication, the Defendant had demurred; the Court would not resort to the Bar, but gave judgement upon the Replication, and therefore Nihil Capiat per breve. CCXC. Brocas' Case. Mich. 30 Eliz. In the King's Bench. BRocas, Lord of a Manor, 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 tied 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, than he is bounden to pay the money presently; and to have his remedy over by Covenant. CCXCI Ireland and Higgius' Case. Trin. 30 Eliz. In the King's 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 shown 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, etc. 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 Manor: Now, to gratify a great person who earnestly desired the said Manor, 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 Manor should escheat to the said Lord, That he upon request should reassure to the said Trussell the said Manor in Fee after Pardon obtained, which was promised to him by the said great Parsonage: Upon which Indictment, Trussell was Arraigned, and Convicted upon Evidence; which he himself procured to be falsely 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, justices, 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 Manor of Hadley, by force of which he was possessed; And so possessed, granted to the Plaintiff the Office of Stewardship of the said Manor, 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 judgement, 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. CCXCIU Anderson and Hayward's Case. Pasch. 30 Eliz. In the King's Bench. A Copyholder of Inheritance of a Manor 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 Nonage, 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. CCXCU. Brightman's Case. Pasch. 30 Eliz. In the Exchequer Chamber. UPon a Writ of Error brought upon a judgement given in the King Bench; The matter was, A. Leased for 20 years to B. two Acres of Land, rendering Rend, with Condition of Reentry, 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 justices, 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, etc. but did not show, that the Writ was Returned; upon which, the Tenant did demur in Law. It was holden by Periam, justice, 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, etc. therefore she shall not be Retained by the said Statute. CCXCVII Mounson and West's Case Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 1 Len. 88 IN the Case of Mounson and West; which see, in Leon. 1 Part, 88 Where the Case was in Trespass, the parties were at Issue; and at the Return of the Panel, the Defendant challenged the Array, because it was made by B.A. who took to Wife the Cousin German of the Plaintiff, et ex ea had Issue living, the Mother being dead: Upon which it was demurred in Law. Now this Term came the Plaintiff, and offered to relinquish his Demurrer, and confess the Cozenage, and prayed a Writ to the Coroners. It was the Opinion of the Court, That he might so well do by the Law, because the Demurrer is not made up: Which matter the Prothonotaries excused, because the Demurrer was not subscribed with a Sergeants hand. To which it was said by the Court, That a Demurrer upon a Challenge, is not like to a Demurrer upon a Plea; For in case of a Demurrer upon a Challenge, as soon as the Demurrer is agreed upon at the Bar, it is good enough without other Circumstance, and the Prothonotaries of right aught to enter such Demurrer. CCXCVIII. Fetherstone and Hutchins' Case. Trin. 30 Eliz. In the King's Bench. IN an Action upon the Case upon Assumpsit, the Plaintiff declared, That whereas one Hill had recovered in an Action of Debt against J.S. 10 l. upon which a Capias was awarded against the said J.S. by force of which the Plaintiff Arrested him: and so being under his Arrest, the Defendant in Consideration that the Plaintiff would suffer the said J.S. to go at large, circa negotia sua, and to go to his own House: And also in Consideration of 2 d. paid to the Defendant, he promised to pay to the Plaintiff the said 10 l. It was holden by the Court, That the same was a void promise within the Statute of 23 H. 6. for the Consideration to let the Prisoner go at large, is not lawful; and if part of the Consideration is naught, so is the whole: And Adjudged accordingly. CCXCIX. Gore and Wingfield's Case. Hill. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Debt upon an Obligation; 4 Len. 208 The Obligation was written in this form; Know all by these presents, That I H. Wingfield, am bound to William Gore, etc. in the sum of, etc. For the payment of which sum, I give full power and authority to the said Gore, to levy the said sum upon the profits of the Bailiwick of Swinsted from year to year, until the same be paid. To which the Defendant pleaded, That the Plaintiff had levied parcel of the said sum, etc. and did not show how; And therefore the pleading was found vicious: And it was clearly agreed by the whole Court in this Case, That the Plaintiff at his Liberty might bring his Action upon the said Obligation; or levy the said money according to the Clause aforesaid. CCC. Seckford's Case. Hill. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. HEnry Seckford was impleaded in the Court of Common Pleas at the suit of a Widow in an Action of Debt, and now came an Injunction or Writ of Privilege out of the Exchequer, reciting the said Seckford to be one of the Grooms of the Queen's Privy-Chamber, and Keeper of the Privy-Purse, and so Accountable to the Queen; and that they do not hold plea of the said Action; But that the Plaintiff sequitur poenas Scaccar. But the Writ was utterly disallowed by the Court. See 16 Eliz. Dyer, 328. Hunt's Case. CCCI The Queen and Littleton's Case. Trin. 30 Eliz. In the Exchequer. INstruction by the Queen against Littleton, and upon the general Issue, As to the House, The Defendant pleaded, Not guilty; and as to the Land and Park made Title, That Anne Talbot leased the same to him for years, etc. and the jury found this special matter, scil. That Anne Talbot was seized, and leased the said House, Land and Park, to the Defendant for years, rendering Rend, with clause of Reentry; And that after the said Lease so made, The said Anne said to the Lessee, Although I have not excepted it in my Lease, yet I mean to have the Chamber over the Kitchen to lay my Stuff in, until my Son come of years. To whom the Lessee answered, That he was well contented with that: Upon which the said Anne put in her Householdstuff there, and afterwards she took to Husband Sir Robert Stapleton Knight; After which, all the Householdstuff is removed out of the said Chamber by the said Sir Robert Stapleton and his Wife; who afterwards by their Warrant authorized J.S. to demand the Rent due at Michaelmas, who at the last day, limited for the payment of the Rent, went to the Premises, and demanded the Rent; to whom the Lessee said, That if the said J.S. would show to the Lessee his Name, and make an Acquittance, and also show his Warrant, he would pay him the Rent, otherwise not; but the said J.S. utterly refused, etc. wherefore the Lessee would not pay any Rent: And as to the other Rent (for several Rents were reserved,) The Lessee said to J.S. upon demand of the same, I here say, That there is already a forfeiture committed upon the last demand, and therefore it is to no purpose to pay the Rent; and further said, he had not any moneys. Shep. Touch. 387. It was moved by Popham Attorney General, That these demands made in manner, etc. were good; and that he who made the demand, is not bound to show his Warrant; For he may be sufficiently authorized to make such demand without any Warrant in writing, no more than to tell his Name, or make an Acquittance; but the Lessee ought to pay his Rent at his peril, sub conditionis periculo, as in Case of an Obligation: And as to the Speech of Anne Talbot, concerning the Chamber over the Kitchen, and the answer of Littleton to that; The same doth not amount unto a Surrender, nor was it their intent, but only a permission, or sufferance for the said Anne Talbot to lay her Stuff there for a time as appeareth; for after the Stuff removed, the Lessee entered into the Chamber, and occupied the same as he did the rest. And afterwards exception was taken to this Verdict, because that here are two Issues, and but one Verdict, scil. as to the Land and Park, of Not guilty; and as to the House, he makes a Title by Lease; and the jury have found the Lease, the Condition and the Reentry for the breach of the same: If the special matter aforesaid doth amount to the same, and if, etc. then they say, that the Defendant is guilty of the whole: It was moved, That here is but one Verdict for the Lease; and the other Issue is not enquired of, and then all is discontinued. See 5 H. 5. 3. in Dower, the Tenant pleaded as to one part, Non tenure, and as to the Residue, Ne unque seisie; and afterwards the Seisin was found by the Verdict, but nothing found of the Non tenure, and therefore a Venire facias de novo was awarded, etc. But it was answered by the Court, That this Verdict had determined both the Issues; for, the Changeableness of the Entry, as the Court conceived upon the special matter aforesaid, did determine both the Issues. CCCII. Scot and Scot's Case. Pasch. 31 Eliz. In the King's Bench. THE Case of Scot and Scot in a Replevin, 1 Cro. 73. 2 Len. 128. 4 Len. 70. the which see Mich. 29 Eliz. Leon. 2 Part, 129. was argued again by Egerton, Solicitor General; And he said, In some Case, This word (Proviso) is not a Condition, but only an Explanation of the Sentence precedent: If it be in the Negative, and makes restraint of the Common Law, than it is a Condition: As a Lease for years, Proviso, That he shall not alien, or do Waste. And if the Proviso be in the Affirmative, and by that the party be bound to do a thing, which of common Right he is not bound to do, it is a Condition. A Lease for years, or for life, Proviso, That he shall pay such a sum. Lessee for years, Proviso, That the Lessee shall pay his Rent generally, without limitation of any day; it is on Condition. And he held by way of Argument in the principal Case, That Cestuy que use should take adgantage of conditions, which are knit to Estates, as for payment of Rent, but not concerning collateral things; And such exposition of the Statute of 32 H. 8. hath been made there before. And admit it be a Condition, Yet the Lessor cannot re-enter, for the Rent was not well demanded; For 20 l. Rent is reserved yearly, payable at four Feasts, and here the Lessor hath demanded 10 l. scil. The Rent of two several Quarters, whereas only Rent was demandable in point of the Condition. Cook conceived, That it was a Condition; but every Proviso did not make a Condition: The Lessor Covenants, That the Lessee shall take sufficient Wood, Proviso, that he shall not take great Timber; that Proviso doth not make the Covenant Conditional, but only explains the same: A Lease without Impeachment of Waste, Proviso, that the Lessee shall not do voluntary Waste, is not any Proviso, but a restraint of the Liberty given before, and doth but qualify the Liberty: As Littleton's Case, Grant of a Rent-Charge, Proviso, that it shall not extend to charge the person of the Grantor, that Proviso doth not make the Grant Conditional, so that, if the Grantee bring a Writ of Annuity against the Grantor, the Grant be determined, etc. A Lease for years, Proviso, that if the Lessee shall be disposed to Alien, that the Lessor shall have the first offer, etc. The same is not a Condition, which see by Fitzherbert and Baldwin, 28 H. 8. Dyer 13. A Lease for years upon Condition, That if the Lessee will hold over his Term, That then he shall pay so much Rend, the same is not Condition, for it is at the pleasure of the Lessee, etc. and it is not compulsory. A Feoffment in Fee with warranty, Proviso, that the Feoffee shall not vouch; the same doth not make the warranty Conditional, but only abridgeth the warranty. Sir Richard Pecksall leased certain Lands for years, and Covenanted, That the Lessee should take at his pleasure the Trees there growing; Proviso, That he should not take Trees of such a bigness: It was holden in that Case to be no Condition. So in the Covenant for further assurance, Proviso, That the Bargainor shall not be compelled to travail for the making of the assurance above ten miles, etc. But admit that it be a Condition, yet the Lessor upon the matter cannot take advantage of it; For he hath not demeaned himself in the demand of the Rent as he ought. For he hath demanded Rents due to him at several Quarters; and that he cannot demand in point of forfeiture, for then the Lessor may leave his Rent in the Hands of the Lessee until it amount to a great sum of 200 or 300 l. and then upon a sudden demand of the Rent, when the Lessee is not so well furnished, nor can be at so short warning, to pay the same. And it may be likened to the Case in 27 H. 6. A. granteth to B. ten Loads of Hay percipiend. annuatim, out of his Meadows in C. for 21 years: there the Grantee cannot stay and take all his Hay, and the Arrears of it in the later year; but he ought to take his Hay every year according to his Grant, Causa qua supra. And although the Lessor here hath demanded more Rent than he ought, yet the Law shall construe the demand good for so much of the Rent, which by the Law is demandable in point of forfeiture; as where a Man is bound to perform the Award of such an one; who awards, That he and another shall be bound to another party for the payment of, etc. Although that the same Award be void as to the Stranger, yet it is good as to the party himself, and he ought to be bound by it. Dr. Mollins Case, A Lease for years rendering Rend to be paid at two days in the year; Proviso, That if the said Lessee do not pay the said yearly Rend, that then a Reentry; that Rent is not demandable upon pain of forfeiture, but the last day of every year only, and not every year according to the Reservation of it. The words of our Condition are; Provided, That if the Lessee do grant his Term to his eldest Son, that he shall pay but so must Rent, the same without doubt is not any Condition; yet [he shall pay so much Rend] doth amount to so much. Note, In the Argument of this, this Case was put, A. is bound to make such an assurance to B. of such Land as C. shall devise; C. deviseth, That A. and his Wife shall make such assurance, A. is bounden upon the peril of his Obligation to do it. See as to this point of the Proviso, 5 Eliz. Dyer 222. The Archbishop of Yorks Case: It was adjourned. CCCIII Mich. 31 Eliz. In C. B. THis Case was put to the Court, a Copyholder did allege the Custom of the Manor to be, That the Lord of the Manor might grant Copies in the remainder, only with the assent of the Tenants, and not otherwise, and that Copies in Remainder otherwise granted should be void: It was demanded of the Court, If this were a good Custom or not; The justices did forbear to deliver any Opinion in the Case: Walmesley Serjeant, That it was a void Custom; for that the Law doth not take notice of Copyholders Estate, they being but Tenants at Will, in the judgement of the Common Law; and therefore it was not reasonable, that their Wills and Pleasures should limit the Lord of the Manor in granting of Estates by Copy, and therefore he said, such a Custom was void; and he compared it to the Case in 2 H. 4. 27. That a Custom, That a Commoner shall not use his Common before that the Lord hath put in his , 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. CCCIU Mich. 31 Eliz. In C. B. THE Case was, a Man devised Socage Lands to his Brother's Son in tail, to have the same at his age of 25 years, and died, having Issue a Daughter: The Nephew after 21 years entered, 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 entereth for the condition broken, etc. CCCV. Palmer and Smalbrook's Case. Hill. 31 Eliz. In the King's 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 Bailiff, 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 judgement, 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 merely 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, judgement was given for the Plaintiff. CCCVI. Wood and Payn's Case. Trin. 31 Eliz. In the King's Bench. IN an Ejectione firmae, for. Entry into a Message sive Tenementum, and 4 Acres of Lands to the same belonging: Upon 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 judgement of the 4 Acres; For the Declaration is 4 Acres to the said Message 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 merely void. And afterwards the Plaintiff released damages, and had judgement. CCCVII. Bennington and Bennington's Case. Trin. 31 Eliz. In the King's Bench. BEnnington brought an Action of Trespass against Bennington, for breaking of his Close, etc. 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 entered; upon which they were at Issue. And it was found, That for two parts of the Land where, etc. 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 judgement, 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 King's 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 indicted, 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; Upon 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 judgement in the Bill of Debt. CCCIX. Constable and Farrer's Case. Hill. 31 Eliz. In the King's 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 Assizes at N. the Defendant in Consideration that the now Plaintiff should confess the Action aforesaid at the Assizes 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 jury 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 judgement; for in truth the Assizes began the 4th of August; and the Consideration was, That the now Plaintiff should confess the Action at the same Assizes; which although they continue divers days, yet in Law, all is but one day; And all the Assizes shall be said to be holden the 4th of August: 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. Hampers Case. Mich. 31 Eliz. In the King's Bench. 2 Len. 211. 1 Cro. 147. HAmper was Indicted 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 falsely, but the jury 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 King's Bench. Ante 149.192. 2 Len. 118. ARthur Collet and Thomas Andrews recovered against Robston in a Writ of Account, Hill. 29 Eliz. And now Robston brought a Writ of Error, and assigned for Error, That whereas the said Writ of Account was brought against the Defendant as Receivor of moneys to render Account quando ad hoc requisitus fuerit, the said Writ aught 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 jury had assessed damages, which ought not to be done in an Action of Account. Which see, 2 Ric. 2. Fitz. Account, 45. and 2 H. 7. 13. But see the Book of Entries, 22. In a Writ of Account against one as Receivor, for to render Account, damages were given by the jury for the Plaintiff: And in the Case of an Account against one as Bailiff, damages shall be given: For if my Bailiff by the employment of my moneys 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 judgement was affirmed. CCCXII. Yates' Case. Trin. 31 Eliz. In the King's Bench. YAtes and another brought a Writ of Error upon a judgement 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, etc. 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 the haereditate in the Writ. 1 Cro. 759, 760. And see also, that Partitions of Lands in London, without showing of what Estate. See Register, 67. 6 Eliz. in Partitione facienda by Courtney against Polyweel, no Estate showed 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 show the Estate: But Tenants in Common aught to show 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, justices, That such words are not actionable, because too general, without showing 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, than 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 marshalsea for it.; And it was holden, Not Actionable. And afterwards, in the principal Case, judgement was, Nihil Capiat per Billam. CCCXIV. Delabroche and Barney's Case. Mich. 31 Eliz. In the King's 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. CCCXU. Moulton's Case. Mich. 31 Eliz. In the King's 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 seized; 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 erroneous. 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 King's 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 add respondend. Randulpho B. alias Randal B. Cook said, That Randulphus, is Latin for Randal. Owen, Serjeant, shown divers Precedents, where Randulphus was taken for Randal. But the Court did not agree upon it. Wray advised the Plaintiff for his more speed to bring a new Writ. But Gawdy said, That the Writ brought was good enough. CCCXVII. Pike and Hassen's Case. Mich. 31 Eliz. In the King's Bench. AN Action upon the Statute of 32 H. 8. touching buying of Titles; And the Bargain was laid in Norfolk; but the Land, etc. was in Suffolk; And the Issue was tried in Norfolk, and the value of the Land also: And as to the 5 Acres they found the Defendant guilty; and found also the value of them: And for the Residue, a Special Verdict was given; and for the 5 Acres, the Plaintiff had judgement presently: And by the special Verdict it was found, That the Defendant had occupied the Residue of the Land for two years before, etc. as Tenant at sufferance; and afterwards sold the Inheritance. Wray, Chief justice, Tenant at sufferance is in truth a Tort feasor, by which his taking of the profits is not such as is intended by the Statute: But yet he afterwards looking into the words of the Verdict, which were, That the Defendant tenuit the Lands for two years ex permissione of another; thereupon it ought to be intended, That he was Tenant at will. CCCXVIII. Sparry and Warfield's Case. Mich. 31 Eliz. In the King's Bench. IN False Imprisonment against the Defendant and others; they pleaded, The Charter of Bridewell; and that the Plaintiff was mali nominis & famae, and that certain Goods were stolen from J.S. and upon search, the Plaintiff was found suspiciously, etc. And that thereupon they put him into Bridewell. It was the Opinion of the justices, That the Plea was not good. CCCXIX Bragg's Case. Pasch. 32 Eliz. Rot. 318. In the King's Bench. IN an Action of Trespass by Strait against Bragg, Quare Clausum fregit, containing one Acre in C. in the County of H. and for the taking of a Horse. The Defendant pleaded, That long time before the Trespass, The Dean and Chapter of Paul's were seized of the Manor of C. in the said County, in Fee in the right of their Church, whereof the place where is parcel, etc. And so seized, King E. 4th by his Letters Patents dated Anno 1 of his Reign, granted to them all the Fines pro Licentia Concordandi of all their Homagers and Tenants resiants, or not resiants, within their Fee; And shown, That for all that time they have used to have such Fines of their Tenants: And shown further, That, 29 Eliz. A Fine was levied in the Common Pleas between the Plaintiff and one A. of 11 Acres of Land, whereof the place where the Trespass was done was parcel, and the Post-Fine assessed to 15 s. And afterwards Scambler the foreign Opposer allowed to them the said 15 s. because the said Land was within their Fee; and afterwards in the behalf of the said Dean and Chapter, he demanded of the Plaintiff the said 15 s. who refused to pay it, for which he, by the Commandment, and in the right of the Dean and Chapter, entered and took the said Horse in the name of a Distress as Bailiff to the said Dean and Chapter for the said 15 s. and afterwards sold it, etc. upon which the Plaintiff did demur in Law; And it was moved, That here it is not averred, That the Land whereof the Fine was levied was within their Fee; but they say, That Scambler allowed it because it was within their Fee. And that is not a sufficient averment quod curia concessit: And also the opinion of the Court was, Ante 56. 2 Len. 179. That the Dean and Chapter cannot distrain for this matter, but they ought to sue for the same in the Exchequer, as it appeareth, 9 H. 6. 27. in the Duchess of Summersets Case. Gaudy justice, The Grant doth not extend to the Post-Fine; for the Fine pro licentia Concordandi, is the King's Silver, and not the Post-Fine. Wray justice, All passeth by it; for it is about one and the same matter; And they in Opinion, to have given judgement for the Plaintiff. Quaere of it. CCCXX. South and Marsh's Case. Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Exchequer. NOte: It was holden by the Court, That where Marsh was indebted unto South, without any Obligation for it, but only by a Note in writing signed with the Hand of Marsh; scil. By me, W. Marsh; but not sealed, that such a debt might be assigned to the Queen; although that before the Assignment against a Creditor he might have waged his Law; for, in as much as by these Notes and Bills the certainty of the debt appeareth, and being true debts, they may well be assigned. See 21 H. 7. 9 An Obligation may be assigned to the Queel. without Deed enroled; and where the Obligee is not indebted to the Queen: But it cannot be assigned to a subject, Noy 52. if not for a debt due by the Assignor to the Assignee; for otherwise it is Maintenance. And in this Case it was holden, That where the King sues for a debt assigned to him, the Obligor cannot plead Nihil debet; for now by the Assignment it is become matter of Record. CCCXXI Trapp's Case. Mich. 32 Eliz. In the King's Bench. RObert Traps, 1 Eliz. seized of 15 Messages in Clarkenwell, in the Occupation of 15 several persons; viz. A.B.C. etc. and named them certain, demised them to one Cox; And afterwards, conveyed the Inheritance of them to one Brian Traps, in Fee; who afterwards demised to J.S. all those 15 Messages in Clarkenwell, which Robert Traps did demise inter alia to Cox by Indenture dated 1 Eliz. now in the Occupation of A.B.C. etc. And one of the Occupiers names was left out in the recital: And it was holden by the whole Court, That notwithstanding the said Omission, the said Message did pass; for there was sufficient certainty before; and the falsity came after the verity. CCCXXII. Brewin and Mansfield's Case. Mich. 32 Eliz. In the King's Bench. IN an Action upon the Case, the Plaintiff declared, That A. was indebted to him in 10 l. and made the Defendant his Executor, and died; And that the Defendant in Consideration, that the Plaintiff would forbear the Defendant for a certain time, promised to pay it at two several days, and shown which in certain. And it was found for the Plaintiff. It was moved in Arrest of judgement, That it is not set down in the Declaration, by what portions the 10 l. shall be paid. Clench, justice, conceived, That the Defendant had liberty to pay it in what portions he pleased. Gawdy, He ought to pay it by equal portions, as a Rent reserved payable at two Feasts, without saying by what portions it shall be paid. And he said, That if the plea for the cause aforesaid had been defective; yet now after Verdict all is helped, for it is but form. And afterwards, the Opinion of the whole Court was, That the matter shown was not good to stay judgement. Wherefore the Plaintiff had judgement to recover. CCCXXIII. Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was; The Plaintiff in a Second Deliverance is Nonsuit, and a Writ awarded to inquire of the damages, and returned; And the Defendant had a Writ de Retorno habendo; upon which the Sheriff returned Quae averia elongata: upon which, a Withernam is awarded; By which all the other of the Plaintiffs were delivered to the Defendant: And after a years time, the Plaintiff came into Court, and paid the damages and Costs recovered against him. And the Opinion of the Court was, That he should have a special Writ to the Sheriff, reciting the whole matter, to restore the Plaintiff his Goods taken in Withernam, without any allowance for the keeping in the mean time; For it is intended, that their labour, or other profits by them, doth countervail such charge. 1 Len. 220. And Brooker, Prothonotary, said, That he had a Precedent to that purpose, of 12 Eliz. CCCXXIV. Dalton and Selby's Case. Mich. 32 Eliz. In the King's Bench. UPon an Attachment removed out of London, a Procedendo was prayed; And the Case was, That one Brooks was indebted to Dalton, and Selby was indebted as much unto Brooks: Dalton attached the Debt in the hands of Selby, and the Debt of Brooks was not yet due. And it was said, That that Debt not being yet due, was not Attachable by the Custom; For Dalton could not affirm a Plaint of Debt against Brooks, before that the Debt was due; But if the principal Debt had been due, Dalton might have attached the said Debt that Selby owed to the said Brooks, although that Debt was not due. And such was the Opinion of the whole Court. See 21 E. 4. 67. 22 E. 4. 30, 31. 22 H. 6. 47. CCCXXV. Mead and Bigott's Case. Mich. 32 & 33 Eliz. In the King's Bench. IN an Action upon the Case by Mead against Bigott, the Plaintiff declared, That W. Arnold had levied a Plaint of Debt in the Court of the Manor of Stepney against Stokes; And whereas the said Arnold had procured a Warrant directed to the Plaintiff being Bailiff of the Manor, and Minister of the said Court, to attach the said Stokes by his Goods to answer to the said Arnold at such a Court, etc. And whereas by virtue of the said Warrant, the Plaintiff had attached the said Stokes by two Quarters of Wheat, being the Goods of the said Stokes, to answer the said Arnold in the said Plaint: And whereas the Plaintiff had delivered the said Wheat to Jane, Wife of the said Arnold, to keep until the next Court: The Defendant in Consideration thereof, promised to save the Plaintiff harmless concerning the said Corn. And it was holden, That here is not any Consideration: For it is against Law, for such an Officer in such a Case to deliver a thing attached, ut supra, to the Plaintiff or to his Wife. Also the Consideration was a thing executed before the promise: Also a Man cannot be attached by Corn. And afterwards judgement was given against the Plaintiff. CCCXXVI. Broughton and Prince's Case. Mich. 32 & 33 Eliz. In the Exchquer. BRoughton, an Apprentice of the Inner-Temple, 1 Cro. 728. Trial per pays 175 Owen Rep. 128, 227. being Farmor to the Queen, exhibited a Bill in the Exchequer, Quo minus, etc. against Prince, a Practiser of the Law in the Marches of Wales, for maintaining one J.S. in a Suit, against the Statute of Maintenance. To which the Defendant pleaded, That he was Consiliarius & in lege eruditus, etc. and so justified. And now it was moved by Atkinson, on the part of the Defendant, That by the Statute of 18 Eliz. Cap. 5. That no Informer shall sue any person upon any Penal Statute, but by way of Information, or Original Action, and not otherwise, And here the suit is by Bill, which cannot be warranted by the Statute. And he conceived, That this suit is brought upon the Statute of 1 R. 2. cap. 4. upon which Statute, no prosecution shall be in the name of the subject only, but it may be in the name of the King only. See the Book of Entries, 393. Where the suit is, tam pro Domino Rege, quam pro seipso: And there by the King only, and there by the party only. And as to the Statute of 32 H. 8. cap. 9 suit upon the same aught to be, tam pro Domina Regina, quam pro seipso: Which see in the Book of Entries, 395. Also by the Statute of 31 Eliz. cap. 5. The suit brought, aught to begin within one year after the offence committed: And in our Case, the offence upon which the suit is conceived, was committed 3 years before the Information brought; and it cannot be added, because that the Plaintiff is the party grieved; For every Statute made against Maintenance is Popular. Broughton said, We have Replied to the Defendant, That he is a Lay Man, et non in Lege Eruditus; and prayed, that the same might be enquired of by the Country: And the Defendant Prince likewise, and so Issue is joined: And because you have such Objections, they shall be saved to you to move in Arrest of judgement. Atkinson, I may offer them as well now to the jury, as well as in Arrest of judgement. And afterwards it was moved, That the Defendant might demur upon the Replication, if he would; and if not, the Issue should be tried: And if than it pass against the Defendant, that then he show the matter in Arrest of judgement; for no Exception shall be allowed for staying of the Enquest, if it be not an apparent fault, and not only a doubt. At another day the matter was moved; and than it seemed to the Barons, That the Plaintiff here being Pars gravata, was not restrained to any year after the offence committed, but that restraint did extend only to Common Informers. The Defendant pleaded, That he was admitted in Societatem interioris Templi, and there remained a Student for so many years; And that he was homo eruditus in Lege, and a Counsellor, and took his Fee; etc. The Plaintiff by Replication, said of his own wrong without that, that the Defendant is homo Conciliarius & in lege eruditus, & hoc petit quod, etc. ut supra. And Atkinson took Exception to the Traverse and Conclusion of it, Et hoc petit quod inquiratur per Patriam; for that cannot be tried by the Country, but by the judges: For here is a Question of the Learning of the Defendant, and that is to be tried: and his sufficiency in this Learning is to be discerned by those who are skilful in the Laws of the Land; For if a matter in Law is to be tried by the judges, a multo fortiori, the Learning of the Law is to be tried by them; for that is more difficult to be judged. As, where the Ordinary refuseth a Clerk for insufficiency in learning, upon which they are at Issue, the same shall not be tried by the Country, but by the Bishop: Which see Articuli Cleri, cap. 13. de Idonietate praesentata ad Beneficium Ecclesiasticum pertinet Examinatio ad Judicium Ecclesiasticum, 40 E. 3. 25. And see the Statute of 18 Eliz. that Pars gravata in the Case of Maintenance, is not tied to a year. And this suit is conceived to be in such Quality, being a private grievance to the party himself; the King not being party, but only the party grieved: But where the penalty is expressly given to the King, and him that shall sue, there all the proceed ought to be in both their names. And Manwood, Chief Baron, said, That this Issue shall be tried by the Country. Which see in the Book of Entries, 396. CCCXXVII. Owen Morgan's Case. Mich. 32 & 33 Eliz. In the Exchequer. OWen Morgan Exhibited an Information upon the Statute of Usury, for an usurious Mortgage made; and charged the Defendant, That Cepit ultra 10 l. in Cl. for the forbearance for one year, and that was out of the Issues, Rents, and Profits which he took in Middlesex, of Lands in Glamorganshire in Wales Mortgaged to the Defendant. Manwood, Chief Baron said, That one might take the Rents of Lands in Wales in the County of Middlesex, but a Man cannot take the Issues and Profits of the Lands, but where the Lands are: And Leak 's Case was cited, Where an Information was brought for cutting down of Wood, and converting it into Coals: And Leak the Informer laid the cutting to be in the County where the Wood grew, but the Conversion of it into Coals in the County of Middlesex. And Manwood said in the principal case, That the taking of the Issues and Profits ought to have been laid where the Land was. And such was the Opinion of the whole Court. CCCXXVIII. Curson's Case. Mich. 32 & 33 Eliz. In the Exchequer. CUrson acknowledged a Statute to Starkey, 4 Len. 10. Ante 239. Alderman of London; and afterwards he acknowledged another Statute to one Hampden, who assigned the same to Fitton, who assigned the same to the Queen: Starkey sued forth Execution upon his Statute; and thereupon the Land is extended of Curson; and he hath a Liberate of it. It was agreed by all the Barons, That if Starkey had execution upon the Statute before the Queen, his Execution should stand against the Queen, and the Queen should not put him out. And it was further agreed by them, That if A. recovers a Debt in the Common Pleas, so as he hath title to sue forth Execution by Elegit, and the Defendant sells his Lands, and afterwards A. assigns his Execution to the Queen, That the Queen should not have prerogative against the Feoffee to have execution of the whole Land. And it was also holden by Manwood, Chief Baron, That if Execution be had upon a puisne Statute, and the same is afterwards avoided by more ancient Statute; and afterwards, the ancient Statute is satisfied, That now the puisne Recognisee may re-enter without suing forth any new Execution. CCCXXIX. Butler and Lightfoot's Case. Mich. 32 & 33 Eliz. In the Exchquer. IN this Case, It was holden by the Barons, 4 Len. 9 That if Tenant for life be of a Copyhold, the Remainder over in Fee to another, he in the Remainder may surrender his Estate, if there be not any particular Custom to the contrary; for, the Estate of Tenant for life and him in the remainder, are but one Estate; and the admittance of the particular Tenant, is the admittance also of him in the Remainder. CCCXXX. Knight and Norton's Case. Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IT was holden in this Case, That duress of Imprisonment is not intended but where the party is wrongfully imprisoned until he make the Bond; and not where a Man is lawfully imprisoned for another cause, and for his delivery he makes a Bond; for that is not per duritiam imprisonamenti; And if in such Case duresse be pleaded, the other may say of his own accord sine duritia imprisonamenti, without saying absque hoc, that it was per duritiam imprisonamenti. And so it was also holden in the King's Bench. See 4 E. 4. 17. 12 E. 4. 7. CCCXXXI. Hungate and Hall's Case. Trin. 32 Eliz. In the Exchequer. Ante 239. 4 Len. 10. THe Case was, Curson acknowledged a Statute to Alderman Starkey, and afterwards acknowledged another to Hampdem, which was assigned to the Queen; Afterwards, the Lands of Curson were extended for Starkey, and a Liberate thereof. It was holden by the Court, That the same was a good Execution, and that the Queen should not avoid it: But if the Land had been extended at the suit of the Queen, than the Execution of the Queen should hold place, although it were a Statute of a puisne date. And by Clark, Baron, If a Recognizance acknowledged by a Subject be assigned to the Queen, It hath been a Question, If all the Lands of the Conusor shall be extended, or but the moiety, as it shall be at the suit of the Conusee himself? It was holden, That all the Lands should be extended. CCCXXXII. The Lord Gray's Case. Trin. 32 Eliz. In the Exchequer. THe Lord Grace, Tenant of the King of Lands holden in Capite by Licence of the King, made a Feoffment of the Lands in Fee, and afterwards levied a Fine for further assurance: And upon Process, the party came into the Court, and shown this matter: And the party was advised by the Court to aver, That the said Fine was for further assurance: And then upon such averment, he should be discharged without any Pardon sued forth for the Fine, etc. CCCXXXIII. Sir Walter Waller's Case. Trin. 32 Eliz. In the Exchequer. IN Sir Walter Waller's Case, It was holden in the Court of Exchequer, That a Debt of Record, as upon a judgement, etc. could not be attached by the Custom of London. 1 Len. 29. And so it was holden in the Case of Sir John Perrot, in the Common Pleas. 4 Len. 44. And it was said by Cook, That such a debt could not be assigned upon the Statute of Bankrupts. CCCXXXIV. Sir Brian Tucke's Case. Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Exchequer. IN this Case, It was holden by all the Barons clearly, Office of Executors, 232. Roll. 920. Savile 40. That the Executor of an Executor should not be charged with a Devastavit made by the Executor of the first Testator, no not in the Case of the King, because it is a personal wrong only. CCCXXXV. Fines and the Lord Dacre's Case. Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Exchequer. THe Case was; Tenant in tail, Post. 261. 4 Len. 97. the Remainder of Lands in chief, levied a Fine of them without Licence of the King; and, if the Tenants of the Lord Dacres should be charged for the Fine, was argued: For the Case was, That the Lord Dacres was Tenant in tail, the Remainder in tail to Philip Fines. And it was holden by all the Barons, That the Tenants Lands should be discharged: But it was holden, That if the Conusor had any other Lands within England, the Fine might be levied thereupon; But then the Question was, If the Tenants should be put to plead the same in discharge, or that the same should be discharged without pleading; because it appeareth upon Record, That he who aliened was but Tenant in tail, in Remainder: For there was an Office found of that which was pleaded by another in another Cause. The Opinion of the Court was, Where such matter appeareth of Record; as by Office, Livery, etc. there the party needs not to plead such matter in discharge; for the pleading of it is to no other purpose, but to satisfy the Court by the Record, that the matter is so as the party hath alleged; and therefore the Barons gave Order, That the Process against the Tenants of the Lord Dacres should be stayed. CCCXXXVI. George Ap-Rice's Case. Trin. 32 Eliz. In the Exchequer. IN the Case of one George Ap-Rice, The matter was, Ante 121. That Tenant in tail after possibility of issue extinct, assigned over his Estate unto A. against whom he in the Reversion brought a Quid juris clamat; and judgement was given, that he should attorn; and upon his refusal, he was committed to Prison, and divers Fines set upon him, and estreated in the Exchequer; It was moved, That these Fines were imposed upon the party against Law. And the Opinion of the Court was, That when judgement is given in a Quid juris clamat for the Plaintiff, Distress infinite shall be against the Defendant to bring him in to attorn; and when he comes in, if he refuse, he shall be imprisoned, until he attorn. It was also holden by the Court, That the Fines were not lawfully assessed and imposed upon him; And it was said, That it had been adjudged in a Court of Wales, That the Assignee of Tenant in tail after possibility of issue, should attorn; upon which judgement, a Writ of Error was brought in the King's Bench; and there, upon good advice, the said judgement was affirmed. For although it be true, That Tenant in tail after possibility shall not be compelled to attorn; yet that is a privilege which is annexed to his person, and not to the Estate; and, by the assignment of the Estate, the privilege is destroyed. CCCXXXVII. Harris and Wings Case. Mich. 32 Eliz. In the King's Bench. More Rep. 4. 5. IN the Case between Harris and Wing, The first point was, That the Lease made by Queen Mary was void. 1. Because a former Lease of Record was not recited in the Letters Patents of it: The reason wherefore such recital ought to be, is not, as hath been alleged by Cook, Quia circa solium Regis subsistunt justitia & veritas; and then when there is a former Lease in Esse, the King makes a Lease in possession, the same cannot stand together, so as there is not Justitia & Veritas; but the very reason thereof is so high, that he cannot take, etc. but by matter of Record; and if that he mistaken, it makes all void: and therefore, In Petitions of Right, Ante 5, 6. and Monstrans de Droit; If the King be not informed of all the Titles, all is void. And therefore in the Case between Sir Moyle Finch and Throgmorton, which now depends in the Exchequer; which was this, The Queen made a Lease for years rendering Rend, with a Proviso, That if the Rent be behind, That the Estate shall cease: the Rent is behind, the King granted the same over to Sir Tho. H. It was first moved, If the same Lease should cease without Office. And it was holden by Popham, and many other grave and learned Men, upon a Conference, That the said Lease should cease without Office; for the Contract which is upon Record is determined and ceased, by which the Estate which was created by the said Contract shall also cease without Office. But yet the Lessee continued in possession notwithstanding that, and took the Profits; but thereof after office found, he rendered recompense to the Queen: And it was holden there, upon the said Conference, That the Queen in her Grant to Sir T.H. of the said Estate which was now ceased, aught to recite that Lease; For the Tenant is in possession, and could not be punished for his occupation before Office. So in the Case of the Vicarage of Yatton, 17 Eliz. Dyer 339. The presentment being devolved to the Queen by Lapse, the Ordinary collated A. and afterwards the Queen presented B. who brought a Quare impedit; depending which, A. proved another Presentment of the Queen, without mention or recital of the first Presentment, and the same was holden void; For, in that, the first Presentment is not recited, nor the pleasure of the Queen to revoke it; and therefore it was in deceit of the Queen. So the Case 18 Eliz. Dyer 352. An Abbot leased for 60 years; the Lessee made a Lease for 80 years, the Reversion came to the King; the 60 years expired, the second Less surrendered to the King ea intention, that the King would re-grant the same to him for 20 years remaining. The King reciting the Indenture and Surrender, ex certa scientia granted for 20 years: It was holden by the Court, That the Grant was void, because the King was misenformed, etc. It hath been Objected, That here needs no recital; for that the Lease to be recited is ended, eo instant that the new Lease beginneth. Sed distinguenda sunt tempora; aliud est facere, aliud perficere; the first Lease is ended, when the new is perfected, and the Great Seal put to it. The second reason wherefore the Lease shall be void, is, because otherwise the Grant of the Queen shall enure to two Intents. 1. To make a Lease. 2. To accept a Surrender; and how can the Queen accept a Surrender of an Estate, of which she hath not notice? for She is not informed of it by any Record, without which She cannot take notice of any thing. See 7 E. 4. 30, 31. Baggotts Assize, The King granted an Office to an Alien, the same shall not enure to make him a Denizen, for than it shall enure to two intents, etc. The words of the Grant of Queen Mary, are, Omnia tenementa nostra; and, If by that a Reversion shall pass, was the Question: Certainly, In verbis ambiguis Intentio sumenda est; Then here in our Case, by this Patent, is other Land which should pass, and the Reversion is nostra; but in property, not possession: Wherefore here (Nostra) shall be restrained to that which is in possession. Where there are general words in Grant of the King, they ought to be served; but if they can be served, they shall be taken in a common and general sense; but the words shall not be stretched. But if they cannot be served, than they shall not be void, but the King shall be rather prejudiced; and always the Grant of the King either may be served or taken to a common intent, 2 H. 3. 4. Quaelibet Concessio Domini Regis capi debet stricte contra Dominum Regem, quando potest intelligi duabus viis: As if two be jointly indebted to the King, and the King pardons to one of them Omnia debita, the same shall not extend to joynt-Debts, but to those Debts of which he is only Debtor, 40 E. 3. The King granted to a Subject the Fines and Amercements hominum suorum; All which hold of him by Homage, may be said homines suos; and also his Villeins are, homines suos; but because the general words may be served, the said Grant shall be taken to extend to his Villeins only. So in our Case the general words may be served with Lands in possession, and shall not extend to Lands in Reversion. At another day the Case was argued by Popham Attorney General, and he conceived, That by the Lease made 2 Mar. both the former Leases, as well that which was made by Henry the eighth, as that which was made in Reversion by the Bishop of Bath and Wells, are gone. Lessee form term of years to begin at a day to come, accepts a new Lease in possession, which is to continue until the future Interest shall commence, the future Interest is gone; and in Barkings Case, 2 Eliz. It was holden by Dyer and Brown, that where Lessee for two years accepts a new Lease to begin two years after, this new Interest of a term determines the present Interest. For as the Lessor cannot contract with a Stranger for the Interest of a Term, which is to have continuance during a former Term; by the same reason, when the first Termor will accept an Interest of a Term from his Lessor to begin at any time during his former Estate, this new Interest determines the first. So, if one hath an Interest of a Term to begin at a day to come, and he before the beginning of that Interest accepts a Lease for life, his first Interest is gone. The words of the Patent are, All her Interest, Lands and Tenements, in the Parish of St. Cuthbert in Wells, and parcel of the possession of the late Priory of R. and if these general words will carry Lands in Reversion, where other Lands in possession pass, etc. was the Question. General words shall have a special understanding, if the special Construction may agree with the proper signification and sense of the general words, as the Case, 2 H. 3 4. before cited; and yet in the Case of a common person, all manner of Debts were released thereby, for that it shall be taken strongest against the party: Also he conceived, That the Lands in Reversion should pass as well as the Lands in possession. And he said, All former Leases of Record needed not to be recited. etc. but such Leases only which are made by the King; For Subjects may have Leases of Record, as by Fine, Deed enroled, etc. but such Leases need not to be recited; For such Leases may determine without matter of Record, as Surrender, Reentry, etc. and then to compel the King or the party to search for such Leases which might be so determined by any Act in pais, should be as absurd, as to compel him to search by what means, and for what matter in pais such Leases are determined. And he conceived, That this Lease needed not to be recited (which was made by King Henry the 8th) For after the said Lease made, the King granted the Reversion to the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and his Successors, and during the time that the said Land was to the Bishop; It might be, that the Lease was determined by matter in suit in pais, by Surrender, Forfeiture, etc. and then, notwithstanding that the King obtained the Reversion after, and will make a new Lease; if he should be driven to recite the former Lease, whereas perhaps it is determined by an Act in pais, it should be very inconvenient. Also here, if any recital should be in the Case, how might the party interested know such former Leases, but by search? and how long ought the party search? for his search ought to have an end, Non excrescere in infinitum tempus. And in our Case, the most equal time for search is the beginning of the last Title of the King, and no further; that is, from the present time till the time of the Title of the King gins; and in this Case the Title of the King doth begin from his repurchase from the Bishop; and if the Law be such, then here nothing is to be recited; for no Lease is mean between the re-purchase and the new Lease: For no Lease made before the re-purchase, need to be recited. For admit, That King Henry the 3d had made a Lease of a Manor for 500 years, and afterwards granted the Reversion to an Abbot, and afterwards the Manor by suppression came again to the King; and he will Grant a new Lease of the same, such Lease shall be good without any recital of the Lease made by King Henry the 3d for such Lease might have been determined in the hands of the Abbot by Surrender, or other matter in fact. So King Edw. the 2d made a Gift in Tail, and afterwards granted the Reversion to another, the Grantee disseised the Tenant in Tail: One who was Heir to the Grantee, was attainted of Treason, the Grantee died, by which the Land came again to the King, who made a new Patent of the same, without recital of the Gift in Tail, and the Patent holden good for the Cause aforesaid. And in some Cases there needs no recital of Leases. As if the King makes a Lease for years, rendering Rend to his Receivor, and for default of payment, that his Estate shall cease. Now if at the day the Lessee tendereth the Rent, and the Receivor will not accept of it; and afterwards it is found by Office, that the Rent was not paid, by which the Lease should be void (yet he may traverse the Office;) and afterwards the King Grants this Rent to a Stranger, there he needs not to recite the Lease; for it appeareth by the Office, That the same is void, and yet in truth the Lease was in Esse, etc. and so a Lease of Record in Esse in some Case needs not to be recited. So if the King Lease for years to J.S. and he assigns his Interest over, and afterwards Surrenders the same to the King; Now if the King will make a new Grant of it, he need not recite that Lease; for the Surrender of it appeareth of Record, and the Assignment of it is but matter in fait, which cannot be known by any search. So on the other side, void Leases which are not in Esse, shall be cited until it appear, as in the Case of Throgmorton cited before by Egerton; And in such Case where the Queen granted the same to Sir T.H. the Grant aught to be in possession, and not in Reversion, because then void, for the King had not a Reversion. Also this Lease ought not to be recited, for the second Patent is granted to the first Lessee; and so by acceptance of this new Lease, the first Lease is determined. And now we are to see, if the things in the former Grant are necessary to be recited, the Estate in the Land and the Tenant, not necessary; The Reservation, Condition, Covenant, and the Date. The reason wherefore the Estate ought to be recited, is to this purpose, that the King might know, and be informed how far the Land is encumbered with other Estates, etc. but that reason is of no effect in our Case, when the second Patent is made to the first Lessee; for by the acceptance of the new Estate, the first Interest is gone, wherefore of that there needs no recital. The second reason, wherefore such former Lease ought to be recited, is to the intent, That the new Patentee may not have colour or countenance by reason of his Patent to do wrong to the first Patentee who hath the present possession by disturbing of him by Entry, or Suit; for all the truth of the matter appears in his own Letters Patents, and the true Estate of the Tenant in possession: But that reason hath not any force in our Case; for the second Estate is made to him, who hath the former Estate. The reason wherefore the present Tenant ought to be mentioned in the second Letters Patents, is, so as the Queen may be ascertained what manner of person he is, who is the present possessor; for it may be, he is such to whom the Queen hath given such Estate upon special favour for his good Service, and in recompense thereof; and that she will not disgrace the party so much, as to give his Farm to another over his head, which might be much to the discomfort and prejudice of him in possession: which the Queen peradventure would not do, if she had full intelligence of it; but rather advantage him with it, and not let it to any other person. But in our Case here, there is not any such matter of mischief; But it is good to consider what Tenant ought to be specified in the Recital: Assuredly, the most sure way is, the Patentee himself to whom the Lease was originally made; although he be dead, or hath assigned his Interest over. For it may be dangerous to rely upon the Tenant, who hath the possession; for it may be, that another hath the Interest, although he hath the possession, and then the recital is false; wherefore it is best to say by way of recital, Cum dimisimus, etc. And as to the Land, the same also ought to be recited by the same name in such form, and by the same words as it was granted before in the former Grant; and yet if the name was misrecited in the former Grant, it ought not to be so in the second. As if the King Grant the Manor of Little-Court by the name of the Manor of Litt-cote, or the Manor of Wellington, by the name of the Manor of Welton, the same is good by the Statute. But if a new Grant is to be made of the same, in which the first Grant is to be recited; now the former mis-recital shall not be put in ure, but the very name; but in this special manner, that is, where the King hath demised the Manor of Littlecote, by the name of the Manor of Litt-cote, etc. So where a Manor is known by two names, and the Queen leaseth the same by one of the said Names, and afterwards Grants the same by the other name; The Recital ought to be, That whereas the Queen hath demised the Manor of D. by the name of the Manor of S. etc. And as to the recital of the Estate, the Habendum in the first Patent ought to be recited, and all that which precedes the Reddendum; for, in that, the Estate is fully contained. But here, in our Case, such recitals are not necessary; for it is impertinent to make recital of the same, which is determined eo instant, that the new Patent is made, and that by reason of a matter precedent, although that all be done eodem instanti; and as to an Instant, the same is not to be considered in Law, as it is in Logic, as a point of time, and no parcel of time. But in our Law, things which are to be done in an instant, have in consideration of law a priority of time in them: As Lessee for life makes a Lease for years, they both Surrender to him in the Reversion; the same Surrender which is made in an instant, shall in Law be understood to have degrees. The Surrender of Lessee for years to the Tenant for life, and then the Surrender of Tenant for life; So in our Case, the determination of the first Lease shall be first, 1 E. 3. 6. The Tenant took the Seignioresse to Wife, had Issue, the Wife died; the Husband shall not be Tenant by the Courtesy; for, although the Seignory was in him at the time of the Marriage, yet by priority in Law it ceased, so as no seisin of the Seignory was during the Coverture. So in our Case, eo instant that this new Patent is made, the first Estate is determined; yet in construction of Law, the Surrender shall be said precedent, and then the said Estate needs not to be recited. For if there had been an express Surrender in fact, there had not been any doubt, that recital was not necessary; Ergo, neither in the Case of a Surrender in Law. As to that which hath been Objected, That the Grant of the Queen cannot enure to two Intents; scil. to make a Surrender, and also to make a new Lease, The same Rule is true, where both Intents enure, and work against the King; But whereas the one Intent serves and works for the benefit of the King, it is otherwise: As in our Case, This Surrender is for the benefit of the King; therefore it shall be taken, etc. as 6 H. 8. The King Grants Land to another, durante beneplacito, and afterwards the same Patentee purchaseth a new Estate from the King; here needs not any recital of the former, for the second Estate is made to the first Patentee, and the first Estate is determined by the acceptance of the second, 3 Eliz. The Case of the Earl of Arrundel was this, The Lord John Grace being Lessee for years of a House called Hull-rake, of the Lease of the Queen, afterwards took a Grant from the Queen of the Custody of the same Message, with a Fee for it, and that was without recital of the former Lease, and the Grant holden good, and yet it did enure to two Intents; to a Surrender of the Lease, and a Grant of the Custody, but both the Intents were not against the Queen, for the Surrender was for Her benefit. As to the Lease made 13 Eliz. it is utterly void, for misreciting of the date of the former Lease made 2 Mar. for the very date of the said Lease was the 11th of May, and in the Recital it is the 21 of May. For although the date is not necessary to be recited, yet here, as this Case is, the same aught to be truly recited. For the Surrender of the said Estate which passeth by it, is the Consideration of the new Grant; then, if the same be false, the Patent is void, for it was made by reason of that: for there is a more ample Lease recited, than in truth it is by ten days. And so the Consideration, scil. the Surrender, not so beneficial as the Queen expected; also this new Patent doth contain in itself a Grant of such Lands as were demised formerly by Letters Patents, dated 21 of May, scil. Omnia praemissa, in forma praedict. dimissa, and nothing was demised in forma praedict. scil. by Patent bearing such date; Ergo, nothing passed by the later Patent. For the Patent of 13 Eliz. is in consideration of a Surrender of a Lease made and bearing date 21 of May, whereas no such Lease was, and then no Surrender, and then no Consideration. Also here the Consideration is false; for the Lessee who is supposed to have surrendered his Lease, before the same Surrender assigned parcel of his Term to one Hagget, and afterwards purchased a new Lease in consideration of the Surrender of the former, and of his full Interest in it, whereas he had not the whole Interest; and so this false consideration destroys the whole Grant. For in all Cases, where the considerations are real, and savour of the Land, or extend to such a real thing; if it be false, it destroys the Patent: But where the consideration is personal; as in consideration of Money paid, or for Service done, although it be false; yet the Patent may be good. So here, forasmuch as the consideration is real, in respect of this Surrender, and is false as appears before, the Patent is void: And as to this point, there is not any difference between Consideration and Suggestion; for if it be real and false, the Patent is void; contrary, where personal. But in some Cases where the Letters Patents are, Ex certa scientia, etc. such falsity in the reality shall not hurt. Which see 18 Eliz. Dyer 352. So the Case between Manxel and Turvil, where Lessee for years, his Lease being expired, supposing that he had twenty years of his Lease not entered; in consideration of such Interest, took a Patent de novo, the same was void. So Owen's Case: Terril being Lessee for years of the Parsonage of P. in the County of Somerset, of the Grant of the King for certain years; In consideration of his said Interest, obtained a Grant of the Queen of Lands in Wales, whereas in truth he had before assigned his Interest in the said Parsonage to another; and it was adjudged, That the said Grant of Lands in Wales was void, for the Consideration was void; and so the Consideration being real, was false. And in some Cases, a Consideration personal, if it be false, shall destroy the Patent, if it be future and executory; as if the King Grants Lands to J.S. ea intention, that he shall pay to J.D. 10 l. Now if he do not pay it, the Patent is void, and the Estate given by it void also. It hath been Objected by Godfrey, That by this Surrender, the Patent was canceled, and so the parcel of the Term which was assigned to Hagget, was defeated and avoided, forasmuch as the Original Letters Patents out of which the Estate of Hagget was derived, are canceled, and so there is a good Surrender, and then the Consideration is true; especially, forasmuch as Hagget being Assignee but of parcel of the Term, cannot have a Constat by the Statute of 4 E. 6. As to that I conceive, That the Assignee of part of the Interest may have a Constat by that Statute, notwithstanding the Surrender of the Letters Patents, and the cancelling of them; and for that matter the difference is, If the Roll remains a Constat may be, although that the Patent be canceled. See Brook, Patents 89. 32 H. 8. If a Vacat be entered upon the Roll, than no Constat can be afterwards; and therefore in Sydnies' Case, the Assignee could not have a Constat, because there was a Vacat entered upon the Roll. But a Constat had before any Vacat entered upon the Roll; such a Constat is good, notwithstanding the Vacat afterwards: And it doth not appear, that any Vacat is entered upon the Roll; so for any thing that appears, Hagget may have a Constat, and then his Interest is saved to him, and then the Surrender is void, and the Consideration false; and although there be other Considerations in the Letters Patents, which are true and good, yet that shall not help the matter. For if any part of the Consideration be false, the Patent is void in all; and so it was holden in Manxell's Case, cited before, and so be prayed judgement for the Plaintiff. Egerton Solicitor, to the contrary. Where the words ex certa scientia, are not put in Letters Patents; they shall be intended to be made at the suggestion of the Patentee, and so the Grant shall be taken beneficially for the King, and strictly against the Patentee: But where such words are put in the Letters Patents, there the Grant shall be taken beneficially for the Subject; These words, Ex speciali gratia, imply the bounty of the King, certa scientia excludes all ignorance, and mero motu show the voluntary and liberal benevolence of the King, without suit of the party; and where the words in such Letters Patents are general, they shall be construed liberally for the Subject, but with limits and bounds, that nothing pass in such case, but such things which are aptly signified by such special words; as to pass two things, where the meaning of the King was to pass but one. And if the Patent be conceived utroque modo tam ex certa scientia, etc. as upon the suggestion of the party; If the Suggestion be in any part false, the whole Patent is void, for the Suggestion extenuates the force of the other words, Juris forensis est, si quid falsis precibus obtentum acquirenti non proderit; and to that purpose he cited the Case, 18 Eliz. Dyer 352. before cited. And he conceived. That the Lease made by Queen Mary is utterly void. 1. Because the first Lease of Record is not recited. 2. If the same shall be good, the Queen should accept a Surrender, where she knew not of it; and so the Patent should enure to divers Intents. 3. This Lease is made by general words; that is, Of all the Lands in the Parish of St. Cuthberts': For these general words may be well satisfied with the Lands which the King hath in possession; and therefore they shall not extend to the Lands which are now in Question, of which the Queen at the time of the Grant had but a Reversion; and first I conceive, That general words without any restraint or limitation, will pass nothing: As, if the King pardons all Demands, or Grants Omnia terras & tenementa sua; But, general words qualified with a restraint, where the Limitations are effectual; As, if the King Grants Omnia terras & tenementa sua in D. which he hath by the Attainder of J.S. or which were the possessions of such dissolved Monasteries, such Grants are good; And where the Case is, That Queen Mary hath the Lands in possession, of the annual value of 19 l. and other Land there in Reversion of the annual value of 6 l. and then she Grants Omnia terras & tenementa nostra, rendering 19 l. per annum. I conceive, That upon these words the Land in possession only passeth, because that the said general words may be aptly served and satisfied with the Lands in possession, if no other Lands pass. And I agree, That this word (Nostra) extends as well to the Lands in Reversion, as to Lands in possession; but most properly to Lands in possession: for Land in Reversion cannot dici simpliciter Nostra, but quodam modo tanquam terra revertens, and not to take the natural profits of it; for the Termor hath such properly, that he shall have an Action of Trespass, Quare clausum fregit: But the intent and meaning of the Queen is to be regarded, and that is the surest way to have right intelligence of the Grants of the King; For here the Queen hath reserved but 19 l. Rent, which is the proper and ancient Rent of the Lands in possession; and if Lands in Reversion should also pass, the Rent of which was 6 l. per annum, then upon the whole Grant but 19 l. being reserved, the Queen should lose 6 l. per annum of her ancient Rent; which should be contrary to the intent and meaning of the Queen; and the intent of the Grantor, even in the Case of a Subject, shall direct the construction of Grants. As 9 H. 6. Br. Grants 5 by Babington. A Man grants Common in his whole Lands, he shall not have Common in his Orchards, Gardens, or Meadows, for such was the meaning of the Grantor, a fortiori in the Case of the King. It hath been argued, That the former Lease ought not to be recited, because that after the first Lease made by King Henry the 8th, the Inheritance hath been in a Subject, that is, the Bishop of Bath and Wells; but the same is not so: For if the King makes a Lease for years, and afterwards Grants the Reversion upon Condition, which after is broken, and so found by Office, by which the Reversion is reduced to the King; If now the King will make a new Lease, he ought to recite the former Estate, notwithstanding the mean grant of the Reversion, or else such second Lease is void. Another matter hath been Objected, wherefore the former Lease ought not to be recited; and that is, because it is determined by surrender in Law, before that the new Lease takes effect; Sir, the same is not so, for the former Lease is in being, as the Case betwixt Fulmerston and Steward, 1 Mar. Blow. Com. 106. upon the Statute of Monasteries, 31 H. 8. See the words of the Statute, whereof and wherein any Estate or Interest for years at the time of the making of any such Lease had his being or continuance. And an Abbot made such a Lease to one, who had a term for years of a former Grant; although here be a Surrender, yet this Case is within the said Statute, and the said former Lease shall be said to have his being at the time of the making of the later Lease; and the Surrender shall not be said so to preceded the making of the Lease, but that the former Lease shall be said in Esse at the time of the making of the later Lease. And in our Case, it shall not be taken for any Surrender, for then the Queen shall lose 6 l. of her ancient Rent and Revenue; and always when the Title of the King and of the Subject concur, the Title of the King shall be preferred; as 43 E. 3. The King Lord, Mesne, and Tenant; The Tenant pays his Rent at the day to the Mesne before Noon, and then the same day before Night the Mesne dieth, his Heir within age, the King shall be paid the Rent again; for here the Title of the King and the Subject concur together at one time, and in that the King shall be preferred; and so he prayed judgement for the Defendant. And afterwards at another day the justices declared their Opinions, and by Wray, Chief justice, We all agree, That the first Lease ought to be recited; and the reason which hath been urged against that point, hath reduced us to be of that Opinion, scil. That the second Lease was made to the first Patentee, and the King doth not make the recital; but the party ought to inform the King of all former Estates of the said Lands; and that he might well do, for he is well knowing of them; and although that the Reversion after the first Lease made hath been conveyed to a Subject, the same is not material here, forasmuch as the second Estate is made to him who had the first Estate, and might know whether the first Estate were determined or not; Also by the re-purchase, the King is in Statu quo prius. Gaudy justice, although that the former Term be drowned by the taking of the second Lease; yet it was in being at the time of the taking of it, as it is holden by Bromley, in the Case of Fulmerston and Steward. It is determined by the second Lease, and yet it was in being at the time of the making of it. Fenner justice, to the same intent. Clench justice, If the Grant of the Queen shall enure to two intents, than the Queen should lose 6 l. per annum of her ancient Revenue. It was agreed by all the justices, That the general words in as much as they are restrained to a certainty would pass the thing si caetera essent paria; contrary, if they had remained in the generalty; and afterwards judgement was given: Quod querens nihil Capiat per Billam. CCCXXXVIII. Trin. 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 4 Len. 233. A Man 30 Eliz. made a Feoffment in Fee to the use of himself for life, and afterwards to the use of his Son and his Heirs; The Father and the Feoffees before issue for Money by Deed, granted and enfeoffed J.S. and his Heirs, who hath not notice of the first use; The Tenant for life hath issue, and dieth, the issue entereth. Glanvil, the use limited to the first Son is destroyed; for without regress of the Feoffees it cannot rise, and it is gone by their Livery. See the Case in Plowden 349. and also he vouched the Case of the Earl of Kent, where by the Release of the surviving Feoffee, 2 Roll. 797. Plow. 347. a Sleeping-Vse was destroyed, and could not after be revived. Harris, the use may rise, without entries of the Feoffees; and he put a difference between an use created before the Statute, and a use created afterwards; for in the first Case they ought to enter; and if they be disabled by any Act, as in the Case between Gascoign and the Earl of Kent, it shall never rise; but in the later Case, the whole authority and confidence is by the Statute taken out of the Feoffee, and the contingent use shall rise without aid of the Feoffees, by the operation of the Law; for there the Land is bound to the Uses, and charged with them: As upon a judgement in a Warrantia Chartae, the Land of the Defendant is bounden pro loco, & tempore; and according to the Common experience in Conveyances for payment of the King's Debts; as in the Case between Proctor and Dennis, The Debtor of the King makes a Feoffment in Fee unto the use of himself and his Heirs, until he makes default of such a payment to the Queen at such a day, and upon default to the use of the Queen and her Heirs. Cowper, There needs no Entry of the Feoffees; and he put the difference put before by Harris, betwixt a Use created before, and a Use created after the Statute; and now the Feoffees have not any power to revive or to stand seized to such Uses, but are only as Instruments to convey the Uses. For the Use is created upon the Livery, and is transferred by the Statute, if the person to whom the Use is limited be capable of it at the time of the limitation; but if not, the Law preserves it until, and it cannot be by any means prevented; and he cited the Case, 30 H. 8. Br. Feoffments to Uses 50 and there is a great difference betwixt a Use limited before and after the Statute: For now after the Statute, the Feoffees by reason of their seisin cannot be vouched; for they have not such a Seisin, whereof they may make a Feoffment, and he put the Case between Cheny and Oxenbridge; Cheny leased to Oxenbridge for 50 years, and afterwards enfeoffed Oxenbridge to the use of Cheny himself, and his Wife for their lives, with divers remainders over; And it was adjudged in the Court of Wards, That by the Feoffment the Term is not extinct; and he put the Case of the Lord Pagett, adjudged in the King's Bench. A Feoffment was made to the use of the Feoffee for life, the Remainder to him whom the Feoffor should name at his death in Fee, and the Feoffor and Feoffees for good Consideration levy a Fine to a Stranger, and afterwards the Feoffor nameth, and dieth: The party named by the Feoffor shall have the Land, notwithstanding the Fine, etc. Beaumont, the contingent use is here utterly destroyed by the Feoffment aforesaid; and it appeareth by the preamble of the Statute of 27 H. 8. of Uses, That the motives of that Act did not favour Uses; but it was their meaning utterly to root them out: And if contingent Uses, which are not, nor can be executed by the Statute, should stand in force; the mischief should be, that no Purchasor should be secure of his Purchase, but should be in danger of a new born Use not known before. And he grounded his further Argument upon the reason of Manwood and Dyer, Where a Man makes a Feoffment in Fee to the Use of himself and his Wife which shall be, and afterwards he and his Feoffees, and those in Remainder make a Feoffment to divers other new Feoffees, and to new Uses, and afterwards he takes another Wife, and dieth: The said justices were of Opinion, That by the said Feoffment, the contingent Uses were destroyed; For when the Estates which the Feoffees take, is taken away, which was the root and foundation of the Uses, and the branch and fruit of the said Tree; it necessarily followeth, that they also be taken away; and also because the Feoffees by their Livery, are barred for to enter, for to re-continue the Estate would continue these Uses, they also are gone and extinguished. Yeluerton, I conceive, that notwithstanding the Feoffment, that the Use shall rise in his due time according to the limitation of it, etc. CCCXXXIX. The Serjeant's Case. Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. TEnant in tail, and he in the Remainder in Fee join in a Grant of a Rent-charge in Fee, to the issue of Tenant in tail a year before the Statute of 27 Eliz. of fraudulent Conveyances; and afterwards the Tenant in tail, and he in the Remainder sell the Land; and afterwards a Praecipe is brought against Tenant in tail, who voucheth him in the Remainder, who voucheth the Common Vouchee, and so a Recovery is had, and seisin accordingly; The issue in tail dieth without issue, Tenant in tail dieth, the Uncle distraineth for the Rent. Glanvil Sergeant argued, That this grant of the Rent is altogether the grant of the Tenant in tail, and that nothing passed from him in the Remainder; and that it doth enure as one entire Grant, and not as several Grants: As where Tenant for life, and he in the Reversion join in a Lease; it is one entire Lease, and the Lease of them both; and they shall both join in an Action of Waste. But admit that here are several Grants, yet the Estate out of which the Rent was granted, continuing the Rent, shall continue also: And now the Recoveror comes in the Post, and in the affirmation of the Estate of Tenant in tail; and the Remainder is utterly defeated and destroyed by the Recovery, and the Rent always issueth out of the particular Estate, and he cited, Littl. 125. If a Rent-Charge be issuing out of Land, and the Tenant of the Land leaseth the same for life, and afterwards the Rent is granted over; now he who hath the Freehold, aught to attorn, scil. the Tenant for life, for a Rent-Charge lieth always upon the possession; and if Tenant for life granteth a Rent-Charge, and afterwards makes a Feoffment in Fee, the Rent shall continue until the possession be recontinued, etc. Harris Sergeant contrary, This Grant is the Grant of them both, scil. of the Tenant as long he hath issue of his Body, and afterwards it is the grant of him in the Remainder: Where a Man derives his Interest from two, the one being a particular Tenant, the other a Recoveror, or a Remainder in Fee; the Donee takes of each of them that which he may lawfully give, and no more; and the particular Estate being then ended, the Donee shall be then accounted in by him in the Reversion, etc. See 2 E. 4. 1. And he vouched the Case of the Lord Mountjoy, The Lord Mountjoy took to Wife a Woman Enheretrix, she had issue, and so he was entitled to be Tenant by the Courtesy, and acknowledged a Statute, and afterwards he and his Wife levied a Fine, and died; Now the Conusee shall hold the Land discharged of the Statute; for after the death of the Husband, the Conusee is in by the Wife only: and so paramount the charge. Also he said, That this Grant of the Rent by the Father to the Son, is fraudulent, and so shall be intended, if the contrary be not showed and averred. And so it was of late adjudged in the Court of Wards, Where a Man alieneth to his Son and Heir for Money, (and Money in truth is paid) yet notwithstanding it shall be intended fraudulent, unless the contrary be showed and averred. Hanham Sergeant, This Grant shall enure first as the Grant of Tenant in tail; and after the death of the Tenant in tail without Issue, it shall be the Grant of him in the Remainder. And to this purpose, he put Newdegate's Case, 7 Eliz. Dyer 234. Lessee for life, and he in the Reversion, Lease for years by Indenture, That during the life of Lessee for life, is his Demise only, and the Confirmation of him in the Reversion; but after the death of the Lessee for life, it is the Lease and Demise of him in the Reversion, and he shall have an Action of Waste ex dimissione sua propria, without showing the special matter in the Count And if Tenant in tail granteth a Rent in Fee, and he in the Reversion confirm the Grant, it is good. See Litt. 121. And he said, That the Recoveror is in the Per; for it was holden in Winter's Case, That if a Man makes a Lease for years, rendering Rend, with clause of Reentry, and afterwards suffereth a Common Recovery, That such a Recoveror is an Assignee within the Statute of 32 H. 8. to take benefit of a Condition; and Recoveries are now common Conveyances. And if Tenant for life be, the Remainder over in Fee, and Tenant for life grants a Rent-Charge, and afterwards ceaseth, and the Lord recovereth in a Cessavit, he shall hold the Land charged. And as to the Collusion, it is not showed in the pleading, That the Grant was made by Collusion: for if the Collusion be not apparent, the justices, without averment of it, are not bounden to take Notice of it. Cowper, Serjeant, Here are two several Grants, and one Grant entire in the Letter, may enure as several Grants, as if two Tenants in Common grant a Rent of 10 s. here are several Grants, and he shall have several Rents of 10 s. And if A. disseiseth B. of Black-Acre, and C. disseiseth B. of White-Acre, and afterwards by one Deed releaseth to A. and C. the same shall enure as several releases upon their several possessions. And he in his Argument relied much upon the Collusion, and this Grant shall be taken by the justices to be fraudulent; for it was made 20 Eliz. and the Recovery was 21 Eliz. and in 27 Eliz. came the Statute. Beaumont Sergeant, This Grant shall enure as several Grants; i.e. as a Grant of Tenant in tail, and afterwards as of him in the Reversion: Two joint-tenants Enfants make a Feoffment, They shall have several Writs of Dum fuit infra aetatem, as upon several Feoffments. 19 H. 6. 43. Two Coparceners take Husbands, who discontinue, and die; their Wives shall have several Writs of Cui in vita: and yet the Discontinuance was joint. And 15 H. 7. 14. If 3 Coparceners be, and upon partition one of them granteth to the two others Rend of 20 s. per annum for equality of partition, that Rent shall be in the nature of Coparceners, and so shall descend; and shall not go to the Survivor but by descent. See 21 E. 3. 50. Also admit that it is the Confirmation of him in the Remainder, yet after the death of the Tenant in tail without Issue, now it is become the Grant of him in the Remainder. And to that purpose, he cited Newdegate's Case, 7 Eliz. Dyer, before cited. But posito, that it be the sole Grant of the Tenant in tail, yet here is not any Covin apparent; for Covin apparent aught to be averred and proved; otherwise the judges of our Law cannot adjudge upon it: for they cannot judge upon probabilities, as the judges of the Civil Law do; for so they should many times minister Injustice in the place of justice: And, that the same is not Covin apparent, although it be made to his Son, he vouched 19 H. 6. 30. and 47 E. 3. 16. Where such a Feoffment to re-enfeoff the Heir of the Feoffor when he cometh of full age, is not in itself Covin apparent, but it ought to be expressly averred. And he cited also Warnford's Case, 3 Eliz. Dyer 193. And also he cited 17 Eliz. Dyer 341. upon the Statute of 27 H. 8. of Monasteries, Where there is a Proviso, Forasmuch as some of the Chief Governors of such Religious Houses have lately fraudulently and craftily made Leases, etc. to the great decay and diminution of their Houses, That all such Leases, etc. made within one year before the making of this Act, shall be void, etc. And also there is a Proviso, That such persons as have Leases whereupon the old Rent is reserved, shall enjoy their Leases, etc. The Case was, That an Abbot made a Lease for 60 years, 47 days before the making of the said Act, upon which the ancient Rent was not reserved: It was holden there, That although the Lease was within the words of the Statute, (because made within a year) yet it shall not be intended Covinous, without an express averment of it; for it may be it was made bona fide. See Librum. Yeluerton Sergeant, This is a joint Grant; but yet it shall charge the several Estates when they come into possession. Also he put this Case, Cestuy que Use, and the Feoffees after the Statute of 1 R. 3. and before 27 H. 8. join in a grant of a Rent; It shall enure as several Grants in respect of their several authorities; scil. one by the Statute of 1 R. 3. and the other by the Common-Law. And as to the Covin, he conceived, Tat it is Covin apparent, and needed not to be averred: and that appeareth by the suffering of the Common Recovery. CCCXL. Brokesby and Wickham's Case. Hill. 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 1 Len. 167. 3 Cro. 173. Owen Rep. 85, 86. A Quare Impedit was brought by Bartholomew Brokesby, against the Bishop of Lincoln and Wickham, Pasch. 30 Eliz. Rot. 1815. The Case was, That Robert Brokesby was seized of the Manor of Sholby in Fee, to which the Advowson was appendent; and, the Church being full, granted to Humphrey Brokesby and the Plaintiff his two Sons, the next Avoidance of the said Church; Afterwards the Church became void; Humphrey by Deed released all his right, estate, and interest which then he had of and in the Advowson of the Church aforesaid for the said Avoidance. Bartholomew sole presented, and the Defendants did disturb him. The Bishop pleaded, That he claimed nothing but as Ordinary. Wickham pleaded a Lease made of the Manor with the appurtenances, by the said Bartholomew, to one Starkey for years, before the Grant made, ut supra, to Humphrey and Bartholomew; which Starkey presented him: Upon which they were at Issue, and found for the Plaintiff, That the Grant was before the Lease. It was holden by the Court, That this Release was merely 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 King's Bench. WOodward Libelled in the Spiritual Court against Bagg and Nelson, for Tithes of certain Lands called christian Hill. Roll. 63. 2 Len. 29. 3 Cro. 188. Owen Rep. 103. The Defendant sued a Prohibition, and surmised, That one Pretiman was seized 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 Tithes 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 showed, 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 Tithes, 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, Tithes 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 Tithes; which was denied. For if the Grantee of a Rend 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 Tithes 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 Tithes for life, a Deed is requisite, but here it is no●, but a Contract for Money, etc. 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 Tithes. Wray, The same is no Contract, but a Promise, for he doth not grant any Tithes. Afterwards a Consultation was awarded. CCCXLII. Sanderson and Ekins' 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 indebted 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 Windsor's 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 Privilege 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 Tithes and Parsonages should be drawn thither; which should be a great prejudice to the Spiritual Courts. But Egerton, Solicitor, vouched a Case, viz. Coniers' Case The King gave a Parsonage to a Priory in Frankalmoign, and the Tithes thereof being withdrawn, The Prior impleaded him who withdrew the Tithes in the Exchequer; And it was holden, That the Prior should have the Privilege, for the King is endangered to lose his Patronage, or rather his Foundership, if the Rectory be evicted. Gent, Baron, The King's 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 Privilege here. CCCXLIV. Sledd's Case. Mich. 32 Eliz. In the King's 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 King's Bench. And the Collector exhibited a Bill against Sledd; Who shown by his Counsel, That the Statute of 29 Eliz. which enacted this Fifteenth, Provides, That the said Fifteenth shall be levied of the movable Goods, Chattels, and other things usual to such Fifteenths and Tenths, to be Contributory and chargeable. And shown further, That his Beasts distrained fuerunt tempore districtionis, upon the Glebeland of a Parsonage presentative, which he had in Lease; which Glebeland is not chargeable usually to Fifteenths granted by the Temporalty, nor the upon it. It was the Opinion of the justices, That although the Parson himself shall pay Tenths to the King, yet the Lay-Farmor shall pay Fifteenths, and his 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. CCCXLU. 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 judgement 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 Philip's. 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 it, and shall not be put to a Scire facias: but if such a Writ be sued forth, and not continued, but discontinued by a year and a day, he shall be put to a Scire facias; for it is the negligence of the Plaintiff of not continuing it; which within the year and day he may do without Order of the Court; but not after the year by any Order of the Court, etc. CCCXLVI. Evans, Godfrey, and Arnold's Case. Mich. 32 Eliz. In the King's Bench. THe Case was, Evans and Godfrey were bail for one Kemp, at the suit of Alice Arnold. Kemp was condemned, and a Capias ad satisfaciend. awarded against the Sureties: By which process, Godfrey was taken; and he suggested to the Plaintiff, That Evans the other bail was sufficient to satisfy him, but that he himself was not sufficient, but utterly unable to do it. Upon which surmise, the Plaintiff was content, that Godfrey should go at liberty, so as he did procure Evans to be arrested; who did it accordingly. And now Evans, being arrested, sued an Audita Querela upon that Escape of Godfrey; and they were at Issue upon the Escape. And afterwards, It was espied, That the Venire facias was to summon 12 in Actione Transgressionis super Casum; whereas it should be, in Audita Querela. It was said by Kemp, Secondary, That the Venire facias upon every Original Writ in this Court (as this Audita Querela is) ought to contain in it the Issue: But when the suit is upon a Bill, than the words are, ad recognoscend. in Actione Transgressionis super Casum. And afterwards, by the Advice of the Court, a juror was withdrawn by Assent, and so the matter was stayed. CCCXLVII. Cheney's Case. Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Exchequer. NOte, by the Barons in this Case, If Rent-Corn be reserved upon a Lease for years, Roll. 591. and it is behind for 2 or 3 years, That the Lessor may have Debt for the Corn, and shall make his Declaration of so much Corn, and the same shall be in the Detinet; but yet he shall not have judgement to have Corn, but so much Money as the Corn was worth every several year being accounted. Clark, Baron, doubted, If he should recover the price of the Corn, as Corn was at the time of the Contract, or according to the price which it was at the time when it was payable; or as it was at the time of the Action brought. Manwood, The Law is clear, That the Lessee shall pay according to the price which was at the time of the payment and delivery limited by the Lease. Clark, A. is bound to deliver to the Obligee 10 Bushels of Wheat, and no place is limited where the payment shall be made; the Obligor is not bounden to seek the other party wheresoever, as in case of paymene of Money; For the importableness of it shall excuse him. Which Manwood granted. CCCXLVIII. Philip Fines and the Lord Dacre's Case. Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Exchequer. THe Case was, Tenant in tail of Lands, 4 Len. 97. Ante 241. the Remainder in Chief, levied a Fine without the King's Licence: And, If the Tenants of the Lord Dacres should be chargeable by the Fine, (For the Case was, that the Lord Dacres was Tenant in tail, the Remainder in tail to Philip Fines,) was the Question? It was holden by the Barons, That the Tenants should be discharged: But it was holden, That if the Conusor had any other Land within England, the Fine might be levied thereof. But the Question was, If the Tenants shall be put to plead in discharge of that which would be a great charge; or should be discharged without plea, because it appeareth by Record, that he who aliened, was but Tenant in tail in Remainder; For there was an Office of it which was pleaded by another in another cause. It was said, Where such matter appeareth of Record, as by Office, Livery, etc. there he need not to plead such matter in discharge, because the pleading of the same is to no other purpose but to satisfy the Court by a Record, that the matter is so as the party in his discharge hath alleged. And therefore, In this Case, the Barons gave Order, That the Process against the Tenants of the Lord Dacres should be discharged. CCCXLIX. Hill. 32 Eliz. In the Court of Wards. THe Case was, A. gave Land to B. in tail, rendering Rent; B. suffered a Common Recovery with voucher unto the use of a stranger and his Heirs; It was the Opinion of some, That the Rent remained. And it was resembled to Littleton's Case, 231, 232. Lord, Mesne, and Tenant; The Lord purchaseth the Tenancy, now the Mesnalty is extinct; yet he who was the Mesne shall have the surplusage of the Rent of the Lord now Tenant of the Land as a Rent distrainable of common right. And it was said by Heskith, late Attorney of the Court of Wards, That it was lately the Case of the Lord De la Ware, That in such case, notwithstanding such Common Recovery, the Donor should have the Rent, although that his Reversion was gone But Cook was of Opinion, That the Rent was gone; For the Rent was incident to the Reversion, and there is not any question but that the Reversion is gone. CCCL. Gardiner and the Hundred of read's Case. Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. ANdrew Gardiner brought an Action upon the Statute of Winton of Hue and Cry, against the Inhabitants of the Hundred of Reading in the County of Berks; and declared of a Robbery committed by persons unknown on his House: It was the clear Opinion of the whole Court, That the Action would not lie; For that this Offence is not properly a Robbery intended by the said Statute to be pursued, but rather a Burglary: And Robberies, committed in the Highway only, are relieved within this Statute. And by Anderson, Every Man is bounden to guard his House at his peril for his own safety. CCCLI. Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Replevin, The Defendant made Conusans as Bailiff to Greves and Rockwood, and said, That one A. was seized; and 6 Eliz. enfeoffed certain persons in Fee, to the use of his last Will: By which he willed, That his Feoffees should stand seized of the said Lands, until Greves had levied of the profits thereof 100 l. And against this Conusans, It was Objected, That here is no Devise; For A. at the time of the Devise had not any Feoffees. But the Exception was disallowed by the Court. And they cited the Case, 15 Eliz. Dyer 323. Lingen's Case, A. made a Feoffment in Fee to his use; and afterwards devised, That his Feoffees should be seized to the use of his Daughter; that the same was a good Devise of the Landlord See 29 H. 8. Br. tit. Devise 48. CCCLII Hambleden and Hambleden's Case. Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 1 Len. 166. 3 Cro. 163. 1 And. 38. NOte, The Case of Hambleden and Hambleden, (For the principal Case, see Mich. 31 Eliz. Leon. 166. Lib. 1.) was this Term adjudged, upon the Devise, That the Survivor shall be each others Heir. It was holden, That all the surviving Brothers are joint-tenants, and although this word (Survivor) be in the singular number; yet in sense, upon the whole matter it shall be taken, and construed, as for the plural number; (Survivor shall be each others Heir) i. e each Survivor, i.e. every Survivor; i.e. All the Survivours: and then, in this case, The Plaintiff and the Defendant being joint-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 Rend 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 aught 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, justices, That E. should be chargeable with the Arrearages to the Executors. Anderson, Chief justice, held the contrary. But they all agreed, That the Lord by Escheat, Tenant in Dower or by the Courtesy, should not be chargeable; for they did not claim by the Party only, but also by the Law. CCCLIU Leverett and Townsend's Case. Trin. 32 Eliz. In the King's Bench. IN an Action upon the Case, for disturbing him of his Common; 3 Cro. 198. 2 Len. 184. The Plaintiff declared, That he was seized in Fee of a Message 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 sown again: And also Common of Pasture in Land called R. omni tempore anni, as appendent to the said Message and Land; and that the Defendant had ploughed the said Lands and so disturbed him of his Common. It was moved in stay of judgement, That it appeareth here, that the Plaintiff was seized in Fee, and so he ought to have an Assize, 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. CCCLU. The Chamberlain of London's Case. Mich. 33 Eliz. In the King's Bench. THE Chamberlain of London brought an Action of Debt in the Mayor's Court in Guildhall, 5 Co. grounded upon an Act of Common Council. See C. 5 Part, The matter was removed into the King's 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 Communality, may make Ordinances, which they call Acts of Common Council, and they shall bind every Citizen and Freeman, 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 seized 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 Forest, If one be punished for offending against an Ordinance made for the governing of the Affairs of the Forest; 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 Salmon 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 Traffic 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 Account 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. Assize 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, etc. 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. Gaudy justice, 44 E. 3. 19 1 And. 234. every one ought to assent. Wray, There the Ordinance made was to charge the Inheritance but here it is only to charge their Goods; wherefore the assent of the greater part is sufficient. And afterwards, a Procedendo was granted. CCCLU. Pendleton and Green's Case. Mich. 33 Eliz. In the King's Bench. PEndleton sued Green in the Spiritual Court for Tithes, Ante 203. 1 Len. 94. who pleaded, That Pendleton was not lawful Incumbent, but one Tailor; and that plea, those of the Spiritual Court would not allow to the Parishioner to plead to the right of the Incumbency; and thereupon he prayed a Prohibition, for otherwise he should be twice charged for Tithes; and therefore a Prohibition was granted. CCCLVII. Knevytt and Cope's Case. Mich. 33 Eliz. In the King's Bench. KNevytt brought Ejectione firmae against Cope, and declared, Quod, 4 Len. 59 cum John Hopkins by his Indenture bearing date the 20 of May, 32 Eliz. had let to him his House and two Yard-Lands containing 40 Acres of Land, Meadow and Pasture, apud Tythingham de Forecomb. in parochia de S. etc. upon Not guilty pleaded, The Venire facias was de Tythingham de Forecomb. Exception was taken by Cook, That the Declaration had not any certainty; for it is not showed in certain, How much there was of Meadow, how much of Land, and how much of Pasture, there was contained in the said two Yard-Lands; and the jury may find the Defendant guilty as to the Land only, but not to the residue. Also, he hath not showed in the Declaration, When the Lease was made; but only saith, That by Indenture bearing date the 20 of May, etc. but doth not show any day of delivery of the Indenture, for then the Lease takes effect. To which Exception, It was said by the Court, That the Declaration as to that was good enough, for it shall be intended to have been delivered at the day of the date. Ante 193. Another Exception was taken to the Visne, Because that the Visne ought to be of the Parish, and not of Tythingham, etc. See 11 H. 7. 23, 24. Forcible Entry in the Manor of B. in B. the Visne shall not be [of the Manor of B.] but [of B.] Gawdy, justice, You shall never have a Visne of the Parish; for divers Towns may be in one Parish: but here the Visne is good of Tythingham, etc. for it may be that it is a Town. Cook, It is but a Ville Conus, from which a Visne cannot come. CCCLVIII. Taylor and Fisher's Case. Mich. 33 Eliz. In the King's Bench. Tailor brought an Action of Trespass against Fisher, for entering into his House, and taking and carrying away of his Goods. To which the Defendant pleaded, That, before the Trespass supposed, one A. was possessed of the said Goods; and the said Goods being in the House of the said Plaintiff, the said A. sold them to the Defendant; by force whereof he was possessed: And, so possessed, came to the Plaintiffs House where, etc. And by assent and licence of the Plaintiffs Wife, he entered into the said House, and carried away the said Goods, etc. Upon which, there was a Demurrer. It was holden, That the same is no plea; for there is no Colour given to the Plaintiff; and the licence given by the Wife, is not any matter for the justifying of the Entry. And as to the Goods, the plea was holden good: For, if A. might sell them being in the House of another, and not in his own possession, is scrupulous to the Lay-people. Wray, If the Goods of the Defendant were in the House of the Plaintiff with the knowledge of the Defendant, it had perhaps been a good plea; but that is not alleged here. Cook, 30 E. 3. 23. In Trespass for breaking of his Pound, the Defendant said, That he came to the place where the were impounded, and there found the Plaintiffs Wife, to whom he offered Pledges for the impounded, to make Amends according to reason, and prayed to have deliverance of the ; and the Plaintiffs Wife delivered them; without that, that he broke the Pound, etc. And it was said, That this want of Colour is but matter of form, which he ought to have alleged upon his Demurrer; or otherwise he shall not have advantage of it Wray justice, The Defendant in his plea doth not meet with the Plaintiff; Therefore the plea is not good in substance. It was Adjourned. CCCLIX. Downhall and Catesby's Case. Pasch. 33 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Formedon by Downhall against Catesby, 4 Len. 113. the parties were at Issue; And it was tried by Nisi prius. It was moved in Banco, because that some of the jurors did eat and drink before that they gave their Verdict, That the Court would not receive the Postea. The Court said, That we cannot do here; for we do not know if your Information be false or not; and that matter ought to have been examined by the justices of Nisi prius, and they ought to certify us of it, and then we shall have good cause to stay it. And it was then said there, That if any of the jurors eat and drink before the Verdict at their own Costs, that the same doth not make the Verdict void: but otherwise, if it be of the Costs of the Plaintiff, or the Defendant. CCCLX. Withrington and Delabar's Case. Mich. 33 Eliz. In the King's Bench. IN an Appeal of Murder by Withrington against Delabar, of the death of her Husband; The Defendant pleaded, never accoupled in lawful Matrimony: And pleaded over, Not guilty. The Plaintiff replied, Lawfully accoupled, but did not reply over to the Felony. It weigh moved, as a discontinuance of the whole. Wray, If the Defendant pleads matter tryable at the Common Law, and over to the Felony, there the Plaintiff ought to reply to both; but where the first matter is not tryable by the Common Law, there the same is not needful. Quod caeteri Justiciarii concesserunt. CCCLXI Lake's Case. Mich. 33 Eliz. In the King's Bench. STephen Lake, Commissary of the Bishop of Canterbury, Fr. Alredge, Register; and R. Hunt Apparitor, were indicted of Extortion, that they, colore officiorum suorum, had malitiose, accepted and received 11 s. 6 d. for the Absolution of one B. who was excommunicated; where they ought to have but 2 s. 6 d. And Exception was taken to this Indictment, because that all their Offences are put together, scil. colore Officiorum suorum; whereas the particular Offence of every Offender ought to be specially set down, but here they are confounded. Which see, by the Statute of 25 E. 3. 9 That Ordinaries shall not be impeached by such general Indictments, unless they say, and put in certain, In what thing, and of what, and in what manner the said Ordinaries have committed Extortion. But that Exception was not allowed; for of that the party grieved cannot have notice, for they took in gross, and afterwards parted it betwixt them. Another Exception was, Because it is not showed, What is their due Fee: And that was conceived to be a good cause of Exception: And if no Fee be due, the same aught to appear in the Indictment. And afterwards the Opinion of the Court was, That they should be discharged. CCCLXII. Doughty and Prideauxes 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, denied 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, justices, 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, etc. 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 Abbey 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 entered, was the Question? And it was the Opinion of all the justices, 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 aught to be by Entry: and none can make such Entry but the Lessor himself, or by his express direction, etc. CCCLXIV. Bond and Bayles Case. Pasch. 33 Eliz. In the King's Bench. 1 Len. 328. 1 Roll. 926. BOnd brought a Scire facias against Bayles Administrator of one T.B. upon a Recovery against the Intestate in an Action of Debt. The Defendant pleaded before the said judgement 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. Upon 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 judgement 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 judgement 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 indebted to one A. and that they had not more than to satisfy 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 judgement is given against the Testator himself, and where against the Executors: For where judgement is given against the Executors, the judgement which was first given, shall be first executed: But if two judgements 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 judgement 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 enroled be lost, the enrolment 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 judgement given against the Testator, the Executor pleaded, That the Testator had acknowledged a Statute before, not satisfied, ultra which, etc. 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 than 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, judgement was given for the Plaintiff. CCCLXV. Butler and Baker's Case. Mich. 33 & 34 Eliz. In the King's 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, rendering Rend, 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, rendering Rend, 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, rendering Rend, and at his full age accepts the 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. etc. And in all these Cases where there is an Agreement; and therein an Agreement employed, scil. An Agreement to the Lease, and a Disagreement to have the Possession, etc. 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 entered, 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 entitled 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 Assize. 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 entitled to Dower, accepteth Homage of the Tertenant, 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, rendering 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, etc. 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 jointure is made after Marriage, there the Wife after the death of her Husband may at her pleasure refuse her jointure, 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 jointure made during the Coverture, he ought to say, Quod intrando agreeavit. See Litt. in Dower ad Ostium Ecclesiae; If the Wife entereth 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 jointure 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 jointure 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, etc. 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 jointure 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, etc. 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 enroled 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 Manor 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 Manor of Hinton doth not descend immediately; 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, aught 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, aught to descend immediatè in re, & Statu. Yet a Reversion upon a Lease for years, or for life, with the ancient Rent reserved, is sufficient, and is a good and immediate descent of the third part. And this word here [immmediatè] to be construed ratione temporis, is a frivolous Construction; for the wore, Descent, implys that; For there cannot be an expectant and future descent; For descent is clearly immediate without mean time. But here in this case, the word, immediate, is to be taken in both senses, et re, et tempore; For by the Relation of the Waiver, it is, as if no jointure had been made, and the Heir is to have the profits of the Land from the death of his Ancestor: And so the descent of Hinton immediatè, et re, et tempore; And, that the same time hath had such reasonable Construction, is now to see: The Statute of 18 H. 6 Cap. 1. is, That the Chancellor shall make Patents to bear date the same day that the Warrant was made, and not before. It hath been taken, That if the Patents bear date after the Warrant entered, they are good. Which see, 19 Eliz. Blow. Com. 492. in Ludford and Gretton's Case. The Statute of Acton Burnel is, That if the Extendors extend the Land too high, statim respondeant illi qui fecerunt extent. This word of time (statim) shall not be construed, that the Extendors shall pay presently, but that they shall pay without delay; i.e. at the day limited in the Statute. See 2 H. 4. 17, 18. It hath been Objected, That it is a great inconvenience, that the King for his third part should attend the pleasure of the Wife, the time of her Election; and therefore the Will shall be void. But the same is no inconvenience, for the jointure never was actually in the Wife, to her prejudice, until she entered into the Land, etc. And now by the Waiver, the jointure is avoided ab initio to all intents, as if it never had been made: So as the King shall be answered of the entire profits after the time of the death of the Husband; and may seize the whole Land presently, without staying the Election of the Wife, or taking notice of her jointure. And so are the words of the Diem clausit Extremum; Tibi praecipimus quod omnia Terras & Tenementa, of which, etc. et ea saluò Custodias donec aliud tibi praeceperimus; And that may be before any Office found: And those who have any Interest in the Land, or otherwise may show the same upon the Traverse of the Office, or in the Court of Wards, and have allowance of it; And so there is not any prejudice to the King: No more, than when Tenant in Knight-service Deviseth all his Lands, There Division is to be made, and the King hath not any prejudice by it. In the true Construction of this Statute, it is very necessary to consider the intention and meaning of both Statutes. And it is certain, That the said Statutes were made for the benefit of the Subjects, to enable them to dispose of their Lands for the preferment of their Wives, advancement of their Children, and payment of their Debts, whereof they were restrained by the Statute of 27 H. 8. of Uses. The Save in the said Statute are for the benefit of the King and the Lords; So as Provision is made not only for the benefit of the Subjects, but also for the profit of the King and other Lords. The disability of the subjects to dispose of their Lands, to the intents aforesaid, appears in the Preface of the Statute of 32 H. 8. And the favour and grace of the said King towards his Subjects, to supply the necessity of Subjects, appeareth by the Prefaces of both Statutes. The later Statute, is an Explanation of the former in divers Points. The first Statute to persons, Having Manors, etc. Ex vi termini, includes Tenants in tail, joint-tenants, Enfants, Idiots, Feme-Coverts; but the same is explained by the later Act, to be of Feesimple only, and of sole Estates, and to persons of sound memory, not of Coverture. And so, If the King's Tenant Deviseth all his Land, the same is good for two parts of it; so if he Devise all which he hath in Feesimple, and leaveth the third part to descend in tail. This Statute shall be taken strict against the Heir: For the whole Scope and Intent of the Parliament was, to bind the Heirs, and to enable their Fathers to dispose, so as the third part be saved to the King and the Lords. And that is manifest, For the Estates made by Collusion are preserved, and by an express Clause in the Statute kept in force against the Heir; but void as to the Lords. As to certain Readers Cases, which have been put to prove, That these Statutes ought to have a strict Construction, I conceive, Nihil operatur. A Man seized of one Acre by Disseisin, and of two Acres by good Title, all holden in chief by Knight-service, Deviseth the two Acres which he hath by good Title, and dieth, so as the Acre which he hath by Disseisin descends to the Heir being within age; the King seizeth, the third Acre is devested by Eigne Title; the Devise of the other two Acres is good against the Heir; for it is within the express words of the Statute, Having a sole Estate in Fee-simple. And yet by another Branch of 34 H. 8. the King for his time, shall have recompense out of the other two Acres; and he agreed the Law to be so: but the same doth not conclude our Case. A Man seized of two Acres in Socage, and of one Acre holden by Knight-service in Chief of equal value, is disseised of the Acre holden in Chief, and Deviseth the other two Acres in Fee, the same is a good devise; for it is within the first branch expressly, Having a sole Estate in Feesimple, and not having any Lands holden by Knight-service; for during the disseisin, he hath not the Land whereof he was disseised, and therefore the devise is good for the benefit of the Devisee, and the Lord is not at any Mischief: For the Disseisee notwithstanding the Disseisin, remains Tenant of the Lord as to the Avowry, and the Lord shall have the Wardship of such Heir, and may enter upon the Disseisor, and so have a third part. And that Case was put out of Gilberts Reading. A Man seized in Fee of two Manors of equal value holden by Knights-service in Capite; and a third Manor of the same value is conveyed to him by Deed of Bargain and Sale acknowledged; and before enrolment, he deviseth the two first Manors to J.S. in Fee, and dieth; and afterwards the Indenture is enroled; yet the devise is not good for the said two Manors by any Relation of the Bargain and Sale enroled. That Case may well be agreed to be Law; For the Estate doth not vest in the Vendee before enrolment, and so the Estate was not perfectly in the Devisor at the time of the Will; For although that the enrolment shall relate to prevent all acts and charges made mean by the Vendor; yet it shall not relate to vest the Estate, from the time of the delivery of the Deed, For the Vendee cannot punish a Trespass Mean; And if the Vendee hath a Wife, and the Vendee dieth before enrolment, and afterwards the Deed is enroled, she shall not be endowed: but here shall be some descent to take away an Entry, yet the Heir shall have his age. But in our Case, it is otherwise; for by the Waiver, the jointure was waived ab initio. And he cited Cars Case, 29 Eliz. in the Court of Wards, The King granted the Manor of C. to George Owen in Fee, tenend. in Socage, and rendering 94 l. per annum; And afterwards granted 54 l. parcel of the said Rent, to the Earl of Huntingdon in Fee to be holden by Knight-service in Capite; and afterwards purchased the said Rent in Fee; And afterwards of the same Manor enfeoffed William Carr, who devised the same for the payment of his Debts; And it was holden, That the devise was good against the Heir. And the King was not entitled to Livery or Primer Seisin: And therefore the Defendant was dismissed. But peradventure the Queen shall have benefit of the Act. See Cook 3 Part, 30, 31. Butler and Baker's Case. The King gives Lands unto A. in Fee, to hold by Knights-service during his life, and afterwards to hold in Socage; He may devise the whole: For at the time when the devise took effect, he was Tenant in Socage. Lands holden in Knight-service, are given to J.S. in tail, scil. to the Heirs Males of his Body, the Remainder to the right Heirs of J.S. J.S. deviseth these Lands, and afterwards dieth without Issue Male, the same is good for two parts; yet during his life, he had not an Estate in Fee in possession. The Father disseiseth his Son and Heir apparent of an Acre of Land holden in Chief by Knight-service in Capite; and afterwards purchaseth a Manor holden in Socage, and deviseth the said Manor, and dieth, his Heir within age, the Devise is good for the whole, and the King shall not have Wardship of any part, and that in respect of the Remitter, and yet it is within the words, Having sole Estate in Fee of Lands holden; and within the Saving. Tenant in tail of an Acre of Land holden of the King in Chief by Knight-service, seized of two Acres in Fee, holden, ut supra, makes a Lease for three Lives of the Acre entailed, reserving the accustomed Rent, and afterwards deviseth the other two Acres in Fee; and afterwards dieth seized of the Reversion and Rent; The same is a good devise of all the two Acres: And here is an immediate descent of the third part, for the same is within the words, In Possession, Reversion or Remainder, or any Rent or Service incident to any Reversion, or any Remainder. See the Statute of 34 H. 8. A Man seized of three Acres of equal value holden by Knight-service in Capite, assureth one to his Wife for her jointure by Act executed; and deviseth another to a stranger, And the third to his Wife also; The King in this case shall have the third part of every Acre: But if the stranger waiveth the devise, the King shall have the Acre to him devised, and the Wife shall retain the other two Acres, and it shall not go in advantage of the Heir. So if he deviseth the said three Arces severally to three several persons, to each of them one Acre, and the one Waives the devise in one Acre, The devise of the other two is good; Or otherwise, the King shall have the third part of every Acre, etc. CCCLXVII. Mich. 35 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 5 Co. 29. THe Case was, An Enfant was made Executor; And Admimistration was committed to another; viz. A. durante minori aetate, who brought an Action of Debt against the Debtor, and recovered, and had him in Execution; and now the Executor came of full age. It was moved, What should be done in this Case, and how the party should be discharged of the Execution; for the authority of the Administrator is now determined, and he cannot acknowledge satisfaction, or make an acquittance. Windham, Although the authority of the Administrator be determined; yet the Record and the judgement remain in force. But peradventure you may have an Audita Querela. But he conceived, That an Administrator could not have such Action; for that he is rather a Bailiff to the Enfant, than an Administrator: (See Prince's Case, 42 Eliz. Cook 5 Part, 29.) Which Rhodes concessit. A. was bounden unto B. in an Obligation of 100 l. upon Condition, to pay a lesser sum: The Obligee made an Enfant his Executor, and died: Administration was committed durante minori aetate to C. to whom A. paid the Money; It was doubted, If that payment was rightful: or, If the Money ought to have been paid to both? Windham, Doth it appear within the Record, That the Enfant was made Executor, and that Administration was committed, ut supra? To which it was answered, No. Then Windham said, You may upon this matter have an Audita Querela. In this Case, It was said to be the Case of one Gore, 33 Eliz. in the Exchequer, in a Scire facias, by an Assignee of a Bond against an Enfant Executor: He pleaded, That the Administration was committed to A. and his Wife during her minority. And it was adjudged no Plea. CCCLXVIII. Mich. 35 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. NOte: It was the Opinion of all the justices, Jones Rep. 243. That if Lessee for 20 years, makes a Lease for 10 years, that he may grant the Reversion without Deed: but in such case if there be a Rent reserved, there ought to be a Deed, and also an Attornment, if the Rent will be had. And it was agreed by them all, That if there be Lessee for years, and the Lessor granteth the Land to the Lessee and a stranger, that the Reversion shall pass without Livery or Attornment; and that by the Acceptance of the Deed by him who ought to Attorn: But whether he shall take jointly or in Common, or whether in a moiety or in the whole, the justices were of divers Opinions. Ideo Quaere, for it was not Resolved. FINIS. A TABLE of the principal Matters contained in the Third Part of LEONARD'S Reports. A. ABatement of Writ, Page 2, 4, 77, 92 Ex Officio Curiae, p. 93 Account, p. 38, 61, 63 Damages given in it, p. 150 Damages given in it, not expressly, but the Court shall give Quoddam Incrementum, p. 192 Brought by the Grantee of the King, against an Executor, where maintainable, where not, p. 197 Generally brought, where good, p. 230 Acquittance, Must be showed upon payment of Debts by Executors, p. 3 Action upon the Case, For stopping of a way, p. 13 Against one for proceeding to Judgement, and awarding of Execution in an inferior Court, after an Habeas Corpus awarded, p. 99 Where lieth, for procuring a Warrant from a Justice of Peace, upon a surmise to arrest one upon suspicion of stolen 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 Assize 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 triple 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 Tithes, 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 Money 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 judgement, 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 King's 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 seized, where not good, p 92 Not against a Deed enroled, p. 176 B. BAil, Of an Enfant condemned; and Execution for Debt; where shall pay the Money 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 certify the particular cause of his refusal, and a general Certificate is not good, p. 199 Chancery, After Judgement at Law cannot grant Injunctions, p. 18 Chantry, What shall be said a Chantry within the Statute of 2 E. 6. p. 115 Cinque-Ports, Certiorari granted further to certify 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, rendering rend, 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 enroled, 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 show before whom to be holden, p. 148 Not grantable to an inferior Court, against the privilege 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 seized 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 Copyholder 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 Manor 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 Freemen; where good, where not, p. 264 D. DAmages, Where Judgement is given for the Plaintiff, and upon a Writ of Enquiry, excessive damages are given by the Jury; which Writ is returned, the Court cannot mitigate the damages, p. 150 A second Writ of enquiry of damages, where not grantable, p. 177 The Plaintiff in Replevin is Nonsuit, the Court may assess damages, without a Writ of Enquiry, p. 213 Debt, Lachess, in pleading it, where turn to his prejudice, p. 63 Against the Heir, a general judgement shall be given in it against him, by reason of his false Plea, p. 70 Lieth not by an Innkeeper, for Diet and Lodging in the Inn, where there is not a price agreed for it certain, p. 161 Where must be in the Debet, where in the Detinet; and of what, p. 206, 260 Declaration, In Trespass against the Defendant, Simul cum J.S. Outlawed, ad Sectam Querentis not good, p. 202 Where void, for the incertainty of the thing demanded by it, p. 228 Deeds, Of Assignment made to the King out of Term, upon a day in Term, which is not dies juridicus, if good, p. 146 Demurrer, Difference between drawing up of a Demurrer upon a Plea, and upon a Challenge, p. 222 Deprivation, Where pleadable specially; where generally, p. 199 Devastavit, Executor of an Enfant, not charged with a Devastavit, made by the Executor of the first Testator, p. 241 Devises, Construction of them, p. 25, 181 Words equally divided in it, amount to a Tenancy in Common, p. 19 Of Rent of Lands, towards education of the Son, how to be expounded, p. 65 Made good by Averment, p. 79 Where void, by the Statute of 32 H. 8. p. 105 That his Sons in Law shall sell his Lands; how to be construed, p. 106 Of a possibility, where not good; nor shall go to Executors, p. 195 Of a Message, cum pertinentiis, the Curtilage and Garden passeth, p. 214 Distress, Upon the Glebe-Lands for Tenths and First-Fruits; and where the Lessee of the shall be distrained for the same, p. 259 E. EJectione Firmae; De uno Cubiculo, good, p. 210 Election, Where not transferrable over, p. 211 Where the Party hath election to take by Grant or Confirmation, p. 127 Entry, Of a Stranger, upon the Farmer of the King's Lessee for years, he hath gained the Term, p. 206 Error, Matter not within the Record, not to be assigned for Error, p. 96 If it lieth to reverse a Judgement given for the King, without a Petition first sued, p. 155 Lieth to reverse a Judgmene in Covenant; because all the Covenanters joined not in the Action, though the Covenant was in quolibet & qualibet, p. 161 Where lieth not in C. B. upon a recovery had before Justices of Assize, p. 159 Eviction, Where a Decree in Chancery shall not be said a lawful Eviction, by which a Condition shall be broken, p. 71 Evidence, In a Writ of Right, the Tenant shall begin to give Evidence, because he is in the affirmative, p. 162 Evidence given, where shall conclude the Party, but not the Jurors, ad dicendam veritatem, p. 209 Executors, Where their Distress for the Arrearages of a Rend Charge, is good by the Statute of 32 H. 8. of Rents, p. 263 Where they might satisfy Debts due upon Judgements before Debts due upon Statutes, or otherwise, p. 271 Executions, Sued forth upon a Statute to A. shall be served before a private Statute to B. though the Statute to B. be assigned to the King, p. 239, 240 By Capias ad Satisfaciendum sued out within the year, though not prosecuted for two or three years after together; yet the Party may proceed upon it without a Scire Facias, p. 259 Debt is recovered by an Administrator, durante minore aetate, and Execution had; and when the Executor comes of age; how the Party shall be discharged, p. 278 F. FEoffments, Livery and Seisin, made by Attorney, where good to pass the Lands; where not, p. 37 Of a Manor, An Advowson Appendent shall pass, but not the Services, if there be no Attornment, p. 193 To divers Persons to the use of his Will; and afterwards wills the Feoffees, shall stand seized, till they have levied 100 l. good, although in Feoffees, at the time of the Devise, p. 262 Fines levied, Upon a Release, not enure to an use, p. 36 Where shall make a discontinuance; where not, p. 74 Where a Bar; where not, p. 74 Remainder is limited in tail to J. S. and the Heirs of his Body, to begin after the death of the Tenant for life, If a Fine be levied by him, with Proclamation in the life of the Tenant for life, shall bar the Issue, p. 211 Where a Bar to a Woman in Dower, because she pursued not her Claim within five years, p. 221 Forfeiture, What shall be a forfeiture within the Statute of 11 H. 7. Lessee for years, in debt for rent, claimed fee by bargain and sale of his Lessor, which was traversed by the Lessor, yet a forfeiture, p. 169 Forprise, Where needful to be mentioned, where not, p. 93 G. GRants of the King, p. 10 Void, because the King is deceived in them, p. 5, 119 Not to enure to a double intent, p. 75 By the King of Bona & Catalla felonum & utlagatorum; yet the King shall have the Goods of Felo de se, p. 113 Where the Church is void by the grant of the King of the Manor, with the Advowson appendent, the Advowson shall not pass, p. 196 Of Fines, pro licentia concordandi, doth not extend to Post-Fines, p. 234 How to be construed p. 242, to 253 Grants of common persons, Where shall enure, by way of confirmation, Of all Goods and Chattels; passeth a Lease for years, Restrained, and not to extend to things in future, p. 29 Of the Office of Register by a Bishop; where good, where not, p. 30 Of a Rent-charge out of his Lands, after J. S. dies without issue of his body, J.S. dies, having issue; which issue dies without issue; if a good Grant, p. 103 Where the mistaking, and misrecital in them, shall not make void their Grants, p. 136 H. HAbeas Corpus, Where granted, for one committed to the marshalsea, by the Chamberlain of the Household, one of the Privy Council, p. 194 Heir, Where he shall be adjudged in by descent, notwithstanding a Devise to him, p. 118 Of a Copyholder within age, not bound to come to any Court, during his Nonage, to pray admittance, or render a Fine, p. 221 I. INdictments, Upon the Statute of 8 H. 6. Quare Intravit in unum Tenementum; not good for the incertainty, but if a Tenementum with divers Acres, good for the Acres, p. 102 Certified and found to be taken, before Justices of Assize, and Goal-delivery; where not good, p. 216 Upon the Statute of 5 El. of Perjury questioned, because it wanted the word voluntary, p. 230 Against three persons for extortion, that they, colore officiorum suorum, had maliciously extorted excessive Fees, good; though their offences were several, p. 268 Informations, Upon the Statute of 5 Eliz. cap. for cutting down of Trees, being a penal Law, how to be expounded, p. 104 Of intrusion upon the Possession of the King; where shall be good, where not, p. 147 Of intrusion, where there is no Record to prove it; if the error lieth upon it, p. 147 Issues joined, A not joining in it, is helped by the Statute of Jeofails, not a misjoining in it, p. 66 Upon a Plea, which is tried in a foreign County, and found for the Plaintiff; in what Court the Judgement shall be, p. 137 Jure Patronatus, Where the awarding of it is necessary, where not, p. 98 Jurors, Where upon pain of Attaint, they are to take notice of a transient thing done in another County, p. 77 K. KING, Not bound to take notice of a Condition made by a common person, p. 126 Cannot take an interest in Land, without matter of Record, p. 155 L. LAchess, In pleading; where it shall turn to the prejudice of the Parties, p. 63 Leases, For certain years, habendum to his Executors; if good, and what interest passeth; and to whom it passeth, p. 32 Power to make Leases, not to extend to Leases, to be made in reversion, p. 132 Where Leases are void, by the Statute of 31 H. 8. of Monasteries, p. 164 Made by Dean and Chapter; where void by the misrecital of their name of Corporation, p. 220 Livery, Of Lands in Ward, not to be sued by parcels, p. 25 M. MAintenance, Where a Grant made, shall be said to be for maintenance, within the Statute of 32 H. 8. p. 79 Misnosmer, Where shall not prejudice a Devise, p. 19 N. NOnsuit, If after a Demurrer, p. 28 O. OBligation, By what words good; by what not, p. 19 Where the word Quemlibet, in an Obligation, shall make it joint, and not several, p. 206 Taken by one Blacksmith of another Blacksmith, that he shall not exercise his Trade in such a Town, void, p. 207 To be good; although not made after the usual form, p. 223 May be assigned to the King, without Deed enroled, p. 234 Office Trove, Personal things are in the King, without Office found, p. 145 Where an Estate shall be settled in the King, without Office found; where not, p. 186, 187, 188 Outlawry, Where a Man is to annul an Outlawry, his person shall not be disabled by another Outlawry, p. 232 P. PArtition, The Writ was, Quare teneant Quatuor mille acras, where it ought to be, 4 Mille acrarum; yet good, p. 94 Where it is not necessary to show and settle forth the Estate, particularly in the Writ, p. 231 Petition, Where an Entry is not lawful upon the King, without suing a Petition, p. 15 Plenarty, Returned by the Bishop; where not good, p. 138 Plead and Pleas, Where not good for incertainty, p. 8 A Conveyance cannot be pleaded, unless it be sealed, p. 94 Of Non Damnificatus generally; where good, p. 118 In a Writ of Right, upon a Custom to hold a Court of the Plea, must be showed before whom the Plea is to be holden by the Customs, p. 148 Of Letters Patents, and not saying, Sigillo Angliae sigillat. not good, p. 193 Of the general Issue in Waste, viz. Null waste fait, where dangerous, p. 203 Of Outlawry in the Plaintiff, after Imparlance in Trover and Conversion, good, p. 215 Praemunire, Where the not prosecuting of it by the Attorney-general, shall take away the suit of the Informer, p. 139 Prescription, Of every Inhabitant to have Common; if good, p. 202 Of what good, and where, and of what not, p. 202 To have Estovers at liberty, in cutting down Wood in a Forest, unless in Fawning-time; where good, p. 218 Privilege, Of the Exchequer, not granted to him who pays First-fruits and Tenths, p. 258 Possibility, Not allowed to the King's servants in the Exchequer, who is sued in B.R. p. 22 Not grantable or demiseable, p. 157 Prohibition, Not grantable upon a suggestion, that Tithe had been paid to the Vicar, etc. and time out, etc. p. 203 Proviso, Where a Condition; where a Covenant; where a Limitation, p. 225 Q. QVo Warranto, Of Liberty. Plea in it; what good, what not, p. 73, 184 R. REcital, The not recital of the names of the Occupiers of a Lease of Lands, do not avoid the Demise thereof, p. 235 Records, A Deed acknowledged to the King, and delivered to the Barons of the Exchequer, is a Record, though not mentioned, p. 146 Of a Fine, remaining with the Custos Brevium, amended, and made according to the Record, made and remaining with the Chyrographers, p. 183 Recusants, Where Lands conveyed by a Recusant, shall be subject to the Statute of 23 Eliz. concerning Recusants, and the penalties thereof, p. 148 Release, To a Tenant at sufferance, where not good, p. 152 By the Feoffees of Cestuy que use, to his Lessee for years; how it shall enure, p. 196 Receipt, By a Termor for years, to save his Term, Remitter, p. 2, 10, 93 Rents, Where upon a Fine levied of the Land, the Rent passeth without Attornment, p. 103 Payment of it, upon an extent of it, and of the reversion, saves the danger of a Condition, supposed to be broken, p. 113 Where apportioned; where not, p. 125, 126 Granted by Fine, varyeth from the Indenture; yet shall pass, p. 136 Suspended; yet grantable, p. 154 Where it passeth by the name of a Manor, p 168 Reserved to be paid at two Feasts, and not said by what portions; the Lessee hath the liberty to pay it in what portions he pleaseth, p 235 Repleader, After Issue joined; where granted, p. 90 Request, Licet saepius requisitus, good; and where it must be special, p. 73 206 S. SAle, By an Enfant Executor of goods; where binds him, p. 144 Scire Facias, Where it lieth upon an Extent, supposed to be satisfied. p. 155 Where, upon an Alienation of an Advowson without Licence, by matter of Record, not by matter of Fact, p. 175 Statute, Merchant and Staple, Acknowledged; when void by the death of the party, p. 157 Surrender, Of a Copyhold to uses, p. 4 Cannot be of a Lease for years, to begin at a day to come, p. 95 Tenant for life, remainder in Fee of a Copyhold, he in the remainder may surrender in the life of the Tenant for life, if there be no Custom to the contrary, p. 259 T. TAil, p. 87 Tender, Of Rent; how and where to be made, p. 4 Tenancy, In Common; where must be pretended, and not given in evidence, p. 94 Traverse, Where good; where not, p. 97 Trespass, Quare clausum fregit; not maintainable by him that hath but the Ear-grass after the first mowing, p. 213 Trial, If Tithes lie in such a Parish, or in such a Parish, tryable at the Common Law, p. 128 V. VAlue, Of Lands; what value shall be intended, p. 114 Venire facias, Where the place must be mentioned in it, p. 171, 172 Where from the place; where from the Manor, p. 193 Upon every Original, must contain the issue in it, p. 269 Verdict, Not good; because too general, p. 64 Not Good; because it doth not extend to all the points of the Declaration, p. 95 Given, and found, after a Supersedeas 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 Attorney, 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 Wastes, 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 employed, 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 Manor; 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, penned. 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 Judgement will reverse the Judgement, A. 255. Action does not abate, if the Defendant die after the first Judgement in Trespass, and before the Return of the Writ of Enquiry, A. 263. Death, after Issue joined, 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 joint-tenancy or Villeinage 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 Reentry for nonpayment, 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 Wife's 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 joint 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 mere Trespasser, or wrongdoer, C. 24. Where Account or an Action upon the Case lies against one who receives Money 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 Nuisance, 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 maliciously 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 Money 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 another's hired Servant, A. 240. Lies for a Tenant in Fee for a Nuisance, though he may have an Assize, 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 Rob, A. 323, 324. For conspiring with a Factor to cheat the Plaintiff, (who was a Joint 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 overcharging the Common with Coneys, 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 not for exhibiting an Indictment, which purported, that the Plaintiff was a Disquieter of the Neighbours, 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. Lieth in consideration to forbear parum tempus, A. 61. Where it lies not for a Rent, A. 155, 156. contra, B. 107. To pay Money 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 Money 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 Judgement, 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 Attorney, 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 allege, 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 satisfy the Statute, B. 183. Schoolmaster 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 allege Administration granted by a Chancellor or Vicar-General, A. 312. Granted by a Bishop where the Intestate had bona notabilia, etc. is ipso facto void, B. 155. If impleading Admistration granted by the Metropolitan, bona notabilia must be alleged, B. 155. It is the safest to pay Money 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, etc. 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 moiety of prize Goods taken by two Ships, whereof one did but stand still while the other seized, B. 182. If by a Libel, there it appear they have not Jurisdiction, a Praemunire 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 appendent, A. 26. By what words the Advowson of a Vicarage may be granted, A. 191. Whether it pass from the King, by the words Bona & Catalla, A. 201, 202. To what it may be appendent, A. 207, 208. How an Advowson appendent to a Manor 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 divest 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 Judgement or Verdict not e contra, A. 134. Of a Sheriffs return, A. 145. None of the Christian Name of a Juror after Verdict, A. 267. Of a Judgement which was Ideo videtur Justice. 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 Judgement 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 poisons 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 Judgement, or be nonsuited, 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, etc. 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. Appendent, Appurtenant, and Parcel. If Tithes pass by Grant of a Rectory cum pertinentiis, A. 281, 282. Issue, if an Advowson be Appendent, or in gross, A. 323. A Curtilage and Garden are Appurtenant to a House, and pass by or without the word Appurtenant, C. 214. Apportionment. If the Lessor grant part of the Land, the Grantee shall have no Rent, A. 252. C. 1. Upon devise of Lands rendering Rend, part being Capite Lands, A. 310. If a Rent reserved upon a Lease of a Warren, may be apportioned, C. 1. None of a relief, because entire, C. 13. If a condition of Reentry upon several Reddend. may be apportioned, C. 124, to 127. Rend may be apportioned in the King's Case, which cannot in the Case of a common person, C. 124, to 127. Arbitrement. Debt lieth upon it, although void, until it so appear, A. 73, 170. In such Action the Plaintiff needs show no more than makes for him, A. 73. To find sufficient Sureties to pay, etc. void, A. 140. Without Deed cannot dispose of a , A. 228. To do one thing or another (one being void,) yet the award is good, A. 304, 305. C. 62. To pay Money to a Stranger is good, A. 316. C. 62. That one Party shall have a Term for years, gives the interest of the Term; contra where it is that the one shall permit the other, etc. B. 104. Award to become bound; it is a good performance, if the Bond be delivered to a Stranger, and after tendered to the Plaintiff, B. 111, 181. To do an Act to a Stranger, who will not accept thereof, the Bond is not forfeit, C. 62. To do an Act to a Stranger, not void, C. 62. 212. Award that the Defendant and a Stranger become bound, is good as to the Defendant, though void in part, C. 226. Aid. Copyholder shall have Aid of his Lord in Trespass, A. 4. Grantee of Tenant in tail after possibility shall have Aid, yet the Grantor should not, A. 291. Tenant at Will shall have it, but not Tenant at Sufferance, B. 47. Verdict upon an Issue upon a Counter-plea of Aid is peremptory to the Defendant, B. 52. Alien. If the King's Confirmation of a Feoffment to an Alien do avail, A. 47. If the Grant of an Office to him by the King be a denization, C. 243. Assent and Consent. If the Conuzee of a Statute, etc. taken by Capias be discharged by Assent of the Conusee, his Lands are also discharged, A. 230, 231. Assets. Money received by Executors for Lands devised, to be sold to pay Portions; if it be Assets, A. 87, 224, 225. B. 119. What other things shall be Assets, A. 225. B. 7. Lease for life, and after his death to his Executors for 10 years, if this Term be Assets, C. 21, 22. If Money received by the Heir for Redemption of a Mortgage, be Assets to pay Debts, C. 32. Executors by Award receive 50 l. and release a Bond of 100 l. the whole 100 l. is Assets, C. 53. Assignee. If Assignee of parcel may have covenant against Lessee for years, A. 251, 252. Who is a sufficient Assignee, A. 252. Executors or Administrators, A. 316. Assize. Of a Rent rendered in Fee by Fine, A. 254. The manner of adjorning and giving Judgement, where the Disseisor pleads Foreign Pleas, B. 41. Of fresh-force in London, C. 169, 170. Attachment. Of Goods in a Carrier's hands, 189. A Debt by Judgement, Stat. Recogn. etc. cannot be attached, A. 29, 30. No Money taken in Execution, A. 264. What is a good Plea for him, in whose hands Money is attached, A. 321. If the Plaintiff shall recover costs against him in whose hands, etc. A. 321. Money for which an Action is depending, cannot be attached, C. 210. One cannot attach Money for a Debt, before the Debt be due, C. 236. Corn is not attachable, C. 236. A Debt upon Record cannot be attached, C. 240. Attainder. A person attainted cannot be charged with Actions, A. 326, 327. If a person attainted may be put to answer in personal Actions, A. 330. What is forfeited to the King by Attainder of Tenant for life, or in Tail in Remainder, B. 122, 123 to 126. Differences of Attainder and Conviction, B. 161. If one attainted of Robbery, shall answer in criminal Cases, C. 220. Attaint. What Heir shall have it, A. 261. Upon the Statute of 23. H. 8. 3. A. 279. If it lie where the Plaintiff might avoid the Judgement by Error, A. 278. Attornment. To whom, and how it must be made, A. 58. Quoad part is good for all, A. 129, 130, 234. Upon a Lease for years in Reversion, A. 171. C. 17. An Abator may Attorn, A. 234. The definition thereof, A. 234. By the first Lessee, binds the Tenant in remainder for years or life, A. 265. Good by the Tenants of the Land to him in remainder, after the death of Tenant for life, A. 265 To the surviving Grantee of a Reversion good, A. 265. To the Grantee of the Reversion of a Manor by Lessee for year of the Manor, passes the Manor and binds the Tenants, A. 265. After condition broken, is good to vest the Estate, by the breach of the Condition, A, 265. The Relation of an Attornment, A. 265. B 222. Who is compellable by a Quid Juris clamat to attorn, A. 290, 291, B. 40. C. 241, 242. No Attornment is necessary, upon selling a Reversion of Copyhold, A. 297. C. 197. In what cases necessary, A. 318. C. 103. Lease of Demesnes, by Grant of the Manor, the Reversion passeth not without Attorment, B. 221, 222. An Advowson appendent to a Manor shall vest without Attornment of the Tenants, B. 222. What Words or Consent amount to an Attornment, C. 17. Lessor levies a Fine to the use of himself, and his Heirs, Lessee must Attorn, C. 103, 104. If it be necessary where the Grantee is in by Statute of Uses, C. 104. It is necessary to pass Services of a Manor, C. 193. Tenant of the Land must attorn upon granting over a Rent-charge, C. 252. Reversion of a Term (a Lease of part of the Term being first made) cannot pass the Term and Rend reserved upon the first Lease without Attornment; but a Term without Rent reserved, he may, C. 279. Lessor grants the Reversion to Lessee, and A. B. no other Attornment necessary, C. 279. Attorney. J.S. Praesens hic in Cur. in propria persona sua per A.B. Attorn. suum; how construed, A. 9 Lessee for years cannot surrender by Attorney, A. 36. How to make a Deed by Attorney, Ibid. B. 192, 200. May essoign for a Copyholder, but not do services, A. 104. To three, conjunctim & divisim, to deliver Seisin, A. 192, 193. How Attorney must make Livery where the Lands lie in several Counties, A. 306, 307. In an Indenture, C. 16. Audita Querela. Upon a Statute Merchant, the Suit shall be in the King's Bench: But upon Statute-staple, in the Chancery, A. 140, 141, 228. contr. 303, 304. Process therein, is either Venire facias, or Scire facias, A. 140, 141. Upon a Statute Staple, upon payment of the Money in the Court of C. B. (quod nota) the party is bailed, A. 141. Upon a Statute Merchant, for that it had but one half of the Seal, good, A. 228, 229. Lies to discharge the Land, if the Conusor taken by Capias be let at large by the Conusee his consent, A. 230, 231. B. 96. To avoid Execution upon a Recognizance, for that the Debt is attached in London, A. 297. Upon a voluntary Escape by the Sheriff it lies, B. 119. By one Bail to be relieved, for that the other Bail was taken by a Capias, and discharged by the then Plaintiff, C. 260. For one in Execution at the Suit of an Administrator, durante minori aetate, for that the Infant is come to Age, C. 278. Averment. A Demurrer need not to be averred, A. 24. Inducement to an Action, need not to be precisely averred, A. 123, 124. A consideration to make a Bargain and Sale, may be averred, though not mentioned in the Deed, A. 170. Where against a Record, return of a Sheriff, Deed enroled, A. 183, 184. None against a Bishop's Certificate, A. 205, 206. Where necessary to aver the continuance of the particular Estate, A. 139, 255, 66, 281. B. 50, 94, 95. Where want of such Averment is aided by Intendment, A. 281. C. 42, 43. Devise to A. may be averred to be any one of that Name, B. 35. Where he who pleads must aver all things to make good his Plea; or the other party must show it, C. 40 to 43. Ancient Demesne. For what Goods only they are privileged from Toll, A. 232. B. 191. Fine levied thereof, avoidable by a Writ of Deceit, A. 290. Pleading thereof, A. 333. B. 190, 191. Authority. Shall be strictly pursued, if not coupled with an Interest, A. 74, 285, 286, 288, 289, bis. Where Authority is reserved by Statute or Deed, to make Leases; If Leases in Reversion may be made, C. 134. B. Bailiff. Sheriff's, Bailiffs shall not be prejudiced by the mis-return, or not return of the Sheriff, A. 144. What power a Bailiff of a Manor hath, B. 46. Bail. Discharged, upon the Principal his Offer to render himself, A. 58. No Scire facias lies against them, until a perfect Judgement be against the Principal, B. 1, 2. Cannot be charged by any Custom, without a Scire facias, B. 29, 30, 87. If to a Scire facias against them, they may plead Error in Fact in the first Judgement, B. 101. A Lord shall find Bail, ad solvendum debitum, upon an Action removed out of London, B. 173, 174. Bail upon a Writ of Error, is not to render the Body (being then in Execution) but to pay the Debt, C. 113. Baron and Feme. To what intent the Husband is the Femes Assignee, A. 3. Where they shall join in Trespass, A. 105. The Wife served with a Sub-poena, the charges to be given to her, Stat. 5 Eliz. cap. 9 A. 122, 123. They are at Exigent, no Supersedeas shall be received for the Baron without the Feme, A. 138, 139. The Baron cannot recover things in Action due to the Wife, but must first take Administration, A. 216. Leases made by the Baron of the Femes Land, the Lease is void after their deaths, A. 247. What Conveyance of the Wife, of Lands given by the Baron, is within the intent of the Statute, 11 H. 7. A. 261, 262. C. 78. They being Tenants in Tail jointly, the Baron suffers a Recovery; this binds not the moiety of the Feme, A. 270. If an Exchange by them of the Wife's Land bind the Feme, A. 285. Trover by the Feme, and Conversion by the Baron and Feme, Action must be against them both, A. 312. Payment to the Feme, is no good Bar, A. 320. What act of the Baron, is a breach of the Condition, annexed to the Femes Estates, B. 35, 48. What value the Parapharnalia of a Viscounts Wife in Jewels is, B. 166. Devise that she shall take the profits, until the Son come of Age, her second Husband surviving her, shall not take the profits, B. 221. C. 78. cont. If an Interest be devised, C. 9 Lands given to the use of the Wife for life; remainder to the Heirs of Baron and Feme, the Remainder is executed for a moiety, C. 4. The Feme cannot give Licence to one to do a Trespass in the Husband's Land, C. 267. By Agreement of the Baron to a Desseisin, to the use of Baron and Feme, the vests in them both, but the Feme is no Disseisor, C. 272. Bargain and Sale. By Parol of Houses, good, and the manner thereof, A. 18. There must be a Consideration for the doing thereof, but it is not traversable, A. 170. Of Trees, Habend. & Succidend. infra 20 annos, If the Bargaince may cut them after 20 years, A. 275. This Conveyance works by the Statute of Uses, B. 122. C. 16. Of Trees during life of the Lessor, the Lessee must cut all at one time in one Close, and cannot leave off and begin again, C. 7. Give, grant, agree, confirm, covenant, all work by Bargain and Sale, and by the Statute of Uses, as well as the words Bargain and Sale, C. 16. Bar. Where non damnificatus is a good Bar, & e contra, A. 71, 72. Must be good to a common intent, and must be confessed, avoided, or traversed, or conclude the Defendant by Estoppel, A. 77. By an Obligation in Bar of Assumpsit, how to be pleaded, A. 154. Non Dimisit, and what advantage may be taken thereupon, A. 192, 206, 207. To an Action brought by a Sheriff against a Prisoner for escaping; Bar that since the escape the Plaintiff had acknowledged satisfaction, A. 237. Non Concessit per li●eras paten. A. 183. Plene Administr. before notice, where good, A. 312. Ejectione Firm a good Bar in Trespass against the same party, A. 313. C. 194. Judgement in Trespass, a good Bar in Appeal, A. 319. Good to common Intent, A. 321. What is a good Bar for a time, though it destroy not the Action for ever, A. 331. Where Non concessit, or that riens passa per le fait, must be pleaded, B. 13. If in Slander, for calling one Forsworn, it be a good Bar to say, the Plaintiff did not depose, B. 98. No good Bar to a Contract, that a Stranger became bound for the Money, B. 110. To an Action quod Waren. fregit, no Bar to say it is the Defendants ; for it may be so, and that the Plaintiff hath Warren there too, B. 202. If a good Bar in Assumpsit, that the Plaintiff discharged the Defendant, B. 203, 204, 214. The like in Covenant, C. 69. A Stranger is bound, that Lessee for years shall pay his Rent for his Farm; It is a good Bar that the Lessor entered, C. 159. Bastardy. The manner of pleading and taking Issue therein, A. 335. By pleading of the Bastardy, specially how Bastard, it shall be tried per Pais, C. 11. Or if the Bastard be not party to the Writ, C. 11. Bishop. Where he shall be tried per Pares, A. 5. What Lease shall bind the Successor, A. 234, 235. Is no Clerk, 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 certify a Warrant of Attorney, A. 22. Granted at the request of the Defendant in error ex officio, etc. 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 returned, 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 Judgement, 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. Churchwarden. Whether the Successor shall have Action for Trespass done in the Predecessors time, A. 177. Cinque-Ports. Issue triable there, tried 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 Coneys, 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 reentry 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, etc. 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 Leapyear 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 falsehood of a recital, A. 122. To pay Money 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, etc. 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 Money 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 impossible 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 show 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, join 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 Bishop's Lease, in what time it must be made, C. 17. Consideration in Assumpsit. Assumpsit in cosideration the Defendant will prove such a thing, etc. 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, aught to show 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 Money, 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, etc. and shall have an Ejectione Firm, 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, etc. 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 limited 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 Manor, 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, etc. 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. justification. If he may imprison, and how, A. 327. Needs not dispute the legality of a Justice's 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 Assizes, 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, no judgement can be given, C. 14. Where as to part a Plea is pleaded, which is tryable by Certificate or otherwise than by Jury, if the other which is tryable by Jury be not continued, the whole is not discontinued, C. 268. Conuzance de Pleas. Not grantable if the Plaintiff be privileged in the Courts at Westminister, C. 149. Copulative & Disjunctive. Where a Copulative shall be taken as a Disjunctive, & e converse, A. 74, 244, 251. Where a thing is to be done Copulative, both the matters must be averred, A. 251, 252. Corporation. Upon a grant to them of an Acre in a great Field, how they must make election, A. 30. Must acknowledge Deeds, and levy Fines, etc. by Warrant of Attorney, A. 184. Where the names of the Heads of what Corporations must be showed in pleading, A. 306, 307. How they must make a Lease by Attorney where they are out of possession, B. 97, 98. Cannot be Feoffees to Uses, B. 122. Leases by them, must be made by their true name of Incorporation as to substance, A. 159 to 163, 215. B. 97, 165. C. 220. Corpus cum Causa. See Habeas Corpus. Covenant. To assure Lands, the Covenantor is not bound to seal a Deed with Covenants, A. 29. To repair upon warning, Action lies by Grantee of the Reversion, though the House was ruinous before his Title, A. 62. That the Premises should be exonerated De omnibus oneribus, etc. how broken, A. 93. C. 44. That the Lessee shall take Fireboot super dicta premissa, extends not to Lands excepted, A. 117. To help and assist the Plaintiff in a Suit in the Defendants name, and not to abate it, the Defendant being a Feme Sole takes Husband, yet is the Writ but abateable, A. 168, 169. Upon the words, Dedi & Concessi, A. 179, 278. B. 104. By Lessor to repair, the Lessee in his default repairs; if the Lessee may retain Rend for it, A. 237. What Covenant makes a Condition, and shall defeat an Estate, A. 246. Upon the words, absque impetitione, denegatione, Covenant lies if the party himself disturb, A. 277. For quiet enjoyment from all claiming under the Covenantor, the breach must say how he claimed, A. 318. Performance of Covenants in the Disjunctive, must be especially pleaded, A. 311. Where it lies upon a Proviso, A. 318. To make an Estate, or repair a House; how performance must be pleaded, B. 38, 39, 53. To make assurance, binds not to release with Warranty, B. 130. One Covenants to assure such Lands as shall descend to him, the same to be yearly worth 40 l. If all the Lands by descent are to be assured, C. 27. That the Lessee shall enjoy without interruption of any; If interruption by one who hath no Title, be a breach, C. 44. Covenant to leave the Houses in as good plight as he found them, C. 44. If upon a Covenant to repair, a Recovery be had, the Lessor can sue no more, C. 51. If one be interrupted by a Decree in Chancery, that is no breach of a Covenant to enjoy, without lawful Eviction, C. 71. Who shall do the first act where the Covenant is reciprocal, C. 219. B. 211, 212. That he hath made no former Assurances, but that the Land shall descend, raises no Uses, C. 7. Count. Where in a Quare Impedit the Writ may be general, and the Count special, A. 226, 227. Where in a Writ of Entry Sur disseisin brought by Tenant in tail, A. 231. How to Count where one of two Debtors or Trespassors are Utlawed, C. 202. Countermand. In what case the Bailor of Goods may Countermand the authority of the Bailee, B. 31. Courts, and Offices of the Court. The Common Bench cannot write to the King's Bench for a Record, A. 90. If upon pleading, a Title be found or confessed for the King, the Court ex Officio must prosecute for the King, A. 194, 323. A Court to admit Copyholders may be held out of the Manor, A. 289. In what case the King's Bench may hold Plea under 40 s. A. 316. What duty due by a Subject to the King, gives the Subject privilege in the Court of Exchequer, B. 21. How and by what authority Nisi Prius are tried out of the Exchequer, B. 87. All the Courts except the Common Bench, are variable as to the place, and must be showed where they sit, B. 102, 103. Courtesy of England. In what case the Husband be where the Wife's Estate is defeasible by condition, A. 167, 168. By custom of Manor, B. 109. If the Husband shall be Tenant by the Courtesy of the Seignory of the Wife, where he himself was Tenant, C. 247. Court Christian. Their Sentences there are good, until revoked by other Sentence, B. 169 to 172, 176, 177. Cui in vita. What is a good Bar therein, A. 53. Custom. Of free Bench within a Manor, A. 1. That the Lord may seize for conviction of his Tenant of Felony, A. 1. Where it shall be taken strictly, A 1●2. B. 109. Of Bristol, that a Covenant shall bind by Parol, is good, A. 2. That a Copyholder may Lease for years ad pasturand. non ad colend', A. 16. What Customs are void being unreasonable, A. 217. C. 81, 82, 226, 227. What are good and reasonable, A. 217, 328. C. 227. That the Lord may take the profits during the Nonage of the Infant Tenant, good, A. 266. Customs of the King's Courts are Laws, B. 85, 86. Custom alleged infra Regnum Angliae, if good, B. 114, 115. A good Custom, that Robbers at Sea shall share the Goods, though one Ship did but stand by and look on, B. 182. D. Damages. INcreased by the Court super visum vulnerum, A. 139. No costs upon discontinuance by original Stat. 32 H. 8. 15. A. 115. Entire assessed upon one promise to perform an Award of two matters, whereof one void, how adjudged, A. 170, 171. An Action upon the Stat. of 8 H. 6. of Forcible entry, treble Costs and Damages, A. 282. B. 52. If the Jury ought to assess any Damages in Account, A. 302. In what Actions Costs by the Statute 32 H. 8. vide tit. Stat. B. 9, 52. C. 92. In account the Plaintiff hath Damages, B. 118. The Plaintiff shall have Costs assessed but by one Jury, though several Trials by several Juries, B. 177. Grantee of a Reversion shall recover Damages in Covenant but for things done since the Grant, C. 51. The first Jury which tries the first Issue may assess Damages for the whole Trespass, C. 122. If the Plaintiff in Replevin be nonsuited after Avowry for Rent, the Court may assess Damages without a Writ of Enquiry, C. 213. If joint Damages be assessed for two Trespasses, one of which lieth not, the Plaintiff cannot have Judgement, C. 213. Where the Court will abridge Damages, C. 150. Dean and Chapter & hujusmodi. An Archdeacon, Prebend, what they are, A. 13, 205. What places have two Chapters, and if Leases, confirmed by one, be good, A. 234, 235. The Chapter must be party to a Lease; count. of Lands proper to the Dean only, B. 176. Debt. For foreign Money may be demanded either by Foreign or English Names, A. 41. Upon a Recognizance in nature of a Statute, A. 52. B. 14. Upon a void Award, is good if the Defendant do not show that part that makes it void, A. 72, 73. For a nomine poenae, A. 110. For a pain set in a Court Leet, A. 203, 204, 217, 218. Upon the words Covenant and Grant, lieth, A. 208. Where it lies before the last day of payment, A. 208. For the surplusage of an Account, A. 219. Lies by an Administrator against an Executor for Arrearages of an Annuity, A. 224, 225. Lies upon a Recognizance made before the Mayor of London, A. 284. If Debt lies by the Grantee of a Rent reserved by a Lease, to which Grant the Lessee attorned, A. 315. Under 40 s. in the King's Bench for Costs in a Hundred Court, A. 316. Against an Heir, shall be in the Debet & Detinet, B. 11. Debt lies upon a Judgement or Recognizance, although the Plaintiff have Judgement upon a Scire Facias, B. 14. For Rent lies, although in the Declaration it be alleged, that he entered before the commencement of his Lease, B. 98. Lies for the Grantee of Post-Fines, and for a Nomine poenae by the Heir, B. 179. cont. A. 249, 250. This Action lies not but where a certain sum is agreed on, C. 161. Against Baron and Feme for a Debt of the Feme, must be in the Debet & Detinet, C. 206. For Corn in the Detin●t, and the Plaintiff shall recover the value of the Corn, C. 260. Deed. Where the Habend' may control the Premises, A. 11, 281, 318. B. 105. What is a good delivery thereof, what not, A. 140, 152. If a primo deliberat' or non est factum may be pleaded of a Deed enroled, A. 183, 184 C. 175, 176. Where in the Premises of the Deed two things are granted Habend' the one for years, what Estate the Grantee hath, A. 281, 282. Raisure of a Deed does not avoid it, if it be in a part not prejudicial to the party who would avoid it, A. 282. Indenture between A. of one part, and B. and C. his Wife and their Children, A. 287, 288. Must be pleaded, sealed and delivered, or by words tantamount, A. 310. In Indentures the intention of the parties may be argued; Deeds Poll shall be taken strongest against the Grantor, A. 318. B. 47, 192. None can take by Indenture but those who are party to it, A. 287, 288. B. 1. C. 34. The effect and meaning of them regarded, where the words are doubtful, B. 17, 219, 151. Where a Deed may have (quasi) two deliveries, B. 192. A Deed once perfectly executed as by enrolment, &c. cannot pass any thing by Livery, C. 16, 125. Actual indenting, and both parties Seals mentioned to be put, makes an Indenture, C. 16. Where a Deed in the Premises leaseth Lands to one Habendum to his Executors and Assigns for 40 years, what Estate the Lessee hath, C. 32, 33, 34. The date of a Deed not material, C. 100 Demand. See Request. The King need not demand a Rent to avoid a Lease, A. 12. B. 134. C. 125. A Legacy not payable without demand, A. 17. Rend payable at Michaelmas or within the space of 12 days, prox. post aliquod festorum vel dierum, when it is demandable, A. 142. The difference of demand in a Writ, De advocatione duarum partium Ecclesiae & duabus partibus Advoc. Ecclesiae, A. 169. What is demandable in a Writ of Entry, A. 169, 170. Whether demand at one day for Rent due several days before, be good, A. 190, 191, 305. Whether a sum in gross must be demanded as Rent, A. 269. The manner to make a demand of a Rent, A. 305. He who demands Rend as Attorney, need not tell his name, nor show his authority, C. 224. Demurrer. To Evidence in Ejectione Firm, A. 269. All matters well pleaded, are confessed by Demurrer, C. 200. Upon Demurrer to a Challenge, there neeeds no Sergeants hands, C. 222. Departure. What is, what is not, A. 32. Count of a Lease without Deed, no Departure by Replication, to say the Lease was made by Deed, A. 156, 204. C. 203. Ejec. vers. 5. One pleads to the Issue, the others plead specially; no Departure for the Plaintiff to deduce a Title to himself, and say, that he was seized, until by the 4 disseised, B. 199. First to make a Title by Common Law, and reply a Custom to uphold it, is a Departure, C. 40. Devastavit. What Sheriff may return it, and what Sheriff is estopped to return it, B. 67. C. 2. If Executors release a forfeited Bond of 100 l. and receive only 50 l. the whole is Assets, C. 53. It is a personal Tort, and the Executors of the Executors shall not be chargeable with the first Executors Devastavit, C. 241. Devise. See Legacy. That Executors shall sell Lands, who sell by Fine, A. 31. C. 119. If such Executors may ●ell by parcels, A. 34, 60, 260. The construction of an Habendum in a Devise, A. 57, 58. What shall be a Devise in tail, for life, or in see, A. 57, 58. B. 69. C. 55. That his Son, and an Executor, shall take the profits until another comes of Age, gives the Son see, A. 101. C. 55. To the discretion of the Devisee, A. 156, 224, 283. B. 69. That Executors shall sell a Reversion, who sell by Parol, yet good, and the Devisee is in by the Will, A. 148. C. 119. To three Sons, and if any die, the Survivor to be his Heir, how adjudged, A. 166, 258, 259. C. 262. All my Lands and Tenements, if it passeth a Reversion after a Lease for life, A. 180, 181. If by the Stat. of Wills, an Estate pur altar vy, may be devised, A. 252. A Use may be raised by Devise, and the Consideration is presumed by Law, A. 254, 257. If the Devisee die in the life of the Devisor, the Heir of the Devisee shall take nothing, A. 254. Of Capite Land and Soccage, A 267. B. 41, 42. C. 267. Vide the Statutes 32 & 34 H. 8. To A. if she do not Marry, Remainder in tail, A. 283. That if my Son A. die without Issue, that then my Sons in Law shall sell; how adj. A. having a Son who dies without Issue, A. 285, 286. Feoffment to the Uses in his Will, which deviseth that his Feoffees shall be seized to Uses, a good Devise, A. 313. That Lessee for years shall hold after the Devisors death for 30 years, accounting the Remainder of the first Term, how adj. B. 33, 34. Devise to A. may be helped by Averment, B 35. C. 79. To the Father and his eldest Issue Male, B. 35. Things individual cannot be devised within the Statute of Wills, If part be Soccage, and part Capite, B. 41, 42. That his Lands shall be sold for payment of his Debts, the Executor shall sell, 43, 220. Devise that his Executor shall sell, who dies, his Executor cannot sell, B. 69. To the Heirs of the Body of his Eldest Son, is void, B. 70. I give my Lease to my Wife for life, and then to my Children unpreferred, B. 90. To the Heir in see is void, and he is in by descent, B. 101. C. 18. That his Executor shall pay a Debt; this is no Legacy, B. 119, 120. Devise shall be taken according to the Common, not Legal construction, B. 120. C. 18, 19 Devise of three Closes to three, and if any die, that the other shall have all his part to be divided between them, B. 129. That A. shall pay yearly 10 l. out of a Manor, is a good Devise of the Manor to A. B. 165. They shall be construed favourably, but not against Law B. 165. If the Devisor be distrained, and dies before reentry, nothing passeth, B. 165. All his Lands called Jacks, in the occupation of I S. what passes if not in the occupation of J.S. B. 226. Like Case, C. 18, 19, 132. Of a Manor to B. and of a third part thereof to C. they are joint Tenants, C. 11. Words in a Devise shall never be judged repugnant, if by any rational Construction they may consist, C. 11, 28, 29, Devise of Lands to his Wife for life, and after that she may give them to whom she will, C. 71. Lands called H. in two Vills, A. and B. Devise of H. in A. for life, remainder of Hayes Land to L. No Land passes in remainder, but Lands in A. C. 77. To J. for thirty one years to pay Debts, remainder after the Term expired to his Heirs Males; and if he die within the Term, that G. shall have it and be Executor; J. dies, his Issue enters; G. evicts him, C. 110. Devise, that the eldest Son shall take the profits until the younger be of Age, and the remainder to the younger Son; the elder hath see conditional, C. 216. Devise, that his Feoffees to Uses shall be seized to other Uses; who are accounted Feoffees, C. 262. Diminution. The manner of alleging it, A. 22. With what time it must be alleged, B. 3. Deceit. Fine reversed by such a Writ, because the Land is Ancient Demesne, A. 290. C. 3, 12, 117, 120. Not abated by death of one Defendant, C. 3. Upon a Recovery in a Quare Impedit, A. 293. The manner of proceeding therein, A. 294. For an Infant against his Guardian who lost the Land by default in Dower, B. 59 Where Estate of the Conusee remains after the Fine reversed, C. 12, 120. Whom it shall bind without summons, C. 120. Descent. Takes not away the entry of him who claims by Devise, condition broken, etc. A. 210. B. 192. cont. B. 147. Disclaimer. He who hath disclaimed, shall not have a Writ of Error, C. 176. Discontinuance de Process, etc. Vide Continuance. Discontinuance de Terre. Remainder in fee after a Lease for life; where not discontinued by Fine by the Tenant for life, A. 40. B. 18, 19 None of Copyholds, A. 95. Nor upon a Covenant to stand seized made by Tenant in tail, A. 110, 111. By Feoffment of Tenant in tail, A. 127. B. 18, 19 Quid operatur if the Feoffees join in the Discontinuance, B. 18, 19 Lease for years by Cestuy que use pur vy, is no Discontinuance, but warranted by the Stat. of 32 H. 8. B. 46. None if the Reversion be in the King, B. 157. C. 57 Nor by Bargain and Sale by Deed enroled, without Livery, C. 16. Disseisin and Disseisor. Where a Man shall be a Disseisor at the election of another, A. 121. B. 9 If Tenant per altar vy hold over after the death of Custuy que vie, if he be a Disseisor, B. 45, 46. The like if Tenant for years holds over, B. 45, 46. If the younger Brother enter, if he be a Disseisor or Tenant at sufferance, B. 48. If Disseisee may give licence to put in Cattle before Entry, C. 144. He who Disseiseth a Copyholder gains no Estate, C. 221. Disseisin to the use of Baron and Feme, he only agrees, the Estate vests in both, but the Feme is no Disseisor, C. 272. Distress. Cannot distrain upon the King's Lands, A. 191. Where, and who may distrein the Cattle of a Stranger, though not Levant and Couchant; where and who not, B. 7. If one as Bailiff, may say he takes a Distress for one cause, and carry it away for another, B. 196. Dower. The Wife not Dowable if the Husband be attaint of Treason, although pardoned, A. 3. Of what age the Feme must be, A. 53. Inquiry of Damages where the Baron died seized, A. 56, 92. In such an Inquiry the Jury may find above the value of the Dower, A. 56. By Custom of Gavel-kind, whether demandable as by Common Law, A. 62, 133. How a Grand-Cape in D. must be executed, A. 92. Wife Dowable of a Seisin in Fee, defeasible by a Condition, A. 168. The Wife shall be endowed at Common Law, where the King is to have Primer Seisin, A. 285. If a conditional Estate be a good Jointure to bar Dower, A. 311. Bar that the Heir granted to the Wife a Rent in satisfaction, etc. he ought to show what Estate he had in the Land, B. 10. An Infant cannot lose by default in Dower, unless per Guardian, B. 59, 189. Notwithstanding what divorces the Wife shall be endowed, B. 169, 170. If the Wife shall be endowed, where the Husband takes a Fine, and renders back presently, C 11. If she be barred by Fine and Non-claim, if she brings her Writ within five years, and desists prosecution six years after, C. 50. Touts temps priest a tender Dower; where necessary to plead it, or to give Judgement by default, C. 50, 52. If the Wise of the Lord shall be endowed of Demeine Lands grantable and granted by Copy by the Lord, B. 153. C. 59 Of a Presentation to a Church, C. 155. It is a good Bar in Dower, that the Feme accepted Homage from the Tenant, C. 272. Pleading of agreement to a Jointure made during Coverture, C. 272. Divorce. If it be causa frigiditatis in the Man who hath Issue by another, if the first Marriage be good, or the Divorce good, until avoided by Sentence, B. 169, 170, 171, 172. The several kinds of Divorce, B. 169. In pleading of Divorce, the Judge's name Coram quo, must be precisely pleaded, B. 170, 171. Droit. The form of a Writ of Right, and what is demandable therein, A. 169. B. 36. Whether it lies of an Office, Stat. W. 2 cap. 25. A. 169. B. 36. The manner of arrayment of the twelve Recognitors by four Knights, A. 303. Droit of an Advowson, where it lies, A. 316. No challenge to the Polls after the Array made, A. 303. Where a Man hath no remedy but by this Writ, B. 62, 63, 65. A Writ of Droit Close directed to the Bailiff, and procceeded coram Sectatoribus, good, C. 63, 64. In such Writ twelve Recognitors returned, suffice in an Inferior Court, C. 64. The manner of swearing the Jurors, C. 162. Upon Issue upon the mere Right, the Tenant must first give evidence, C. 162. In a Writ of Right Sur Disclaimer, it is a good Bar that the Lord since accepted the Rent from the Tenant, C. 272. Duresse. A good Bar in an Action of Account, A. 13. It may be pleaded without a Traverse, C. 239. What is, what is not Duresse, 239. Duchy. A Case thereof, and of Grants made under that Seal, B. 151, 152, 162, 163, 164. E. Ejectione Firm. LIes of Title in London, A. 19 Lies not the Tenemento, A. 118. Where it lies not but upon an actual ouster, A. 212. If the Plaintiff hath no Title, nor the Defendant any, the Plaintiff shall not recover, A. 215. Et bona & catalla cepit, A. 312. Lies not of Copyhold upon the Lord's Lease, but of the Copyholders Lease, A. 328. Where one pleads and the other demurs, and the dem. is adjudged for the Plaintiff, the Plaintiff cannot relinquish the Issue and take Judgement, as in Trespass, B. 199. De uno Cubiculo better than de una Camera, C. 210. De Romea, C. 210. De Messuagio sive Tenemento, is not good, C. 228. The Plaintiff may relinquish his Damages where part of the Action fails, and take Judgement for the other, C. 228. Ejectione Custody. For a Lord of the Heir of his Copyholder, A. 328. Election. Of an Acre in a great Field sold to a Corporation, how they must make Election, A. 30. To whom given where the condition is in the disjunctive, A. 70. Devise of an Acre in a Field, the Devisee must make his election in his life, A. 254. Grant of a Manor, except B. Arce, where is two of that name, the Grantor hath the election, A. 268. Award in the disjunctive and one part is void, yet the other must be performed, A. 305. Where one hath election to claim an Estate by two manner of Conveyances by one Deed, C. 16, 17, 128. Covenant to stand seized of Lands in S. of the yearly value of 40 l. who hath the election, C. 27. Cannot be transferred over to the prejudice of another, C. 154. Elegit. Vide Extent and Execution. If after Elegit returned, that the Lands are already in Extent, the Plaintiff may have a Capias, A. 176. If it be executed, but not returned, Quid operatur, A. 280. B. 12, 13, 49, 50. Granted against an Executor upon Devastavit returned, B. 188. Lessee for years may pay his Rent to the Plaintiff before Suit, C. 113. Embleament. If Conusee of a Statute or Recognizance, or the Conusor shall have the Corn sowed, B. 54. Entry. Estraying of Beasts sua sponte, no Entry, A. 110. What Act is an Entry, what not, A. 209, 210. Entry of him who claims by Devise or Condition broken, where not taken away by a descent, A. 191, 209, 210. Semble cont. B. 147. An Heir may bring an Action for Nuisance without Entry, A. 273. Husband Leases the Land of his Wife Tenant in Tail and dies, the Feme must enter before she make Leases, A. 122. In what case Cestuy que Use is put to his Entry, A. 258. By death of Tenant in Tail without Issue, the Freehold vests in him in Remainder without Entry, A. 268. Where Trespass is maintainable without Entry, A. 302. B. 47, 97, 98, 137. Where the Entry of him in Remainder upon, forfeiture of Tenant for life, is lawful, B. 61 62, 63. The Patentee of the King must enter where there is an Intruder, B. 147, 148. The Lessee levies a Fine to the use of himself and his Heirs, if he may re-enter without Attornment, C. 103. Disseisee must re-enter before he can licence one to put in Cattle, C. 144. He in Remainder after the death of Cestuy que vie, may bring Trespass without Entry, G. 152, 153. By entry of a Stranger upon the King's Farmer, he who enters, hath gained the Term of the Farmer, C. 206. He who hath an under Lease in Reversion of part of the Term from a Lessee of a greater Term, cannot enter to defeat the former Estate, but the Lessee may, C. 269. Two Tenants may plead several Tenancy in this Action, B. 8. What is demandable in a Writ of Entry, A. 169. Entry sur disseisin in London, C. 148. Error. Upon a Bill of Intrusion in the Exchequer, A. 9 B. 194. By Journeys accounts in a real Action against an Heir upon the death of his Ancestor, Quaere, A. 22. Judgement for the Defendant reversed, and Judgement given pro quer', A. 33. Of an Assize, A. 55, 255. Where it lies of a Judgement in Ireland, A. 55. C. 159. Lies not in the Common Bench, A. 55, 159. Nor upon the first Judgement in Trespass or Account, A. 193, 194, 309. B. ●68. What Heir shall have it to reverse a Recovery, A. 261. 291. Of a Quid juris clamat, A. 290. Upon a Judgement in a Writ of Deceit, A. 293. Who must join or sever in Error in the realty, A. 293, 294, 317. It is Error in a Judgement in an Inferior Court, if no Plaint be, A. 302. To reverse a Fine for Infancy, and reversed in part, A. 317. By an Executor to reverse an Utlary in Felony against their Testator, A. 326. Where by reversal of one Record, another is annulled, A. 325, 326. A second Writ of Error in nature of Diminution to remove part of a Record, B. 2, 3. De recordo quod coram vobis residet, B. 2, 3. C. 107. The principal shall have no Writ of Error upon the Judgement against the Bail, B. 4. In fact, viz. the death or infancy of one of the Defendants after Verdict upon a Judgement in the King's Bench, B. 54. C. 96. Upon a Judgement in the Exchequer, by whom allowed, B. 59 Lies of a Judgement in London Sessions upon an Indictmenr, B. 107. If Error lies against the Queen, unless the party petition for the Writ, B. 194. Upon a Judgement in a Scire facias in the Chancery of Chester, B. 194. There must be two Writs to reverse two Fines, B. 211. If in such case the one Fine may be pleaded to the one Writ, and the other Fine to the other Writ, B. 211. If upon a Writ of Error of Fine, the Plaintiff is nonsuit, a Stranger may have a Writ de recordo quod coram vobis residet, C. 107. Commission to three Judges to examine a Judgement which was given in London, and reversed in the Hustings there in Assize of Fresh-force, C. 169. If the Bishop who pleads that he hath nothing but as Ordinary, must join in the Writ of Error upon a Quare Impedit, C. 176. He who disclaims shall not have Error, C. 176. Escape. Lieth against the Sheriff, although the Execution might be avoided by Audita Quereia or Error, A. 3. B. 93, 86. In what case a Vill shall be amerced for the escape of a Felon, A. 107, C. 207. The Sheriff lets one escape whom he took by Cap. Utla. when he had a Capias ad satisfaciend. against him in his hands; yet escape lies not, A. 263. If it lies where the party was charged in Execution while he was Prisoner for Felony, A. 276. It lieth not for escape of a Bail, if not Scire facias issued against him, B. 29, 30. Was first given by equity of the Stat. W. 2. cap. 11. B. 9 No Costs upon nonsuit in this Action, B. 9 If the old Sheriff keep any Prisoner after he is discharged of his Office, it is an Escape, B. 54. If one escape upon an illegal Writ, the Court will aid the Sheriff, though he cannot deny to execute the Process, B. 86. The Sheriff cannot seize the party who escapes by his consent, B. 119. Escheat. If a Remainder depending upon an Estate for life Escheat, the Seignory is extinct, A. 255. Essoine. In an Ejectione Firm adjourned, A. 134. The Term in the eye of the Law gins the day of Essoines; count. as to lay gents, A. 210, 211. In Quare Impedit, B. 4, 185. The office and force of an Essoine, B. 4. If the Defendant appear and be essoined, no Amerciament ought to be against him, B. 185. An unnecessary and feigned delay, C. 51. per Dyer. Estoppel. Count of a demise generally, Defendant pleads nihil habuit in Tenementis, the Plaintiff may estop the Defendant by pleading the Deed, A. 156, 204, 206. Who shall take advantage of an Estoppel, A. 157, 158. The Jury ought to find it, though the party hath not pleaded it, A. 204, 206. If Deed enroled be an Estoppel to the party to plead Non est factum, A. 184. Where the Court will take notice thereof, if not pleaded, A. 184. What Deeds made void by Statute, are good by Estoppel against the party who made them, A. 308, 309. By matter of Record, B. 3. Where one shall be estopped by a recital in a Bond, Indenture, etc. where not, B. 11. C. 118. What Estoppel made by the Ancestor shall bind the Heir, B. 57, 58. A Verdict for the Plaintiff upon a plene administravit, estops the Sheriff of that County where the Trial was, to return nulla bona, B. 67. By Deed indented, B. 73. One seized in Fee takes a Lease of the Herbage of his own Land, he is not estopped to claim Fee, B. 159. No Estoppel by a Record, if the Judgement be reversed, C. 52. Jurors are not estopped by an Estoppel implied, unless pleaded in the Record, C. 209, 210. Estovers. Prescription for them within a Forest, A. 2. To a Message new built upon an old Foundation, B. 44. What Estovers Lessee for years may take of common right, C. 16. If Lessor grant Fireboot, Lessee may take Trees if there be no Under-wood, C. 16. Evidence. What Evidence may be given upon a Not Guilty in Trespass, A. 301. C. 83. What upon a Nil debet, in Debt for Rent, B. 10. He who is in the affirmative, must give Evidence first, C. 162. Exception. Count of a Demise of Demesne Lands, and Evidence that the Demise was with an Exception, yet good Evidence, A. 139, 140. Where in a Writ there must be a Forsprize, B. 162. What may be excepted out of a Lease for years, A. 49. De grossis arboribus crescen', A. 61, 116, 117, 246. Where a Praecipe shall demand a House with or without an Exception for part, A. 252. Exchange. By Baron and Feme, who levy a Fine of the Land taken in Exchange, the Feme may enter into her own Lands, A. 285. Execution. Where the Defendant taken by a Cap. pro fine, shall be in Execution for the Plaintiff, A. 51, 276. The Defendant rendering himself shall not be in Execution unless the Plaintiff pay it, A. 58. Execution shall be of the Goods which the Defendant had at the time of the Execution awarded, A. 144, 145. By Fieri facias, good after the Defendants death, A. 144. By Writ of Possession, the Sheriff must turn all persons out of Doors, A. 145. By Capias ad satisfaciend, after Elegit returned, that the Lands were first delivered to others by Extent, A. 176. The Sheriff upon a return Habendo, may inquire the kinds of the Cattle, if the Count or Avowry be incertain, A. 193. One in Prison by Utlary, against whom the Sheriff hath a Capias ad satisfaciend. Escape lies not, though the Sheriff do not charge him with the Capias ad satisfaciend', A. 263. Stayed by Rule of Court after Judgement, A. 276. Where the Defendant taken and in Prison for Felony, is chargeable in Execution, A. 276, 277. B. 85, 86, 87. What are well executed not being returned, and what not, A. 280. B. 49, 50. But one Execution upon a joint Praecipe in debt, Secus upon a several Praecipe, A. 288. After Execution sued, the Defendant cannot sell his Goods bona fide, A. 304. One attaint of Felony, and also charged with Executions, shall not be discharged of the Executions; contra of Actions, A. 326, 327. B. 84 to 89. If the Execution be continued, no Scire facias is necessary, B. 77, 78, 87. In what Cases a Capias in Execution lay at Common Law, and in what now per Statute, B. 86, 87. Capias lies against the Bail in B. R. and C. B. in a common Action, and upon Audita Querela, B. 88 If the Body of a Lord be liable to Execution, B. 173, 174. Executors. Scire facias Executoribus, etc. without their names, is good, A. 17. How Judgement shall be against them where part only is found in Assets, A. 67, 68 Where Assets is found for part, and after Goods come to the Executors hands, how the Plaintiff must sue forth Execution; scil. by Scire facias, A. 67, 68 No plea against an Executor, that the Executor was cited to appear to prove the Will, and made default, and that adm. was come. to the Defendant, A. 90, 91. Where Judgement shall be de bonis propriis where de bonis testatoris, A. 94. The Executor gives his Bond for Money, a good Administration, C. 111, 112. Debtor makes the Creditor his Executor, A. 112. What is a good refusal of Executors to prove the Will, A. 135. Devise that Executors shall sell a Reversion, sale by Parol is good, and the Vendee is in by the Will, A. 148. Debt by single Contract lies not against them, though they do not demur but plead, A. 165. Action by them de bonis asport, in vita testatoris, and the form thereof, A. 193, 194, 205. One made Executor, if he shall permit J. S. to hold a Term for three years, when his power gins, A. 229. By grant of Bona & Catalla, Goods of the Testators pass, A. 263. Executor of Executor how to be named, A. 275. In what case they shall recover Arrears of Rent in Fee by the Statute, 32 H 8. 37. A. 302, 303. Plene administravit before notice of the Suit, the original being in a foreign County, A. 312, 69. B. 60. The Executrix of the Debtee marries the Debtor, she may have an Action for the Debt against the Debtors Executor, A. 320. They may have Error of an Utlary in Felony against their Testator, A. 325. Good resolutions, for their pleading of Statutes, Judgements, etc. A. 328. 329. What Debts must be first paid, 328, 329. Are liable to account to the King. B. 34. The manner of prosecuting a Devastavit in a foreign County against an Executor, B. 67. If they plead plene administravit specially by paying Debts upon Bonds, they must show how the Bonds are discharged, B. 155. What intermeddling with the deceaseds Estate makes one Executor of his own wrong, B. 224. Conditional, if he pay all Debts owing to the Testator, to the other Executor, C. 3. If Executors enter or claim generally, it shall be taken to be as Executors, and not in any other capacity, C. 36. It is said, that a promise cannot be good to bind an Executor, if he hath not Assets, C. 67. Sale of Goods by an Infant Executor, is good, and binds him, C. 143. One Obligor makes the Surety his Executor, who pays the Money generally; Quaere, C. 197. How he must be sued, who being Executor of his own wrong, takes Administration, C. 197, 198. One Executor cannot give the Goods of the Testator to the other, for nothing passes by such Gift, C. 209. Release of one Executor binds both, C. 209. Executor of Executor not chargeable with a Devastavit made by the first Testator, C. 241. Exemption. A Juror sworn at the Bar, notwithstanding he produced his Charter, A. 207. Ex gravi querela. In London, in what case, A. 267. Ex parte talis. In what case it lieth, B. 93. Exposition of Words. Dedi & Concessi in a Deed, A. 29. Where the word Or, in a Deed, shall be copulative; & e converso, A. 74, 244. Of the word eundem in a Grant, A. 15. Divisus & dividend. in an original Writ, A. 169. Of Adtunc, A. 172. I agree to surrender my Lands, (spoken by Tenant at will,) A. 178. Of the word Tenement, in Grants, A. 188. Of the word Covenant, in a Bill of Debt, A. 208. Uterque in Indictments, A. 241. Quousque A. 244. Suus, A. 271. Right, A. 271. Factum, implies sealing and delivering, A. 310. Exponere ad culturam, gives no Estate in the Land, A. 315. In portum & ad portum, all one, A. 335. Covenant with two & quo ibet eorum, B 47. In manner aforesaid, is a Devise, B. 69. By the word Licet, may be made a good allegation, B. 108. C. 67. A mile is accounted in Law 1000 paces, and every pace 5 foot, B. 113. Assurance, to what Conveyances it doth relate, B. 130. Selion of Land, is uncertain, B. 162. Puer, if it relates to both Sexes, B. 217, 218. Firma, C. 12, 13. Whether the word Mille, may be joined to a Genitive or Accusative Case, C. 94. Tenementum, is of an incertain signification, C. 102. Of the word until; as a Lease until Michaelmas, includes the Feast day, C. 211 Curtillage quid, C. 214. Where a word in the singular number includes the plural, C. 262. Immediate, C. 273, 274. Term of years, C. 112. Extent. If it be well executed, though not returned, A. 280. Executed though not returned, in what case it is a good Execution, B. 12, 13. Lessee for years may pay the Rent to the Extendor, C. 113. Scire facias to remove the Conusee, C. 155. If the Conusee can in any case be removed without a Scire facias, C. 155 to 158. What k●nd of Interest is left in the Conusor, during the Extent, C. 156, 157. If an Extent be avoided by a Prior Statute, the puisne Conusee may enter when the other is satisfied, C. 239. If a Debt be assigned to the King, he shall have all the Conusors' Land, C. 240. By the Statute of Acton Burnel, the Extendors are to take the Lands if they appraise too high, and must pay the Debt, statim; But when that statim means vi. C. 274. Extinguishment. Of Rent by Entry, what act amounts thereto, A. 110. Estate for life extinct by a Fee coming to the same person, A. 174. A Prescription of non decimand. in a spiritual Person, is not extinguished by the Lands coming to lay hands, A. 248. If a Remainder depending upon an Estate for life escheat the Seignory is extinct presently, A. 255. Where an Action once suspended, is extinguished, A. 172, 320, 330, 331. Of a Use, A. 257, 259. A Rent granted in Fee, and that it shall be suspended during the nonage of every Heir, A. 266. Executor of the Debtee takes to Wife the Debtor, how adjudged, A. 320. Where personal things once suspended, shall be revived, B. 84. Lessor mortgages his Reversion to the Lessee in Fee, the Term is utterly extinct, C. 6. Where a Warrant is suspended, and may be revived, C. 10, 11. A Term for years comes to the Lessor as Executor, and he dies, the Term is revived, C. 210, 111. If Unity of possession in the King of Abbey Lands, extinguish a Common, C. 128. If Devisee of a Term remainder over purchase the Fee, the Term is not merged, C. 92, 93. Condition of reentry is not suspended by assigning part of the Land for part of the Term, C. 221. By destroying a Reversion, a Rent depending thereon is extinct, C. 261. A Mesnalty extinct by the Lords purchasing the Tenancy, C. 261. Extortion. Against whom it lies, and the several Statutes against it, A. 295. C. 268. It must be set forth in the Judgement whether any Fee or no Fee was due, C. 268. F. Faux Imprisonment. See justification FFaux Imprisonment lies if a Capias be made out of the Courts at Westminster to a County Palatine, B. 89. Faux judgement. Lies upon a Justicies, not Error, B. 34. Upon a Writ of Right Close prosecuted in nature of an Assize, C. 63. Fee-simple. Where it may be created without the word, B. 27. C. 216. Devise, that the elder Son shall take the Profits until the younger come of Age, is a Fee conditional in the eldest, C. 216. Feoffment. Vide Uses. Good by the words Bargain and Sell with Livery, A. 25. Fine and Amerciament. Upon alienation without Licence, A. 8. B. 55, 56. In what case a Vill shall be amerced for the escape of a Felon, A. 107. C. 207. If a Pain upon a Presentment must be afferred, A. 203, 204, 217, 242. In what case a Steward may Fine in a Court-Leer, A. 217, 242. Grantee of Post-Fines if he may distrain for them, and sell the distress, A. 249, 250. The manner of pleading in Trespass, where the Defendant-justifies for such Fine, A. 249, 250. By what words such Fines pass, A. 249, 250. If a Defendant make several defaults in one Suit, he shall be several times amerced, B. 4, 5. Fine set in a Court for a contempt in not returning of Cattle in a Replevin, B. 174. Debt lies for a Post-Fine by the Kings Grantee, B. 179. cont. C. 56, 234. A Defendant may be several times amerced for several defaults in one Suit, B. 185. If a pain set in a Court-Baron, may be mitigated by afferrors, C. 8. The remedy for a Grantee of the King to recover a Post-Fine, C. 56, 234. Fine for alienation without Licence may be levied upon any Lands of the Vendor, C. 241. Fine of Landlord See more C. 74. Parts finis nihil habuer. where Executors sell by virtue of a Devise that they shall sell, A. 31. Not receiveable if made to two, & heredibus suis, A. 62. A Fine levied of two parts of a Manor sans dire in tres parts dividend. good in a Fine, but ill in a Writ, A. 115. How to be pleaded upon the Statutes of 4 H. 7. 1 H. 3. & 32 H. 8. A. 75, 76, 77, 78. B. 36, 37. Quod partes finis nihil habuer. how and in what cases to be pleaded, A. 78, 83, 185. B. 36, 37. C. 37, 119. Where it shall be reversed in part or in the whole, A. 115. C. 120. Levied in Exeter City, and reversed, because it was de duobus Tenementis, A. 188. Who shall be bound, and how by a Fine and Non-claim after five years, A. 212, 213, 214, 259, 260, 261. B. 18, 19, 36, 37. C. 10. What remainder and contingent Uses are barred by Fine, A. 244. B. 18, 19, 36, 37. C. 10. With render of a Rent in Fee, and the Lands to the same persons for life; how the Law construes this render, A. 255. In pleading of it, it is not necessary to say, that the Conusor was seized, A. 255. Dangerous to plead a Fine inter alia, A. 255. By Baron and Feme, Come ceo que il ad del done le Baron, does not bar the Feme of Dower, A. 285. Of Ancient Demesne Lands, avoided by a Writ of Deceit, A. 290. C. 220. For life, without the word (Heirs) is not to be received for fear of occupancy, B. 124. The force of a Fine without proclamation such Fine is not void, but avoidable by Formedon, B. 157. An Infant may declare the Uses, and it binds, B. 159. Where it must be pleaded and conclude, Si actio, and where by Estoppel, B. 160. Forfeiture. Baron and Feme makes a Feoffment of the Wife's Jointure to one and his Heirs, to the use of the Feoffee for the life of the Feme; and adjudged a Forfeiture, A. 125, 126. Tenant for life forfeits his Estate by levying a Fine, A. 40, 212, 214, 262, 264. If a remainder which is to vest upon a contingency, may be forfeited before it vest, A. 244, 245. What distress or acceptance shall bar a Lessor to enter for a forfeiture for nonpayment, A. 262. If Bargain and Sale by Tenant for life be a forfeiture, A. 246. It is no forfeiture, B. 60, 65. What Aid Prayers, Vouchers, Attornments, and Plead by Tenant for life and years in real Actions, is a forfeiture of his Estate, B. 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66. C. 169, 170. If Tenant for life and the Reversioner join in a Fine, and the Reversioner reverse the Fine for his Nonage, yet he cannot enter for forfeiture, B. 108. If Cestuy que vie die, and the Tenant hold over, if he be Tenant at Will, Sufferance, or a Disseisor, C. 151, 152. Form. Want of Traverse is but Form, A. 44. Pleading to a Condition performance of Covenants generally, is but form, A. 311. Want of showing a Deed is but Form, B. 74. C. 193. Want of showing a place is substance, C. 200. What other matter is but Form, C. 235. Formedon. After the Tail spent, the Plaintiff may suppose all to be dead without Issue, A. 286. C. 103. Gavel-kind Land no Assets to bar a Formedon A. 315. In Reverter upon a Gift to the Heirs of the Body of Baron and Feme, remainder to their Heirs, B. 25. Upon a Gift in Tail, remainder to Coparceners, the Heir of the Survivor must bring a Formedon, for that they claim as purchasers, C. 14. Forrest. Lex Forestae is but a private Law, and must be, pleaded, B. 209, 210. Fraud. Fraud shall not be presumed, but must be averred, C. 255. G. Guardian. Guardian in Soccage may grant the Ward though he cannot forfeit, C. 190. Guardian in Soccage may enter for Condition broken, and make Leases, A. 322, 323. The Court refused to appoint one for an Infant returned Tenant in Dower, unless in Court in person, B 189. Gavel-kind. Dower of such Lands is by custom a moiety quamdiu sola, etc. A. 133. Such Lands are not Assets to bar a Formedon, A. 315. Grant. Of Estovers pro Easiamento A. B. & heredum suor', how construed, A. 2. Lease at will, 10 l. Rent, The Lessor grants eundem reditum for life, A. 151. Of the next avoidance, does not give the then present avoidance, A. 167. Of a Vicarage, does not pass the Presentation thereunto, A. 191. If an Executor bona sua, the Testators Goods pass, A. 263. All my Goods and Chattels in such a Town, a Lease of the Pawnage of a Park passes, C. 19 All Wood upon such Land, to be cut and carried away in 30 years does not grant any but what was then growing, C. 29, 30. A Grant cannot be but of a thing in esse, C. 29, 30. The force of the word Grant, in a Lease, C. 33. Grant of all Woods and Underwoods', C. 59 Grant of a Rent-Charge to begin when J. S. dies without Issue, who had Issue which died without Issue, C. 103. All my now Goods and Chattels, if the interest or possibility of a Term pass, C. 153 to 158. Of the third avoidance, etc. the Wife is endowed of it; the Grantee shall have the fourth, C. 155. What interest of a Term or possibility may be granted, C. 157, 158. Of the Ear-grass of a Meadow, C. 213. That the Grantee may take a Load of Hay yearly out of his Meadow; the Grantee cannot take no Hay in one year, and take two the next, C. 226. What shall be sufficient certainty to describe what Lands are granted, though part of the description be false, A. 119. B. 226. C. 18, 19, 162, 235. Grant of Common in all my Lands, the Grantee shall have no Common in the Orchards, Gardens, etc. C. 250. Divers good Cases where Grants of Tenant in Tail, and he in Reversion, or of Coparceners, joint-tenant and Tenant in Common, shall be adjudged joint or several Grants, or the confirmation of one, C. 254, 255, 256. Grant of the King, and Patents. Of a Manor cum pertin. Another Manor which holds of it, passes, A. 26. Of an Acre in a great Field, not specifying where, is void. Secus in the case of a common person, A. 30. By his Grant Omnium bonorum & catallorum Felonum, what passes, A. 99, 201, 202. B. 56. Shall be taken according to the true meaning, A. 119, 120. B. 80. Of a Chose en Action, must be very strictly penned, N. 271. C. 17, 18, 196, 198. By the Statute of 31 H. 8. cap. 20. the King may grant Lands forfeited before Office, B. 124. The force of a Non obstante in such Grants, B. 136 to 140. Void if the King be deceived by false suggestions, B. 137. C. 5, 6, 119, 242 to 251. Of Durchy Lands, Tenend. in feoda firma nobis & hered. nostr. if the Tenure is as of the Duchy, B. 150, 151, 162, 163, 164. The force of general words therein, B. 157, 158, 162, 163, 164. C 243, 244, 250. By the words, ex gratia speciali & certa scientia, what is supplied, C. 48, 49, 249. Of an Advowson of a Church, where the King was seized of the Rectory, C. 101. Where the King may claim against his own Grant, C. 113. Patents must be pleaded, sub magno sigillo, C. 193. If a Grant of Goods and Forfeitures of one utlawed, will transfer an Action of Account, C. 197. Shall be taken strongly against the King, if the sense be dubious, C. 243. What things in the King's Grants shall be said to deceive the King, and so avoid the Grant, B. 137. C. 5, 6, 119, 242 to 250. Where the Kings Grant shall or shall not work several effects, C. 243. If the Consideration be false, the Grant is void, C. 247, 248. The Stat. 18 H. 6. cap. 1. appoints, That Patents must bear the same date as the Warrant for them, yet good, though of a date after, C. 274. H. Habeas Corpus, & Corpus cum Causa. WHat shall be a good return of a Commitment by the King's Council, A. 70. The like upon the Defendant his disobeying the King's Protection, A. 70. The like by a Secretary of State, B. 175. The party discharged being detained by Process out of contempt out of the Court of Requests, where it appeared to be no cause of equity; the like in Chancery, C. 18. Party discharged being detained by a Lords Warrant, to answer before the King's Council, but says not for what, C. 194. By privilege for one who came to attend Law-Suits at Westm. C. 194. Heir. Of Lands held by Knights-Service, may make a Lease, or sell by Bargain and Sale enroled during the possession of the King, and it shall bind the Heir, A. 157. What other act such an Heir may do before he have an Ouster le main, A 157, 158. In Debt pleads riens per descent praeter the third part of a Manor, B. 11. C. 70. What Judgement or false Plea makes him chargeable of his own Goods and Land, B. 11. C. 70. To what intents Heirs are said to be several or but one Heir, A. 292. Nemo est haeres viventis, Ergo, a Devise to the Heirs of the Body of J.S. who is then living, is void, B 70. Devise to the Heir is void, and he is in by descent, B. 101. C. 118. It is said he cannot charge himself by his promise, unless he have Assets, C. 67, 68 Hue-and-Cry. Where notice ought to be given upon a Robbery, and within what time a Man may Travel, A. 57 Who must be examined where Goods are rob from a Carrier, A. 323. If an Action lies against a Justice of Peace who refuseth to examine the party, A. 323, 324. It ought to appear that six Months are passed since the Robbery, B. 12. Bar therein by a prescription to Rob at Glads-Hill in Kent, quod est mirum, B. 12. Three who were rob join in one Action, quod est mirum, B. 82. If the parties rob be sufficient evidence at the Trial, B. 82. The party rob his duty, B. 82, 174, 175. No Action lies against an Hundred for a Robbery in an House, C. 262. J. jeofails. See the Statutes. SEe Statute 32 H. 8. cap. 3. and 18 Eliz. cap. 14. For want of the Christian Name of the Attorney in the Roll, if aided, A. 175, 176. misjoining of Issues is aided; But if Issue be joined but as to part, and nothing said of the rest, that is not, B. 195. C. 67. Ignorance. What Ignorance shall excuse the Defendant of a Tort, B. 94, 95. Incidents. A Court is incident to a Manor, and cannot be severed, A. 119. A Steward is incident to a Court, A. 218. And amerciament to a Court-Leet, A. 217. What things are incident to a Hundred Court, B. 74. Indictment. For publishing false News, Indorsed Billa vera; And after, Sed utrum verba fuer. locuta seditiose, is not good, A. 287. Upon the Stat. of 1 Eliz. for administering the Sacrament in a wrong form, A. 295. Where a greater punishment is added for a second offence, the first Conviction must be recited in the second Indictment, A. 295. Lies not for enclosing part of a Common, B. 117. De morte cujusdam hom. ignoti, is good; Con. of a Coroners Inquest, B. 121. Against one Man for not repairing a Bridge in a Road, B. 183, 184. Of Trespass may be taken before two Justices, though neither be of the Quorum, B. 184. Of Forcible Entry, good in part, and void in part, B. 186. C. 102. Upon a Statute, cannot stand good as to the same offence at Common Law, B. 188. For Perjury upon the Statute 5 Eliz. must say voluntary deposuit, B. 211. Against a Juror for disclosing that a party was indicted, C. 207. Lies not for enclosing a Common in the parties own Land, C. 216. For suing one in Debt in the Court of Request, C. 229. Inducement. What matter of Inducement is laid in Assumpsit, and is the Consideration, it must be certainly alleged, B. 203, 204. Infant. May have an Action in nature of a Dum fuit infra aetatem, upon a surrender of Copyhold Lands, A. 95. Count against him for necessaries ought to be special, 114. Suffers a common Recovery by Guardian, A. 211. Cannot lose by default in Dower, unless by Guardian, B. 59 Declaration of the Uses of a Fine binds him, B. 159. Lease by him without a valuable Rent, is void, B. 217, 218, 219. Cannot enter into a Recognizance for to discharge himself of an Execution, C. 113. Infant Executor may sell Goods, and it shall bind him, C. 143. Not prejudiced by his Laches of not tendering his Fine to the Lord, C. 221. Information. In the Exchequer for Usury, many diversities argued, but not adjudged, A. 96. For the King against the Master of his Ordinance, for not rendering an account of Bullets, etc. but converting them, etc. what is a good plea to it, B. 34. Inquiry of Damages. Judgement upon Demurrer pro quer. for part, and an Issue depending for other part, A Writ of Inquiry shall issue, A. 141. Though too small Damages be found, no new Writ shall issue, B. 214. Inquest. A Juror Alien need not be worth 4 l. per annum, A. 35. Ought not to meddle with matter not in issue, A. 67. Fined for eating before they were agreed, A. 132, 133. A Juror sworn who shown his Charter in exemption, A. 207. The Christian Name of a Juror mistaken, is Error, A. 276. Inquest fined and imprisoned for not finding an Office for the King, B. 132. The first Inquest which tries the first issue may assess Damages for the whole Trespass, C. 122. If an Inquest of Middlesex may inquire (by inquest of Office) of the Customs in London, C. 127. inrolments. If a Lease enroled be lost, the Jur. is not of any effect, A. 329. Where a Deed may operate both by the Statute of enrolment and of Uses, C. 16. What is a good Plea against a Deed enroled, A. 183, 184, B. 121. How the time is accounted for the six Months, A. 183, 184. If it be enroled, 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, etc. A. 204, 210, 211. St. martin's and St. Michael's 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. Deceit 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. joint-tenants, and Tenants in Common. One joint-tenant of the next avoidance to a Church, Ecclesia vacant, 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 joint-tenants or Tenants in Common of an Estate tail, A. 213, 214. Two joint-tenants are disleised by two, to one of whom one joint-tenant releaseth, the other enters; he is Tenant in Common to the Relessee, A. 264. One joint-tenant cannot grant to or enfeoff his Companion, A. 283. If a joint-tenant and a Tenant in Common may join 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 Joint, B. 129. C. 9 If one joint-tenant accept a Lease of the Land from his Companion, he is estopt to claim by Survivor, B. 159. Pleading of joint-tenancy in abatement, by Fine or Deed, Stat. 34 E. 1. 8. B. 161, 162. joinder en Action, & Action & Plea. Three Tenants in a Praecipe cannot vouch severally, A. 116. Two Defendants justify severally, and the Plaintiff says jointly de injuriis suis propr', etc. and good, A. 124. Tenant for life and he in remainder in tail join in prescription, A. 177. Where two joint-tenants or Tenants in Common, shall join in one Formedon, A. 213, 214. In what real Actions, who shall join or sever, A. 293, 294, 317. In a Writ of Error the like, A. 293, 294. Who shall join in a Writ of Error, or in Conspiracy or Attaint, A. 317. Three join in Action upon the Statute of Hue-and-Cry, and adjudged good; Quod est mirum, A. 12. Covenant to two, & quolibet eorum, both must join, 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 Judgement against three) cannot be brought against one only, B. 220. Two Infants joint-tenants cannot join in a Dum fuit infra aetatem, C. 255. jointure. What alienation of a Feme of her Jointure is within the Statute, 11 H. 7. 20. A. 261, 262. journeys Accounts. If Error lies for the Heir upon death of his Ancestor, by Journeys Accounts, Quaere, A. 22. Issues join. One joint 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 appendent or in gross, A. 323. How it shall be joined 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. judgement. Upon the Defendant rendering himself in discharge of his Bail, A. 58. The Defendant pleads a frivolous Plea, which is found for the Plaintiff; Judgement shall be entered as by Nihil dicit. Nullo habito respectu, etc. A. 68 In a Sur cui in vita, for part of the Message 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. Entered 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 Judgement by sight of an Almanac, A. 242. Judgement 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 Judgement, A. 309. Arrest of Judgement showed in writing in the Exchequer, B. 40. Judgement 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. jurisdiction. 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 proceed only voidable, B. 89. One cannot plead to the Jurisdiction of the Court after Imparlance, C. 214, 215. jour in Court, & dies juridicus. What things may be done upon day extrajudicial, B. 206, 207. justices and judges. 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 the acknowledgement of a Deed to himself, A. 184. No Action or Indictment lies against one for an offence done as Judge, A. 295, 323, 324. Upon a Justicies the Sheriff in person is Judge, else all is coram non Judice, B. 34. If Justices of Assize and Gaol-Delivery can take an Indictment of Trespass, B. 117. A Justice of Peace cannot commit one for making a Contract against Law, B. 210. What Indictment cannot be taken before Judges of Assize and Gaol-Delivery, C. 216. justicies. None but the Sheriff himself can hold Plea thereby, B. 34. No Capias in Execution thereupon, B. 86. justification. By a Constable in false Imprisonment, for that the Plaintiff would leave her Child to the Parish, A. 327. By Prescription for a Way, the Defendant must show a quo & ad quem locum certain the Way leads, B. 10. By the Bailiffs of a Corporation to imprison any Subject at their pleasure for a misbehavior, not good, B. 34, 35. If the Constable plead, that he set one in the Stocks for not Watching, he must aver that the party dwells in his Parish, C. 208, 209. K. King. See Prerogative. WHat is given to the King by a Statute of Attainder, which gives all rights, etc. A. 272. Not necessary to summon the King for matter in the King's Bench, for he is there always present, A. 325. Quid operatur, by assignment of a Debt to the King, B. 31, 55, 67. C. 234. A Bond for performance of Covenants may be assigned to the King, but no Execution before the party be warned, B. 55. The King's Widow cannot Marry without the King's consent, B. 141. If he may alter the Tenure notwithstanding the Stat. Quia emptores terrarum, B. 151, 163. C. 58. Takes nothing but by Record, B. 206, 207. No usurpation puts the King out of possession of an Advowson, C. 17, 18. What Debts may be assigned to the King, B. 55. C. 234. L. Law. LEX Idumaea, quid, C. 264. Lex mercatoria, is a public Law, and the Judges take notice so of it, C. 264. Lex non praecipit inutilia; If it appear the Plaintiff cannot have the thing demanded, the Writ shall abate, A. 330, 331. Leases. Power to make Leases by Stat. not pursued, C. 72. Made be virtue of a power reserved to make Leases for 21 years, shall not be to commence post ●xpirationem, etc. A. 35. Of Sheep and a Farm, A. 42. What kind of property the Lessee hath in the Trees, A. 49. Without Impeachment of Waste, how construed, Ibid. Excepting Woods, Timber-Trees, etc. if the Soil itself is excepted, A. 116, 117, 247. Where a Licence to occupy amounts to, and shall be pleaded, as a Lease, A. 129. Covenant that the Covenantee shall enjoy, etc. is a good Lease; Contra, that a Stranger shall, etc. A. 136. For years, may commence in futuro, A. 171. Upon a Lease for years in remainder there must be Attornment, Ibid. What words amount to a Lease, A. 178. By Baron and Feme, not good without Deed, A. 204. For years, if the Lessee so long live; and if he die within the Term, the remainder to J. S. The remainder is void, A. 218. C. 154. Where an uncertain commencement may be ascertained by the entry or election of the Lessee, A. 227. B. 1. Must have an end and beginning certain, A. 245. C. 86. Lease for life cannot commence in futuro, unless by way of remainder, A. 275, 276. None can take by it but those who are party to the Deed, A. 287, 288. What are void, what only voidable, A. 307. One Man exposuit ad culturam his Land to two, the two have no Estate, A. 315. To commence after a former, if the former were void ab initio or since, the first shall begin presently, B. 11. What is a Lease for years, or at will, B. 78. By a several Habendum to commence after the expiration of several former Leases, whether the new Lease begin till all the other be expired, B. 106. Lease for so many years as J. S. shall name, is good, if he name in the life of both parties, C. 86. Lease out of a Lease, for so many years as shall be to come at the Lessors death, Ibid. Lease of Lands by Lessee for years, worth 8 l. per annum, until the Lessee levy 100 l. what interest is left in the Lessee, C. 157. Lease for 60 years, and if the Lessee die within the Term that then his Executors shall have until the end of the Term, C. 196, 197. Leet. Who is Judge there, and what things are incident to a Leet, A. 217, 218. When to be holden by the Common Law, and by the Statute, B. 74. Legacy. What is a good assent by an Executor to a Legacy, A. 129, 130. C. 6. Not payable without demand, A. 17. Where, and what election shall make one who is Executor and Legatee, to be in by the Devise or as Executor, A. 216. Payable to an Infant at his full age, his Executor may sue for it before the time of his age, A. 278. What Devise is a Legacy, what not, B. 119, 120. Lieu and County. Where Plea shall be ill (after Verdict) for want of alleging a place, B. 22, 76, 77, 146, 147. C. 10. Where necessary in an Indictment, B. 183. No place necessary where a Feoffment or Lease for life was made, B. 31, 32. Where the taking of the profits of Lands is alleged, it must be said to be done at the Vill where the Lands lie, N. 238. Limitation of Estates. To A. and B. his Wife for years, if they or any of their Child or Children live so long, A. 74. What words make a Condition, what a Limitation, A. 167, 168, 244, 245, 298, 299. B. 38, 114. To the Feoffor for life, and after his death to his Executors for 20 years, in whom the Term is vested, B. 5, 6. C. 21, 22. To A. for life, and if A. die within 20 years, to his Executors for so many years, B. 6, 7. C. 21, 22. One having Issue a Son and a Daughter by several ventures, Devised to his Son and the Heirs of the Body of the Father, how adjudged, B. 24, 25, 26. Manor of O. in S. use limited of all Lands in O, yet the Manor passeth not, B. 47. The moiety of Lands to his Wife for years, and his eldest Daughter to enter into the other moiety, and the Daughter married and died without Issue, having another Sister, C. 25, 26. To J.S. and his Issue imposterum procreand. the present Issue take nothing, C. 87. Lands given to A. for the Life of C. and B. the death of either determines the Estate, C. 103. Grant to two habend, moiety to one, and moiety to the other, good; But grant of two Acres habend. to two, habend. one to one, and the other to the other, is void, C. 126. Limitation of Time. If a Corporation must allege Seisin within the time limited by the Statute in real Actions, A. 153. Livery of Seisin. Made before enrolment, shall vest the Estate by Livery, and prevent the operation of Inrolment, A. 6. C. 125. By Letter of Attorney cannot be made by parcels, unless so limited, A. 34. What is a good Livery, what not, A. 207. Where the particular Tenant and he in remainder join in a Livery, how adjudged, A. 262. How it must be made by Attorney of Land in several Counties, or of a Manor, A. 306, 307, 308. Made to three where the Feoffment was to four, is good in some cases. B. 73. Feoffment by Tenant for life; and before Livery made by Letter of Attorney, the Feoffor purchaseth the Fee, and then Livery is made; the Fee passeth, C. 73. But that shall not pass other Lands purchased by the Feoffor in the same Vill, where the Feoffment was of all his Lands in D. C. 73. Livery & ouster le main. What Leases or Conveyances an Heir may do before Livery sued, A. 157. London. Scire facias there ad discutiendum debitum, A. 52. Quo Warranto lies against the City, if the Mayor use authority not agreeable to Law; per Gawdy, A 106, 107. Upon a Recognizance taken before the Mayor by custom, Debt lies not but in their own Courts, A. 130, 131. The custom that a Feme sole Merchant may sue without her Husband, A. 130, 131. The Statutes of 32 & 34 H. 8. of Wills, how far they extend to Lands in L. A. 267. The Courts at Westminster take notice of their Customs, A. 284. It had no Sheriffs in the 13th year of King Edw. the First, Ibid. Debt lies in the Common Pleas upon a Recognizance there, Ibid. Hustings may be holden every Week, B. 14. Upon Indictment at the Sessions, Error lies, B. 107. The Custom there, Quod concessit solvere debitum alterius, B. 156. Custom that every Surety shall be chargeable pro rata, B. 166, 167. If an Action there by Custom be removed to Westm. it shall be remanded, B. 167. They ought not to be impleaded in real Actions but in their own Courts, C. 147. Their Liberties seized and regranted by King Richard the Second, and regranted for 10000 Marks, C. 264. M. Maihem. Cutting off any Finger, is a Maihem, A. 139. Maintenance. See Stat. 32 H. 8. For desiring a Juror to appear, and to do according to his Conscience, done by a Stranger, B. 134, 135. Against a Counsellor at Law, C. 237. Manor. Whether a Rent-Charge may be parcel of a Manor, A. 14. Extending into several Vills, a Grant of the Manor in one Vill, how adjudged, A. 26. Granted cum pertin another Manor which holds of it passeth, Ibid, Where by Grant of part of the Services of Freeholders and Demesnes, a Manor will pass, A. 26. B. 41, 42. A Lease of a Manor, except all Casualties and Profits of Courts, the Court is not excepted, A. 118, 119. How it may be dissolved, and after become a Manor again, A. 204. A moiety thereof by what words conveyed, A. 204. B. 42. Whether a Steward of a Manor deputed by parol, may take Surrenders extra curiam, A. 228. If Lessee of a Manor attorn to the Grantee of the Reversion, the Manor passes, A. 265. B. 221, 222. If the Tenants pay their Rent to a Disseisee, they are discharged, A. 265. The Service of a Tenant may be changed from one service to another, A. 266. What will pass by Grant by name of a Manor, B. 41, 42, 43. By what name a Manor may pass, B. 47. A Manor in two Vills is devised to the Heir, and the Lands in the one Vill to A.B. he shall have that devised to him, B. 190. Lease the Demesnes, the Reversion passes not by grant of the Manor without the Lessees Attornment, B. 222. The Services pass not without Attornment, C. 193. Market. If a stolen Horse be sold by J. S. by the name of J.D. and so entered, it altars no property, A. 158. Mesne. The form of the Count, B. 86. If it be extinct by the Lords purchasing the Tenancy. Monstrans de Droit. Where it lies, A. 195, B. 122. Or where only a Petition de Dro●t, B. 122. C. 15. Petition of Right for a Rent-Charge granted out of Lands which are since vested in the Crown, C. 190, 191. All the Estates must be truly set down, else all is void, after Judgement, C. 242. Monstrans de Faits. Upon pleading a Grant of a Reversion, the Deed must be showed, A. 310. And upon pleading of an Estate in an Hundred, B. 74. Mort & vie. If the Plaintiff die after Verdict within the time that the Court takes to consider of the Law, the Court may if they will, give Judgement as at the first day in Bank, A. 187. If the Defendant die after the first Judgement in Trespass, before the Writ of Inquiry returned, yet the Action does not abate, A. 263. C. 68 If one of two Defendants in Assumpsit die before Judgement, if Error, B. 54. Murder. To leave one's Child whereby it perishes by Famine, A. 327. N. Name. OF a Corporation, aught to be strictly alleged as to the substance, A. 134, 162. C. 18, 19 Joan and Jane, all one Name, A. 147. A Corporation makes a Lease by the same name in substance and sense, but not in words, yet good, A. 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 215. B 97, 165. C. 220. Garret King of Arms, and the manner of his Creation, A. 249. What are Names of Dignity, and what of Office only, Ibid. B. and Nether B. a Vill, A. 272. Executor of Executor how named, A. 275. If the word Heir, be a good name of purchase, A. 287, 288. Where the names of the Heads of what Corporations must be showed in pleading, A. 307. The best way is to sue, the Defendant as he is named in the Bond, though his Name be otherwise, A. 322. What is a Name of Dignity and must be put in the Writ; what not, B. 49 In pleading any matter done before Suitors of a Court-Baron, if their Names must be showed, C. 8. Ne admittas. Where it lieth, A. 235. Negative pregnant. Defendant pleads, that he permitted J.S. to have ingress into all such Lands which lay fresh, adjudged good, A. 136. That J. G. did not disturb the Plaintiff but by due course of Law, B 197. How to avoid the pleading of a Negative praeg. by a Modo & forma, B 198. Nisi Prius. If grantable per Proviso pro Def. upon an Information at the suit of the party, B. 110. Nolle prosequi. As to part before Verdict, (in a joint Action) if it discharge the whole, B. 177. Nomine pene. The Heir shall not have Debt for it reserved by his Ancestor, B. 179. Nonsuit. The Plaintiff may be Nonsuit after Demurrer, A. 105. C. 28. No Nonsuit for part of a Writ or Bill, B. 177. Non est factum. Where the Defendant may plead it or the special matter, A. 322. By this Plea, the date of the Bond, nor the sealing of it at another day than which the Plaintiff declares, cannot prejudice the Plaintiff, C. 100 Notice. How and when Notice must be given to a Patron of a Avoidance, 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 Assize, C. 263. B. 184. A. 247. Con. C. 13. Where it lies for turning a Watercourse from a Mill new erected on an old Foundation, A. 44, 45. Every continuance thereof is a fresh Nuisance, B. 103. C. 174. The difference of exaltare & erigere stagnum, in such Actions, B 180, 181. It is enough to say obstupavit viam, without showing 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 Money within a Manor 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 joint; what joint 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 altar vy, who dies, is a dispenser 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 altar 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 Assize lieth, Ibid. Vicar General of the Spiritualty Chancellor of A. Bishop, what, A. 312. The Office of Marshal of the King's 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 reentry before Office found of the Condition broken, B. 134 to 145. C. 125, 127. What a Common cannot have but by reentry, 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 Tertenant shall not render recompense 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 King's 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 join 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 joint-tenants where good, where bad, without Deed, A. 103. The form of the second Judgement, 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 show 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 entered before the Defendant be summoned, A. 185, 186, 302. Pleading and Pleas. Vide Bar, and justification. Of a Lease at will, it's good to aver the life of the Lessor, A. 14. Of an Averment that the Rent, etc. was parcel of a Manor, A. 15. Of a Fine and Non-claim, not needful to aver, Infra Regnum, sanae memoriae, etc. A. 18, 76. What things must be showed 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 College, A. 38. The Election of a Bishop, Ibid. Where Ne unques accouple, etc. 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 show by what Conveyance, etc. 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, etc. A. 129. What matter ought to be showed 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 allege a Consideration, A. 170. Where it is not necessary to show 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 showed, that the Tenant was Tenant of Freehold; Contra, in an Assize, A. 193. Of Nient comprise in a Recovery, A. 184, 185. Avowry for Damage Feasant in Copyhold Lands leased to the Avowant, The Plaintiff pleads a prior Title to the Manor in Fee, and Ill, for he ought to have said, he was seized until the avowant entered praetextu of the Lease, A. 288. B 80. In what case one may plead Not Guilty in Trespass, A. 301. Of a Feoffment by two, or a Bond made to two, where one is dead, A. 322. B. 220. Where one may plead nil debet, or the special matter, B. 10. To let for Rent, of an Eviction by Title, B. 10. Where one must plead non concessit, or that nothing passed by the Deed, B. 13, Where in pleading, a place certain must be alleged, Vide Lieu & County. Where to an Information for the King, the Defendant cannot plead Not Guilty, but must answer specially to the Tort, B. 34. Of performance of Conditions to make a good Estate, repair a House, etc. B. 39 Where de injuria sua propria, is good Replication with and without a Traverse, B. 81, 102, 103. If a Stranger be bound that the Lessee pay his Rent, he may plead entry and expulsion, B. 115. Where a Plea must conclude, Judgement if Action; or, If he ought to answer, B. 160. That he paid all Debts owing by him to J.S. he ought to show what Debts, C. 3. No pleading of a thing conveyed per nomen, etc. but by Deed, C. 9, 10. Plea vicious in Debt upon a Recognizance concluding, Judicium si Executio, etc. C. 58. Of Entry into Religion, Resignation, and Divorce, C. 199. No pleading to the Jurisdiction of the Court, after a general Imparlance, C. 214, 215. One cannot plead an Attachment after Imparlance, C. 232. Pledges. The King and an Infant need find none, B. 4, 185, 186. Pluralities. If an Arch-deaconry make it, A. 316. Posse Comitatus. Cannot be but out of the Chief Court at Westui. C 99 Possession. Unity of Possession of 3 purparts of a Manor, does not make the whole liable to a charge granted out of two parts, A. 85, 86. Unity of Possession of Land and Tithes out of which, etc. does not extinguish the Tithes, A. 248, 331, 332. Entry of the Brother in one County into the Demesnes of a Manor extending into two Counties, does not make a possessio fratris, A. 265. If the possession of a Reversion after a Lease for years make a possessio fratris of Copyhold Lands, C. 70. Whether Unity of possession of Lands and Common in the King of Abbey Lands, extinguish the Common, C. 128. If recovery of Dower against the Brother take away a possessio fratris, C. 155, 156. What possession makes a possessio fratris, C. 273. Power to make Lease by Act of Parliament not pursued, C. 72. Praemunire. Lies not for the party, If the King's Attorney release, A. 292. For trying a Freehold without Jurisdiction, Ibid. For proceeding in the Admiralty for a matter done upon the Land, it must appear in the Libel to be done on the Lands; else this Action lies not, B. 183. Prerogative. See King. That the King shall have a Fine upon alienation of his Tenant in Capite, A. 8. The Court ex officio must preserve it, A. 63, 322. Where the King shall have Primer Seisin, A. 65, 66. Lands come to the King which are charged with a Rent; no distress lies, but a Petition of Right, A. 191. One cannot cross the King his Title, but he must entitle himself, A. 202, 294. To present a Clerk upon a Lapse vested in the Bishop, whose See is after void, A. 235. Where the King shall have Primer Seisin and Ward, A. 253, 284, 285. To charge Executors Ad. Computand', B. 34. The King needs not demand a Rent to entitle himself to a Reentry, A. 12. B. 134. C. 125. May distrain for a Rent-Seek, C. 125. May reserve a Rent to a Stranger, C. 127. Shall have account against Executors, C. 198. The King shall not have his Prerogative to be first satisfied of a Debt which comes to him by Assignment, if a Prior Extent be executed, C. 239. Upon such Extent the King shall have the whole Land, though the Conusee could have but a moiety, C. 240. Prescription. For Estovers within a Forest, A. 2. Cannot be to take all the profits, etc. but may be to have Fold-course or the like, A. 11, 142. For Common when the Land is not sowed, A. ●3. No Prescription though no memory to the contrary, if the commencement be known, A. 100L. B. 28. That none shall exercise the Trade of a Baker in a Market Town without the Plaintiffs Licence, A. 142, 143. Laid in Tenant for life, and him in Remainder in tail, and yet good, A. 177. Where good to have Suitors to a Court, and to take Toll, etc. A. 217, 218. Void, because unreasonable, A. 232, 314. C. 41, 42, 81, 82. Good and reasonable, A. 232, 233, 314. C. 41, 42. Spiritual Persons may prescribe, in non decimando, A. 241, 248. Though such Prescription be interrupted by the Land coming to Lay-hands, yet it is not destroyed, A. 248. What words apt to make a Prescription, what not, A. 273. None against a Statute, B. 28. Not a good Prescription, That every Inhabitant in a Town shall have Common, B. 44, 45. C. 200. In pleading a Prescription in a Vill, it must be pleaded, that the Vill is Antiqua, etc. B. 98. How to prescribe for a Way with Horses and Carriages, C. 13. In pleading it, it must be said that the Prescription was once executed, not only quod potest, etc. C. 83. Presentment to a Church. Before Induction the King may repeal his Presentation, A. 156. B. 164. Presentee of the King by Lapse dies before Induction, Videtur that the King may present again, A. 156. Grant of the next Presentment made when the Church is void, is also void, A. 167. The difference between it and a Collation, and the definition of them, A. 226. If the Bishop die after Lapse devolved to him, the King shall Present, A. 235. What kind of Interest it is, Ibid. If an Archdeaconry become void by the Deacon, being made Bishop, the King shall present, and not the Patron, C. 151. The King cannot revoke his Presentment but by express words, and reciting the first, C. 243. Primer Seisin. The Heir shall pay a third part of the profits for Primer Seisin, C. 25, 54. Principal and Accessary. If the Attainder against the Principal be reversed, the Accessary is discharged, A. 325. Privilege. A person who is privileged by reason of an Action depending in the Common Bench, is privileged for the Goods of Strangers in his hands, so that they cannot be attached, A. 169, 189. What duty to the King gives a Subject the privilege to sue in the Exchequer, B. 21. If both parties are previledged in the Courts at Westminster, allocatur querenti, B. 41. One privileged after Judgement quod computet, B. 68 Who shall have the privilege of the Exchequer, and who not, B. 146. Where the privilege of Attorneys of the Courts in Westminster is preferred before a Custom of London. B. 156, 166, 167. How the Warden of the Fleet must be sued in the Common Pleas, B. 173. No privilege by Writ out of the Exchequer for one of the King's Household, C. 223. Prohibition. For that the party hath remedy by the Common Law, A. 10. Prohibition as to part, Quatenus non agatur, etc. A. 20. To the Spiritual Court upon suit there for a Legacy, suggesting, that the Testator was indebted to the Executor, Ibid. Lies not upon surmise that Money ought to be paid to the Parish Clark in lieu of Tithes, A. 94. Lies not where the doubt is only Cui solvendae, A. 94, 128. C. 203. It seemeth the contrary, C. 265 Lies not upon surmise that the Parson hath used to take the Corn growing upon every tenth Land, for the Custom is unreasonable, A. 99, 100 Cont. B. 70. Attachment sur Prohibiton upon the Parson's Libelling the novo for the same cause, A. 111. In Attachment sur Prohibition, it is Error if the Count vary from the Suggestion, A. 128. Upon a Suit in Court Christian for not bringing in an Inventory, A. 129. For the Plaintiff in Court Christian, to stay the adjudging of Costs there against him, A. 130. Where Prohibition lies, and upon what composition with the Owner or Rector, A. 23, 151. B. 29, 73. C. 257. If the suggestion be apparently vicious, the Court does overrule it, and not put the Defendant to demur, A. 181. To stay a Suit for a Legacy given in satisfaction of Dower; upon a mutual Agreement, A. 235, 236. Lies upon suggestion that the Lands are discharged as they were in the hands of a Prior, etc. A. 240, 241, 331, 332. Consultation quoad part of a Legacy, and quod non agatur de validitate facti, A. 278. Lies against the Kings Farmor, A. 286. Prohibition must be several, if the Libels be several, Ibid. The suggestion may be given into Court by Attorney, Ibid. Lies upon surmise that there not being sufficient Herbage for the Cattle of the Plough, the Owners have used to depasture in green Tares Tithe-free, B. 27, 28. Consultation granted to the Spiritual Court for calling one Witch and Inchantress, B. 53. Lies upon surmise, that the Owners have used to have the Hay on the Balks, for cutting down the Corn, B. 70. Lies upon surmise, that the Lands where the Cistertians, and the Plaintiff is immediate Farmer to the King, B. 71. Upon refusal of a Plea in Court Christian, B. 101. If the Spiritual Court call in question the right of Presentation, Prohibition lies, B. 168. If Prohibition lies upon surmise, that the Parson who sues for Tithes is deprived, B. 212, 213. Prohibition granted, for that the Spiritual Court refused to take a Plea, that the Plaintiff there was not Incumbent, C. 265. Proof. Where an Act is to be done upon proof generally, how it must be done, and when, A. 256. B. 215. What suggestions must be proved per Stat. 2 H. 6. B. 212, 213. C. 257. Property. What kind of property the Lessee hath in the Trees, A. 49. What bailment shall alter the property of Goods, what not, B. 30, 31. C. 38. If the property of a Deer be lost by his going forth of the Park, B. 201. C. 219. What property one hath in a Greyhound, Coneys, etc. C. 219. Protection. In Debt Quia in obsequio Regis, A. 185. Quia profecturus with the King's Officer into Scotland, C. 20. Q. Quando duo Jura concur. in uno, aequum est ac si essent in diversis; If one Man be Coroner of Middlesex and of the Verge, if he may take an Inquisition per Stat. Artic. super cart. cap. 3. Where a thing is to be done by a Bishop and a Judge, and one is both, if etc. B. 160. Quare Impedit. See Stat. 25 E. 3. 7. Bar by a Bishop for Lapse, A. 31. Against whom it must be brought, A. 45. Brought by the Queen, for that the Patron is Utlawed, A. 139, 201. If the King shall recover Damages post tempus Semestre per W. 2. cap. 5. A. 149, 150. Where the Seisin in Gross, Appendency, or the Presentation are traversable, A. 154. For Executors, and the form thereof, A. 205. Of what it lies, Ibid. What Presentments shall put the King to his Droit de Advowson, what not, A. 226. C. 17, 18. The difference between a Collection and Presentment as to making a Plenarty, A. 226. Plenarty no Plea against the King, Ibid. What is good cause for the Bishop to refuse a Clerk, A. 230. What makes a disturbance in the Bishop, A. 230. Tenant for life need not Count of a Presentment in the Tenant in Fee-simple, Ibid. The Patron must not of necessity be named in the Writ, B. 58. In what case a Jure Patronatus lies, B. 168. If the Ordinary be not at leisure to examine the Clerk, and the Clerk comes again ten days after, and in the interim the Lapse incurs, C. 46, 47. Whosoever be admitted pendente placito. unless by the Title of one paramount, the Plaintiffs Title, must be removed, C. 138, 139. If the Plaintiff claim to present by turn, if he must show how the Estate commenced, C. 163, 164. If the Bishop pleads that he claims nothing but as Ordinary, if he must join in a Writ of Error, C. 176. If the Ordinary refuse a Clerk, he must make a certain return of the Cause, C. 199, 200. Quid juris clamat. See Attornment. If the Tenant may appear by Attorney, or must do it in person, A. 290, 291. Attornment thereupon saving his Term for years, B. 6. C. 22. What execution is awarded, thereupon to force the Defendant to attorn, B. 40. C. 241, 242. Who are compellable thereby to attorn, A. 290, 291. B. 40. C. 241, 242. For the Grantee of one Coparcener, C. 6. Quo Warranto. No plea thereto to say, that a Stranger hath such Liberties, B. 28, 212. The King thereby gains nothing, but only redresses an Injury, C. 72. Of what Liberties it lies, C. 184. How to plead non usurpavit Libertates, Ibid. R. Ravishment de Gard. BY the Plaintiff, as Prochein Amy, A. 111. Recital. Mis-recital in a Deed that leads the uses of a Fine, C. 135, 136. In Articles of Agreement that the Lessor was possessed by lawful Title, binds to performance, A. 122. Want thereof in the Lease of the King, A. 12. Stat. 6 H. 8. 15. A. 12, 321. C. 5, 6, 242, 243, 244 to 250. A void Lease or one expired needs not be recited in the Kings Grant, C. 243, 244. Recital in Patents ought to be very strict, C. 246, 247. No recital necessary, where the second Patent determines the first, C. 247. Recognizance. Cannot be taken by any by prescription, A. 131. Upon Recognizance by Custom in London, Debt lies only in their own Courts, A. 130, 131. If a Capias lies immediately upon a Recognizance in Chancery, B. 84 to 89, 220. If Debt lies upon it before or after Judgement upon the Scire facias, B. 84 to 88, 220. Debt brought upon a Recognizance, but non constat where it was acknowledged, C. 58. Record. Of an Assize brought into the Common Bench by Error, how to be remanded to the Judges of Assize; for Error lies not in C. B. A. 55. Pleading of a Record in the same Court, A. 63, 65. Where and for whom Averment lieth against a Record, A. 183, 184. Removed by a vicious Writ of Error or before Judgement given, the Record is still in the first Court, B. 1, 2. A Recordatur made per Car. of a Record mistaken, B. 120. Recovery. The form thereof where the Vouchee comes in by Attorney, A. 86. Against an Infant per Gardianum, A. 211. A Recovery by one joint-tenant, binds only his own moiety, A. 270. The execution thereof necessary in some cases, B. 48. By Estoppel, B. 57 Recoveror is seized to the use of him who suffers it until other Uses are limited, B. 63, 64, 66. See Stat. 21 H. 8. who may falsify a Recovery; For what reasons Recoveries do dock remainders after an Estate tall, B. 66. Recovery to the intent that the Recoverors shall make Estates, if such Estates be not made in convenient time, in whom the Freehold is, B. 216, 217, 218. What issue is bound thereby per Stat. 32 H. 8. B. 224. Recouper. If the Lessor covenant to repair the House and do not, Lessee may do it, and recouper out of his Rent, A. 237. Recusant. If Copyhold Lands were liable to seizure for Recusancy before the Stat. 35 Eliz. 2. A. 98, 99 Within what time Action upon the Stat. 23 El. 1. must be brought, A. 239. The Indictment needs not name the offender of a Parish, but a Vill, B. 167. Redisseisin. Whether the Plaintiff may have it after Entry, the Judgement therein, A. 69. Relation. Of a Participle of the present Tense without the word adtunc, A. 61, 172. Of an Attornment, A. 265, 266. B. 222. Of words in an Indictment, B. 5. Of a Deed enroled to vest Lands in the King, B. 206, 207. Of agreement to a Disseisin, Feoffment, etc. B. 223. Release. Where a Covenant in the same Deed shall release other part of the same Deed, A. 117. C. 113. Of a chose en action nihil operatur, A. 167. C. 256. If an Heir release to the Disseisor, and after his Ancestor dies, it does not bind the Heir, B. 47, 56, 57 A promise may be released by Parol, B. 76. See where a release to a Stranger may discharge a Bond, C. 45. Release of Covenants before any broken, discharges the Bond for performance, C. 69. To what Tenant in possession it is available, C. 152, 153. One Grantee of a prochein avoidance cannot release to his Companion, A. 167. C. 256. Relief. The Heir of one Coparcener shall pay none, because it is an entire thing, C. 13. Remainder and Reversion. In Fee after a Lease for life, where not discontinued by a Fine levied by Tenant for life, A. 40. Cannot vest in the right Heirs of one in the Feoffors' life, unless it begin first in the Feoffor, A. 101, 102. Where an Estate shall vest as a remainder, where as a reversion, A. 182. B. 33, 34. A Reversion after an Estate for life passeth by Devise of all Lands and Tenements, A. 180, 181. When a Remainder limited upon an Estate which is void, as (a Gift to a Monk for life, remainder over) shall take effect, A. 195, 196, 197. Lease for nine years determinable, upon death of the Lessee, and if he die within the Term, the remainder of the Term to his Wife; a void remainder, A. 218. The difference between a remainder limited upon a contingency which may never happen, and one that must and will happen, A. 244. B. 82, 83. Devise to J.S. & haered. to Uses in tail, after the Estate tail spent, The Devisor shall have the fee, A. 254. If one of two Disseisees release to one of two Disseisors, and the Tenant who released not do enter, the Reversion is revested pro toto, A. 264. If a remainder may be limited upon a Condition, A. 283. Feoffment to J.S. & primogenito filio suo, If the Son be born after the Feoffment, he shall take by remainder, B 15. If the remainder of a Term for years be good, B. 69. C. 110, 111, 197, 199. Remainder executed by moieties, upon a Gift to a Feme for life, remainder to their Heirs, C. 4. Grantee of a Reversion shall recover Damages only for breach of Covenant made since the Grant, C. 51. What acts, as Extents, Grants, etc. do take a Reversion forth of him that had it, C. 156. Remitter. Where it shall be, A. 6, 7, 37. C. 93, 94. Tenant in tail creates a new entail upon condition, which his issue breaks, yet he is remitted after his Father's death, A. 91. Land given to Husband and Wife in tail before Marriage, and the Baron aliens and takes back an Estate to him and his Wife for life, both are remitted, A. 115. C. 93, 94. The Father enfeoffs the Heir who never agrees and dies, the Heir is remitted, B. 73. Father enfeoffs his younger Son, who dies, his Wife priviment enseint of a Son, the elder Son enters; he is remitted, Quaere, C. 2. If one may be remitted against a Warranty, C. 10. Waived by the Wife (who was Tenant in tail with her Husband) her payment of Rent, which was reserved upon a Devise, C. 272. Rent. What is a Rent, what a sum in gross, A. 137, 138, 269, 333, 334. C. 103. Rend reserved by a Lease for years, becomes sack if it be granted over, A. 315. Divers ways of suspending Rents, and how they are revived, 334. To what remainder or reversion it shall be incident, B. 33, 34. If a Rent may be divided to equal a devise of Soccage and Capite Lands, B. 42, 43. Shall follow the Reversion, although reserved to Executors, B. 214. Contrary to a sum reserved to Executors upon a Mortgage of Land, C. 103. Rend payable at two Feasts, is to be paid by equal portions, C. 235. By destroying a Reversion, a Rent which followed it is extinguished, C. 261. Repleader. None after Demurrer, A. 79. After an unapt issue, A. 90. Replevin and Avowry. Avowry for Rent reserved upon a Feoffment in fee, and for sult of Court, A. 13. Bar by non Cepit, and what is good evidence therein, A. 42. By property in a Stranger, Ibid. Where the Plaintiff or Avowant may vary from the number of the Cattle, A. 43. Plaintiff cannot discontinue without leave of the Court, A. 105. Avowry for Damage Feasant in Customary Lands leased to the Avowant, A. 288. Avowry by the Stat. 21 H. 8. cap. 19 A. 301. Avowry for a Leet Fee, B. 74. Bar to an Avowry made by a Bailiff, that he took the Cattle de injuria, etc. and traverse, that he took them as Baily, B. 215. 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 Money 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 Joint 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 falsify 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 Receipt shall have day to plead, or plead presently, C. 168, 169. Upon Resceit of one for a moiety, the Plaintiff shall not have Judgement 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 Judgement be reversed, B. 90. Of Goods stolen, upon an Utlary in Appeal of Robbery, B. 108. return 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 return in a Writ of Replevin, or retorno habendo, B. 67. Upon a Fieri facias against Executors after Verdict, upon plene administr. the Sheriff cannot return nulla bona, B. 67. Cont. C. 2. Cannot return tarde as to part, B. 175. Retraxit. Cannot be before a Declaration, so as to make a perpetual Bar, C. 19 S. Saviour 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 Tertenant 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 show 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 Tertenant, 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 Queen's Interest therein extends to the midst thereof betwixt England and Spain C. 71. Seal. The King's 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, etc. for life or otherwise, A. 209. If an Action lies for retaining the Plaintiffs hired Servant, A. 240. Services. Vide Manor. Severance. Lieth in Partition, A. 55. And in a Writ of Error where, A. 317. In case in the King's 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 returned 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 return 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 Queen's 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 Attorney, Ibid. Bankrupt, will not bear Action, unless the Plaintiff be a Tradesman, Ibid. J. S. executes false Warrants; spoken of a Bailiff, Ibid. Lives 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. Cozened 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, etc. 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, B. 74. Of Merton cap. 4. of Improving Commons; The Lord shall have no Common to the Land improved, B. 44, 45. De Bigamis, cap. 3. A. 285. Westm. 1. cap. 3. Of false News, A. 287. W. 1. c. 39 Of vouching out of the Line, B. 149. Cap. 10. Of choosing Coroners, does not oblige to choose Knights, B. 160, 161. Statutes of Westm. 2. Cap. 5. of Essoins, A. 143. De Donis con. A. 212, 214. Cap. 45. of Scire facias, A. 284. B. 88 Cap. 11. Of Escapes, B. 9 Cap. 3. Of Resceit to a Wife, and to those in Reversion, B. 62. Cap. 18. which gives Elegit or Fieri facias, B. 84 to 88 Cap. 40. which take away the parol demur for nonage of the Tenant in a Cui in vita, B. 148. Cap. 12. Of enquiry of the Abettors of an Appeal, C. 140. W. 3d. Quia Emptores terrarum, B. 15, 16, 17. Artic. super Cart. 3. That the Coroner of Middl. and of the Verge, shall take Inquisition: If one Man be Coroner of both, if it sufficeth, B. 160. Edward the 3d. 4 E. 3. 7. de bonis testatoris asport. A. 193, 194, 195. 25 E. 3. 7. Of bar in Quare Imp. A. 45. B. 85. 45 E 3. 3. Of Tithes de silva cedua, B. 80. 25 E. 3. Which gives Execution by Cap. B. 85. 14 E. 3. Of vouching dead persons; The demandant must counterplead before Sum. ad Warrant. issue, C. 134. Rich. the Second. 2 R. 2. Of News, A. 287. 13 R. 2. Of Resceit of him in reversion and remainder, B. 62. Hen. 4th. 1 H. 4. Concerning Duchy Lands, A. 12. 4 H. 4. That no Judgement be avoided but by Error or Attaint, B. 116. Hen. 5th. 2 H. 5. 3. Of Jurors Aliens, The Allen needs not have 4 l. per annum. A. 35. 1 H. 5. 5. Of Additions, B. 183, 186, 200. Hen. 6th. 8 H. 6. Forcible Entry, treble Costs and Damages, A. 282. B. 52. In such case he in Reversion is restored, and his Lessee may enter, A. 327. 18 H. 6. ca 17. For selling Vessels of Wine which contained not the full measure, B. 38, 39 18 H. 6. Which gives the traverse of an Office found, who shall have such traverse, B. 185, 186. 23 H. 6. ca 10. The Condition of the Bond being to appear and answer, etc. B. 78. The pleading upon it, B. 107. Bond taken of one in Execution, void, B. 118, 119. All Bonds taken of persons not bailable, are void, C. 208. A promise void by this Act, grounded upon consideration the Sheriff let one Escape, C. 208. Hen. 7th. 4 H. 7. Of Fines how to be pleaded, A. 77. The Statute is construed liberally to uphold the non-claim, A. 100, 213. Who shall be barred thereby, A. 212, 213. B. 36, 37, 157, 158. C. 10, 227. What is a good claim within this Statute, B. 53. By a Woman by Writ of Dower, C. 50, 221. If a Woman be barred of her Dower by a Fine levied by her Husband, and no Dower brought in five years, C. 50, 78. 11 H. 7. 20. Of Alienations by Women, A. 261, 262. B. 168. C. 78. 3 H. 7. Of Appeals, B. 160, 161. Hen. 8th. 6 H. 8. 15. Of Recital in Patents, A. 321. vid. tit. Recital. 21 H. 8. Of Farms taken by Parsons, C. 122. 21 H 8. cap. 19 Of Avowries, A. 201. 21 H. 8. 13. Of Pluralities, A. 316. 21 H 8. 15. Of falsifying Recoveries, B. 65. 23 H. 8. 3. Of Attaints, who is pars gravata, A. 279. 23 H. 8. 15. Of Costs, A. 105. B. 9, 10, 52. Extends not to Actions given by Statutes, C. 92. 26 H. 8. Of the Lands of persons attainted, A. 21. 27 H. 8. Of Uses, B. 14, 258. B. 6, 15. How Conveyances to uses before the Statute must be pleaded, A. 14, 258. This Statute vests the possession of a Term according to the Use, as well as a Freehold, B. 6, 7. What Uses were before this Statute, B. 15, 16, 17, 18. The manner and reason of making this Statute, B. 17. 28 H. 8. 15. Of the Jurisdiction of the Lord Admiral, A. 106, 270. 31 H. 8. cap. 20. Which enables the King to grant Lands forfeited, without Office found, B. 124. 31 H. 8. 13. Of discharge of Tithes of the Lands of the Abbeys, etc. A. 231, 232. 31 H. 8. Of Leases made by the Religious Houses shortly before their dissolution, B. 55. C. 164, 165. 32 H. 8. Of dissolving Abbeys, if a Unity of possession, etc. extinguish a Common, C. 128. 32 H. 8. Of Partition, if it gives that Action to a Corporation, C. 162. 32 & 34 H. 8. Of Wills, A. 252, 267, 113. What Estates may be devised thereby, A. 252. B. 41, 42, 43. C. 105, 274, 275 276. Upon the clause, that the Wife shall be endowed, but of two parts, 32 H. 8. B. 131. Of a Will made before the Statute. C. 28, 29. What is a good Will in writing, C. 79. 32 H. 8. 37. Of Arrears of Rents in Fee to be recovered by Executors, A. 302, 303. Idem, upon the clause for reentry upon breach of a Condition. B. 33, 34. C. 104. 32 H 8. Of Fines and Recoveries by Tenants in tail, A. 244. B. 36, 37, 57, 62, 63. Vide Stat. 14 El. cap. 18. B. 224. C. 10. 32 H. 8. 30. Of Jeofails, A. 175, 238. It helps not Issue joined as to part of a Plea, nothing being said as to the other part, B. 195. 32 H. 8. c. 9 Of buying pretenced Titles, A. 166, 167, 208. B. 39, 48. C. 79, 233. 32 H. 8. 28. Of Leases by Bishops, A. 59 32 H. 8. 7. Of the Spiritual Court, A. 130. 32 H. 8. Of Leases by Tenant in tail, A. 148. C. 156. Idem, Of Leases by Tenant for life, B. 46. 32 H. 8. 37. Of Arrears of Rent, etc. extends to Demesne Lands of a Manor granted by Copy, B. 153. C. 59, 263. 33 H. 8. Of Offices found for the Lands of persons attainted, A. 21. 33 H. 8. Of Recovery of Debts forfeited to the King, B. 33. Same Statute of Debts due to the King, what Gifts do avoid the King's Title, B. 90, 91. 35 H. 8. Which gives the Husband liberty to make Leases; if he may make Leases in Reversion, C. 132. Edw. 6th. 1 Ed. 6. Of dissolving Religious Houses, A. 38. A Chantry in reputation, with the Statute, C. 114. 2 E. 6. Of Murder done at Sea, A. 270. 2 E. 6. 13. Of Prohibitions, A. 286. B. 212, 213. C. 257. 5 E. 6. Of Engrossers of Victual, B. 39 8 E. 6. 4. Indictment upon it must be, that he drew a Weapon to strike, B. 188. 2 E. 6. 24. Of Appeals, where the dead was stricken in one County, and dies in another, C. 140. 3 E. 6. 4. In what case one may have a Constat of Letters Patents, C. 165. 2 E. 6. cap. 13. No remedy for the triple value of Tithes in Equity but at Law, C. 204. Queen Marry. 1 & 2. Of unlawful impounding Distresses, B. 52. Queen Eliz. 1 Eliz. 1. Of the High Commission Court, A. 176, 177. 1 El. Of Leases in reversion by Bishops, etc. A. 148, 159. 1 El. Of administering the Sacrament, A. 295. 5 El. cap. 2. Of Tillage, A. 274. 5 El. cap. 8. If the Defendant cut down Timber, and make Laths to sell, C. 104. 5 El. 9 To force Witnesses to appear by Subpoena, A. 122. 5 El. Of Perjury, lies only for the party grieved, B. 12. C. 68, 78. An Action lies, though the Defendant do not depose directly to the Issue, but to increase Damages, B. 198. No Action lies for a false Presentment in a Leet, C. 201. 8 El. 2. Of Costs, A. 105. 13 El. 5. Of Fraudulent Gifts, A. 47, 308. B 9, 223. 13 El. 12. Of making Ministers, A. 230. 13 El. 20 Of Leases by Parsons, etc. C. 102. 13 El. 4. Of Debts due by Accomptants, etc. to the King, extends not to Copyholds, A. 98. 13 El. 10. Of Leases by Colleges, etc. A 307, 330. 18 El. 10. Of the same matter, A. 307, 333. 14 El. 8. Of Recoveries by Tenant for life, B. 60, 61, 62, 63. 18 El. 14. Of Jeofails, A. 30, 31, 175, 329. Doth not remedy want of an Original in some cases, A. 30, 31. If it aideth the want of an Attorney's Christian Name, A. 75. 14 El. 11. Of Leases made by Curates, A. 100 It aideth the want of 15 days between the Teste and return of the Venire facias, A. 329. If it aideth the want of producing a Deed in Court, B 74. 18 El. Which gives Costs against an Informer in popular Actions, extends not to the party grieved if he sue, B. 116. 23 El. c. 1. Of Recusants, who persuade others to Popery, A. 239. Upon the branch of it for not coming to Church, A. 241. B. 5. 27 El. 5. Of Jeosails, A. 44, 80, 193, 238. 27 El. 6. Of Challenges, A. 55. 27 El. 5. Of special Demurrers, A. 311. 23 El. c. 1. Of Recusants, what Fraudulent Conveyances shall not evade that Law, B. 132. 18 & 14 El. 11. What Leases are within that Statute, B. 188. Statutes. How far a Statute in the affirmative shall alter a former, or change the Common Law, A 76. B. 160, 161. C. 215. The like of a negative Statute, A. 323. What Statute must be pleaded, what not, A. 307, 308, 309, 333. Who may avoid Conveyances made voidable by Statute, A. 308. A Statute which concerns the King his Revenue, is always held no private Statute, A. 333. Statutes bind the King, he being party to them, B. 51. Where Statutes shall be taken by Equity, and not by the express words, B. 90, 91, 160, 161. Where very strictly and literally, B. 148, 149, 161. A Statute gives power to one to make Leases for 21 years; If he may make Leases in reversion, C. 131 to 135. Private Statute shall be construed strictly, C. 133. Where an Action is given by a Statute which was before at Common Law, the Plaintiff may choose which way to proceed, C. 140, 141, 170. Steward. If the Steward of a Court-Baron, deputed by Parol, may make surrenders out of Court, A 228. If he may be made without Deed, Ibid. If an Assize lie of his Office, Ibid. If he may make a Deputy, and that Deputy depute another, A. 288, 289, 290. If he may be discharged by Parol, and lose thereby his Fee, B. 76. Subpena. In the Common Pleas upon an Information, C. 48. Surety of the Peace. If a voluntary Escape from a Constable be a breach of the Recognizance, B. 166. Suggestion. See Proof. Supersedeas. In Dower Rege inconsulto, A. 284, 285. To stay a Trial by Nisi prius, quia erronice, etc. B. 167. Surplusage. Where it shall make void a Writ, where not, A. 73, 153. Where it shall not hurt in a Verdict. See Verdict. B. 100 C. 86. Where in pleading, B. 102. C. 86. Where all after a Videlicet, is void and Surplusage, and doth no hurt, B. 102. Surrender. What words amount to a Surrender, A. 178, 280, B. 50. C. 224. One Tenant for years cannot Surrender to another Tenant for years, A. 303. If a second Lease made to the same Lessee by Guardian in Soccage, be a Surrender, A. 323. The like of the Lessors Lease, B. 188. What Acts which are no Surrender, may determine a Lease, A. 322, 323. Pleading thereof, C. 96. Acceptance of what second Leases is a Surrender, in Law, of the first, C. 244. Survivor. Where the surviving Obligee brings an Action, he must declare specially, A. 322. Where a Gift in tail was made to two, the Heir of the Survivor must bring a Formedon solely, C. 14. Does not hold place betwixt joint Merchants, C. 264. Suspension. See Extinguishment. T. Tail. Tenant in tail Covenants to stand seized to the use of himself for life remainder to his Son in tail, quid operatur, A. 212. If a Gift to J.S. & primogenito filio & haeredi, be a good Estate tail, A. 212, 213, 214. What are good words to make such Estate, Ibid. B. 11, 25. C. 5. In a Will, B. 35. C. 55. After possibility of Issue extinct, the privileges thereof, A. 290, 291. B. 40. C. 241, 242. Cannot begin in futuro, B. 11. Tenant in tall post prolem suscitatam, is dispunish. for Waste, B. 66. And after Common Recovery suffered, may alien, B. 66, 67. The Issue of Tenant in tail barred by a Fine, though the Reversion be in the King, C. 57 Lessee of Tenant in tail shall hold his Lease free from a Statute acknowledged by the Lessor before the Lease, C. 156. Tenant for Life. See. Forfeiture. Tenant at Will, and at Sufferance. Who is accounted Tenant at Will, and who Tenant at Sufferance, B. 45, 46. C. 233. Who Tenant at Sufferance, or a Disseisor, C. 152, 153. Tenant at Will shall have aid, and a release to him is good; Secus, of a Tenant at Sufferance, B. 47. C. 152, 153. No Tenant at Sufferance to the King, B. 141, 143. If the Lord admits a Stranger, he is but Tenant at Will of the Copyhold, C. 210. Tender & uncore priest. Where a Condition is to pay 20 l. or to deliver Cows at the choice of the Obligee, the Obligor must tender both, A. 68 Where a Touts temps priest, etc. may be pleaded without a Tender, and where a Tender without a uncore priest, etc. A. 71. What is a good Tender of a Rent to prevent a Reentry, B. 130, 131. C. 4. What is good upon a Mortgage, what not, B. 213. Tenure. What shall be a Tenure la Capite, what not, A. 66. By Knight-Service of the King, A. 157. Testament. What is a good Will in writing, A. 113. B. 35. C. 79. Who may make a Will, who not, A. 326. Shall be construed favourably, that all parts (if possible) of the words may be satisfied, B. 42, 43. Time. How six Months shall be accounted as to a Lapse, A. 31. C. 46, 47. Condition to pay the 29 Feb. not payable until a Leap year happen, A. 101. The time in trespass laid before the Plaintiffs Title, adjudged not good, A. 104. Where one shall have time to do an Act during his life, A. 124, 125. Action appearing to be brought before Money due, how adjudged, A. 186, 187. Bargain and Sale of Trees Habend. & Succidend. infra 20 annos, how adjudged, A. 275. Solvendum the value of the profits per annum, is intended the then present value, C. 114. Tithes. Cannot be granted without Deed, A. 23. B. 73. Are now become Quasi Laicum seodum, A. 23, 300. Vest in the Owner immediately after set out, A. 39 If in trespass the right of Tithes come in question between two Parsous, the Spiritual Court hath Jurisdiction, A. 59 Who may prescribe in non decimando, A 241, 248. Release of all demands in the Parishioners Land, does not discharge Tithes, A. 300. What is a good discharge of payment of Tithes, A. 332, 330, 334. B. 73. By the Civil Law the Parson is to have every tenth Land of Corn, B. 70. In what case they shall be paid, although the Lands were the Cistertians, B. 71. Of what Wood and how Tithes shall be paid, B. 79, 80. Title. Where the Defendant must show a Title in pleading, where not, A. 45, 46. He who pleads against the King's Title, must show his own, A 202. B 30, 31. Toll. For what Toll shall be taken, A. 218. For what Goods it may be taken of Tenants in Ancient Demesne, A. 232, 233. Tort. Where a Man shall take benefit of his own wrong doing, where not, A. 339, 331. Traverse. Two Traverses in an Intrusion, A. 38. Where the place is traversable, A. 39 Plea vicious for want of a Traverse, A. 44, 78, 79. Is but matter of form, A. 44. Where a Man's intentions are, etc. A. 50. Where (in a Quare Imp.) the Appendancy, or the Presentation is traversable, A. 154. It is not traversable, whether Money were paid upon a Bargain and Sale, A. 170. In Quare Imp. absque hoc quod disturbavit aliter seu alio modo, A. 230. What matters are traversable in Assumpsits, A. 252, 253. Where the dying seized, and where the descent is traversable, A. 310. B. 185. Where a thing is to be done by Covenant upon request, the request is traversable, B. 5. An inducement to a Traverse, aught to be matter traversable, B. 32. Where the Defendant justifies in a local thing in another County, he must Traverse the County in the Declaration, B. 79. Where the Defendant is charged with a malicious Tort, and pleads in excuse, he must Traverse the malice or default charged on him, B. 94, 95. Per Executor that he administered about Funerals, and Traverse, that he administered, aliter seu alio modo, B 104. Prescription pleaded against Prescription, not good without Traverse of the first, B. 209, 210. Where the Command of a Lord to the Bailiff is traversable, B. 215, 216. In Replevin, Bar, That he took the Cattle of his own wrong, absque hoc, that he took them as Bailiff, B. 215. Trespass for driving Sheep, per quod they lost their Lambs, no Plea to say he took them as distress, without a Traverse to the Tortuous driving, C. 15. If the Defandant may plead another promise, and Traverse parcel of the promise in the Count, C. 67. Trespass. Done by two, It is a good Bar, that the Plaintiff had Judgement and Execution against one, A. 19 C. 122. Bar by a Recovery in an Assize, and the pleading thereof, A. 24. Lies with Simul cum J.S. (vel) Cum quodam homine ignoto, A. 41. C. 77. Lies against one entrusted to sell Goods in a Shop, if he imbezel any to his own use, A. 87. 88 Lay before the Plaintiffs Title accrued, not good, A. 104. Possession is a good Title for the Plaintiff, if the Defendant have no better to show, A. 215. Lies for a Copyholder against his Lord, for cutting his Trees, A. 272. In Ejectione firmae is a good Bar against the same party in Trespass, A. 313. C. 194. Trespass in domo; New assignment may be made in a House and a Barn, B. 184, 185. Quare cuniculos cepit, B. 201. Grantee of the Herbage cannot have a Trespass Quare clausum fregit, C. 213. If Trespass lies for a Greyhound, C. 219. For what things ferae naturae, the Writ may say, suos, supposing a property, Ibid. Trial. See Visne. Quaere, If Issue joined in an Inferior Court tryable out of the Jurisdiction, may be sent into the Courts at Westm. to be tried there, A. 91. It shall not, B. 37. Whether Wise or not Wise; a Church or not a Church; Prior or not Prior; within or without a Parish, triable at Common Law, A. 53, 181. B. 170, 171. C. 129. Where the Spiritual Court shall try incidents arising upon a matter triable there, A. 181, 182. Of Ne unque accouple, etc. & non fuit uxor, A. 53. Of an Executors refusal, how, A. 205, 206. The Court may judge what day is dies Juridicus, by an Almanac, A. 242. Where it shall be of Men of two Counties, B. 102, 103. Temporal Courts try Si fuit uxor; Cont. of Ne unques accouple, etc. B. 170, 171. A. 53. Two several Jurors try Issues upon one Action, there can be but Costs by one Jury, B. 177. In what case refusal to be Executor, shall be tried per Pais; and where by the Bishop's Certificate, B. 180. Trial of matter of Law, as to make a sufficient release must not be left to a Jury, B. 197. Trial of Ability or Disability of a Parson shall be by the Bishop; But if the Parson be dead, then by Jury, C. 46, 47. How an Issue, Whether one be a Counsellor & in ●eg eruditus, be triable by Jury, C. 238. Trover. Bar by a Sheriff's Bailie for executing of a Fieri facias; good, A. 144. Of Cart-Loads of Hay, A. 178. What is a good Bar therein, what not, A. 178, 189, 222, 223, 247, 248. B. 13, 37. What thing is traversable therein, A. 189, 247, 253. B. 13, 94. What Act amounts to a conversion, A. 222, 223, 224. Trover by the Feme, and conversion by both, The Action must be against both, A. 312. What evidence the Defendant therein may give upon Not guilty pleaded, B. 220, 221. Utlary a good Bar in this Action, C. 205. V Variance. BEtween a Suggestion and a Count in Attachment sur Prohibition, is Error, A. 128. What variance in recital of a Fine wrong, shall prejudice, C. 136. The like in wrong reciting of former Conveyances, Ibid. View. In a Writ of Right de Custodia Forestae, the Forest must be put in View; and of Rent, the Land, A. 86. Venire Facias. De novo for the incertainty of a special Verdict, A. 210. De medietate linguae, B. 112. Where it shall say, Quorum quilibet hab. 4 l. in terris, etc. B. 112, 113. Upon a special Writ as Audita Querela, must be special, C. 260. Verdict. Void, because a Juror received Money of a Solicitor, A. 18. Where surplusage shall be received or rejected, A. 92. Upon a frivolous Plea and Issue, Judgement shall be pro quer. nullo habito respectu, A. 68 The Verdict is good, though the Jurors eat before they be agreed; unless at the charge of the party for whom they gave their Verdict, A. 132, 133. C. 267. May find an Estoppel against the admittance of the parties, A. 206. Venire facias de novo, for the incertainty of a Verdict, A. 210. B. 120. What matters uncertainly pleaded, are ascertained by the Verdict, and helped, A. 236. Void by a Witnesses repeating his evidence out of Court, A. 305. Void, if it find the Defendant guilty of part, and do not acquit him of the residue, B. 22. C. 83. Verdict special upon issue upon a Traverse, if good, C. 48. If the Jury find the Issue for the Plaintiff, and finds other matter not put in issue, (though it destroy the Plaintiffs Title) yet he shall have Judgement, A. 66, 67, 68 C. 80, 81. Special Verdict which makes an illegal conclusion upon the Premises, is void for that part, C. 112. By an Inquest of Office, is no Verdict until Ingrossment, C. 127. Where the conclusion of a Special Verdict is special, all other matters but that are taken pro confesso, C. 152, 153. Visne. See Trial. Upon issue whether there be a Vill called Magna or H. only tried by the Visne of H. magna, A. 109. Where de Corpore Com. A. 109. B. 22. Usurious Contract pleaded in a Foreign County, the issue shall be tried where the Usury is alleged, A. 149. Whether it may be of a Forest, A. 169. Where it must be of two Vills, or of one or more, A. 301. B. 22, 59 Levy per distr. & issint rien arrear; that issue is triable by the Visne where the Lease was made, B. 22. Where it shall be de Lincoln, or de Vicineto de, Ibid. De Suburbiis, is good, Ibid. Of what place Misnosmer shall be tried, B. 23. Of what place Ne unquis Executor and Nonage shall be tried, B. 23. Where it ought to be of a Manor, where of a Vill and the Manor too, B. 59 C. 193. Where it shall be of two Counties, B. 102. If the seisin of a Rectory be in issue, it is to be tried by a Visne of the Vill, C. 161. A matter is alleged to be done at L. in the Parish of S. the Visne of L. only is good, C. 193, 266. Vourcher. Three Tenants to a Praecipe cannot vouch severally, A. 116. Three Husbands and Wives vouched, it is intended to be in right of the Wives, A. 291. Trial of a Foreign Voucher made in a County Palatine, B. 37. Stat. W. 1. c. 39 That none shall vouch out of the Line, yet the second Vouchee may so do; for the Statute is taken strictly, B. 149. Vourcher in Formedon Counterpleaded, for that the Vouchee had nothing, etc. C. 11. Uses. An Use cannot be raised out of an Use, A. 7. 148. The consideration of Money to be paid, is good, though never paid, A. 25. Raised by a Fine to the King, A. 33. Use cannot be raised by a Covenant without a Consideration, but may by a Fine, A. 138. What is a good Consideration to raise a Use by Covenant, what not, A. 195, 196, 197, 198. The definition of a Use, A. 196. B. 15, 16, 17. Difference between a Use by Feoffment, and by Covenant, A. 197. A Use in remainder need not depend upon any other Estate; per Gawdy, A. 244. One may be Cestuy a que use by a Devise, without any Consideration, A. 254. Suspended may be devised, A. 257, 258. If good by Stat. 27 H. 8. for years, B. 6. C. 21. Cannot be limited but to one in posse or in esse, B. 14. Limited to J. S. and such Wife as he shall after Marry, is a good Use, B. 15. It may commence upon a Contingency, B. 16. Cannot be limited to any but by a good name of purchase, B. 18. A Corporation cannot be Feoffees to Uses, B. 122. What shall be a sufficient Declaration to raise Use upon a former Feoffment, B. 159, 160. Feoffment to Use of his first Son, before Issue Feoffor and Feoffee enfeoff one in see, the Uses are destroyed, B. 178. Feoffees before the Statute of 27 H. 8. and those since, the difference of their Estates, B. 178, 179. Cestuy que use leaseth after the Stat. 1 R. 3. The Feoffee releases to the Lessee having notice of the Use, the release is to the first Use; Cont. of a release by the Feoffee to the Disseisor, B. 211. Where notice of the former Use in such cases is material, B. 178, 211. C. 158, 252. Use limited to the Feoffor, and such Wife as he should after Marry, B. 223. C. 253. Use to the eldest Son in tail, remainder to the Heirs of the Feoffor, he having then no Issue, B. 224. Where a Use may be limited against the Rules of Common Law, and yet good, C. 21. If a Fine levied by a Stranger (to Cestuy que use pur vy,) give the Conusee the Feesimple, C. 37. Where a future Use may be destroyed by Feoffment of the Feoffor and Feoffee, C. 252, 253. Where Reentry of the Feoffees may revive a Use suspended by Feoffment, C. 252. Usurious Contract. The difference between a usurious Loan, and an usurious Agreement, A. 96. Divers differences about these Statutes argued, but not adjudged, A. 96, 97. The taking the Money makes not the offence, but, the corrupt agreement, A. 208, 209. Cont. C. 205. If a Stranger may plead in avoidance of a Conveyance for Usury, A. 307. It must be alleged, how much above the rate was agreed upon, B. 39 A Counterbond, to save the Surety harmless; if it be void, if the first Bond were void, B. 166. C. 63, oulawry. What is forfeited to the King by Utlary in personal Actions, and when and how he must take benefit thereof, A. 63, 64. Pleaded in abatement, Plaintiff replies, Comorance in another Vill, adjudged a good Replication, A. 87. Lies not but where the Suit is by Writ, A. 329. Bars not an Aud. Quer. if brought upon the same Record, B. 175, 176. Reversed for want of the party's addition in an Indictment, B. 200. Good Bar in Trover, Debt upon Bond, but not upon a simple Contract, C. 205. W. Wager of Law. BY Lessee for years made Tenant in a Writ of Dower, A. 92. If it lies for an Amerciament in a Court-Leet, or a Court Baron, A. 203, 204. In the discretion of the Court, if they will permit the Defendant so to do, B. 110. C. 212, 258. The Plaintiff cannot be nonsuit, if the Defendant wage Law the same Term, C. 28. In what cases the Defendant shall be permitted to wage Law, B. 110. C 212, 258. Waif and Estray The property of the Goods waived remain in the Owner, if he freshly pursue and convict the Felons, B. 192, 193. Waiver de Chooses. In what Courts the Defendant may waive a special Plea, and plead the general Issue, B. 32. Where a matter, of Inducement material is waived, by taking issue upon another matter, B. 204, 205. Wales. The Incumbents there must understand the Welsh Tongue, A. 31. Ward. Who shall be in Ward, who not, A. 253. B. 148, 149, 150. C. 25, 54, 154. If the Infant agree to the Marriage tendered, No Valour Maritagii lies, though the Guardian die before Marriage, C. 52. Warranty. Warranty and Assets descend, no Plea in Formedon where the Heir claims by Devise, A. 112, 113. Determines with the Estate to which it is annexed, A. 179. B. 57 What Entry, and of whom shall destroy a Warranty, B. 57, 58. C. 10. In what Conveyances, and to what Estates, to be made, C. 16. Wast. In le tenuit, the Plaintiff shall not recover locum vastatum, A. 48. Lies not if the Trees be excepted A. 49. If Disseisor do Waste, the Action lies against the Disseisee, A. 264. How the View must be made of Waste in a Wood, Sparsim A. 267. Against whom it is to be brought, A. 291. In cutting 20 Oaks, the Plaintiff shall recover if 5 only be proved, A. 300. Upon an Estate limited to a Man for life, remainder to a Feme for years, who intermarry, both Estates are foreited by Waste done, B. 7. If it lie where there is a Mean remainder, B. 126. C. 60. The altering of a Meadow by Ditches, or turning to other purposes, if Wast, B. 174. If the House be ruinous tempore dimissionis, the Lessee may pull down and rebuild, B. 189. Where the Writ must be laid of whose Lease the Lessee held, where general, B. 222. What destruction in a Park, fishing, etc. is Waste, B. 222. C. 53. Where plead nul Waste, or specially, C. 203. Withernam. How Cattle taken by Withernam, must be used, A. 220. May be stayed by bringing the Damage in Court, and submitting to a form pro contemptu, B. 174. It seemeth that Beasts taken in Withernam, may be laboured, C. 235, 236. Writ. Of Privy Seal, to summon a Subject Ad redeundum in legiantia, etc. A. 9 General Writ and Special Count, where, A. 226, 227, 231. Writ to the Bishop. If a Title be found or confessed in the King, the Court ex Officio must make a Writ for the King, A. 194. FINIS.