the shadow of the Officer and doth all things in the name of the Officer himself and nothing in his own name and for which his Grantor shall answer and where an Officer hath power to make Assigns he may implicitely make Deputies for He that may do more it ought not to be held unlawful for him to do less and therefore when an Office is granted to one and to his heirs by this he may make Assigns and by consequence he may make Deputies The King by his Letters Pattents commits to the Sheriff the Custody of the County without express words of making Deputy and yet he may make an Vnder Sheriff viz. his Deputy So where before the Statute of Quia emptores terrarum the King or other Lord had given Lands to a Knight to hold of him by Knights Service that is to go with his Lord when the King makes a Voyage Royal to subdue his enemies for 40 days well and conveniently arrayed for the War yet he may find another able person howbeit in the one case it concerns the publick Administration and execution of Iustice in time of Peace and in the other the publick defence of the Realm in time of War See Cok. l. 9. Le Countee de Salops Case Dereine DEreine is taken in divers senses and seems to come from the French Disarrayer that is to confound or put out of order or else the Norman word Desrene which is the denial of a mans own act and Lex Deraisnia was the Proof of a thing which one denies to be done by himself and his adversary affirms it defeating and confounding the assertion of his adversary and shewing it to be without and against reason or probability And in our Law it is diversly used First generally to prove as Dirationabit jus suum haeres propinquior Glanvile l. 2. c. 6. and he l. 4 c. 6. saith Habeo probos homines qui viderunt audiverunt parati sunt hoc dirationare In the same manner Bracton uses it Habeo sufficientem Disratiocinationem probationem By the Statute of 31 H. 8. cap. 1. Ioyntenants and Tenants in common shall have Aid to the intent to deraigne the Garranty paramount So Plo. in Manxels Case fol. 7. b. hath this Case If a man hath an Estate in fee with Warranty and enfeoffs a stranger with Warranty and dies and the Feoffee vouches his Heir the Heir shall deraigne the first Warranty Also this word is used when Religious men forsake their Orders and Professions as in Kitch fol. 152. b. if a man makes a Lease for life upon condition that if the Lessor dies without issue then the Lessee shall have Fee the Lessee enters in Religion and then the Lessor dies without issue and after the Lessee is deraigned he shall not have Fee insomuch as at the time of the Condition the Fee cannot vast in him De son tort demesne DE son tort demesne seem to be certain words of form in an Action of Trespasse used by way of Reply to the Plea of the Defendant As if A sues B in an Action of Trespasse and B answers for himself that he did this which A calls Trespass by the commandment of C his Master A saith again that B did this of his own wrong without that that C commanded him in such manner and form c. Debt DEbt is a Writ that lies where any summ of money is due to a man by reason of Account Bargain Contract Obligation or other Especialty to be paid at a certain day which is not paid then he shall have this Writ But if any money be due to any Lord by his Tenant for any Rent-service the Lord shall never have Action of Debt for that but he must distrain for it Also for Rent-charge or Rent-seek which any man hath for life in tail or in see he shall not have any Action of Debt as long as the Rent continues but his Executors may have an Action of Debt for the Arrearages due in the life of their Testator by the Statute 32 H. 8. c. 37. For Arrearages of Rent reserved upon a Lease for term of years the Lessor is at his election to have an Action of Debt or to distrain but if the Lease be determined then he shall not distrain after for that Rent but he must have an Action of Debt for the Arrerages And note That by the Law of the Realm Debt is only taken to arise upon some Contract or Penalty imposed upon some Statute or pain and not by other Offences as in the Civil Law Debitum ex delicto If a man enter into a Tavern to drink and when he hath drank goes away and will not pay the Vintner the Vintner shall not have an Action of Trespass against him for his Entry but shall have an Action of Debt for the Wine If I deliver Cloth to a Tailor to make a Gown if the price be not agreed on in certain before how much I shall pay for the making he shall not have against me a general Action of Debt but a special one and shall declare specially and it shall be put to the Iury how much he deserves But if a Tailor make a Bill and himself rates the making and the necessaries thereunto he shall not have an Action of Debt for his own values unless it was so specially agreed but in such case he may detain the Garment until he be paid as an Hostler may his Guests Horse for his meat Cok. l 8. 147. Also Debt lyeth for Fines of Copyholds and for amerciaments in Court Leet and Court Baron and upon Awards and upon recoveries in base Courts or Courts of Record Detinue DEtinue is a Writ that lies against him who having goods and chattels delivered to him to keep refuses to re-deliver them See hereof F. N. B. 138. Devastaverunt bona Testatoris DEvastaverunt bona Testatoris is when the Executors will deliver Legacies or make restitution for wrongs done by their Testator or pay his Debts due upon Contracts or Specialties whose days of payment are not yet come c. and keep not sufficient in their hands to discharge those Debts upon Records or Specialties which they are compellable by the Law to satisfie in the first place then they shall be constrained to pay these out of their own goods according to the value of what they voluntarily delivered or paid for such irregular and illegal Payments are accounted in the Law a Wasting of the goods of the Testator as much as if they had given them away without cause or sold them and converted them to their own use And therefore if A be bound in a Recognisance or in a Statute Merchant or Staple and after Recovery is had against him in an Action of Debt and he makes his Executors and dies his Executors are bound by the Law to pay the Debt due upon the Recovery although it be later in time before the Debt due by Recognisance or Statute because though
Lease to any other the Executors shall have the Lease because they are his Assignees in Law And so it is in other cases Assise ASsise is a Writ that lies where any man is pur out of his lands tenements or of any profit to be taken in a certain place and so disseised of his Free-hold Free-hold to any man is where he is seised of lands and tenements or profit to be taken in Fee-simple Fee-tail for term of his own or another mans life But Tenant by Elegit Tenant by Stat Merchant and Stat. Staple may have Assise though they have no Free-hold and this is ordained by divers Statutes In an Assise it is needful always that there be one Disseisor and one Tenant or otherwise the writ shall abate Also where a man is disseised and recovers by Assise of Novel Disseisin and afterward is again disseised by the same Disseisor he shall have against him a Writ of Redisteisin directed to the Sheriff to make inquisition and if the Redisseisin be found he shall be sent to prison Also if one recover by assise of Mortduncaster or by other Iury or default or by reddition and if he be another time disseised then he shall have a Writ of Post Disseisin and he who is taken and imprisoned for Redisseisin shall not be delivered without special commandment of the King See the Statutes Merton c. 3. Marlebridge cap. 8. and Westminster 2. c. 26. There is also another assise called Assise of Fresh force and lies where a man is disseised of tenements which are devisable as in the City of London or other Boroughs or Towns that are Franchises then the Defendant shall come unto the Court of the said Town and enter his Plaint and shall have a Writ directed to the Mayor or Batleffs c. and thereupon shall pass a Iury in manner of Assise of Novel Disseisin But he must enter his Plaint within forty days as it is said or otherwise he shall be sent to the Common Law And if the Officers delay the Execution then the Plaintiff shall have another Writ to have Execution and a Sicut alias and a Pluries c. See Littleton cap. Rents Assise de darrain Presentment ASsise de darrain Presentment See Quare impedit Also there is an Assise of Nusance called Assisa Nocumenti Assise of the last Presentation Assise de Mortdancestor ASsise de Mortdancastor Look in the title of Cosinage Association ASsociation is a Patent sent by the King either of his own motion or at the suit of the party Plaintiff to the Iustices of Assise to have other persons associated to them to take the Assise And upon this Patent of Association the King will send his Writ to the Iustices of Assise by it commanding them to admit them that are so sent If the King makes three Iustices of Assise and afterwards one of them dies there the King may make a Patent of Association to another to associate him to the two in place of him that is dead and a Writ which shall be close directed to the two Iustices that are alive to admit him F. N. B. 185. Assoil ASsoil comes from the Latin absolvere and signifies to deliver or discharge a man of an Excommunication and so it is used by Stamford in his Plcas of the Crown lib. 2. cap 18. fol. 71. b. Assumpsit See Nude Contract ASsumpsit is a voluntary promise made by word by which a man assumes and takes upon him to perform or pay any thing to another This word contains in it any verbal Promise made upon consideration which the Civilians express by several words according to the nature of the Promise calling it sometimes Pactum Promissionem other times Sponsionem Pollicitationem or Constitutum Attach ATtach is a Taking or Apprehending by Command or Writ There are some differences between an Arrest and an Attachment for an Arrest proceeds out of the inferiour Courts by Precept and Attachment out of the Superior Courts by Precept or Writ Lamb. Eiren. lib. 1. cap. 16. Also an Arrest lies only upon the Body of a man whereas an Attachment is sometimes upon the Goods only as Kitch fol. 279. b. saith a man may attach a Cow and in another case that a man may be attached by an hundred Sheep and it is sometimes awarded upon the Body and Goods together at one and the same Attachment differs from a Capias for Kit. fol. 79. b. hath these words Note that in a Court of Baron a man shall be attached by goods and a Capias shall not go out thence By which it seems Attachment is more general extending to the taking of Goods where a Capias extends to the taking of the Body only An Attachment differs from a Distress as appears by Kit. fol. 78. a. where he saith Process in Court Baron is Summons Attachment and Distress which are Process at the Common Law There is also an Attachment of Priviledge and this is twofold either giving power to apprehend a man in a place priviledged or by vertue of an Office or Priviledge as to call another to that Court to which he himself belongs and in respect of which he is priviledged New Book of Entries fol. 431. a. And there is a Process called a Foreign Attachment which is used to attach the goods of Foreigners found within any Liberty or City for a Debt due to the party himself And by the custome of some places a man may attach goods in the hands of a stranger As if A. ows to B. ten pounds and C owes A. another Summe of money B. may attach the goods of A. in the hands of C. to satisfie himself in part or all as the Debt is Also there is Attachment of the Forest which is a Court there held every forty days throughout the year In which the Verderors have not any authority but to receive and inrol the Attachment of offenders against Vert and Venison taken by the other Officers that they may be presented at the next Iustice seat in Eyre Manwood part 1. pag. 93. cap. 22. Attainder ATtainder is a Conviction of of any person of a Crime or fault whereof he was not convict before As if a man have committed Felony Treason or such like and thereof is convicted arraigned and found guilty and hath Iudgment then he is said to be Attainted And this may be two ways the one upon Appearance the other upon default The Attainder upon Appearance is by Confession Batrail or Verdict the Attainder upon Default is by Process until he be outlawed Attaint ATtaint is a Writ that lies where false Verdict is given by twelve men and Iudgment given thereon then the party against whom they have passed shall have a Writ against the twelve men and when they are at issue it shall be tried by twenty four Iurors and if the false Verdict be found the twelve men are attaint and then the Iudgment shall be That their Meadows shall be eyred their Houses broken down their
to the Polls Challenge to the Array is where Exception is taken to the whole number as impannelled partially Challenge to or by the Poll is where Exception is taken to any one or more as not indifferent Challenge to the Iurors is also divided into challenge principal and challenge for cause that is upon cause or reason Challenge principal or peremptory is that which the Law allows without cause alledged or Examination as a Prisoner at the Bar arraigned upon Felony may peremptorily challenge to the number of twenty one after another of the Iury impanuelled upon him not alledging any cause at all but his own dislike and they shall be discharged and new put into their places and this is in favor of life But in the case of High Treason no peremptory challenge is allowed See 25 H. 8. cap. 3. And a difference may be observed between challenge principal and challenge peremptory because challenge peremptory seems only to be used in matters Criminal and meerly without any cause alledged more than only the Prisoner's fansie Stamf. Pl. Cor. fol. 124. and principal for the most part in Civil Actions and with the namning of some Exception which being found true the Law presently allows As for example if any party saith that one of the Iurors is the Son Brother Cousin or Tenant to the other party or married to his daughter this is a good and strong Exception if it be true without farther examination of the credit of the party challenged And of how large extent this Challenge of Kindred is does well appear in Plow fol. 425. Also in the Plea of the death of any man and in every Action real and also in every Action personal where the debt or damages amounts to 40 marks it is a good challenge to any of the Iury impanelled That he cannot dispend forty shillings by the year of his own Free-hold An. 11 H. 7. cap. 21. Challenge upon reason or cause is when the party alledges any such Exception against one or more of the Iurors which is not forthwith sufficient upon acknowledgment of the truth thereof but rather arbitrable and consiverable by the rest of the Iurors as if the son of the Iuror had married the daughter of the adverse party This Challenge by cause seems to be termed by Kitch fo 92. Challenge for favor or rather Challenge for favor is there said to be a Species of Challenge by cause Where you may also read what Challenges are commonly accounted for principal and what not Chamberdekins CHamberdekins are Irish Beggars which by the Statute of 1 H. 5. c. 8. were by a certain time within the said Statute limited to avoid this Land Champertie CHampertie is a Writ that lies where two men are impleading and one gives the half or part of a thing in plea to a stranger to maintain him against the other then the party grieved shall have this Writ against the stranger And it seems that this hath been an ancient grievance in our Realm For notwithstanding divers Statutes and a form of a Writ framed unto them yet Anno 4 E. 3. c. 11. it was enacted That where the former Statutes provided redresse for this only in the King's Bench which then followed the Court it should be lawful for the Iustices of the Common Pleas likewise and Iustices of Assise in their Circuits to enquire hear and determine these and such cases as well at the Kings Suit as at the Suit of the party Also it was ordained by the Statute of 33 H. 8. which was confirmed by the Statute of 37 H. 8. c. 7. That Iustices of Peace at their Quarter Sessions should have authority to enquire as well by the Oaths of 12 men as by the information given to them by any person or persons of the defaults contempts and offences committed against the Laws and Statutes made and provided touching Champerty Maintenance c. and to hear and determine the said faults and offences Champertors are they that move Pleas and Suits or cause to be moved by their own or oothers procurement and sue them at their own costs to have part of the Lands or gains in variance See the Stat. Articuli suê‘ chartas c. 11. Chance-medley CHance medley is when a man without any evil intent doth a lawful thing or that is not prohibited by Law and yet another is slain or comes to his death thereby as if a man casts a stone which hits a man or woman who after dies thereof or if a man shoots an arrow and another that passes by is killed and such like this manner of killing is Man-slaughter by misadventure or Chance-medley for which the offendor shall have his pardon of course as appears by the Statute of 6 E. 1. c. 9. and he shall forfeit his goods in such manner as he that kills a man in his own defence But in this case it is to be considered whether he that commits this Man-slaughter by Chance-medley was in doing a lawfull thing for if the act was unlawfull as to fight at Barriers or run at Tilt without the Kings commandment or cast stones in a High-way where men usually pass or shoot arrows in a Market-place or such like whereby a man is killed in all these cases it is Felony at least that is Manssaughter if not Murther for the Offendor being doing an unlawful act of his own will the Law shall construe his meaning and will herein by the success of the act As if two are fighting together and a third man comes to part them and is killed by one of the two without any malice forethought or evil intent in him that killed the man yet this is Murther in him and not Man-slaughter by Chance-medley or Misadventure because they two that fought together were in doing an unlawful act And if they were met with prepensed malice the one intending to kill the other then it is Murther in them both Chancery CHancery is a Court of Law at Westminster for Suits for and against Attorneys Clerks and Officers of this Court this part of it and also the intelments of Deeds Patents is of Record And there is also a Court for Equity and their proceedings therein are entred in English and the Lord Chancellor or Keeper of the great Seal and Master of the Rolls are Iudges and the Writs are returnable there Coram Rege in Cancellaria Co. 4. Instit 78. Chapiter CHapiter is a Summary or content of all such matters as are enquirable before Iustices in Eyre Iustices of Assise or of the Peace in their Sessions so it is used 3 E. 1. c. 27. in these words And that no Clerk of any Iustice Escheator or Commissioner in Eyre shall take any thing for delivery of Chapiters but only Clerks of Iustices in their Circuits and likewise 13 E. 1. c. 10. in these words And when the time comes the Sheriff shall certifie the Chapiters before the Iustices in Eyre how many Writs he hath Also Britton uses it
in the same signification cap. 3. And at this day Chapiters are called Articles for the most part and are delivered as well by the mouth of the Iustice in his Charge as by the Clerks in writing to the Enquest where in ancient time they were after an Exhortation given by the Iustices for the observation of the Laws of the Kings peace first read distinctly and openly in the full Court and then delivered in writing to the grand Enquest An example of these Chapiters there is in the Book of Assises fol. 138. pla 44. Chaplain CHaplain is he that performs Divine Service in a Chappel and therefore is commonly used for him that depends upon the King or other man of worth for the instruction of him and his Family the reading of Prayers and Preaching in his private house where usually they have a Chappel for that purpose And for that they are retained by Letters under the Seal of their Patron and thereby by intendment are to be resident with them the Law hath given liberty for their Non-residency upon their Benefices If an Earl or Baron retains a Chaplain and before his advancement is attainted of Treason there the Retainer is determined and after the Attainder such Chaplain cannot take a second Benefice because he that is attainted is by his Attainder a dead person in Law What and how many Chaplains Noblemen and others may respectively retain the Statute of 21 H. 8. c. 3. doth well declare The wife of a Baron during the Coverture cannot retain a Chaplain yet when a Baronnesse Dowager retains one or two according to the Proviso of the said Statute the Retainer is the principal matter and as long as the Retainer is in force and the Baronness continues a Baronness the Chaplains may well take two Benefices by the express letter of the Statute for it suffices if at the time of the Retainer the Baronness were a widow And herein this rule is to be observed of a woman that attains Nobility by Marriage as by marriage of a Duke Earl or Baron c. for in such case if she afterward marry under the degree of Nobility by such Marriage she loses the Dignity she had attained and after such latter Marriage the power to retain a Chaplain is determined But otherwise it is where a woman is Noble by Discent for there her Retainer before or after the Marriage with one that is not Noble shall be in force and is not countermanded by the Marriage nor determined by her taking a Husband under her degree Coke lib 4. fol. 118 119. Chapter CHapter in Latine is defined to be An Assembly of Clerks in a Church-Cathedral conventual regular or Collegiate and in another signification A place wherein the members of that Community treat of their common affairs and it hath other significations which appertain not to our purpose It may be said that this Collegiate company is termed Chapter metaphorically the word originally implying a little head for this Company or Corporation is as a Head not only to rule and govern the Diocesse in the vacation of the Bishoprick but also in many things to advise the Bishop when the See is full Charge CHarge is where a man grants a Rent issuing out of his land and that if the Rent be behind it shall be lawfull for him his heirs and assigns to distrain till the Rent be paid this is called a Rent-charge But if one grant a Rent-charge out of the land of another though after he purchase the land yet the Grant is void Charter land CHarter-land is such as a man holds by Charter that is by Evidence in writing which otherwise is called Free-hold Copyhold-lands before the Conquest were by the Saxons called Folkland and the Charter-lands Bockland And Lambert in the Explication of Saxon words saith That this land was held with more easie and commodious conditions then Folkland and Copyhold-land held without writing And his reason is because it is a free and absolute Inheritance whereas land without writing is charged with payment and bondage so that for the most part Noblemen and persons of Quality possess the former and Rusticks the other The first we call Free-hold and by Charter the other Land at the will of the Lord. If a Riot Rout or Vnlawful assembly be committed then by the Statute of 19 H. 7. c. 13. twenty men inhabiting within the County where the Riot c. is made whereof every of them shall have lands and tenements within the same County to the yearly value of twenty shillings of Charter-hold or Free-hold or twenty six shillings of Copyhold shall make enquiry thereof Charter-party CHarter-party is an Indenture of Covenants and Agreements made between Merchants or Mariners concerning their Sea-affairs and of this you may read in the Statute now out of use made 32 H. 8. cap. 14. Charters CHarters of Lands are Writings Deeds Evidences and Instruments made from one man to another upon some Estate conveyed or passed between them of Lands or Tenements shewing the names place and quantity of the Land the Estate time and manner of the doing thereof the Parties to the Estate delivered and taken the Witnesses present at the same with other circumstances Chartis reddendis CHartis reddendis is a Writ which lies against him that has Charters of Feoffment delivered him to be kept and refuses to deliver them Old Nat. Brev. fol. 66. Reg. orig fol. 159. Chase CHase is taken two wayes first to drive cattel as to chase a Distress to a Castle secondly for a Receit for Deer and Beasts of the Forest and it is of a middle nature between a Forest and a Park being commonly less then a Forest and not endued with so many Liberties as with Courts of Attachment Swainmore and Justice seat and yet of a larger compass and having greater diversity of Keepers and Game then a Park Crompt in his Book of Iurisdictions fol. 148. saith That a Forest may not be in the hands of a Subject but it presently looses the name and becomes a Chase and yet fol. 197. he saith That a subject may be Lord and owner of a Forest which though they seem contradictory yet are both his sayings in some sense true For the King may give or alienate a Forest to a Subject yet so that when it is once in the Subject it loses the true property of a Forest because the Courts of Swainmote Justice seat and Attachment presently vanish none being able to make a Lord chief Iustice in Eyre of the Forest but the King as Manwood hath well shewed as his Book of Forest Laws cap. 3. 4. Yet it may be granted in such large manner that there may be Attachment and Swainmote and a Court equivalent to a Justice Seat as appears by him in the same Chapter numb 3. So that a Chase differs from a Forest in this because it may be in the hands of a Subject which a Forest in its proper nature cannot be and from
to shew a difference between them and base Courts as Customary Courts Court-Barons County Courts Pipowders and such like as when a Plea of land is removed out of ancient Demesne because the land is Frank-fee and pleadable at the Common Law that is to say in the Kings Court and not in ancient Demesne or in any other base Court Thirdly and most usually by Common Law is understood such Laws as were generally taken and holden for Law before any Statute was made to alter the same as for example Tenant for life nor for years were not to be punished for doing Waste at the common Law till the Statute of Gloucester cap. 5. which gives an Action of Waste against them But Tenant by the courtesie and Tenant in dower were punishable for Waste at the Common Law that is by the usual and common received Laws of the Realm before the said Statute was made Common Pleas. COmmon Pleas is the Kings Court now held in Westminster-Hall but in ancient time moveable as appears by Magna Charta cap. 11. But Gwyn in the Preface to his Reading saith That untill the time that Henry the third granted the Great Charter there were but two Courts only called the Kings Courts the Exchequer and Kings Bench which was called Aula Regia because it followed the Court and that upon the grant of that Charter the Court of Common Pleas was erected and setled in a place certain viz. at Westminster and therefore all the Writs were made with this Return Quid sit coram Justiciariis meis apud Westmonasteriū where before the partie was commanded by them to appear coram Me vel Justiciariis meis without any addition of any place certain All Civil causes as well Real as Personal are or were in ancient time tried in this Court according to the strict Law of the Kingdom And by Fortescue cap. 50. it seems to have been the only Court for Real Causes The thief Iudge thereof is called The Lord chief Justice of the Common pleas accompanied with three or four Assistants or Associates who are created by the Kings Letters Patents and as it were installed or placed upon the Bench by the Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Iustice of the Court as appears by Fortescue cap. 51. who expresses all the circumstances of this Admission The rest of the Officers appertaining to this Court are these The Custos Brevium three Prothenataries Chirographer fourteen Philasers four Exigenters Clerk of the Warrants Clerk of the Iuries Clerk of the Treasurie Clerk of the Kings Silver Clerk of the Essoines Clerk of the Outlawries Common day in plea of land COmmon day in plea of land Anno 13 R. 2. Stat. 1. cap. 17. signifies an ordinary day in the Court as Octabis Michaelis Quindena Paschae c. as you may see in the Statute ◠1 Hen. 3. concerning general days in the Bench. Commotes COmmotes seems to be a compound word of the Preposition Con and Motio that is Dictio Verbum and signifies in Wales part of a County or Hundred An. 28 H. 8. cap. 3. It is written Commoithes Anno 4 H. 4. cap. 17. and is used for a Gathering made upon the people of this or that Hundred by Welsh Minstrels Communi Custodia COmmuni Custodia is a Writ which didlie for that Lord whose Tenant holding by Knights service dies his eldest son within age against a stranger who entred the land and obtained the Ward of the body It seems to take name from the common Custome or right in this case which is That the Lord shall have the wardship of his Tenant untill his full age or because that it is common for the recovery both of the Land and Tenant as appears by the form thereof Old N. B. 89. Regist Orig. 161. Compromise COmpromise is a mutual Promise of two or more parties that are at controversie to submit themselves and all differences between them unto the Award Arbitrement or Iudgment of one or more Arbitrators indifferently chosen between them to determine and adjudge upon all matters referred and upon which the parties differ Computation COmputation is used in the Common Law for the true and indifferent Construction of time so that neither the one party shall do wrong to the other nor the determination of times referred at large be taken one way or other but computed according to the just censure of the Law As if Indentures of Demise are ingrossed bearing date the eleventh day of May 1665. to have and to hold the land in S. for three years from henceforth and the Indentures are delivered the fourth day of June in the year aforesaid In this case from henceforth shall be accounted from the day of the Delivery of the Indentures and not by any computation from the Date And if the said Indenture be delivered at four of the clock in the afternoon of the said fourth day this Lease shall end the third day of June in the third year for the Law in this Computation rejects all fractions or divisions of the day for the incertainty which alwayes is the Mother of contention So where the Statute of Inrollments made Anno 27 Henr. 8. cap. 16. is That the Writings shall be inrolled within six moneths after the Date of the same Writings indented if such Writings have Date the six months shall be accounted from the Date and not from the Delivery but if they want Date then it shall be accounted from the Delivery Co. li. 5. fol. 1. If any Deed be shewed to a Court at Westminster the Deed by Iudgment of the Law shall remain in Court all the Term in which it is shewed for all the Term in Law is but one day Co. lib. 5. fol. 74. If a Church be void and the true Patron doth not present within six months then the Bishop of the Diocess may collate his Chaplain but these six months shall not be computed according to 28 days to the month but according to the Kalendar And there is great diversity in our common speech in the singular number as a Twelve-moneth which includes all the Year according to the Kalendar and twelve-months which shall be computed according to 28 days to every month See Coke lib. 6. f. 61. b. Computo COmputo is a Writ so called of the effect because it compells a Bayliff Chamberlain or Receiver to yield his Account Old Nat. Brev. fol. 53. It is founded upon the Statute of Westm 2. cap 2. which you may for your better understanding read And it also lies for Executors of Executors 15 Ed. 3. Star de Provis Victual cap. 5. Thirdly against the Gardian in Secage for Waste made in the Minority of the Heir Malbr cap. 17. And see farther in what other cases it lies Reg. Orig. fol. 135. Old N. B. fol. 58. F. N. B. fol. 116. Concealers COncealers are such as find out lands concealed that is such lands as are secretly detained from the King by common persons having nothing to shew
commands and the other doth it rather by a friendly and voluntary Conference or agreement between him or her and the Devil or Familiar to have his or her desires and purposes effected instead of blood or other gift offered him especially of his or her Soul And both these differ from Enchantments or Sorceries because they are personal Conferences with the Devil as is said but these are but Medicines and ceremonial forms of words commonly called Charms without apparition Conservator of the Peace COnservator of the Peace is he that hath an especial charge by virtue of his Office to see the Kings Peace kept Which Peace in effect is defined to be A with-holding or abstinence from that injurious force and violence that unruly and boisterous men are in their natures prone to use towards others were they not restrained by Laws and fear of Punishment Of these Conservators Lambert farther saith That before the time of King E. 3 who first appointed Iustices of Peace there were sundry persons who by the Common Law had interest in keeping of the Peace Of those some had that charge as incident to their Offices and so included within the same and yet notwithstanding were called by the name of their Office only others had it simply as of it self and were thereof named Custodes Pacis Wardens or Conservators of the Peace And both these sorts are again subdivided by Lambert in his Eirenarcha l. 1. c. 3. Conservator of the Truce COnservator of the Truce was an Officer appointed in every Port of the Sea under the Kings Letters Patents and had 40 li. for his yearly stipend at the least His charge was to enquire of all Offences done against the Kings Truce and Sa â— e conducts upon the main Sea out of the Countries and Liberties of the Cinque-Ports of the King as the Admirals have accustomedly done and such other things as are declared Anno 2 H. 5. cap. 6. Touching this matter you may read the other Statute of Anno 4 H. 5. c. 7. Consideration COnsideration is the material cause of a Contract without which no Contract can bind the party This Consideration is either expressed as when a man bargains to give twenty shillings for an Horse or is implied as when the Law it self inforces a Consideration as if a man comes into a common Inne and there staying some time takes meat or lodging or either for himself or his horse the Law presumes he intends to pay for both notwithstanding that nothing be covenanted between him and his Host and therefore if he discharges not the house the Host may stay his horse Also there is Consideration of nature and blood and Valuable Consideration and therefore if a man be indebted to divers others and yet in consideration of natural affection gives all his goods to his son or cousin this shall be construed a fraudulent Gift within the Act of 13 Eliz. c. 5. because this Act intends a Valuable consideration Consistory COnsistory is a word borrowed of the Italians or rather Lombards and signifies as much as Tribunal It is vocabulum utriusque Juris and is used for the place of Iustice in the Courts Christian or Spiritual Consolidation COnsolidation is used for the Combining and uniting of two Benefices in one And this word is taken from the Civil Law where it properly signifies an Vniting of the possession occupation or profit with the property As if a man hath by Legacy usum fructum fundi and after purchases the Property or Fee-simple of the Heir in this case a Consolidation is made of the Profits and Property Vide Brook tit Union Conspiracie COnspiracie notwithstanding that in Latine and French it is used for an Agreement of men to do a good or evil thing yet it is commonly taken in our Law in the evil part and is defined in 34 E. 1. Stat. 2. to be an Agreement of such as confeder or bind themselves by Oath Covenant or other alliance that every of them shall bear and aid the other falsly and maliciously to indict or falsly to move or maintain Pleas and also such as cause Children within age to appeal men of Felony whereby they are imprisoned and sore grieved and such as maintain men in the Country with Liveries and Fees to maintain their malicious enterprises and this extends as well to the takers as to the givers Also Stewards and Bayliffs of great Lords who by their Selgniory Office or power undertake to bear or maintain Quarrels Pleas or Debates that concern other parties then such as touch the Estate of their Lords or of themselves Anno 4 E. 3. c. 11. 3 H. 7. c. 13 And hereof see more 1 H. 5. c. 3. 18 H. 6. c. 12. also in the old Book of Entries word Conspiracie This word in the place before rehearsed is taken more generally and is confounded with Maintenance and Champerty but in a more special signification it is taken for a Confederacy between two or more falsly to indict one or to procure one to be indicted of Felony And the punishment of Conspiracy upon an Indictment of Felony at the Suit of the King is That the party attainted shall lose his frank law so that he shall not be impanelled upon Iuries or Assises or such like imployments for testifying of the truth and if he hath to do in the Kings Court he shall make his Attorney and his lands goods and chattels shall be seised into the Kings hands his lands estreaped his trees digged up and his body committed to prison 27 lib. Assise 59 Crompton 156. b. this is called villanous Judgement But if the party grieved will sue a Writ of Conspiracy then see Fitzh Nat. Brev. 114. d. 115. i. c. Constable COnstable is diversely used in the Common Law And first the Constable of England who is also called Marshal Stanf. Pl. Cor. fol. 65. of whose authority and dignity a man may find many arguments and signs as well in the Statutes as in the Chronicles of this Realm His power consists in the care of the common Peace of the Land in deeds of Arms and matters of War Lamb. Duties of Constables num 4. wherewith agrees the Statute of 13 R. 2. c. 2. Stat. 1. Of this Officer or Magistrate Gwyn in the Preface to his Readings saith to this purpose The Court of the Coustable and Marshal determines Contracts touching Deeds of arms out of the Realm and handles things concerning Wars within the Realm as Combats Blazons of armory and suth like but he hath nothing to do with Battel in appeal nor generally with any other thing that may be tried by the Law of the Land See Fortesc ' cap. 32. This Office heretofore was appertaining to the Lords of certain Manors Jure feudi and why it is discontinued see Dyer 285. pl. 39. Out of this Magistracie saith Lambert were drawn these inferior Constables which we call Constables of Hundreds and Liberties and first ordained by the Statute of
said of these words that hath been spoken of the words next afore As if a man be bound to another and makes his Executor and dies and the mony grows due in the time of the Testator and afterward the Executor pays it not the Action brought against him therefore shall be in the Detinet only and so in all Actions brought by Executors as Executors the Writ shall be in the Detinet only although the duty accrued in their own time because the thing or damages recovered shall be assets But if Lessee for years rendring Rent makes his Executors and dies and the Rent incurs after the death of the Testator there an Action of Debt shall be brought in the Debet Detinet for when an Executor or Administrator takes the Profits nothing shall be Assets but the Profits above the Rent As if the Land is worth ten pound by the year and five pound is reserved in this cas â— nothing shall be Assets but the five pound above the Rent and therefore the Writ shall be for the Rent in the Debet Detinet Cokel 5. fol. 31. Decem Tales DEcem Tales See Tales Decies tantum DEcies tantum is a Writ that lies where a Iuror in any Enquest takes money of the one part or other to give his Verdict then he shall pay ten times as much as he hath received a â— d every one that will sue may have Action and shall have the one half and the King the other But if the King in such case release by his Pardon to such a Iuror yet that shall be no Bar against him that brings the Action who shall recover the other half if this Action be commenced before the Pardon of the King but if the Pardon be before any Action it is a Bar against all men And the same Law is of all other Actions popular where one part is to the King the other to the party that sues And the Embracers who procure such Enquests shall be punished in the same manner and they shall have imprisonment a year But no Iustice shall enquire thereof ex officio but only at the Suit of the party Deciners DEciners are such as were wont to have the oversight and command of Ten free Burgs for preserving the Kings Peace and the Limits or Circuit of their Iurisdiction was called Decenna Bracton l. 3. tract 2. c. 15. Also you may read Flet. l. 1. c. 27. and Reg. orig fol. 68. b. These seemed to have large authority in the Saxons time taking knowledge of Causes within their Circuit and redressing wrongs by way of Iudgment as you may read in the Laws of King Edward set out by Lambert num 32. Also there is mention of these in Britton cap. 12. who saith in the Kings person as he writes his whole Book in this manner We will that all such as are fourteen years of age shall make oath that they shall be sufficient and loyal unto Vs and that they will not be Felons nor assenting to Felons and that all be professed to be of this or that Dozein and make or offer Surety of their behaviour by these or those Deciners except Religious persons Clerks Knights and their eldest sons and Women Yet the same Author in his 29. chap. near the end saith That all at the age of 12 years or above are punishable for not coming to the Sheriffs Tourn excepting Earls Prelates Barons Religious persons and Women The same Law is where the Deciners make presentment that a Felon is taken for Theft and delivered to the Sheriff And Kitchen out of the Register and Britton saith thus Religious persons Clerks Knights or Women shall not be Deciners fol. 33. Whence it may be gathered that this word implies nothiny else but such a one as by his Oath of Loyalty to his Prince is settled in the combination or society of a Dozein for it is not usual at this day to find Surety so to do And now a Dozeine seems to extend so far as the Lcet extends because in Leets only this Oath is administred by the Steward and taken by such as are of the age of twelve years and upward dwelling within the Precinct of the Leet where they are sworn Fitzh Nat. Brev. 161. a. The particulars of this Oath you may read in Bracton l. 3. tract 2. c. 1. num 1. where he puts dwon fifteen years for the age of those that are sworn to the Kings Peace but l. 3. tract 2. c. 11. num 5. he names twelve years See Inlaugh From which Premisses may be observed the difference detween the ancient and these our times in this point of Law and Government as well for the age of those that are to be sworn as also that Deciner is not now used for the chief man of a Dozein but for him that is sworn to the Kings Peace and lastly that now there are not any Dozeins but Leets and that ordinarily no man gives other Security for keeping the Kings Peace but his own Oath and therefore no one shall answer for the transgression of another but every one for himself Declaration DEclaration is a Shewing in writing the grief and complaint of the Demandant or Plaintiff against the Tenant or Defendant wherein he supposes to have received wrong And this Declaration ought to be plain and certain both because it impeaches the Defendant and also compels him to make answer thereto But note that such Declaration made by the Demandant against the Tenant in an Action real is properly called a Count. Note That the Count or Declaration ought to contain Demonstration Declaration and Conclusion And in Demonstration are contained three things that is him who complains against whom and for what matter And in the Declaration there ought to be comprised how and in what manner the Action rose between the parties and when and what day year and place and to whom the Action shall be given And in the Conclusion he ought to averre and profer to prove his Suit and shew the Dammages which he hath sustained by the wrong done him De deoneranda pro rata portionis DE deoneranda c. is a Writ that lies where one one is distreined for Rent that ought to be paid by others proportionably with him Fitz. Nat. Brev. Fol. 234. Dedimus potestatem DEdimus potestatem is a Writ that lies where a man sues in the Kings Court or is sued and cannot well travel then he shall have this Writ directed to some Iustice or other discreet person in the Countrey to give him power to admit some man for his Atturney or to levy a Fine or to take his Confession or his Answer or other Examination as the matter requires Defalt DEfalt is an Offence in omitting that which we ought to do and most commonly taken for Non-appearance in Court at a day assigned Bract. lib. 5. tract 3. and Fleta lib. 6. cap. 14. Defamation DEfamation is when a man speaks Slanderous words of any other man
have any real or personal Action concerning land but in every such Action the Tenant or Defendant may plead that he was born in such a place which is not within the Kings liegeance and demand judgment if he shall be answered Every alien friend may by the Common Law have and get within this realm by gift trade or other lawful ways any treasure or personal goods whatsoever as well as any Englishman and may maintain any Action for the same But Land within this realm or houses if not for their dwelling only Alien friends connot have nor get nor maintain any Action real or personal for any Land or House unless the House be for their necessary dwelling An Alien enemy cannot maintain any Action nor get any thing within this Realm And the reasons why aliens born are not capable of inheritance within England are 1. The Secrets of the Realm may by this be discovered 2. The Revenues of the Realm shall be taken and injoyed by Strangers born 3. This will tend to the destruction of the Realm First in the time of war for then Strangers may fortifie themselves in the heart of the Realm and set in combustion the Common-wealth Secondly in the time of peace for by such means many Aliens born may get a great part of the Inheritance and free-hold of the Realm by which there would ensue a want of Iustice the supporter of the Common-wealth for this that Aliens cannot be returned of Iuries nor sworn for the tryal of Issues between the King and Subject or between Subject and Subject Vide Coke lib. 7. Calvins Case Alienation ALienation is as much to say as to make a thing another mans or to alter or put the possession of Lands or other things from one man to another And in some cases a man hath power in himself so to do without the assent or licence of any other and in some not As if Tenant in chief alien his estate without the Kings licence then by the St. of 1 Ed. 3. c. 12. a reasonadle Fine shall be taken where at the Common Law before the said St. the Lands and tenements held in chief of the K. and aliened without licence have been held forfeited And if the K's Tenant that holds in chief intended to alien unto C. to the use of D. and hereupon if he purchase Licence to alien to C. and accordingly aliens to C. to the use of D. which use is not mentioned in the Licence in this case he shall pay but one Fiue for it is but one Alienation Coke lib. 6 fol. 28. But if a man will alien Lands in Fee-simple to an House of Religion or to a body incorporate it behoves him to have the Kings Licence to make this Grant or Alienation and the chief Lords of whom such lands are held c. otherwise the land so alienated in Mortmain shall be forfeited by the Statute of 15 R. 2. cap. 5. Allay ALlay is the Temper or mixture of Gold and Silver with baser metal for the increasing the weight of it so much as might countervail the Kings charge in the coyning This word is used in the Statute of 9 H. 5. cap. 11. for the payment of English Gold by the Kings weight Almner ALmner is an Officer of the Kings house whose Office is to distribute the Kings Alms every day and to that purpose he hath the collecting of all Forfeitures of Deodands and of the goods of Felons de se which the King allows him to dispose in Alms to the poor And of his Office see Flets lib. 2. cap. 22. Almoin ALmoin See Aumone Alnager ALnager is an Officer of the Kings who by himself or by his Deputy looks to the Assise of all Cloth made of Wool throughout the Land and to put a Seal for that purpose ordained unto them 35 E. 3. Stat. 4. c. 1. Anno 3. R. 2. c. 2. And he is to be accomptable to tae King for every Cloth that is so sealed in a Fee or Custom hppertaining to it Altarage ALtarage in Latin Altaragium signifie Duties and Offerings to holy Altars mention'd 2 Cro. Rep. 516. that a Vicarage was endowed with it and small Tythes Ambidexter AMbidexter is he that when a matter is in suit between men takes money of the one side and of the other either to labour the Suit or such like or if he be of the Iury to give his Verdict Amendment AMendment is When Error is in the Process the Iustices may amend it after Iudgment But if there be Error in giving Iudgment they may not amend it but the party is put to his Writ of Error And in many cases where the default appears in the Clerks that writ the Record it shall be amended but such things as come by information of the party as the Town Mystery and such like shall not be amended for he must inform true upon his peril Amercement AMercement most properly is a Penalty assessed by the Peers or equals of the party amerced for an offence done as for want of Suit of Court or for not amending someting that he was appointed to redress by a certain time before or for such like cause in which case the party who offends puts himself in the mercy of the King or Lord and thereupon this Penalty is called Amerciament And there is a difference between Amerciaments and Fines Kitch 214. For Fines are Punishments certain which grow expressy from some Statute and Amerciaments are such which are arbitrarity imposed by the Affeerors which Kitchin seems to confirm fol â— 8. in these words The Amerciament is affeered by Equals Also it appears Coke lib. 8. fol. 39. That a Fine is always imposed and assessed by the Court but Amerciament which is called in Latin Misericordia is assessed by the Country Another diversity there is as if a man be convict before the Sheriff of the County of a Recaption he shall be only amerced but if he be convict of this in the Common Bench he shall be fined And the reason of this diversity is That the County Court is not a Court of Record and therefore cannot impose a Fine for no Court can impose a Fine but such a Court as is of Record Cok. lib. 8. fol. 41. a. If the Defendant or Tenant plead a false Deed to him or deny his own Deed and this is found against him or he leaving his own Verification acknowledges the Action he shall be fined for his falsity because we ought to be sure of our own Acts. But if one deny the Deed of his Ancestor and this is found against him yet he shall not be fined but amerced only because it was the act of a Stranger Co. lib. 8. fol. 60. a. see more there Amercement royal AMercement royal is when a Sheriff Coroner or other such Officer of the King is amerced by the Iustices for his abuse in the Office Learn if it should not be called a Fine Amoveas manus AMoveas manus See Ouster le
Woods turned up and all their Lands and Tenements forfeited to the King But if it pass against him that brought that Attaint he shall be Imprisoned and grievously ransomed at the Kings will See the Statute 23 Hen. â— cap. 3. Attaint also is when Iudgment is given in Treason or Felony Attendant ATtendant is where one ows a duty or service to another or as it were depends upon another As if there be Lord Mesne and Tenant the Tenant holds of the Mesne by a peny the Mesne holds over by two pence the Mesne releases to the Tenant all the right which he hath in the Land the Tenant dies his wife shall be endowed of the land and she shall be Attendant to the Heir of the third part of one peny and not of the third part of two pence for she shall be endowed of the best possession of her husband Also where the wife is endowed by the Gardian she shall be attendant to the Gardian and to the Heir at his full age Attournment ATtournment is when one is Tenant for term of Life and he in Reversion or Remainder grants his right or estate to another then it behoves the Tenant for life to agree thereto and this agreement is called an Attournment For if he in the Reversion grant his estate and right to another if the Tenant for life attourn not nothing passes by the grant But if it be granted by Fine in Court of Record he shall be compelled to attourn And see thereof after Title Quid juris c â— mat and in Littl. lib. 3. cap. 10. Atturney ATturney is one appointed by another man to do something in his stead whom West hath defined thus Attorneys are such persons as by consent commandment or request take care of see to and undertake the Charge of other mens Business in their absence And where in ancient time those of authority in Courts have had it in their dispose when they would permit men to appear or sue by any other than themselves as appears by F. N. B. 25. in the Writ of Dedimus potestatem Ä‘ Attornato faciendo where it is shewed that men were driven to procure the Writs or Letters Patents of the King to appoint Atturneys for them it is now provided by divers Stat. that it shall be lawful so to do without any such circuity And there is great diversity of Writs in the table of the Register by which the King commands his Iudges to admit of Atturneys By which means at last there were so many unskilful Atturneys and so many mischiefs by them that an Act was 4 H. 4 c. 18. ordained for their restraint that the Iustices should examine them and put out the unskilful and An. 33 H. 6. c. 7. that there should be but a certain number of them in Norfolk and Suffolk In what cases a man at this day may have an Atturney and in what not see F. N. B. in the place before cited Atturney is either general or special Atturney general is he that is appointed to all our Affairs or Suits as the Atturney general of the King Atturney general of the Duke Cromp. 105. Atturney special or particular is he that is imploi â— d in one or more things particularly specifyed Atturneys general are made two ways either by the Kings Letters Patents or by our own appointment before Iustices in Eyre in open Court See Glan lib. 11. cap. 1. Brit. 126. Audience Court AUdience Court Curia audientiae Canturiensis is a Court belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury of equal Authority with the Arches Court though inferior both in dignity and antiquity Of which you may read more in a Book entituled De antiquitate Ecclesiae Britannicae historia Audita Querela AUdita Querela is a Writ that lies where one is bound in a Statute-Merchant Statute-Staple or Recognisance or where Iudgment is given against him for Debt and his body in Execution thereupon then if he have a Release or other matter sufficient to be discharged of Execution but hath no day in Court there to plead it then he shall have this writ against him which hath recovered or against his Executors Auditor AUditor is an Officer of the King or some other great person who by yearly examining the Accounts of all under-Officers accountable makes up a general Book that shews the difference between their Receipts or Charge and their Payments or Allowances See the Statute 33 H. 8. c. 33. There is also another sort of Auditor assigned by any Court wherein a Defendant is adjudged to Account who take the Account and put it in form into Writing and then it is inrolled and the Plaintiff pleads to it and the Defendant replies if occasion be and so go to issue upon divers points and particulars of the Account Average AVerage is that Service which the Tenant owes his Lord to be done by the Beasts of the Tenant and it seems to be deriv'd from the word Averia because it is the Service which the Tenants Beasts perform for the Lord by carriage or otherwise This word also hath another signification and is much used in the Statute 32 H. 8. c. 14. for a certain Contribution which Merchants and others pay proportionably towards their losses that have their goods cast out in a tempest for the saving of the Ship or of the goods or lives of them that are therein Averment AVerment is where a man pleads a Plea in Abatement of the Writ or Bar of the Action which he saith he is ready to prove as the Court will award This offer to prove the Plea is called an Averment Also there is a Writ called a Writ of Averment which is made out of any of the Law Courts of Westminster-Hall when the Action is depending when the Sheriff upon a Distringas returns small issues then the Iudges of Assise may cause it to be enquired by a Iury if the Sheriff could return more issues of the Lands of the Defendant and if it be found he may then he must return more issues to force the Defendant to appear to the Plaintiffs suite or to do what the Distringas required him to do Averpeny AVerpeny is to be quit of divers sums of money for the Kings arrerages Augmentation AUgmentation was the name of a Court erected in the 27 year of King Henry the eighth And the cause thereof was that the King might be iustly used touching the profits of such Religious Houses and their Lands as were given him by Act of Parliament the same year not printed For dissolving which Court there was an Act made in the Parliament held in the first year of the Reign of Queen Mary Sess 2. cap. 10. which she afterward put in execution by her Letters Patents The name of the Court arises from this That the Revenues of the Crown were so much augmented by the Suppression of the said Houses as the King reserved to the Crown and neither gave nor sold to others But the Office of
Augmentation remains to this day wherein there are many Records of great use and importance Aumone AUmone or Tenure in Almoin is Tenure by Divine Service for so says Britton fol. 164. Tenure in Aumone is Land or Tenements given for Aims whereof some Service is reserved to the Feoffer or Donor Auncel weight AUncel weight was an ancient manner of Weighing in England by the hanging of balances or hooks at each end of a staff which the party lifted up upon his finger or with his hand and so discerned the equality or difference of the things weighed But this weight being subject to much deceit many Statutes were made to out it as the Stat. of 25 E. 3. c. 9. 34 E. 3. c. 5. 8 H. 6. c. 5. and others And it was called Auncel weight as much as to say Handsale Weight Ancient or Ancient Demesne ANcient demesne is a certain Tenure whereby all those Manors that were in the hands of S. Edward the Confessor and which he caused to be written in a Book called Dooms-day sub titulo Regis and all the Lands holden of the said Manors are held and the Tenants shall not be impleaded out of the said Manors and if they be they may shew the matter and abate the Writ but if they answer to the Writ and Iudgment be given then the Lands become frank-free for ever until that Iudgment be reversed by writ of Disceit Ra. Ent. 100 221. 2 R. 1. 11 H. 4. 36. 21 E. 3. 20. Also the Tenants in Ancient demesne are free of T â— ll for all things concerning their sustenance and Husbandry in ancient Demesne and for such Lands they shall not be put or impannelled upon any Enquest But all the Lands in Ancient Demes â— e that are in the Kings hands are frank-free and pleadable at the Common Law See more after in the Title Sokmans Avoir de pois AVoir de pois is as much as to say true or just weight And it signifies in our Law Two things first a kind of weight diverse from that which is called Troy Weight which hath but 12 ounces to the pound whereas Avoir de pois hath 16. Secondly it signifies such Merchandises as are weighed by this weight and not by Troy weight As you may see in the Statute of York 9. E. 3. 27 E. 3. c. 19 Stat. 2. c. 10. and the Statute of Glocester 2 R. 2. c. 1. Avowry AVowry is where one takes a Distress for Rent or other thing and the other sues Replevin then he that hath taken it shall Iustifie in his Plea for what cause he took it and if he took it in his own right he ought to shew that and so avow the taking and that is called his Avowry But if he took it in or for the right of another then when he hath shewed the cause he shall make conusance of the taking as Bailiff or servant to whom in whose right took it Avowterer AVowterer is an Adulterer with whom a married woman continues in Adultery the Crime is called Avowtry 43 E. 3. 19. Awme AWme is a Vessel that contains 40 galons of Rhen â— sh wine and is mentioned in the Statute made 1 Jac. c. 23. B Backberind Thief BAckberind Thief is a Thief taken with the manner that is having that found upon him being followed with a Hue and Cry which he hath stollen whether it be Money Linnen Wollen or other stuff but it is most properly said when he is taken carrying those things that he hath stolen in a bundle or fardel upon his Back Manwood in part 2. notes this for one of the circumstances or cases in which a Forester may arrest the body of any offender against Vert or Venison in the Forest which are Dog-draw Stable-stand Back-berind and Bloody-hand Badger BAdger is as much as to say Bagger of the French word Baggage id est Sarcina And it is used with us for one that is licenced to buy Corn or other Victuals in one place and carry them to another and such a one is exempted in the Statute made in the 5 and 6 of E. 6. cap. 14 from the punishment of an Ingrosser within that Statute Bail BAIL is when a man is taken or arrested for Felony suspicion of Felony indicted of Felony or any such case so that he is restrained of his liberty and being by Law bailable offers Surcties to those who have authority to bail him which Sureties are bound for him to the Kings use in a certain Sum of money or body for body that he shall appear before the Iustices of Goal-delivery at the next Sessions c. Then upon the Bonds of these Sureties as is aforesaid he is bailed that is set at liberty until the day appointed for his appearance Manwood in the first part of his Forest Law pag. 167. says There is a great diversity between Bail and Mainprise for he that is mainprised is always said to be at large and to go at his own liberty out of ward after he is put to Mainprise until the day of his Appearance by reason of Common Summons or otherwise But it is not so where a man is put to bail by four or two men by my Lord chief Iustice in Eyre of the Forest until a certain day for there he is always accounted by the Law to be in their ward and custody for the time and they may if they will hold him in ward or in Prison till that time or otherwise at their will so that he that is bail'd â— hall not be said by the Law to be at large or at his own liberty Bailement Bailement is a Delivery of things whether Writings Goods or Stuff to another sometimes to be delivered back to the Bailor that is to him that so delivered it sometimes to the use of the Bailee that is of him to whom it is delivered and sometimes also it is delivered to a third person This delivery is called a Bailment Bailiff BAiliff is an Officer that belongs to a Mannor to order the husbandry and hath authority to pay Quit-rents issuing out of the Mannor fei â— Trees repair Houses make Pales Hedges distrain Beasts doing hurt upon the ground and divers such like This Officer is he whom the ancient Saxons called a Reeve for the name Bailiff was not then known amongst them but came in with the Normans and is called in Latin Villicus There are two other sorts of Bailiffs that is Bailiffs errant and Bailiffs of Franchises Bailiffs errant are those that the Sheriff makes and appoints to go about the Country to execute Writs to summon the County Sessions Assises and such like Bailiffs of Franchises are those that are appointed by every Lord within his Liberty to do such Offices within his Precincts as the Bailiff errant doth abroad in the County This Bailiff distrains for Amerciaments in Courts held within the Mannor of which he is Bailiff But if such Court is by prescription to be
woman at such a place within such a Diocess and that she is dead and that he hath married another woman within the same Diocess or within some other Diocess and so is Bigamus Or if he have been but once married then to say that she whom he hath married is or was a Widow that is the Relict of such a one c. which shall be tried by the Bishop of the Diocess where the Marriages are alledged And being so certified by the Bishop the prisoner shall lose the Benefit of the Clergy But at this day by force of the Act made 1 E. 6. ca. 12. this is no Plea but he may have his Clergy notwithstanding So is Brook titulo Clergie Placito 20. to the same purpose By-laws BY-laws are Orders made in Court-Leets or Court-Barons by a common consent for the good of them that are the makers of them And they are called By-laws quasi Birlaws or Bawrlaws of the Dutch word Bawr that is a Countrey-man and so Bawrlaws or By-laws is as much as the Laws of Country-men Bilinguis BIlinguis in general is a man with a double tongue but is commonly used for that Iury which passes between an English man and an Alien whereof part ought to be Englishmen and part Strangers And for this cause it is enacted by the Statute of 28 E. 3. cap. 13. That if any variance chance to be about the packing of Wooll before the Mayor of the Staple between the Merchants or Ministers of the same thereupon to try the truth thereof Enquest shall be taken and if the one party and the other be Denizons it shall be tried by Denizons or if the one party be Denison and the other Alien the half of the Enquest or of the proof shall be Denizons and the other half Aliens Bill BILL is all one with an Obligation saving that when it is in English it is commonly called a Bill in Latin an Obligation Also a Declaration in writing that expresses either the grievance and wrong which the Complainant has suffered by the party complained of or else some fault by him committed against some Law or Statute of the Realm By a Bill we now ordinarily understand a single Bond without a Condition by an Obligation a Bond with a Penalty and Condition West part 2. Symbol tit Supplications sect 52. Billa vera BIlla vera is the Indorsement of the grand Inquest upon any Presentment or Indictment which they find to be probably true Blackmail BLackmail is a word used in the Statute of 43 Eliz. c. 13. and signifies a certainty of Money Corn Cattel or other consideration given by the poor people in the North of England to men of great name and alliance in those parts to be by them protected from such as usually rob and steal there Black rod. BLack Rod is the Huissier belonging to the most Noble Order of the Garter so called of the Black rod he carries in his hand He is also Huissier of the Lords house in Parliament Bloodwit BLoodwit is to be quit of Amerciaments for Blood-shedding and what Pleas are holden in your Court you shall have the Amerciaments thereof coming because Wit in English is Misericordia in Latin Bloody hand BLoody hand is the apprehension of a Trespasser in the Forest against Venison with his hands or other part bloody though he be not found chasing or hunting Of which see Manwood part 2. c. 18. Bockland BOckland in the Saxons time was that we at this day cail Free-hold Land or Land held by Charter and it was by that name distinguished from Folkland which was Copy-hold Land Bona notabilia BOna notabilia is where a man dies having goods to the value of five pound in divers Diocesses then the Archbishop ought to grant Administration and if any inferior Bishop do grant it it is void 37 H. 6. 27. 28 10 H. 7. 18. Dyer 305. Bordlands BOrdlands signifie the Demesns which Lords keep in their own hand â— for he maintenance of their Bord or Table Bracton l. 4. Tract 3. c. 9. num 5. Borow BOrow which with us signifies an ancient Town as appears by Littleton sect 164. is a word derived either of the French Burg id est Pagus or of the Saxon Borhoe id est â— ignus for that anciently the Neighbours of a Town became Pledges one for another and from thence comes Headborow for the chief Pledge or Borhoe-Aldere with us now called the Borow-holder or Bursholder Borow English BOrow English is a customary Descent of Lands or Tenements in some places whereby they come to the youngest son or if the owner have no issue to his youngest brother as in Edmunton Kitchin fol. 102. Borowhead BOrohead See Head-borow Bote. BOte is an old word signifying Help Succor Aid or Advantage and is commonly joyned with another word whose signification is doth augment as these Bridgebote Burgbote Firebote Hedgebote Plowbote divers other for whose significations look in their proper Titles Bottomry vulgo Bomry IS when a Master of a Ship in case of necessity doth engage his Ship for money for use of the Ship Bribor BRibor Fr. Bribeur i. Mendicus seems to signifie one that pilfers other mans goods Anno 28 E. 2. Stat. 1. Brief BRief Breve signifies most properly in our Law the Process that issues out of the Chancery or other Court commanding the Sheriff to summon or attach A. to answer to the Suit of B. c. But more largely it is taken for any Precept of the King in writing under Seal issuing out of any Court whereby he commands any thing to be done for the furtherance of Iustice and good order And they are therefore called Briefs because they briessy comprehend the cause of the action And some of them are Original and some judicial as you may see at large in the Register of Writs Broadhalpeny BRoadhalpeny in some Copies Broadhalfpeny that is to be quit of a certain custome exacted for setting up of Tables or Boards in Fairs or Markets and those that were freed by the Kings Charter of this Custome had this word put in their Letters Patents by reason whereof at this day the Freedom it self for brevity of speech is called Broadhalfpeny Broker BRoker seems to come of the French word Broieur id est Tritor he that grinds or breaks a thing into small pieces And the true trade of a Broker as it appears in the Statute made 1 Jac. c. 21. is to beat contrive make and conclude Bargains between Merchants and Tradesmen But the word is now also appropriated to those that buy and sell old and broken apparel and Houshold-stuff Brugbote BRugbote and in some copies Bridgebote is to be quit of giving aid to the repair of Bridges Bull. BULL is an Instrument so called granted by the Bishop of Rome and sealed with a Seal of Lead containing in it his Decrees Commandments or other Acts according to the nature of the thing for which it is granted And these
Money is not to be accounted Goods or Catals nor Hawks nor Hounds for they are ferae naturae But it seems that Money is not a Chattel because it is not in it self valuable but rather in imagination than in Deed. Catals are either real or personal Catals real are either such as do not immediately appertain to the person but to some other thing by way of dependance as a Box with writings of Laud the body of a Ward the Apples upon the tree or the Tree it self growing upon the ground Crom. fol. 33. b. Or else such as are issuing out of some thing immovable to the person as a Lease for Rent or term of years Personal may be so called in two respects The one because they belong immediately to the person of a man as a Horse c. The other because when they are wrongfully detained we have no other means for their recovery but personal Actions The Civilians comprehend these things and also Lands of all natures and tenures under the word Goods which are by them divided into Moveable and Immovable See Bract. lib. 3. c. 3. num 3 4. Cepi corpus CEpi corpus is a Return made by the Sheriff that upon an Exigend or other Writ he has taken the body of the party F N. B. fol. 26. Certificate CErtificate is a Writing made in some Court to give notice to another Court of something done there as a Certificate of the cause of Attaint is a transcript briefly made by the Clerks of the Crown Clerks of the Peace or Clerks of Assise to the Court of Kings Bench containing the tenor and effect of every Indictment Outlawry or Conviction and Clerk attainted made or declared in any other Court But note that this Certificate ought to be made by him that is the immediate Officer to the Court and therefore if the Commissary or Official of the Bishop certifie an Excommunication in bar of an action at the Common Law this is not good as was resolved in Coke lib. 8. fol. 68. but such Excommunication ought to be certified by the Bishop himself Yet the Certificate of an Excommunication by special Commissioners Delegates under their Common Seal was allowed and held good enough in the Common-place Dyer fol. 371. pla 4. Certification of Assise CErtification of Assise of Novel disseisin c. is a Writ awarded to re-examine or review a matter passed hy Assise before any Iustices and is used when a man appears by his Bailiff to an assise brought by another and loses the day and having some other matter to plead farther for himself as a Deed of Release or c. which the Bailiff did not plead or might not plead for him desires a better Examination of the Cause either before the same or other Iustices and obtains Letters Pa â— ents see their form F. N. B. 181. and then brings a Writ to the Sheriff to call the party for whom the Assise had passed and also the Iury which was impannelled upon the same Assise before the said Iustices at a day and place certain And it is called a Certificate because therein mention is made to the Sheriff that upon the parties complaint of the defective Examination or doubts remaining yet upon the Assise passed the King hath directed his Letters Patents to the Iustices for the better certifying of themselves whether all the points of the said Assise were duly examined or not Certiorari CErtiorari is a Writ that lies where a man is impleaded in a base Court that is of Record and he purposes that he may not have equal Iustice there then upon a Bill in the Chancery comprising some matter of Conscience he shall have this Writ to remove all the Record into the Chancery there to be determined by Conscience but if he prove not his Bill then the other party shall have a Writ of Procedendo to send again the Record into the base Court and there to be determined And it lies in many other cases to remove Records for the King as Indictments and others This Writ is also granted out of the Court of Kings Bench or Common Pleas to remove any Action thither out of Inferior Courts of Record and so the Plaintiff must declare and proceed in the Superior Court Also to certifie original writs or proceedings out of any Courts of Record into the Kings Bench where nullum tale Recordum is pleaded Also upon Writs of Error of a Iudgment in the Common Pleas each party may have this Writ to bring any of the Proceedings into the Kings Bench upon alledging Diminution as appears Coke Entr. 232 233 242. 2 Cro. 131 479. Cessavit CEssavit is a Writ that lies where my very Tenant holds of me certain Lands or Tenements yielding certain Rent by the year and the Rent is behind for two years and no sufficient Distress may be found upon the Land then I shall have this Writ by which I shall recover the Land But if the Tenant come into the Court before Iudgment given and tender the Arrearges and Damages and find Surety that he shall cease no more in payment of the said Rent I shall be compelled to take the Arrerages and the Damages and then the Tenant shall not lose the Land The heir may not maintain this Writ for Cessure made in the time of his Ancestor And it lies not but for Annual service as Rent and such other and not for Homage and Fealty Also there is another Writ called Cessavit de cantaria which lies where a man gives Land to a House of Religion to find for the soul of him his ancestors and his heirs yearly a Candle or Lamp in the Church or to say Divine Service feed the poor or other Alms or to do some other thing then if the said Services be not done in two years the Donor or his Heirs shall have this Writ against whosoever holds the things given after such Cessure See the Statute W. 2. cap. 41. Cession CEssion is when an Ecclesiastical Person is created Bishop or when a Parson of a Parsonage takes another Benefice without dispensation or otherwise not qualified c. In both cases their first Benefices are become void and are said to become void by Cession And to those that he had who was created Bishop the King shall present for that time whosoever is Patron of them And in the other case the Patron may present See 41 E. 3. 5. 11 H. 4. 37. Cestuy a que vie cestuy a que use CEstuy a que vie is he for whose life another holds an estate and cestuy a que use is he who is a Feoffee for the use of another Challenge CHallenge is an Exception taken either against Persons or Things Persons as in an Assise the Iurors or any one or more of them or in case of Felony by the Prisoner at the Bar against Things as a Declaration Old N. B. 76. Challenge made to the Jurors is either made to the Array or
Lessee pays the Rent to the Lessor and he receives it and puts it in his purse and afterwards upon review of it at the same time he finds that he hath received some counterfeit pieces aud thereupon refuses to take away the Money but re-enters for the Condition broken there his Entry is not lawful for when he hath accepted the Money this was at his peril and after this allowance he shall not take exception to any of it Collateral COllateral is that which comes in or adheres to the side of any thing as Collateral Assurance is that which is made over and beside the Deed it self For example if a man covenants with another and enters Bond for the performance the Bond is called Collateral Assurance because it is external and without the nature and essence of the Covenant And Crompton fol. 185. saith that to be subject to feeding the Kings Deer is collateral to the soil within the Forest In like manner we may say that the liberty to pitch Sheds or Standing for a Fair in the soil of another man is collateral to the land The private Woods of a common person within the Forest cannot be cut down without the Kings license for it is a Prerogative collateral to the soil Man part 1. pag. 66. Collateral Warranty See tit Warrantie Collation COllation is properly the bestowing of a Benefice by the Bishop that hath it in his own Gift or Patronage and differs from Institution in this for that Institution into a Benefice is performed by the Bishop at the motion and Presentation of another who is Patron of the same Church or hath the Patrons right for that time Yet Collation is used for Presentation in 25 E. 3. Stat. 6. and there is a Writ in the Regist 31. b. called De Collatione facta uni post mortem alterius c. directed by the Iustices of the Common Pleas commanding them to direct their Writ to the Bishop for the admitting a Clerk in the place of another presented by the King who during the Suit between the King and the Bishops Clerk deceased for judgment once passed for the Kings Clerk and he dying before he be admitted the King may give his Presentation to another Collusion COllusion is where an action is brought against another by his own agreement if the Plaintiff recover then such Recovery is called by Collusion And in some cases the Collusion shall be enquired of as in Quare impedit and Assise and such like which any Corporation or Body politick brings against another to the intent to have the Land or Advowson whereof the Writ is brought in Mortmain But in Avowry nor in any Action personal the Collusion shall not be inquired See the Stat. of Westm 2. c. 32. which gives the Quale jus and enquiry in such cases Colour COlour is feigned matter which the Defendant or Tenant uses in his barre when an Action of Trespass or an Assise is brought against him in which he gives the Demandant or Plaintiff a Shew at first sight that he hath good cause of Action where in truth it is no just cause but only a Colour and Face of a cause and it is used to the intent that the determination of the Action should be by the Iudges and not by an ignorant Iury of twelve men And therefore a Colour ought to be a matter in Law doubtfull to the common people As for example A. brings and Assise of land against B. and B. saith he himself did let the same land to one C. for term of life and afterward did grant the Reversion to A. the Demandant and after C. the Tenant for term of life died after whose decease A. the Demandant claiming the Reversion by force of the Grant whereto C. the Tenant for life did never atturn entred upon whom B. entred against whom A. for that Entry brings this Assise c. This is a good Colour because the common people think the land will pass by the Grant without Atturnment where indeed it will not pass c. Also in an Action of Trespass Colour must be given of which there are an infinite number one forexample In an Action of Trespass for taking away the Plaintiffs Beasts the Defendant saith that before the Plaintiff had any thing in them he himself was possessed of them as of his proper goods and delivered them to A. B. to deliver them to him again when c. and A. B. gave them unto the Plaintiff and the Plaintiff supposing the property to be in A. B. at the time of the gift took them and and the Defendant took them from the Plaintiff whereupon the Plaintiff brings an Action that is a good Colour and a good Plea See more hereof in Doctor and Student l. 2. c. 13. Colour is for this cause viz. where the Defendant justifies by title in trespass or Assize if he do not give the Plaintiff Colour his plea amounteth only to not guilty for if the Defendant hath title he is not guilty 1 Co. 79. 108. Colour of Office COlour of Office is always taken in the worst part and signifies an act evilly done by the countenance of an Office and it bears a dissembling face of the right of the Office whereas the Office is but a vail to the falshood and the thing is grounded upon vice and the Office is as a shadow to it But by reason of the Office and by virtute of the Office are taken always in the best part and where the Office is the just cause of the thing and the thing is pursuing the Office Plo. in Dive Man case sol 64. a. Combat COmbat in our ancient Law was a formal Trial of a doubtful Cause or quarrel by the Sword or Bastons of two Champions See Glanvile l. 14. c. 1. Britton c. 22. and Dyer fol. 301. num 41. Commandment COmmandment is taken in divers significations sometimes for the Commandment of the King when by his mere motion and from his own mouth he casts any man into prison Stamf. Plac. Coron fol. 72. or of the Iustices And this Commandment of the Iustices is either absolute or ordinary Absolute as when upon their own authority or wisdom and discretion they commit any man to prison for a punishment Ordinary is when they commit one rather to be safely kept then for punishmenr and a man committed by such ordinary Commandment is bailable Placit Cor. fol. 73. Commandment is again used for the offence of him that wills another man to transgresse the Law or to do any such thing as is contrary to the Law as Murther Theft or such like Bract. l. 3. tract 2. c. 19. The Civilians call this Commandment Angelus de maleficiis Commendrie COmmandrie was the name of a Manor or chief Messuage with which Lands or Tenements were used belonging to the late Priory of S. John of Jerusalem untill they were given to King Henry the eighth by Statute made in the 32 year of his reign And he who
Winchester 13 Edw. 1. which appoints for the conservation of the Peace and view of Armour two Constables in every Hundred and Liberty and these are at this day called High Constables because the increase of people and offences hath again under these made others in every Town called Pe ◠ie Constables who are of the like nature but of inferiour authority to the other Besides these there are Officers of particular places called by this name as Constable of the Tower Stan. 152. 1 H. 4. 13. Constable of the Exchequer 15 H. 3. Stat. 5. Constable of Dover Castle Camb. Brit. pag. 239. F. N. B. otherwise called Castellain Manw. part 1. cap. 13. of his Forest Law makes mention of a Constable of the Forest Customes and Services See Prescription CUstomes and Services is a Writ and lies where I or my ancestors after the limitation of Assise for which see the Title of Limitation in the Collection of Statutes were not seised of the Customes or Services of the Tenant before then I shall have this Writ to recover those Services Also the Tenant may have this Writ against his Lord but after the Tenant hath declared the Lord shall defend the words of the Declaration and replying shall say that he distrained not for the Customes whereof the Declaration is and then he shall declare all the Declaration of the Customes and Services and then the Tenant who was Plaintiff shall become Defendant and shall defend by Battel or great Assise Consultation COnsultation is a Writ whereby a Cause being formerly removed by Prohibition out of the Ecclesiastical Court or Court Christian to the Kings Court is returned thither again For if the Iudges of the Kings Court comparing the Libell with the Suggestion of the party find the Suggestion false or not proved and therefore the Cause to be wrongfully called from the Court Christian then upon this Consultation or Deliberation they decree it to be returned again whereupon the Writ in this case obtained is called a Consultation Of this you may read the Regist Orig. fol. 44. untill fol. 58. Old Nat. Brev. fol. 32. Fitzh Nat. Brev. fol. 50. Contenement COntenement seems to be the Freehold-land that lies to the Tenement or Dwelling-house that is in his own occupation for in Magna Charta cap. 14. there are these words A Free-man shall not be amerced for a small fault but according to the quantity of the fault and for a great fault according to the manner thereof saving unto him his Conteuement or Free-hold And a Merchant shall also be amerced saving to him his Merchandizes and a Villain saving to him his Wainage Continual Claime COntinual claim is where a man hath right to e ◠ter into certain lands whereof another is seised in Fee or Fee-tail and dares not enter for fear of death or beating but approaches as nigh as he dares and makes Claim thereto within the year and day before the death of him that hath the Lands if that he who hath the Land die seised and his Heir is in by discent yet he that makes such Claim may enter upon the Heir notwithstanding such discent because he hath made such Continual claim But such Claim must always be made within the year and the day before the death of the Tenant for if such Tenant do not die seised within a year and a day after such Claim made and yet he that hath right dares not enter then it behoves him that hath such right to make another Claim within the year and day after the first Claim and after such second Claim to make the third Claim within the year and day if he will be sure to save his Entry But if the Disseisor die seised within the year and day after the Disseisin and no Claim made then the entrie of the Disseisee is taken away for the year and day shall not be taken from the time of the title of the Entry to him grown but only from the time of the last Claim by him made as is aforesaid See more hereof in Littl. li. 3. c. 7. and see the Stat. 32 H. 8. cap. 33. Continuance COntinuance in the Common Law is of the same signification with Prorogatio in the Civil as Continuance until the next Assise Fitzh Nat. Brev. 154. f and 244. d. in both which places it is said That if a Record in the Treasury be alledged by the one party and denyed by the other a Certiorari shall be sued to the Treasurer and the Chamherlain of the Exchequer and if they do not certifie in the Chancery that such Record is there or that it is like to be in the Tower the King shall send to the Iustices repeating the said Certificate and commanding them to continue the Assise In this signification it is also used by Kitchen 202. and 119. also Anno 11 H. 6. cap. 4. Contract COntract is a Bargain or Covenant between two parties where one thing is given for another which is called Quid pro quo as if I sell my Horse for money or if I covenant to make you a Lease of my Mannor of Dale in consideration of twenty pound that you shall give me these are good Contracts because there is one thing for another But if a man make promise to me that I shall have xx s. and that he will be debtor to me thereof and after I ask the xx s. and he will not deliver it yet I shall never have any Action to recover this xx s. because this Promise was no Contract but a bare Promise and Ex nudo Pacto non oritur Actio But if any thing were given for the twenty shillings though it were but to the value of a peny then it had been a good Contract Contra forma Collationis COntra formam Collationis is a Writ that lies where a man hath given Lands in perpetual Almes to any of the late Houses of Religion as to an Abbot and Convent or other Soveraign or to the Warden or Master of any Hospital and his Covent to find certain poor men and to do other Divine Service if they alien the Lands then the Donor or his heirs shall have the said Writ to recover the Land But this Writ shall be alway brought against the Abbot or his successor and not against the Alienee although he be Tenant but in all other Actions where a man demands Free-hold the Writ shall be brought against the Tenant of the Land See the Stat. West 2. cap. 41. Contra formam Feoffamenti COntra formā Feoffamenti is a Writ that lies where a man before the Statute of Quia emptores terrarum made 18 Edw. 1. infeoffed another by Deed to do certain Service if the Feoffor or his heirs distrain him to do other Service then is comprised in the Deed then the Tenant shall have this Writ commanding him not to distrain him to do other Service then is comprised in the Deed. But this Writ lies not for the Plaintiff who
have been taken for such as a man retains to speak for him in any Court as Advocates and Pledeurs to be another sort as Attorneys for one that is present himself but suffers another to speak for him Countours according to M. Horne are such Sergeants skilful in the Law which serve the common people to defend their Actions in Iudicature for their fee. Countee COuntee so called a comitando because they accompany the King was the most eminent and high dignity from the conquest untill the 11 year of King Ed. 3. when the Black Prince was created Duke of Cornwall and those who of ancient time were created Countees were of the Blood-Royal aud at this day the King in all his appellations stiles them by the name of Our most dear Cousin And for these causes the Law gives them high and great Priviledges and therefore their body shall not be arrested for Debt Trespasse c. because the Law intends that they assist the King with their counsel for the publick good and keep the Realm by their prowesse and valour Also for the same cause they shall not be put in Iuries although it be for the service of the Country And if issue be taken whether the Plaintiff or Defendant be a Countee or not this shall not be tried by the Countrey but by the Kings Writ Also the Defendant shall not have a day of favour against a Lord of the Parliament because he is intended to attend the publick And of ancient time the Countee was Praefectus or Praepositus Comitatus and had the charge and custody of the County and now the Sheriff hath all the authority for administration and execution of Iustice which the Countee had Cok. lib. 9. fol. 49. and therefore he is called Viscount Countenance COuntenance seems to be used for Credit or Estimation Old Nat. Brev. 111. in these words The Attaint shall be granted to poor men that will take their oaths they have not any thing whereof to make their Fine saving their Countenance In the same manner it is used 1 Edw. 3. Stat. 2. cap. 4. in these words Sheriffs shall charge the Kings Debtors with as much as they may levy with their oaths without abating the Debtors Countenance Countermand COuntermand is where a thing formerly executed is afterward by some act or ceremony made void by the party that hath first done it As if a man hath made his last Will whereby he devises his Land to J. S. and afterwards he infeoffs another of the same Land there this Feoffment is a Countermand to the Will and the Will as to the disposition of the Land is void If a woman seised of Land in fee makes a Will in writing and devises that if A. of B. survives her then she devises and bequeaths to him and his heirs her Land and afterward she entermarries with the said A. of B. there by taking him to husband and coverture at the time of her death the Will is Countermanded But if a Baroness widow retains two Chaplains according to the Statute and takes one of the Nobility to husband and afterwards the husband dies the Reteiner of those two Chaplains remains and they without new Reteiner may take two Benefices for their Reteiner was not determined nor countermanded by such Marriage If a woman makes a Lease at will and afterwards takes an husband this Marriage is no Countermand to the Lease without express matter done by the Husband after the Marriage to determine the Will Also if a Lease be made at will to a woman and she takes an Husband the Lease continues notwithstanding the Marriage and is no Countermand thereunto Counterplea COunterplea is when one brings an Action and the Tenant in his Answer and Plea vouches or calls any man to warrant his Title or prayes in aid of another who hath better Estate than he as of him that is in the Reversion or if one that is a stranger to the Action come and pray to be received to save his Estate if the Demandant reply thereto and shew cause that he ought not to vouch such a one or of such a one to have aid or that such a one ought not to be received this Plea is called a Counterplea to the Voucher Aid or Resceit as the case is But when the Voucher is allowed and the Vouchee comes in and demands what cause the Tenant hath and the Tenant shews his cause and the Vouchee pleads any thing to avoid the Warranty that is called a Counterplea in the Warranty Countie COuntie signifies as much as Shire both containing a compasse or portion of the Realm into which all its land is divided for the better government thereof and more easie administring of Iustice so that there is not any part of the Kingdom that lies not within some County and every County is governed by a yearly Officer whom we call Sheriff who among other duties belonging to his Office puts in execution all the Commandments and Iudgments of the Kings Courts that are to be executed within the compasse Fortesc ' cap. 24 Of these Counties there are four more remarkable than others called County Palatines as Lancaster Chester Durham and Ely an 5. El. c. 23. There was also the County Palatine of Hexam an 33 H. 8. cap. 10. but thereof quaere A County Palatine is of so high a nature that whereas all Pleas touching the life or maihem of a man called Pleas of the Crown are usually held and sped in the Kings name and cannot be passed in the name of any other the chief Governours of these by special Charter from the King heretofore did send out all Writs in their own name and did all things touching Iustice as absolutely as the Prince himself in other Counties onely acknowledging him to be their Superiour and Soveraigne But by the Statute of 27 H. 8. cap. 25. this power was much abridged which fee and Cromp. Jurisdict 137. Besides these two sorts of Counties there are also Counties corporate as appears by the Statute of 3 Ed. 4. 5. and these are certain Cities or ancient Boroughs of the Land upon whom the Princes of this Nation have bestowed such extraordinary Liberties as London York Chester Gloucester and many others County in another signification is used for the County Court which the Sheriff keeps every moneth within his charge either by himself or his Deputy See for this Dal â— on s Office of Sheriffs Of these Counties or Shires there are reckoned to be 37 in England besides the twelve in Wales Court COurt is diversly taken sometimes for the House where the King remains with his ordinary retinue and also the place where Iustice is judicially ministred of which you may find 32 several sorts in Cromp. Jurisd well described And of those the greater part are Courts of Record some are not and therefore accounted Base Courts in comparison of the others Besides these there are also Courts Christian so called because they handle matters chiefly
appertaining to Christianity and such as without good knowledge in Divinty cannot be well judged of being heretofore held by Archbishops and Bishops as from the Pope of Rome but after his ejection they held them by the Kings Authority by virtue of his Magistracy as the Admiral of England holds his Court whence it proceeds that they send out their Precepts in their own names and not in the Kings as the Iustices of the Kings Courts do and therefore as the Appeal from those Courts did lie to Rome now by the Stat. of 25 H. 8. cap. 19. it lies to the King in his Chancery Court-Baron COurt-Baron is a Court that every Lord of a Mannor hath within his own Precincts Of this Court and Court-Leet Kitch hath writ a learned Book This Court as it seems in Cok. lib. 4. fol. 26. fs twofold And therefore if a man having a Mannor in a Town grants the inheritance of all the Copyholds therein to another this Grantee may hold a Court for the customary Tenants and accept of Surrenders to the use of others and make Admittances and Grants The other Court is of Free-holders which is properly called the Court-Baron wherein the Suitors that is the Free-holders are Iudges whereas of the other Court the Lord or his Steward is Iudge Coutheutlaugh COutheutlaugh is he that wittingly receives a man utlawed and cherishes or hides him in which case he was in ancient time subject to the same punishment as the man utlawed was Br. l. 3. tr 2. c. 13. nu 2. It is compounded of couth i. known and utlaw outlawed as we now call them Cranage CRanage is a liberty to use a Crane for drawing up wares or Goods out of any Ship Boat or Barge at any Creek or Wharf and to make profit of it It is used also for the Money that is taken for that work Creditor CReansor or Creditor comes of the French Coryance that is Confidence or perswasion and it signifies him that trusts another with any Debt be it money wares or other things This word is used in the Old N. B. in the Writ of Audita querela f. 66. a. Creek CReek is that part of a Haven from whence any thing is landed or disburthened out of the Sea And this word is used in the Stat. 5 El. cap. 5. and 4 H. 4. cap. 20. c. Croft CRoft is a little Close or Pightle adjoyning to an House used either for pasture or arable as the owner pleases And it seems to be derived from the old word Creaft that is Handicraft because these lands are for the most part manured with the best skill of the owner Cucking-stool CUcking-stool is an Engin invented for the punishment of Scolds and unquiet women and it was called in old time a Tumbrell as appears by Lamb. in his Eirenarc l. 1. c. 12. And by the Cases and Iudgements in Eire in the time of Ed. 3. a Pillory and a Tumbrell are appendant to a Leet without which right cannot be administred to the parties within the view Keloway fol. 140. b. And in the Stat. 51 H. 3. ca. 6. it is called Trebuchett Cui ante divortium CUi ante divortium is a Writ that lies when Alienation is made by the husband of the wifes Land and after Divorce is had between them then the woman shall have this Writ and the Writ shall say Whom she before the Divorce might not gain-say Cui in vita CUi in vita is a Writ that lies where a man is seised of Lands in Fee-simple Fee-tail or for life in right of his wife and aliens the same and dies then she shall have this Writ to recover the Land And note That in this Writ her Title must be shewed whether it be of the purchase or inheritance of the woman But if the husband alien the right of his wife and the husband and the wife die the wifes Heir may have a writ of Sur cui in vita Cuinage CUinage See Cuynage Cuntey CUntey cuntey is a kind of Trial as appears by Bract. in these words The matter in this case shall be ended by Cuntey cuntey as between coheirs l. 4. tr 3. cap. 18. And again in the same place In a Writ of right the business shall be determined by cuntey cuntey And thirdly l. 4. tr 4. c. 2. The cause shall be tried by Writ of right neither by Battel nor by the great Assise but by Cuntey cuntey only which seems to be as much as by ordinary Iury. Curfew CUrfew comes of two French words Couvrir to cover and Feu Fire It is used with us for an evening Peal by which the Conqueror willed every man to take warning for the taking up his Fire and putting out his Light So that in many places at this day when a Bell is customably rung toward Bed-time it is said to ring Curfew Curia avisare vult CUria avisare vult is a Deliberation which the Court purposes to take upon any difficult point of a Cause before Iudgement be resolved on For which see the New Book of Entries verbo Curia c. Curia claudenda IS a Writ or Action to compell another to make a Fence or Wall which the Defendant ought to make between his land and the Plaintiffs Currier CUrrier is one that dresses or liquors Leather and is so called of the French word Cuir id est Corium Leather The word is used in all the Statutes made for the good making of Leather as in 1 Jac cap. 22. c. Cursiter CUrsiter is an Officer or Clerk belonging to the Chancery who makes out Original Writs 14 15 H. 8. cap. 8. They are called Clerks of Course in the Oath of Clerks of the Chancery appointed anno 18 Ed. 3. Stat. 5. There are of them twenty four to each of whom is allotted certain Shires into which they make out such Original Writs as are by the subject required and are a Corporation among themselves Curtesie of England CUrtesie of England is where a man takes a wife seised in Fee-simple or Fee-tail general or seised as Heir of the tail special and hath issue by her male or female be the issue dead or alive if the wife die the husband shall hold the Land during his life by the Law of England And it is called Tenant by the Curtesie of England because this is not used in any other Realm but only in England If the Infant was never alive then the husband shall not be Tenant by the Curtesie but if the issue be born alive it suffices If the woman be delivered of a Monster which hath not the shape of mankind this is not Issue in Law But though the issue hath some deformity or defect in the hand or foot and yet hath humane shape if suffices to make the husband Tenant by the Curtesie And in some cases the time of the birth is material and in some not Therefore if a man marries a woman Inheritrix who is great with child by him
both are Records yet the Iudgment in the Kings Court upon judicial and ordinary proceeding is more notorious and conspicuous and of a more high and eminent degree then a Statute or Recognisance taken in private and by consent of parties and is therefore preferred in judgment of the Law before Recognisance or Statute and if the Executors do not satisfie this first then if they have no goods of the dead in their hands they shall pay it of their own So the Ordinary having goods of one that dies intestate in his hands by Sequestration and an Action of Debt upon an Obligation to the value of the said goods is brought against him as Ordinary he shall not dispose or administer any parcell of the said Goods to the other Creditors at his pleasure but is bound to satisfie the Debt first for which an Action is brought against him Dyer fol. 232. placit 5. If a Sheriff retorne ex officio without inquest that the Executor hath wasted goods the Execution goes de bonis propriis of the Executor and if the retorn be false then the Executor may have an Action upon the Case against the Sheriff for his false retorn because the Executor hath no day to plead But if the Sheriff retorn a devastavit upon an Inquiry by a Iury the Executor may appear and traverse quod non devastavit and try it 1 Cro. Mounson and Bourn Proctor versus Chamberlain Devenerunt DEvenerunt is a Writ directed to the Escheator when any of the Kings Tenants holding in Capite dies and when his son and heir within age and in the Kings custody dies then shall this Writ go forth commanding the Escheator that he by the oath of good and lawful men enquire what Lands or Tenements by the death of the Tenant come to the King c. See Dyer f. 360. pla 4. But see the Stat. 12. Car. 2. cap. 24. Devest DEvest is a word contrary to Invest for as Invest signifies to deliver the possession of a thing so Devest signifies the taking it away Devise DEvise is where a man in his Testament gives or bequeaths his Goods or Lands to another after his decease And where such Devise is made of Goods if the Executors will nor deliver them to the Devisee he hath no remedy by the Common Law but it behoves him to have a Citation against the Executors of the Testator to appear before the Ordinary to shew why he performs not the Will of the Testator for the Devisee may not take the Legacy and serve himself but it must be delivered to him by the Executors See the Stat. 32 H. 8. ca. 1. 34 H. 8. ca. 5. 29 Car. 2. ca. 3. By which last Statute the Law of Testameuts is altered But by the Common Law if a man be sole seised of Lands in fee and devises them by Testament this Devise was void unless the Lands were in City or Borough where Lands are devisable by Custome But if any man were infeoffed to the use of another and his heirs and he to whose use he was so seised did make Devise of his Lands this Devise was good though it were not in a Town where Lands are devisable Also if any man devise Lands in City Town or Borough devisable and the Devisor dies if his Heir or any other abate in the Lands then the Devisee shall have a Writ of Ex gravi querela But this Writ shall never be pleaded before the Kings Iustice but always before the Maior or Bailiffs in the same Town And here to the end to shew how much the Laws of this Realm and the discreet Iudges of the same who are the Interpreters of it do favour Wills and Testaments and Devises in yielding to them such a reasonable construction as they think might best agree with the minds of the dead considering that Wills and Testaments are for the most part and by common intendment made when the Testatour is very sick weak and past all hope of recovery for it is a received opinion in the Countrey amongst most that if a man should chance to be so wise as to make his Will in his good health when he is strong of good memory and hath time and leisure to ask counsell if any doubt were of the Learned that then he should not live long after and therefore they deferre it to such time when it were more convenient to apply themselves to the dispositions of their Souls than of their Lands or Goods except it were that by the fresh memory and recital of them at that time it might be a cause to put them in mind of some of their goods or lands falsly gotten and so move them to restitution c. And at that time the penning of such Wills is commonly committed to the Minister of the Parish or to some other more ignorant who knows not what words are necessary to make an Estate in Fee-simple Fee-tail for term of life or such like besides many other mischiefs I will therefore here set down some of those Cases that are most common in ignorant mens mouths and carry by the wise interpretations of the Judges a larger and more favourable sense in Wills than in Deeds First therefore if one devise to J. S. by his Will all his Lands and Tenements here not only all those Lands that he hath in possession do pass but all those that he hath in Reversion by virtue of those words Tenements And if Lands be devised to a man to have to him for ever or to have to him and his Assigns in these two cases the Devisee shall have a Fee-simple But if it be given by Feoffment in such manner he hath but an Estate for term of life And if a man devise his Land to another to give sell or do therewith at his pleasure or will this is Fee-simple A Devise made to one and to his Heirs males doth make an Estate-tail But if such words be put in a Deed of Feoffment it shall be taken for Fee-simple because it doth not appear of what body the Heirs males shall be begotten If Lands be given by Deed to J. S. and to the Heirs males of his body c. who hath issue a daughter who hath issue a son and dies there the Land shall return to the Donor and the son of the Daughter shall nor have it because he cannot convey himself by Heirs males for his mother is a let thereto But otherwise it is of such a Devise for there the son of the daughter shall have it rather then the Will shall be void If one devise to an Infant in his mothers belly it is a good Devise but otherwise by Feoffment Grant or Gift for in those cases there ought to be one of ability to take presently or otherwise it is void See 14. El. Dy. 304. A Devise made in Fee-simple without expresse words of Heirs is good in Fee-simple But if a Devise be made to J. N. he
punishes her Officers as Serjeants Pleaders Philizers Exigenters Attornies and others so she renounces and condemns all acts of greatest importance if they be intermixt with Disceit and falshood As if a Fine be levied by Disceit and five years past by the Statute of 4 H. 7. c. 24. all persons and their rights shall be barred thereby yet for that it was by Disceit th â— Fine shall be avoided as is a â—â— dged in Cok. lib. 3. fol. 77. 〈◊〉 the same manner if one â—â— cover Land by Disceit the â—â—â— overy for this shall be fru â—â—â— ated and made void 3 Ed. 3. 2 â— So if a woman that hath good cause to be endowed will by Disceit have the Tenant to be disseised and after recovers her Dower by a Writ of Dower against the Disseisor yet she shall be adjudged in possession against the Disseis â— e but as a Disseisoresse in respect of the Disceit Cok. lib. 5. fol. 35. There is another manner of Writ of Disceit where Land which is auncient demesn is impleaded by the Kings Writ at Westm Then the Lord of the Mannor may have this Writ and reverse all the former proceedings and Iudgment as it appears Rast Ent. 100 221. 2 R. 3. 1 11 H. 4. 36. Discent DIscent or Descent is in two sorts either lineal or collateral Lineal Discent is when a Discent is conveyed in the same Liue of the whole bloud as grandfather father son sons son and so downward Collateral Discent is out in another branch drawn from above of the whole bloud as grandfathers brother fathers brother and so downward Note that if one die seised in fee or in tail of Land in which another hath right to enter and that discends to his Heir such Discent shall take away the Entry of him who hath right to enter for that the Heir hath it by Discent from his father and so by act of the Law and he that hath right cannot put him out by entring upon him but is put to sue his Writ to demand the Land according to the nature of his Title See hereof in Littl. lib. 3. cap. 6. and Stat. 32. H. 8. cap. 33. Disclaimer DIsclaimer is where the Lord distrains his Tenant and he sues a Replevin and the Lord avows the taking by reason he holds of him if the Tenant say that he disclaims to hold of him this is called a Disclaimer and if the Lord thereupon bring in a Writ of Right sur Disclaimer and it be found against the Tenant he shall lose his Land Also if one brings a Praecipe against two others for the Land and the Tenant disclaims and saith that he is not thereof Tenant nor claims any thing therein then the other shall have the whole Land but if the Praecipe be brought against one alone and he disclaims as aforesaid the Writ shall abate yet the Demandant may enter in the Land and hold it in his rightfull estate though his Entry was not lawful And after the Tenant in an Action brought against him disclaims he shall not have a Writ of Error against his own Disclaimer because by it he hath barred himself of his right to the Land for the words of the Disclaimer are He hath nothing neither claims he to have in the Land neither at the day of the bringing of the Original Writ aforesaid c. had or claimed but any thing in the same Land to have he disavows and disclaims and against this he shall not have Restitution by a Writ of Error See Cok. lib. 8. fol. 62. So if a Lord in case where he may disclaims his Seigniory in Court of Record his Seigniory by this is extinct and the Tenant shall hold of the Lord next above him that so disclaimed Lit. sect 146. If Lands be given to the husband and wife in tail or in fee and the husband dies the wife cannot devest the Freehold cut of her by any verbal Waver or Disclaimer in the Countrey as if before any Entry made by her she saith that she altogether waves and disclaims the said Estate and will never take nor accept thereof yet the Free-hold remains in her and she may enter when she pleases So a Charter of Feoffment was made to four and Seisin was delivered to three in the name of all and after the Seisin was delivered the fourth coming sees the Deed and saith by word that he will have nothing of the Land nor agree to the Deed but disclaims and it was adjudged that this Disclaimer by word in the Countrey shall not devest the Freehold out of him Cok. lib. 3. fol. 26. Discontinuance DIscontinuance is when a man alienates to another Lands or Tenements and dies and another hath right to the same Lands and may not enter into them because of this Alienation as if an Abbot alien the Lands of his House to another in fee fee-tail or sor life or if a man alien the Lands that he hath in right of his wife or if Tenant in tail makes of the Lands given to him and the Heirs of his body any Feoffment Gift in tail or Lease for life not warranted by the Statute 32 Hen. 8. by Fine or Livery of seisin then such Alienations are called Discontinuances for such Estates passe away by Livery and seisin In these cases the Successors of the Abbot or the woman after the death of her husband or the issue in tail after the death of the Tenant in tail and they that have any Remainder or Reversion after the end of the Estate-tail may not enter but every of them is put to his Action And as there is Discontinuance of Possession as is said before so also is there Discontinuance of Process or Plea and this is when the instant is lost and may not be regained but by a new Writ to begin the Suit afresh for to be discontinued and to be put without day is all one and nothing else but finally to be dismissed the Court for that time West part 2. tit Fines sect 115. So Crompton in his Jurisdictions fol. 131. uses it in these words If a Justice-seat be discontinued by the not coming of the Justices the King may renew it by his Writ And if the Iustices of any Court do not meet at the day and place appointed then the Cause shall be discontinued unto another day as in Cok. lib. 1 fol. 38. So if a man hath an Action in the Court of the Marshalsea and the King removes forth of the Vierge the Pleas shall be discontinued Cok. lib. 10. fol. 73. See more hereof in Litt. lib. 3. cap. 11. and 32 H. 8. cap. 28. which takes away Discontinuances by the husband seised in right of his wife Disgrading DIsgrading or Degrading is when a man having taken upon him a Dignity temporal or spiritual is afterwards thereof deprived be he Knight Clerk or other Whereof if a Clerk be delivered to his Ordinary and cannot clear himself of the Offence whereof he is convicted by the
of Imprisonment But if a man be arrested upon an Action at the Suit of another though the cause of Action be not good nor true if he make an Obligation to a Stranger being in prison by such Arrest yet it shall not be said by Duresse But if he make an Obligation to him at whose Suit he was arrested to be discharged of such Imprisenment then it shall be said Duresse Duchy IS a Court in the Duchy Chamber of Lancaster at West before the Chancellor del Duchy de Lanc̄ for matters concerning the lands and Franchises of the Duchy and their proceedings are by English bill as in Chancery Co. 4. Inst 204. E. Earlderman EAlderman among the Saxons was as much as Earl among the Danes Camb. Brit. 107. And at this day we call them Aldermen who are Associates to the chief Officer in the Common Council of the Town 34 H. 8. c. 13. And in some places the chief Officer himself is called Alderman Earle EArle See Countee Easement EAsement is a Priviledge that one Neighbour hath of another by Writing or Prescription without profit as a Way or a Sink through his Land or such like Kitch f. 105. Egiptians EGiptians commonly called Gipsies are counterfeit Rogues Welsh or English that disguise themselves in speech and apparel and wander up and down the Country pretending to have skill in telling Fortunes and to deceive the common people but live chiefly by filching and stealing and therefore the Statutes of 1 2 Mar. c. 4. 5 Eliz. c. 20. were made to punish such as Felons if they departed not the Realm or continued so a mouth Ejectione firmae EJectione Firmae Look for that in the Title Quare ejecit infra terminum Ejectment de Gard. Ejectment de Gard. See that in the Title Gards Eigne EIgne is a French word and signifies the Eldest or First-born See Enitia pars Einecia EInecia signifies Eldership Stat. of Ireland Anno 14 H. 3. See Enitia pars Eire Justices EIre Justices or Itinerant as we call them were Iustices that used to ride from place to place throughout the Realm to administer Iustice And these Iustices had authority in ancient times to grant Land that was seised for the King for Alienation without licence for then Iustices in Eire might have granted such Land in fee rendring Rent as Iustices of the Forrest who in effect as to this purpose are Iustices in Eire at this day may of Lands iuclosed within a Forrest without the Kings licence Coke l. 2. fol. 80. Election ELection is when a man is left to his own Free will to take or do one thing or another which he pleases As if A covenants to pay B a pound of Pepper or Saffron before Whitsontide it is at the Election of A at all times before Whitsontide which of them he will pay but if he pays it not before the said Feast then afterward it is at the Election of B of have his Action for which he pleases Dyer f. 18. pl. 104. So if a man gives to another his Horse or Cow the Donee may take the one or the other at his Election But if it be that he will give in the future tense then the Donee cannot take the one nor other for then the Election is in the Donor 21 H. 7. 19. Also if a Iustice of Peace direct his Warrant to a Constable to bring the party apprehended before him or another Iustice it is in the Election of the Constable to go to what Iustice he pleases Coke lib. 5. fol. 59. And so in many other cases Elegit TO hold by Elegit is where a man hath recovered Debt or Dammage by a Writ against another by confession or in other manner he shall have within the year against him a Writ judicial called Elegit to have execution of the half of all his Lands and Chattels except Oxen and Beasts of the plow till the Debt and Dammages be wholly levied and paid him and during this term he is Tenant by Elegit If he be put out within the term he shall have Assise of Novel Disseisin and after a Redisselsin if need be and this is given by the Statute of Wes ◠m. 2. c. 18. And by the equity of the said Statute he that hath this Estate if he be put out shall have Assise and Redisseisin if need be And also if he make his Executors and die and his Executors enter and after are put out they shall have such Action as he himself And if he be put out and after make his Executors and die his Executors may enter and if they be stopped of their Entry they shall have a Writ of Trespasse upon their Case If he do Waste in all the Land or parcel the other shall have against him immediately a Writ judicial out of the first Record called Venire facias ad computandum by which it shall be enquired if he have levied all the money or parcel and if he have not levied the money then it shall be enquired to how much the Waste amounts and if the Waste amount but to parcel then as much of the money as the Waste amounts unto shall be abridged of the aforesaid money which was to be levied But if he have done more Waste then the aforesaid summ of money which was to be levied amounts to the other shall be discharged forthwith of all the said money and shall recover the Land And for the superfluity of the Waste made above the said summ he shall recover his dammages single The same Law is of his Executors and of him that hath his Estate Or if the Debtor be satisfied by digging Coals Load Tyn or oeher casual profits See the Stat. 32 H. 8. c. 5. If all the Lands extended be evicted from the Debtor by a better title he may take a new Execution Co. 4. Rep. 66. If he alien in fee for term of life or in tail all or parcel of the Land which he holds by Elegit if the Alienation be made within the term or after he who hath right shall have against him an Assise of Novel Disseisin And they both must be put in the Assise the Alienor and the Alience and though the Alienor d ◠e presently yet he who hath right shall have Assise against the Alienee alone as if the Alienee had been a plain Tenant for term of years And that is by the equity of the Statute of Westm 2. cap. 25. for that he hath but a Chattel in effect And the same Law is of his Executors and of him who hath his Estate as is aforesaid In Elegit if the Sherif return that the party hath nothing the day of the Recognizance made but that he purchased Lands after the time then the Plaintiff shall have a new Writ to have Execution thereof The same Law is of a Statute-Merchant After a Fieri facias a man may have the Elegit but not contrariwise for that the Elegit is of a higher nature then the
Soccage the Widow is sped of her Dower rather in the Soccage-Lands as the fairest part Of this see Littl. lib. 1. cap. 5. Enfranchisement ENfranchisement is when a man is incorporated into any Society or Body politick So if an Alien born be made Denizon of England he is said to be enfranchised and he that is made a Citizen of London or other Town Corporate because he is made partaker of those Liberties which belong to the Corporation whereinto he is enfranchised And when a man is enfranchised into a City or Borough he hath a Free-hold in his Freedome for his life and with others in their politick capacity hath Inheritance in the Land of the said Corporation wherefore the thing which shall be the cause of his Dis-infranchisement ought to be an Act or Deed and not only an Endeavouring or enterprising whereof he may repent before it be put in execution And what shall be sufficient cause to dis-infranchise a Free-man and what not see Cok. lib. 11. in Bagg's Case fol. 98. Englesherie ENglesherie or Englecerie is an old word which signifies the being an Englishman For in ancient time as appears by Bracton lib. 3. Tract 2. cap. 15. fol. 134. if a man had been slain or murthered he was accounted to be Francigena which word implies every Alien until Englesherie were proved that is until it was made manifest that he was an Enlish-man The original whereof was this Kanotus the Danish King having established his Estate here in peace at the request of our Barons discharged the Land of his Armies wherein he reposed his greatest safety upon this condition That the Barons would give consent to a Law That whosoever should â— ill an Alien and was apprehanded and could not acquit himself should be liable to Iustice â— But if the Man-slaier escayed the Town where the man was slain should forfeit sixty six Marks to the King and if â— he Town was not able to pay it then the Hundred should forfeit and pay this to the King 's own Tteasury and farther That every man murthered should be accounted Francigena unless Englesherie were proved and how it should be proved see Bracton in the same chap. num 7. Also see Horn's Mirrour of Justices l. 1. cap. of the Office of Coroners and Fleta l. 1. c. 30. This Englesherie for the abuses and grievances which were afterwards perceived to arise therefrom was utterly abolished by Stat. An. 14. E. 3. c. 4. See Coke l. 7. f. 16. Calvin's Cafe Enheritance ENheritance is such Estate in Lands or Tenements or other things as may be inherited by the Heir whether it be estate in Fee-simple or Tail by Discent from any of his Ancestors or by his own Purchase And it is divided into Enheritance Corporate and Enheritance Incorporate Enheritance Corporate are Mesuages Lands Meadows Pastures Rents and such like that have substance in themselves and may continue always And these are called Corporal things Enheritance Incorporate are Advowsons Villains Ways Commons Courts Fishings and such like that are or may be appendant or appurtenant to Enheritance Incorporate The Eldest part ENitia or Einecia pars is that Part which upon Partition among Coparceners falls to the Eldest Sister or ancientest Coparcener as it appears by Littleton sect 245. And it is called Enitia pars from the French word Eigne or Aisne that is the First-born Enquest ENquest is that Inquiry which is made by Iurors in all Causes civil or criminal touching the matter in Fact And such Inquiry is either ex officio which are called Inquests of Office and are traversable or at the mise of the parties This word is used in the Statutes of 25 E 3. c. 3. 28 E. 3. c 13. and almost in all Statutes that speak of Trials by Iurors Entendment ENtendment is an usual word in our Law when a thing is in doubt then by Entendment it shall sometimes be made good As if an Inquisition be found before a Coroner that a man was murthered at A. which is a Liberty and is not said in the Inquisition at A within the Liberty of A yet it shall be good by Entendment for peradventure the Liberty may extend beyond the Town but that the Town if self shall be presumed to be out of the Liberty of the Town is a captious construction wherefore the Inquisition shall be good by Entendment Coke l. 5. f. 121. See Kitch f. 224. Enterpleader ENterpleader is when in any Cause a matter happens which of necessity ought to be discussed before the principal Cause can be determined For example Two persons be found Heir to Land by two several Offices in one County by this the King is in doubt to whom he shall make Livery for which cause before Livery made he will have them interplead and thereby determine who is the right Heir See Coke l. 7. f. 45. Stam. Prer c. 19. Brooke tit Enterpleader Also there is another sort of Interpleader in Detinue in divers cases which see Rast Entries 213. Entire Tenancie ENtire Tenancie is that which is contrary to Several Tenancy and signifies a Sole possession in one man where the other signifies Ioynt or common in more See Brooke Several Tenancies and the Old Book of Entries under this Title Entrie ENtrie is where a man enters into any Lands or Tenements or takes possession of them Also there are divers Writs of Entry which are in divers manners One is a Writ of Entrie sur Disseisin which lies where a man is disseised he or his Heir shall have this Writ against the Disseisor or any other after Tenant of the Land And if the Disseisor alien and die seised then the Writ of Entrie shall be against the Heir and the Alienee in the Per viz. in which the Tenant hath no Entry but by such a one naming the Disseisor who him hath disseised c. If the Heir or Alienee die seised or alien to another then the Writ shall be in the Per and Cui viz. to which the Tenant hath no Entry but by such a one naming the Heir or Alienee of the Disseisor to whom such a one naming the Disseisor did let it who by force disseised him c. And if Land be conveyed over to many or if the first Disseisor be disseised then the Writ of Entry shall be in the Post viz. that the Tenant hath no Entry but after the Disseisin which the first Disseisor made to the Demandant or his Ancestor See Entre en le Per. Entrie in the Per Cui and Post A Writ of Entrie in the Per lies where a man is disseised of his Free-hold and the Disseisor aliens or dies seised and his Heir enters then the Disseisee or his Heir shall have the said Writ against the Heir of the Disseisor or against the Alienee of the Disseisor but living the Disseisor he may have an Assise if he will and the Writ of Entry shall say In quod A non habet Ingressum nisi per B qui illud
Executors he that doth appear by Distress shall answer doth extend by Equity to Administrators for such of them as appear first by Distress shall answer by Equity of the said Act because they are of the like kind So likewise the Statutes of Gloucester gives the Action of Waste and the Penalty of it against him that holds for Life or Years and by the Equity thereof a man shall have an Action of Waste against him that holds but for one year or half a year yet this is without the words of the Statute for he that holds but for half a year or one year doth not hold for years but that is the meaning and the words that Enact the one by Equity Enact the other Errant ERrant id est Itenerans comes from the French word Errer id est Errare or if the old word Erre id est Iter and is appropriated unto Iustices that go Circuit and to the Bailiffs at large who are therefore called Justices Errants and Bailiffs Errants because they go and travel from place to place the one to do Iustice and the other to execute Process See Eire Error ERror is a Fault in Iudgement or in the Process or Proceeding to Iudgment or in the Execution upon the same in a Court of Record which in the Civil Law is called a Nullitie Error is also the name of a Writ that lies where Iudgment is given in the Common place or before the Iustice in Assise or Oyer and Terminer or before the Major and Sheriffs of London or in other Court of Record against the Law or upon undue and ill Process then the party grieved shall have this Wrft and thereupon cause the Record and Process to be removed before the Iustices of the Kings Bench and if the Error be found it shall be reversed But if an erroneous Iudgment be given in the Kings Bench then it could not be reversed but by Parliament until the Statute of 27 Eliz. cap. 8. Also if such a Default in Iudgment be given in a Court not of Record as in a County Hundred or Court-Baron the party shall have a Writ of False Iudgment to cause the Record to be brought before a Iustice of the Common-place Also if Error be found in the Exchequer it shall be redressed by the Chancellor and Treasurer as it appeas by the Statute E. 3. an 31. c. 12. 31 El. c. 1. Also there is another Writ of Error upon a Iudgment in the Kings Bench and that is where the Plaintiff assign matter of Fact for Error And this lies in the same Court for this Court can redress their Errors in Fact but not their errors in Law But the Court of common B. cannot do so Escape EScape is where one that is arrested comes to his liberty before he be delivered by Award of any Iustice or by order of Law Escape is in two sorts voluntary and negligent Voluntary Escape is when one doth arrest another for Felony or other Crime and after he in whose custody he is lets him go where he will And if the Arrest were for Felony then shall it be Felony in him that suffered the Escape if for Treason then Treason in him and if for Trespass then Trespass and so in all other When one is arrested after escapes against the will of him that did arrest him and is not freshly pursued and taken before the pursuer loses the sight of him this shall be said a negligent Escape notwithstanding that he out of whose possession he escaped do take him after he lost sight of him A so if one be arrested and after escape and is at his liberty and he in whose ward he was take him afterward and bring him to the prison yet it is an Escape in him If a Felon be arrested by the Constable and brought to the Goal in the County and the Goaler will not receive him and the Constable lets him go and the Goaler also and so he escapes this is an Escape in the Goaler for that in such case the Goaler is bound to receive him by the hand of the Constable without any Precept of the Iustice of Peace But otherwise it is if a common person arrest another upon suspicion of Felony there the Goaler is not bound to receive him without a Precept of some Iustice of Peace There is an Escape also without an Arrest as if Murder be made in the day and the Murderer be not taken then it is an escape for which the Town where the Murder was done shall be amerced And it is to be observed That a man may be said to escape notwithstanding he always continues in Prison As if a man be in Prison upon two Executions at the Suit of two several men and the old Sheriff delivers over this Prisoner to the new Sheriff by Indenture according to the usual course and in the said Indenture makes no mention of one of the said Executions this Omission shall be said an Escape in Law instantly for which the Old Sheriff shall answer although the Execution was matter of Record whereof the new Sheriff might have taken notice But otherwise it is where the old Sheriff dies for in such case it behoves the new Sheriff at his peril to take notice of all the Executions that are against any person that he finds in the Gaol But in the said Case where the Sheriff dies and before another is made one that is in Execution breaks the Gaol and goes at large this is no Escape for when a Sheriff dies all the Prisoners are in the custody of the Law until a new Sheriff be made See Coke lib. 3. fol. 72. If the Sheriff upon a Capias ad satisfaciendum to him directed makes Return That he hath taken the Body and yet hath not the Body in Court at the day of the Return the Plaintiff may have his Action against the Sheriff for the Escape although the party so taken be in the Gaol See 7 H. 4. 11. Br. 107. Escheat EScheat is where a Tenant in Fee-simple commits Felony for which he is hanged or abjured the Realm or Outlawed of Felony Murder or Pety Treason or if the Tenant die without Heir general or special then the Lord of whom the Tenant held the Land may enter by way of Escheat or if any other enter the Lord shall have against him a Writ called a Writ of Escheat Escheator EScheator is the name of an Officer that observes the Escheats of the King in the County whereof he is Escheator and certifies them into the Exchequer This Officer is appointed by the L. Treasurer and by Letters Patents from him and continues in his Office but one year neither can any be Escheator but once in three years An. 1. H. 8. cap. 8. and an 3 ejusdem cap. 2. See more of this Officer and his Authority in Crompton's Justice of Peace See An. 21 Ed. 1. The form of the Oath of the Escheator see in the Regist orig fol. 301. b.
always put in the latter end of Deeds without which words the Deed is insufficient And because we are about Sealing and Signing of Deeds it shall not be much amiss here to shew you for Antiquities sake the manner of Signing and Subscribing Deeds in our Ancestors the Saxons time a fashion Differing from that we use now in this That they to their Deeds subscribed their Names commonly adding the Sign of the Cross and in the end did set down a great number of Witnesses not using at that time any kind of Seal And we at this day for more surety both subscribe our Names though that be not very necessary and put to our Seals and use the help of Witnesses besides That former fashion continued absolute until the time of the Conquest by the Normans whose manners by little and little at the length prevailed amongst us for the first Sealed Charter in England is thought to be that of King Edward the Confessour to the Abbey of Westminster who being educated in Normandy brought into this Realm that and some other of their Fashions with him And after the coming of William the Conquerour the Normans liking their own Country Custom as naturally all Nations do rejected the manner that they found here and retained their own as Ingulphus the Abbot of Croiland who came in with the Conquest Witnesses saying The Normans do change the making of Writings which were wont to be firmed in England with Crosses of Gold and other holy Signs into an impression of Wax and reject also the manner of the English Writing Howbeit this was not done all at once but it increased and came forward by certain degrees so that first and for a season the King only or a few other of the Nobility used to Seal then the Noble-men for the most part and none other Which thing a man may see in the History of Battel Abbey where Richard Lucie Chief Iustice of England in the time of King Henry the Second is reported to have blamed a mean Subject for that he used a private Seal whereas that pertained as he said to the King and Nobility only At which time also as J. Rosse notes it they used to ingrave in their Seals their own Pictures and Counterfeits covered with a long Coat over their Armors But after this the Gentlemen of the better sort took up the Fashion and because they were not all Warriors they made Seals ingraven with their several Coats or Shields of Arms for difference sake as the same Author reports At length about the time of King Edward the third Seals became very common so that not only such as bare Arms used to Seal but other men also fashioned to themselves Signers of their own devices some taking the Letters of their own Names some Flowers some Knots and Flourishes some Birds and Beasts and some other things as we now yet daily see used Some other manners of Sealing besides these have been heard of among us as namely that of King Edward the third by which he gave to Norman the Hunter The Hop and the Hop-Town With all the bounds upside down And in witness that it was sooth He bit the Wax with his foretooth The like to this was shewed me by one of my Friends in a loose Paper but not very anciently written and therefore he willed me to esteem of it as I thought good It was as follows I William King give to thee Powlen Royden my Hop and my Hop-Lands with all the bounds up and down from Heaven to Earth from Earth to Hell for thee and thine to dwell from me and mine to thee and thine for a Bow and a broad Arrow when I come to hunt upon Yartow In witness that this is sooth I bit this Wax with my tooth in the presence of Magge Maud and Margery and my third son Henry Also that of Alberick de Vere containing the Donation of Hatfield to which he affixed a short black-hafted knife like an old half-peny whittle instead of a Seal with Divers such like But some peradventure will think that these were received in common use and custom and that they were not the devices and pleasures of a few singular persons such are no less deceived then they that deem every Charter and Writing that hath no Seal annexed to be as ancient as the Conquest whereas indeed Sealing was not commonly used till the time of King Edw. 3. as hath been already said 3. Delivery though it be set last is not the least for after a Deed is written and sealed if it be not delivered all the rest is to no purpose And this Delivery ought to be done by the party himself or his sufficient Warrant and so it will binde him whosoever wrote or sealed the same and by this last act the Deed is made perfect according to the intent and effect of it and therefore in Deeds the Delivery is to be proved c. Thus you see Writing and Sealing without Delivery is nothing to purpose Sealing and Delivery where there is no Writing work nothing And Writing and Delivery without Sealing make no Deed Therefore they all ought joyntly to concur to make a perfect Deed. Faitour FAitour is a word used in the old repealed Statute of 7 R. 2. cap. 5. and it is there taken in the worser sense for an Evil doer or an Idle companion and it seems there to be a Synomymon to Vagabond Fardingdeale FArdingdeal otherwise Farundel of Land signifies the Fourth part of an Acre Cromptons Jurisd fol. 220. b. Quadrantata terrae is read in the Reg. orig fol. 1 b where you may have Denariata and Obolata Solidata and Librata terrae which by probability must rise in proportion of quantity from Fardingdeal as a Half-peny Peny Shilling or Pound rise in value or estimation then must Obolata be Half an Acre Denariata the Acre Solidata Twelve Acres and Librata Twelve score Acres Yet in the Reg. orig fol. 94 and 248. you may find viginti Libratas terrae vel reditus whereby it seems that Librata terrae is as much as yields twenty shillings by the year and centum Solidatas terrarum tenementorum redituum fol. 249. And in F. N. B. f. 87. there are these words Viginti Libratas terrae vel reditus which proves this to be so much Land as is rated at twenty shillings by the year See Furlong Farm or Ferm FArm or Ferm is usually the chief Messuage in a Village or Town whereto belongs great Demeans of all sorts and hath been used to be let for term of Life Years or at Will The Rent that is reserved upon such a Lease or the like is called Farm or Ferm And Farmor or Fermor is he that Tenants the Farm or Ferm or is Lessee thereof Also generally every Lessee for life years or at will is called Farmor or Fermor And note That they are calltd Farms or Ferms of the Saxon word Feormian which signifies to Feed or yield Victual For in ancient
King certain Land by the Service of carrying his Banner or Launce or to lead his Host or to be his Carver or Butler at his Coronation or the like and that is the most Honorable Service that a Tenant may do and for that it is called Grand Serjeanty But Petit Serjeanty is when one holds of the King paying him yearly a Bow a Sword a Spear or such like and that is but Socage in effect but a man cannot hold in Grand Serjeanty or Petit Serjeanty but of the King Also if a Tenant by Grand Serjeanty dies his Heir being of full age shall pay to the King for Relief the value of the Lands besides the charges that he pays to the King by Grand Serjeanty but he that holds by Escuage shall pay for his Relief but C. 5. Those that are in the Marches of Scotland who hold of the King by Cornage that is to blow an Horn when the Scots enter England are Tenants in Grand Serjeanty Also where a man holds of the King to find a man in his Wars within the Realm that is called Grand Serjeanty because it is done by a mans Body And if the Tenant cannot find a man to do it he is bound to do it himself But see the Stat. 12 Car. 2. c. 24. whereby all Tenures are now turned into Free and Common Socage Gree. GRee comes of the French word Gre good liking and it signifies in our Law Contentment or Satisfaction as in the Statute of 1 R. 2. c. 15. to make Gree to the parties is to give them Contentment or Satisfaction for an Offence done unto them Green hew GReen hew is all one with Vert as appears by Manwood in his Forest Laws cap. 6. sect 5. And for it see Vert. Green Wax GReen Wax is a word used in the Statutes of 42 E. 3. c. 9. and 7 H. 4. c. 3. and signifies the Estreats of Issues Fines and Amerciaments in the Exchequer and delivered out to the Sheriffs under the Seal of the Court to be levied by them in their several Counties Grithbreach GRithbreach that is the Kings Peace broken because Grith in English is Pax in Latine Gule of August GUle of August is the first day or the Calends of August which in the time of E. 1. and E. 3. was called ordinarily the Gule of August as appears by F. N. B. f. 62. l. and Plowdens Com. f. 316. b. It is the very day of S. Peter ad vincula and the reason why it was called the Gule of August is conceived upon a Story recorded by Durandus in his Rationale Divinorum l. 7. c. 19. of a Miracle wrought by S. Peter's Chain upon the daughter of one Quirinus a Tribune of Rome who by the kissing of that Chain was healed of the Kings Evil in her Throat gula And see Hospinian de origine festornm f. 85. b. Gultwit GUltwit is an Amends for Trespass according to Saxton in his Description of England c. 11. H. Habeas Corpus HAbeas Corpus is a writ which a man indited of any Trespass before Iustices of the Peace or in a Court of any Franchise and upon his Apprehenston being laid in Prisost for the same may have out of the Kings Bench thereby to remove himself hither at his own Costs and to answer the Cause there F. N. B. f. 250. h. And the order in this case is first to procure a Certiorari out of the Chancery directed to the said Iustices for the removing of the Indictment into the Kings Bench and upon that to procure this writ to the Sheriff to cause his Body to be brought at a day Reg. Judic f. 81. where you may find many cases wherein this writ shall be used Habeas Corpora HAbeas Corpora is a writ which lies against a Iury or any of them that refuse to come upon the Venire facias for the Trial of a Cause brought to issue Habendum HAbendum is a word of form in a Conveyance to the true understanding whereof it is to be observed That in every Deed or Conveyance there are two principal parts the Premisse and the Habendum The Office of the Premisses is to express the Name of the Grantor the Grantee and the thing to be granted The Office of the Habendum is to limit the Estate so that the general Implication of the Estate which by construction of Law passes in the Premisses is by the Habendum controlled and qualified as in a Lease to two men Habendum to the one for life the Remainder to the other for life alters the general Implication of the Joynt-tenancy in the Free-hold which passes by the Premisses if the Habendum were not See Coke l. 2. c. 55. HAbere facias Seisinam Habere facias Seisinam is a Writ Iudicial that lies where one hath recovered certain Lands in the Kings Court then he shall have this writ directed to the Sheriff commanding him to give him Seisin of that Land and it shall not be retornable Habere facias Visum HAbere facias Visum is a writ that lies in divers Cases where view is to be taken of the Lands or Tenements in question See F. N. B. In Indice verbo View Bract. l. 5. tract 3. c. 8. Half-blood HAlf blood See Demysank Half Seal HAlf Seal is a Seal used in Chancery for the Sealing of Commissions to Delegates upon an Appeal in a Cause civil or marine as it appears by the Statute made in 8 Eliz. c. 3. Halymote HAlymote is a Court-Baron as appears by Manwood in his Forest Laws c. 23. f. 217. a. And it is called Halymote that is the Meeting of the Tenants of one Hall or Mannor Hambling or Hoxing of Dogs HAmbling or Hoxing or Hock-sinewing of Dogs are old Forrest terms for the Lawing of Dogs when the Custom was as appears in Manwood's Forrest Laws c. 16. sect 12. to cut or gash Dogs in the Hamms but now they use to do it in their Feet Of which see Expeditate Hand-gun HAnd-gun is an Engine which is prohibited to be used and carryed about by the Statute of 33 H. 8. c. 6. And though a Dag was invented of late time and after the making of the said Act and is not known by the name of Hand-gun but a special name yet the carrying of a Dag is within the said Act and comprehended within the word Hand-gun So whereas Cross-bows are forbidden by the said Act thereby Stone-bows are also forbidden See Coke l. 5. f. 71 72. Hangwit HAngwit is to be quit of a Thief or Felon hanged without Iudgment or escaped out of your custody Hanper HAnper of the Chancery Anno 10 R. 2. c. 1. seems to signifie as Fiscus originally does in Latine Haque HAque is a little Hand-gun of three quarters of a yard long and it is mentioned in the Statutes of 33 H. 8. c. 6. and 2 3 E. 6. c. 14. There is also mention made of an half Haque Haquebut HAquebut is a Gun mentioned in the
Alfred after he had divided the whole Realm into certain parts or sections which of the Saxon word Scyran signifying to cut he termed Shires or as we yet spake Shares and Portious These Shires be also dividid into smaller Parts whereof some were called Lathes of the word Gelathian which is to assemble together others Tithings because there were in each of them to the number of Ten persons whereof each one was Surety and Pledge for others good abearing others Hundreds because they contained Iurisdiction over one Hundred Men or Pledges dwelling peradventure in two or three or more Parishes Boroughs or Towns lying and adjoyning nevertheless somewhat near together in which he appointed Administration of Iustice to be exercised severally among them of the same Hundred and not that one should run out disorderly into anothers Hundred Lathe or Tithing wherein he dwells not These Hundreds continue to this day in force although not altogether to the same purpose whereunto at first they were appointed yet still to very needful both in time of Peace for good order of Government divers ways and in War for certainty of levying men as also for the more ready Collection of Payments granted in Parliament to the Kings of this Realm Hundred-Lagh HUndred-Lagh signifies the Hundred-Court from which all the Officers of the Kings Forrest were freed by the Charter of Canutus cap. 9. Hundredum HUndredum is to be quit of Money or Customs to be paid to Governors and Hundredors Husfastene HUsfastene quasi Domi fixus is he that holds House and Land Bract. lib. 3. tract 2. c. 10. Hustings HUstings Hustingum is a Court of Common-Pleas held before the Major and Aldermen of London and it is the highest Court they have for Error or Attaint lies there of a Iudgment or saise Verdict in the Sheriffs Court as it appears by Fitzh N. B. 22 H. c. and the Statute of 11 H. 7. cap. 21. And other Cities and Towns have had a Court of the same name as Winchester Lincoln York and Sheppy So called from the Saxon Hus Domus and Thing Causa quasi Domus Causarum I. Idemptitate or Identitate nominis IDemptiatis nominis is a Writ that lies where a Writ of Debt Covenant or Account or such other Writ is brought against a Man and another that hath the same name with the Defendant is taken for him then he shall have this Writ by which the Sheriff shall make Inquiry before the Iustice assigned in the same County if he be the same person or not and if he be not sound to be the party then he shall go without day in peace Ideot IDeot is he that is a Natural Fool from his Birth and knows not how to count Twenty pence or name his Father or Mother nor tell his own age or such like easie and common matters so that it appears he hath no manner of Vnderstanding Reason or Government of himself But if he can read or learn to read by instruction and information of others or can measure an Ell of Cloth or name the Days of the Week or beget a Child or such like whereby it may appear he hath some light of Reason such a one is no Ideot naturally Jeofaile JEofaile is when the parties to any Suit in Pleading have proceeded so far that they have joyned Issue which shall be tried or is tried by a Iury or Enquest and this Pleading or Issue is so badly pleaded or joyned that it will be Error if they proceed then some of the said parties may by their Councel shew it to the Court as well after Verdict given and before Iudgment as before the Iury is charged And the Councel shall say This Enquest ye ought not to take And if it be after Verdict then he may say To judgment you ought not to go And because such niceties occassioned many delays in Suits divers Statutes are made to redress them as well in the time of King H. 8. an 32. c. 30. as of Queen Eliz. whereof we may say as the Civilians That although Constantine the Emperor commāded the forms of the Law to be cut off yet the daily use of Pleading doth seem again to recal them or rather some of them increase as the heads of Hydra See also now a new Statute of Jeofailes made in 21 Jac. c. 13. Jetsam JEtsam is when a Ship is in danger to be cast away and to disburthen the Ship the Mariners cast the Goods into the Sea and although afterward the Ship perish none of those goods called Jetsam Floatsam or Lagan are called Wreck as long as they remain in or upon the Sea but if any of them are driven to Land by the Sea there they shall be reputed Wreck and pass by the grant of Wreck Coke l. 5. f. 106. Jettezoons JEttezoons This is mentioned in Policies of Insurance and signifies Goods thrown into the Sea in a great Storm Unlawful Assembly UNlawful Assembly is where people assemble themselves together to do some unlawful thing against the Peace although they execute not their purpose in deed Imparlance IMparlance See Emparlance Impeachment of Waste IMpeachment of Waste Impetitio Vasti is as much as to say as a Demand made or to be made of Recompence for Waste done by a Tenant that hath but a particular Estate for Life or Years And therefore he that hath such a Lease without Impeachment of Waste hath by that a property or interest given him in the Houses and Trees and may make waste in them without being impeached for it that is without being questioned or demanded any recompence for the Waste done See Coke l. 11. Bowles Case f. 82. b. Implements IMplements comes either from the French word Employer to imploy or from the Latine Implere to fill up and is used for things of necessary use in any Trade or Mystery which are imployed in the practice of the said Trade or without which the work cannot be accomplished Also for Furniture with which the House is filled And in that sense you shall find the word often in Wills and Conveyances of Moveables Impost IMpost is a French word that signifies Tribute but with us it is taken for the Tax that is paid the King for any Merchandise brought into any Haven from Places beyond the Seas And it is used in the Statute of 31 Eliz. c. 5. as a word of the same signification with Custom which Merchants pay Imprisonment IMprisonment is the Restraint of a mans Liberty whether it be in the open Field or in the Steeks or Cage in the Streets or in a Man 's own House as well as in the common Geal And in all these places the party so restrained is said to be a Prisoner so long as he hath not his Liberty freely to go at all times to all places whether he will without Bail or Mainprise Incumbent INcumbent comes of the Latine Incumbere and signifies him that is presented admitted and instituted to any Church or Benefice with Cure
commonly of One hundred pounds more or less according to the Vsage of sundry Nations Mr. Plowden in the Case of Reniger and Fogassa makes mention of this word Knights Service KNights Service was a Tenure by which several Lands in this Nation were held of the King But it is abolished by Statute 12 Car. 2. cap. 24. L. Laches LAches or Lasches is an old French word signifying Slacknesse or Negligence as it appears in Lit. sect 403. 726. where Laches of Entry is nothing else but a Neglect in the Infant to enter So that I think it may be an old English word And when we say There is Laches of Entry it is as much as to say There L â— ok is of Entry or there is Lack of Entry Yet I find that Lascher in French is to Loyter and Lasche signifies one that is idle or lazy and therefore it may also come from the French For Etymoligies are divers and many times ad placitum Lagan LAgan is such a parcel of Goods as the Mariners in a danger of Shipwreck cast out of the Ship and because they know they are heavy and will sink they fasten to them a Boigh or Cork that so they may find them and have them again If the ship be drowned or otherwise perish these Goods are called Lagan or Ligan a ligando and so long as they continue upon the Sea they belong to the Admiral but if they are cast upon the Land they are then called a Wreck and belong to him that hath the Wreck as it appears in Coke l. 5. f. 106. Lageman LAgeman est Homo Legalis seu legitimus such as we call Good men of the Jury The word is found in Dooms-day-Book Land-cheap LAnd-cheap is a payment of 10 d. in the Purchase-mony for every Mark thereof for all the Lands within the Borough of Maldon in Essex by prescription which see H. 25 26. Car. 2. Roll 706. in B. R. Lapse LApse Lapsus is the Omission of a Patron to present to a Church of his Patronage within six months after an Avoidance by death or taking of another Benefice without qualification or notice to him given of the Resignation or Deprivation of the present Incumbent by which neglect Title is given to the Ordinary to collate to the said Church Larcenie LArceny is a wrongful taking away another mans Goods but not from his person with a mind to steal them And Theft is in two sorts the one so called simply and the other Petit or Little Theft The first is where the thing stolen exceeds the value of 12 d. and this is Felony The other called Little or Petit Theft is where the thing stolen doth not exceed the value of 12 d. and that is not Felony Last LAst signifies a certain Wright or Burthen as a Last of Herring is ten thousand Anno 31 E. 3. Stat. 2. cap. 2. a Last of Hides is twelve dozen Anno 1 Jae c. 33. Lastage LAstage is to be quit of a certain Custom exacted in Fairs and Markets for carrying of things where a Man will Latitat LAtitat is a Writ by which all Men in Personal Actions are originally called in the Kings Bench to answer And it is called Latitat because it is supposed by the Writ that the Defendant cannot be found in the County of Middlesex as it appears by the Return of the Sheriff of that County but that he lurks in another County and therefore to the Sheriff of that County is this Writ directed to apprehend him Law LAw See Ley. Law-day LAw-day signifies a Leet or Sheriffs Tourn as it appears by the Statute of 1 E. 4. c. 2. where the Sheriffs Tourn is so called and 9 H. 7. f. 21. b. and many other Books where a Leet is so called See Smiths Commonwealth l. 2. c. 21. Lawing of Dogs LAwing of Dogs See Expeditate Lawless man LAwless man is the who is extra Legem an Outlaw Bract. l. 3. tract 2. c. 11. num 1. Leases LEases are Grants or Demises by one that hath any Estate in any Hereditaments of those Hereditaments to another for the lesser time And they are in divers manners viz. for term of Life for Years for anothers Life and at Will Also a Lease of Land is as good without Deed as with Deed. But in a Lease for term of Life it behoves to give Livery and Seisin upon the Land or else nothing shall pass by the Grant because they are called Free-holds Also a Lease of a Common or Rent may not be good without Deed. But of a Parsonage that hath Glebe it is good without Deed for that the Glebe of the Church which is the principal may well enough pass without Deed and so the Dismes and Offerings which are as accessary to the Church But Dismes and Offerings by themselves may not be let without Deed as it is said Leet LEet is a Court derived out of the Sheriffs Tourne and inquires of all Offences under the degree of High Treason that are committed against the Crown and Dignity of the King But those Offences which are to be punished with loss of life or member are only inquirable there and to be certified over to the Iustices of Assise See Stat. 1. E. 3. c. 16. Legacy LEgacy Legatum is a term of the Civil Law and it is that which we in our Law call a Devise viz. Lands or Goods given unto any man by the Will or Testament of another See more Tit. Devise before Lessor and Lessee LEssor is he that leases Lands or Tenements to another for term of life years or at will And he to whom the Lease is made is called Lessee Levant and Couchant LEvant and Couchant is said when the Beasts or Cattel of a Stranger are come into another mans Ground and there have remained a certain good space of time Levari facias LEvari facias is a Writ directed to the Sheriff for the Levying of a sum of mony upon the Lands Tenements and Chattels of him that hath forfeited a Recognizance See F. N. B. fol. 265. D. Law LAw is when an Action of Debt is brought against one upon some secret agreement or Contract had between the parties without especialty shewed or other matter of Records as in an Action of Detinue for some Goods or Chattels lent or left with the Defendant then the Defendant may wage his Law if he will that is swear upon a Book and certain persons with him that he detains not the Goods or ows nothing to the Plaintiff in manner and form as he hath declared And it is allowed only in cases of Secrecy where the Plaintiff cannot prove the surmise of his Suit by any Deed or Open act for the Defendant might discharge it privily between them without any Acquittance or Publick act And therefore in an Action of Debt upon a Lease for years or upon Arrearages of accompt before Auditors assigned a man shall not wage his Law But when one shall wage his Law he
the Statute of Mag. Charta cap. 14. speaks And therefore if a man be outragiously amerced in a Court not of Record as in a Court-Baron c. there is a Writ called Moderata Misericordia to be directed to the Lord or his Baily commanding them that they take moderate Amerciaments according to the quantity of the fault And of that see Fitzh N. B. fol. 75. A. and Moderata Misericordia after Misnomer MIsnomer is the Mistake of a Name or the using of one Name for another See Broke tit Misnomer Misprision MIsprision is when one knows that another hath committed Treason or Felony and will not discover him to the King or his Council or to any Magistrate but conceals the same Divers other offences are called Misprision as when a Chaplain had fixed an old Seal of a Patent to a new Patent of Non-residence this was held to be Misprision of Treason only and no counterfeiting of the Kings Seal So it is holden in 37 H. 8. Bro. tit Treason 3. in Fine but 2 H. 4. f. 25. A. it is adjudged contrary and Stamf. Pl. cor fol. 3. B. cites it Treason and so it is holden at this day And if a man know Money to be counterfeit and bring the same from out of Ireland hither and utter it in payment yet this is but Misprision of Treason and no Treason and so it is in divers like cases In all cases of Misprision of Treason the Party offendor shall forfeit his Goods for ever and the profits of his Lands for his life and his Body to Prison at the Kings pleasure And for Misprision of Felony or Trespass the Offendor shall be committed to Prison until he have found Sureties or Pledges for his Fine which shall be assessed by the discretion of the Iustices before whom he was convict And note That in every Treason or Felony is included Misprision and where any man hath committed Treason or Felony the King may cause him to be Indicted and Arraigned of Misprision only if he will See more hereof Stamf. lib. 1. cap. 39. Mittimus MIttimus is a Writ by which Records are transferred from one Court to another sometimes immediately as it appears in the Statute of 5. R. 2. cap. 15. as out of the Kings Bench into the Exchequer and sometimes by a Certiorari into the Chancery and from thence by a Mittimus into another Court as you may see in 28 H. 8. Dyer fol. 29. a b. 29 H. 8. Dyer fol. 32. a b. This word is used also for the Precept that is directed by a Iustice of Peace to a Goaler for the receiving and safe keeping of a Felon or other Offendor committed by the said Iustice to the Goal Moderata Misericordia MOderata Misericordia is a Writ that lies where a man is amerced in Court-Baton or County more then he ought to be then he shall have this Writ directed to the Sheriff if it be in the County or to the Bayliff if it be in Court-Baron commanding them that they amerce him not but with regard to the quantity of the Trespass and if they obey not this Writ then shall go forth against them a Sicut alias and Causam nobis significes and after that an Attachment Modus decimandi MOdus decimandi is Mony or other thing of value given annually in lie â— of Tithes The tryal of which appertains to the Common Law and not to any Court-Christian Ridley's view del Civil Law 141. In which he says There was one modus decimandi pro omnibus rebus per totum regnum Monstrans de Droit MOnstrans de Droit is a Suit in Chancery for the Subject to be restored to Lands and Tenements which he shews to be his Right but are by Office found to be in the possession of another that is lately dead by which Office the King is intitled to a Chattel Free-hold or Inheritance in the said Lands And this Monstrans de Droit is give by the Statutes of 34 E. 3. cap. 14. and 37 E. 3. cap. 13. See Coke lib. 4. fol. 54. B. in the Case of the Wardens and Commonalty of Sadlers Shewing of Deeds or Records SHewing of Deeds or Records is thus An Action of Debt is brought against A upon an Obligation by B or by Executors c. After the Plaintiff hath declared he ought to shew his Obligation and the Executor the Testament to the Court. And so it is of Records And the diversity between Shewing of Deeds or Records and Hearing of Deeds or Records is this He that pleads the Deed or Record or Declares upon it ought to shew the same and the other against whom such Deed or Record is pleaded or declared and is thereby to be charged may demand hearing of the same Deed or Record which his Adversary brings or pleads against him Monstraverunt MOnstraverunt is a Writ that lies for the Tenants in Ancient Demesne and is directed to the Lord him commanding not to Distain his Tenant to do other Service then he ought and they may have this Writ directed to the Sheriff that he suffer not the Lord to distrain the said Tenant to do other Service If the Tenants cannot be in quiet they may have an Attachment against the Lord to appear before the Iustices and all the names of the Tenants shall be put in the Writ though but one of them be grieved Also if any Land in ancient Demesne be in variance between the Tenants then the Tenant so grieved shall have against the other a Writ which is called of Right close after the Custome of the Mannor and that shall be alway brought in the Lords Court and thereupon he shall declare in the nature of what Writ he will as his case lies and this Writ shall not be removed but for a great cause or non-power of the Court. Also if the Lord in another place out of ancient Demesne distrain his Tenant to do other Service then he ought he shall have a Writ of Right called Ne Injuste vexes and it is a Writ of Right Patent which shall be tried by Battel or Grand Assise Mortdancester MOrtdancester See before in the Title Cosinage MOrtgage or Morgage MOrtgage or Morgage is when a Man makes a Feoffment to another on such condition that if the Feoffor pay the Feoffee at a certain day 40 li. of money then the Feoffor may re-enter c. In this case the Feoffee is called Tenant in Morgage And as a Man may make a Feoffment in Fee in Morgage so he may make a Gift in Tail or a Lease for Life or Years in Morgage And it seems the cause why it is called Morgage is for that it stands it doubt whether the Feoffoe will pay the mony at the day appointed or not and if he fail then the Land which he laid in gage upon condition of payment of the money is gone from him for ever and so dead to him upon condition but if he pay the mony then is the gage dead
Prebend for that the Temporalties of the Bishoprick were in his hands by the death of W. late Bishop c. The Defendant saith that it was not void the Temporalties being in the Kings hand by the death of W. This is a Negative pregnant for it may be in the Kings hands otherwise then by the death of W. and it suffices the King if it be in his hands by any means c. So is it where an Information was brought in the Exchequer against J. S. for that he bought Wool of J. N. between Shearing-time and the Assūmption such a Year The Defendant saith he did not buy any of J. N. as it is alledged c. This is called a Negative pregnant for if he bought it of any other yet he is culpable for the buying Neif or Nief NIef is a Woman that is bound or a Villain Woman but if she marry a Freeman she is thereby made free because she and her Husband are but one person in Law and she ought to be of the same nature and condition in Law to all intents as her Husband is but her Husband is free to all intents without any condition in Law or otherwise and so by consequence the Wife ought to be and is free according to the nature of her free Husband And then if she were once free and clearly discharged of Bondage to all intents she cannot be Nief after without special act done by her as Divorce or Confession in Court of Record and that is in savor of Liberty And therefore a Free woman shall not be Bound by taking of a Villain to her Husband but their Issue shall be Villains as their Father was which is contrary to the Civil Law for there it is said The Birth follows the Belly Bondage or Villainage had beginning amongst the Hebrews and its original of Chanaan the son of Cham who because he had mocked his father Noe to scorn lying dissolutely when he was drunk was punished in his son Chanaan with penalty of Bondage Ne. Injuste vexes NE injuste vexes Look in the Title Monstraverunt Next Friend NExt Friend See Prochein Amy. Nihil dicit NIhil dicit is when an Action is brought against a Man and the Defendant appears the Plaintiff declares and the Defendant will not answer or pleads to the Action and doth not maintain his Plea but makes Default now upon this Default he shall be condemned because he Saith nothing Nisi prius NIsi prius is a Writ judicial and lies where an Enquest is empanelled and returned before the Iustices of the Bench then the Plaintiff or Defendant may have this Writ directed to the Sheriff commanding him to cause the Enquest to come before the Iustices in the same County at their coming and that for the ease of the Enquest Nomination NOmination is where one may in right of his Mannor or otherwise nominate and appoint a worthy Clerk or man to a Parsonage Vicarage or such like Spiritual promotion 〈◊〉 note that this Nomination ought to be another then the Ordinary which other shall present him to the Ordinary Non-ability NOn-ability is where an Action is brought against one and the Defendant says that the Plaintiff is disable to sue an Action and demands Iudgment if he shall be answered There are six causes of Non-ability in the Plaintiff as if he be an Outlaw or an Alien born but that Disability is in Actions real and mixt only and not in Actions personal except he be an alien enemy or condemned in Praemunire or professed into an Abby Priory or Friety or Excommunicate or a Villain aud sues his Lord. But this last is no Plea for another that is not Lord to the Villain See more hereof Littl. l. 2. c. 11. Non-age NOn-age is all that time of a mans age under 21 years in some cases and 14 in others as Marriage See Broke Tit. Age. Non-claim NOn-claim is the Omission or neglect of him that ought to challenge his Right within a time limitted by which neglect he is either barred of his Right as at this day upon Non claim within five years after a Fine and right to him accrued by the Statute of 4 H. 7. c. 24. or of his Entry by a discent for want of Claim within five years after the Disseisin made by the Statute of 32 H 8. cap. 33. Non omittas propter libertatem NOn omittas propter libertatem is a Writ that lies where the Sheriff returns upon a Writ to him directed that he hath sent to the Bailiff of such a Franchise which hath Return of Writs and he hath not served the Writ then the Plaintiff shall have this Writ directed to the Sheriff that he himself enter into the Franchise and execute the Kings Writ Also the Sheriff shall warn the Bayliff that he be before the Iustices at the day contained in the Writ and if he come not and excuse himself then all the Writs judicial which shall pass out of the Kings Court during the same Plea shall be Writs De non omittas c. and the Sheriff shall make execution of them depending that Plea Non-suit NOn-suit is the Renouncing of a Suit by the Plaintiff or Defendant when the matter is in probability to proceed after the Tenant or Defendant hath appeared c. And see the Statute of 2 H. 4. c. 7. in what cases a man cannot be Non-suit and 23 H 8. cap. 15. and 8 Eliz. c. 2. and 4 Jac. c. 3. where he that is Non-suit shall pay Costs to the Defendant Non sum informatus NOn sum informatus is a formal Answer made by an Attorny who is commanded by the Court to say something in Defence of his Client by which he is deemed to leave his Client undefended and so Iudgement passes for the other party Novel Assignment NOvel assignment is where a man brings Trespass for breaking his Close And the Defendant justifies in a place where no Trespass was done then the Plaintiff assigns the Close where it was to which the Defendant may plead Not guilty or justifie by Title And there are other Replications in Battery and other Trespasses as if the Defendant in Battery justifies by a Writ The Plaintiff replies that after the Retorn of it the Plaintiff in that Suit discharged the Plaintiff out of Prison and that the Defendant after that Imprisoned him now the Defendant must answer to that Replication Bare or Naked Contract BAre Contract or Naked Promise is where a Man bargains or sells Lands or Goods or promises to give one Money or a Horse or to build a House or do such a thing at such a day and there is no recompence appointed to him for the doing thereof as if one say to another I sell or give to you all my Lands or Goods and there is nothing appointed assigned or agreed upon what the other shall give or pay for it so that there is not one thing for another this is a Naked Contract and void in
Law and for not performance thereof no Action lies for Ex nudo Pacto non oritur Actio Nuper obiit NUper obiit is a Writ and it lies where one hath many Heirs that is many Daughters or many Sons if it be in Gavelkind in Kent and dies seised and one Heir enters into all the Land then the others whom he holds out shall have this Writ against the Coheir that is in But a Writ of â— ationabili parte lies in such ca â— e where the Ancestor was once seised and died not seised of the Possession but in Revertion Nusance NUsance is where any Man raises any Wall or stops any Water or doth any thing upon his own Ground to the unlawful hurt or annoyance of his neighbor he that is grieved may have thereof an Assise of Nusance And if he that makes the Nusance aliens the Land to another then this Writ shall be brought against them both as it appears by the Stat. of Westm 2. c. 24. It may be also by stopping Lights in an House or causing water to run over House or Lands for remedy whereof an Action upon the Case or Assise lyeth O. Oblations OBlations are what things soever are offered to God and his Church by pious and faithful Christians Occupant OCcupant Is when a man makes a Lease to another for the Term of the Life of a third person The Lessee dies He who first enters shall hold the land as occupant during the life of the third person To prevent which such Leases are now made to the Lessee his heirs nnd assigns 2 Cro. 554. Co. 6. r. 37. Odio Atia ODio Atia is an old Writ mentioned in the Statute of Westm 1. made in 3 E. 1. cap. 11. and it was directed to the Sheriff to inquire whether a man committed to prison upon Suspicion of Murther were committed upon just cause of Suspicion or for Malice only And if upon an inquisition it were found that he were not guilty then there came another Writ to the Sheriff to bail him But now that course is taken away by the Statute of 28 E. 3. cap. 9. as it appears in Stamford's Pl. of the Crown fol. 77. G. Aud see Coke lib. 9. fol. 56. a. b. Ordael ORdael is as much as to say as Not guilty and was an ancient manner of Trial in Criminal causes for when the Defendant being arraigned pleaded Not guilty he might chuse whether he would put himself upon God and the Country which is upon the Verdict of twelve men as they are at this day or upon God onely and therefore it was called The Judgment of God presuming that God would deliver the innocent and that was if he were of Free estate by Fire that is to say to go bare-footed over nine Plow-shares fire-hot and if he escaped unhurt he should be acquitted and if not then he should be condemned And if the party were of Servile condition then he should be tried by Water which was in divers manners For which see Lambert in the word Ordalium But now this Trial is prohibited by Parliament See Coke lib. 9. fol. 32. b. Ordelfe ORdelfe is where one claims to have the Ore that is sound in his Soil or Ground Ordinary ORdinary is a term of the Civil Law and there signifies any Iudge that hath authority to take Conusance of Causes in his own Right and not by Deputation But in the Common Law it is properly taken for the Bishop of the Diocess who is the true Ordinary to certifie Excommunications lawful Marriages and such Ecclesiastical and Spiritual acts within his Diocess to the Iudges of the Common Law for he is the party to whom the Court ought to write upon such occasions And yet the word Ordinary is usually taken in the Common Law and Statutes for every Commissary or Official of the Bishop or other Iudge Ecclesiastical that hath Iudicial Authority within his Iurisdictio â— as appears in Coke l. 9. Hensloe's C. fol. 36. b. and the Statute of Westm 2. cap. 19. 31 E. 3. cap. 11. and many others Orfgild ORfgild signifies a payment or restoring of Cattel from the Sax. Orf. Pecus and Guild Solut â— o Redditio Ouster le maine OUster le maine is a Writ directed to the Escheator to deliver Seisin or Possession out of the Kings hands unto the party that sues the Writ for that the Lands seised are not holden of the King or for that he ought not to have the wardship of them or for that the Kings Title is determined c. It is also the Iudgement given in a Monstrans de Droit or upon a Traverse or Petition for when it appears upon the matter discussed that the King hath no Right or Title to the thing that he seised then Iudgment shall be given that the Kings hand be amoved and thereupon an Amoveas manum shall be awarded to the Escheator which is as much as if Iudgment were given that the party should have his Lands again And see for this Stamf. Prerog cap. 24. Outfangtheef OUtfangtheef is that Thieves or Felons belonging to your Land or Fee but taken out of it shall be brought back to your Court and there judged Outlary OUtlary See Utlary Owelty OWelty is when there is Lord Mesne and Tenant and the Tenant holds of the Mesne by the same Service that the Mesne holds over of the Lord above him as if the Tenant holds of the Mesne by Homage Fealty and xx s. Rent and the Mesne holds over of the Lord above by Homage Fealty and xx s. Rent also this is called Owelty of Services Hearing of Records and Deeds c. HEaring of Records and Deeds is where an Action of Debt is brought against a man upon an Obligation and the Defendant appears and then prays that he may hear the Obligation wherewith the Plaintiff charges him So it is when Executors bring an Action of Debt and the Defendant demands to hear the Testament upon this demand it shall be read unto him But if it be in another Term or after the Defendant hath imparled then he shall not hear it And so as is said of Deeds is to be understood of Records that are alledged against him But in the Kings Bench the Defendant may at any time before Plea and the Plaintiff have Oyer of Deed and Record See the Title Monstrans de Fait Oyer and Terminer OYer and Terminer is a Writ called in Latine de Audiendo Terminando and it lies where any great or sudden Insurrection is made or any other sudden Trespass which requires hasty Reformation then the King shall direct a Commission to certain Iustices to hear and to determine the same Note that the Iustices of Assise have also one Commission of Oyer and Terminer directed to them and divers other Inhabitants within the Shires whereunto their Circuit extends whereof each of the Iustices of Assise are of the Quorum for the hearing and determining of divers Offences which may
Tenements but only the King in right of his Crown because all the Lands through the Realm are in nature of Fee and hold mediately or immediately of the Town This word nevertheless is used for such right in Lands and Tenements as common persons have in the same And there are three manner of rights of Property that is Property absolute Property qualified and Property possessory Of which see at large Cok. lib. 7. Case de Swans fol. 17. Proprietary PRoprietary is he that hath a Property in any thing but is most commonly used for him who hath the Profits of a Benefice to him and his Heirs or to himself and his Successors as in times past Abbots and Priors had Protection PRotection is a Writ that lies where a man will pass over the Sea in the Kings service then he shall have this Writ whereby he shall be quit of all manner of Pleas between him and any other person except Pleas of Dower Quare impedit Assise of Novel disseisin Darrein presentment and Attaints and Pleas before Iustices in Eyre But there are two Writs of Protection one cum clausula Volumus and another cum clau â— ula Nolumus as appears in the Register But a Protectiou shall not be allowed in any Plea begun before the date of it if it be 〈◊〉 in Veyages where the King himself shall pass or other Voyages Royal or in Messages of the King of affairs of the Realm Nor shall a Protection be allowed for Victual brought for the voyage whereof the Protection makes mention nor in Pleas of Trespass or of Contracts made after the date of the Protection Note that any may attach or begin any Action real against him that hath such Protection and therein proceed until the Defendant comes and shews his Protection in the Court and hath it allowed and then his Plea or Suit shall go without day But if after it appears that the party who hath the Protection goes not about the affairs for which he hath it then the Demandant shall have a Repeal thereof And if he go and return after the business ended the Demandant shall have a Resummons to recontinue the former Suit Protestation PRotestation is a form of Pleading when any will not directly affirm nor directly deny anything that is alledged by another or which he himself alledges And it is in two sorts One is when one pleads any thing which he dare not directly affirm or cannot plead for doubt to make his plea double As if in conveying to himself a Title to any Land he ought to plead divers Discents by divers persons and he dare not affirm that all they were seised at the time of their death or although he could do it it shall be double to plead two Discents of both which each by it self may be a good Bar. Then the Defendant ought to plead and alledged the matter interlacing this word protestando as to say that such a one died by Protestation seised c. And that is to be alledged by Protestation and not to be traversed by the other Another Protestation is when one is to answer to two matters and yet by the Law he ought to plead but to one then in the first part of the Plea he shall say to the one matter protestando and non cognoscendo this matter to be true and makes his Plea farther by these words Sed pro placito dicit c. And this is for saving to the party that so pleads by Protestation the being concluded by any matter alledged or objected against him upon which he cannot joyn issue and is no other but an exclusion of the Conclusion for he that takes the Protestation excludes the other party to conclude him And the Protestation ought to stand with the sequel of the Plea and not to be repugnant or otherwise contrary Provendry PRovendry in the Church of Sarum is called the lesser part of the Altar in the Church of St. Mary 41 E. 3. 5. b. Provision PRovision is used with us as it is in the Common Law for providing of a Bishop or other Ecclesiastical person of an Ecclesiastical Living by the Pope before the Incumbent of it be dead the great abuse whereof appears by several Statutes that have been made from the time of E. 3. to the reign of H. 8. for the avoiding of such Provisions Rast Entries Quare impedit Roy 17. 20. Proviso PRoviso is a Condition inserted in any Deed upon the performance whereof the validity of the Deed consists Sometimes it is only a Covenant whereof see Coke lib 2. in the Lord Cromwels Case It hath also another signification in matters judicial as if the Plaintiff or Demandant desists from prosecuting an Action and brings it not to Trial then the Defendant or Tenant may take forth the Venire facias to the Sheriff which hath in it these words Proviso quod c. to this end that if the Plaintiff takes out any Writ to this purpose the Sheriff shall summon but one Iury upon them both See Old Natura Brevium in the Writ Nisi prius fol. 159. Prov â— sor See Praemunire Proxy Procuratio PRoxy Procuratio is a payment to a Bishop by a Religious house for the charges of his visitation of such Houses Davies rep 2. Purchase PUrchase is the Possession that a man hath in Lands or Tenements by his own act means or agreement and not by title of Discent from any of his Ancestors See Littl. l. 1. c. 1. Purlue PUrlue is all the Ground near any Forrest which being made Forest by Henry the second Richard the first or King John was by Perambulations granted by Henry the third severed again from the same Manwood part 2. of his Forrest Laws c. 20. And it seems that this word is composed either of pouralle that is to go or walk about or purelieu that is a pure place because such Lands as were by those Kings subjected to the Laws and Ordinances of the Forrest are now cleared and freed from the same As the Civilians call that a pure place which is not subject unto Burials fo â—â— kewise this may be called a pure place because it is exempted from the servitude and thraldom which was formerly laid upon it Purlue man is he that hath Lands within the Purlieu and being able to dispenh forty shillings by the year of Free-hold is upon these two points licensed to hunt in his own Purlieu Manwood part 1. p. 151. 177. See now the Stat. made 1 Jac. c. 27. Purpresture PUrpresture is a wo â—â— derived from the French â— ourpr â—â— which signifies to take from another and to app â—â— priate to himself and therefore a Purpresture in a general sense is taken for any such wrong done by one man to another Purpresture in a Forrest is every Incroachment upon the Kings Forrest be it by Building Inclosing or using of any liberty without a lawful warrant so to do And of this see Manwood in his Forrest Laws
hath or might have against him Bracton l. 5. tract 5. ca. 9. nu 9. Quo jure QUo jure is a Writ that lies where a man hath had Common of Pasture in anothers Several within the time of memory then he to whom the Several belongs shall have this Writ to charge him to shew by what Title he claims the Common Quo minus QUo minus is a Writ that lies where a man hath granted to another Housebote and Heybote in his wood and the Grantor makes such waste and destruction that the Grantee cannot have his reasonable Estovers then the Grantee shall have the aforesaid Writ which is in nature of a Writ of Waste And note that Housebote is certain Estovers to mend the House and Heybote certain Estovers to mend Heyes and Hedges There is another Writ called a Quo â— inus in the Exchequer which any Termor or Debtor to the king shall have against any other for Debt or Trespass in the Excheques Office called the Common Pleas by which the Plaintiff shall surmise that for the wrong which the Defendant doth him he is less able to pay the King his Debt or Term which is surmised to give Iurisdiction to the Court of Exchequer to hear and determine the cause of the Suit between them which otherwise should be determined in another Court Quo warranto QUo warranto is a Writ that lies where a man usurps to have any Franchise upon the King then the King shall have this Writ to make him come before his Iustices to shew by what Title he claims such Franchise Quod ei deforceat QUod ei deforceat is a Writ that lies where Tenant in Tail Tenant in Dower or Tenant for Life loses by Default in any Action then he shall have this Writ against him that recovers or against his Heir if he think he hath better right than he who recovered See the Statute West 2. cap. 4. Quod permittat QUod permittat is a Writ that lies where a man is disseised of his Common of Pasture and the Disseisor aliens or dies seised and his Heir enters then if the Disseisee die his Heir shall have this Writ Quod permittat Habere Chiminum Rast Entr. 538. Co. Entr. 526. Estoverium turbarum F. N. B. 124. Passagium ê‘ aquam Rast Entr. 538. Liberam chaceam 2 Institut 654. Liberum raurum F. N. B. 124. Liberam faldam Ibid. 6. E. 4. 1. Liberam piscar c. Ibidem Prosternere Domum murum sepem 5 Coke 100. Ripam c. 9 Coke 53. R. Ran. RAn signifies so open a Spoiling of a man that it cannot be denied Lambert Arch. fol. 125. Ranger RAnger comes from the French word Rang that is Ordo vel Series and signifies an Officer of the Forrest that is appointed to walk every day through the Purlieu whereof he is Ranger to drive back the wilde Beasts into the Forrest again to see hear and inquire of Offenders there and to present their Offences See Manwood cap. 20. fol. 185. c. Ransome RAnsome signifies properly the Sum that is paid for the redeeming of one that is taken Captive in War But it is also for a Sum of money paid for the pardoning of some great Offence as in the Statute of 1 H. 4. cap. 7. and in other Statutes Fine and Ransome going together 23 H. 8. cap. 3. and elsewhere Rape RApe hath two significations The first is when it is taken for part of a County as Sussex is divided into six parts which by a peculiar name are called Rapes Cambd. Britan. pag. 225. and these parts in other Countries are called Hundreds Tithings Lathes or Wapentakes In the other sense it is the violent Deflouring a Woman against her will and this offence is Felony as well in the Principal as in his Aidors See 11 H. 4. c. 13. 1 Ed. 4. c. 1. West 2. c. 13. CroÌ„pt Just of Peace f. 43 44. Rationabili parte bonorum RAtionabili parte bonorum is a Writ that lies for the Wife against the Executors of her Husband to have the third part of his Goods after Debts paid and Funeral expences discharged But whether this Writ lies by the Common Law or only by the Custom of some Countries is a question in our Books See F. N. B. fol. 122. L. Rationabilibus divisis RAtionabilibus divisis is a Writ that lies where there are two Lordships in divers towns and one nigh the other and any parcel of one Lordship or Waste hath been incroched by little parcels then the said Lord from whom the parcel of Ground or Waste hath been incroched shall have this Writ against the Lord that hath so incroched Ravishment de Gard. RAvishment de Gard is a Writ that lies for the Gardian by Knights Service or in Soccage against him that takes from him the Body of his Ward And of this see F. N. B. fol. 140. E. c. Rebutter REbut â— er is when one by Deed or Fine grants to warrant any Land or Hereditament to another and he who made the Warranty or his Heir s â— es him to whom the Warranty is made or his Heir or Assignee for the same thing now if he who is so sued pleads the said Deed or Fine with Warranty and demands Iudgment if the Plaintiff shall be received to demand the thing which he ought to warrant against that Warranty by Fine or Deed aforesaid comprehending such Warranty such Pleading of the Warranty is called a Rebutter This word is also a denomination of a Plea which followeth a Rejoynder And after the Rebutter followeth the Surrebutter See Cokes Entries fol. 284. Recaption REcaption is a second Distress of one former distrained for the self-same cause and that during the Plea grounded upon the former Distress It is also the name of the Writ or Remedy that the Law gives him who is thus twice distrained for one thing the form and use of which Writ you may see in Fitz. N. B. fol. 71. E. c. Recluse REcluse is one that by reason of his Order in Religion may not stir or depart out of his House or Cloister And of such Littleton speaks sect 434. Recognizance REcognizance is an Obligation made before a Master of the Court of Chancery for a Debt or to perform Covenants or an Order or Decree of the Court upon which an Extent issues if the Condition be not performed But no Capias lies upon it against the Cognizors or his Executors Quaere vide 2 Len. 84. Recordare REcordare is a Writ directed to the Sheriff to remove a Cause out of an inferior Court as a Court of Ancient Demesne Hundred Court or County Court into the Kings Bench or Common Pleas. And of this see Fitz. N. B. fol. 70. B. Record REcord is a Writing or Parchment wherein are Enrolled Pleas of Land or Common Pleas Deeds or Criminal Proceedings in any Court of Record But in Courts not of Record as Admiralty Courts Christian Courts Baron c. Their
his Father and he shall have be no other Recovery against the Tenant or any other because such advantage is given by the Law to the Tenant And note that Fealty of common right belongs to Rent service but not to Rent charge nor Rent seck If a man distrain for Rent charge and the Distress be rescued from him and he was never seised before he hath no recovery but by Writ of Rescous for the Distress first taken gives not Seis â— to him unless he had the Rent before for if he were seised of the Rent before and after the Rent be behind and he distrain and Rescous be made he shall have Assise or a Writ of Rescous In every Assise of Rent charge and annual Rent or in a Writ of Annuity it behoves him that brings the Writ to shew an Especialty or else he shall not maintain the Assise But in an Assise of Mortdancestor or Formedon in the discender or other Writs in which Title is given or comprised brought of Rent charge or annual Rent the Especialty need not be shewn And note well that if a man grant a Rent charge to another and the Grantee release to the Grantor parcel of the Rent yet all that Rent is not extinct If Rent charge be granted to two joyntly and the one release yet the other shall have the half of the Rent And if the one purchase the half of the Land whereout the Rent is going the other shall have the half of the Rent of his companion And if the Disseisor charge the Land to a Stranger and the Disseisee bring an Assise and recover the Charge is defeated But if he that hath right charges the Land and a Stranger feign a false Action against him who hath no right and recovers by Default the charge abides In case Partition be between two Parceners and more Land be allowed to one then to the other and she that hath most of the Land charges her Land to the other and she happeth the Rent she shall maintain Assise without Especialty And it is a Rent seck where a man holds of me by Homage Fealty and other Services yielding to me a certain yearly Rent which I grant to another reserving to me the other Services If Rent seck be granted to a man and to his Heirs and the Rent be behind and the Grantor die the Heir may not distrain nor shall recover the arrearages of the time of his Father as it is said before of Rent services And in the same manner it is of Rent charge or annual Rent But in all these Rents the Heir may have for the arrerages in his own time such advantage as his Father had in his life See the Statute 32 H. 8. cap. 37. And note well that in Rent seck if a man be not seised of the Rent and it be behind he is without recovery for that it was his own folly at the beginning when the Rent was granted him or reserved that he took not Seisin of it as a peny or two pence A man may not have a Cessavit per biennium or any other Writ of Entry sur Cessavit for any Rent seck behind by two years but only for Rent service as it appears in the Stat. West 2. cap. 21. It behoves him that sues for Rent seck to shew a Deed to the Tenant cise the Tenant shall not be charged with the Rent except where the Rent seck was Rent service before as in this case Lord Mesne and Tenant and every of them holds of other by Homage and Fealty and the Tenant of the Mesne by 10 s. rent the Lord paramount purchases the Lands or Tenements of the Tenant all the Seigniory of the Mesne but the rent is extinct and for this cause this rent is become Rent seck and the Rent service changed for he may not distrain for this rent and in this case he that demands the rent shall never be charged to shew a Deed. Also in a Writ of Mordint-cestor Ayle or Besayle of rent seck it needs not to shew a Specialty for that these Writs of Possession comprehend a Title within themselves that is to say that the Ancestor was seised of the same rent and centinued his possession in respect of which Seisin the Law supposes that it is also averrable by the Countrey Yet learn for some suppose a necessity to shew forth a Deed because rent seck is a thing against common right as well as rent charge But in Assise of Novel disseisin and in a Writ of Entry sur disseisin brought of Rent seck it is needful to shew forth a Deed for that Rent seck is a thing against Common Right except in the case aforesaid where it was Rent service before and by the act of Law it is become Rent seck And Assise of Novel disseisin and a Writ of Entry sur disseisin contain within them no Title but suppose a Disseisin to be done to the Plaintiff and by the intendment of the Law the Disseisin gives no cause of Averment against common Right but there is a necessity to shew forth a Deed. Repleader REpleader is where the plea of the Plaintiff or Defendant or both are ill or an impertinent Issue joyned then the Court makes void all the Pleas which are ill and awards the Parties to replead Coke Entr. 152. and 221 224. Replevin REplevin is a Writ that lies where a man is distrained for Rent or other thing then he shall have this Writ to the Sheriff to deliver to him the Distress and shall find Surety to pursue his Action and if he pursue it not or if it be found or judged against him then he that tooks the Distress shall have again the Distress which is called the Return of the Beasts and he shall have in such case a Writ called Returno habendo But if the Defendant avow for Rent he may have Iudgment for the value of the Cattel by the Statute of 17 Car. 2. cap. 7. If it be in any Franchise or Bailiwick the party shall have a Replevin of the Sheriff directed to the Bailiff of the same Franchise to deliver them again and he shall find Surety to pursue his Action at the next County And this Replevin may be removed out of the County unto the Common place by Writ of Recordare See more of Replevin in the Title Distress Also see Mich. 2 E. 3. pl. 31. 7 E. 3. 27. pl. 13. the word Plevin where Land was taken out of the Kings hands and are afterwards delivered or replevied out of the Kings hands For which see Stat. 9. 3. cap. 2. The Writ of Homine replegiando lies where a man is in Prison and not by special commandment of the King nor of his Iustices nor for the death of a man nor for the Kings Forest nor for such cause which is not replevisable then he shall have this Writ directed to the Sheriff that he cause him to be replevied This Writ is a Justcies
poit attach un Vache en auter lieu que home poit estre attach per 100. Barbits il est ascun foits agard sur le Corps Biens ensemble al un mÌ„ le temps Attachment differ a un Capias car Kitchin fol. 79. b. ad ceux parols Nota que en Court Baron home serra attach per biens ne issera Capias la Per que il semble Attachment est pluis general extendant al prisure des biens lou Capias extend al prisure del Corps solement Un Attachment differ a un Distress come appiert per Kitch fol. 78. a. ou il dit Process en Court Baron est Summons Attachment Distress que sont Processe al Common Ley. La est auxi un Attachment de Priviledge ceo est en deux mannÌ„s ou donant poyer â— apprehender un homÌ„ en un lieu priviledge ou 〈◊〉 vertue dun Office ou Priviledge comÌ„ de appeller un aut ' a cel Court a qÌ„ il mesmÌ„ est attendant ct en respect de quel il est priviledge Novel Livre de Entries fol. 431. a. Et la est Process appel Foreign Attachment qÌ„ est use al attacher les biens del Foreigners trove diens ascun Liberty ou City pur un Dett due al party mesme Et 〈◊〉 le customs dascuÌ„s lieus homÌ„ poit attach biens en les maines dun Estranger Come si A. devoit al B. 10 livres c. devoit al A. un auter sum de argent B. poit attacher les biens de A. en les maines de C. a luy satisfier ou en part ou en tout come le Dett est Auxy la est Attachment del Forest que est un Court la tenus chescun 40 jours per tout le an En que le Verderors nont ascun auctority forsque de receiver inroller les Attachments del offenders encounter Vert Venison prise per les auters Officers qÌ„ ils poieÌ„t eeÌ„ present al prochein Justice seat eÌ„ Eyre Manwood part 1. p. 93. cap. 22. Attainder ATtainder est un Conviction dascun person dun crime ou fault dont il ne fuit convict devant Sicome un home fait Felony Treason ou tiels semblables de ceo est indi â— arrainÌ„ trove guilty ad Judgment donques il est dit destre Attaint Et ceo poit estre deux voyes le un sur Appearance le auter sur Default Le Atta nder sur Appearance est per Confession Battel ou Verdict le Attainder sur Default est per process tanque il soit utlage Attaint ATtaint est un Brief que gist lou faux Verdict est done per douze homes Judgment done sur ceo donques le party vers que ils avoient pas avera cest Brief vers les douzes homes quant ils sont a issue il ferra trie per vint quarter Jurers si faux Verdict soit trove les douz Jurors sont attaint donques le Judgment serra que lour Prees serront eyrs lour Measons debruses lour Bois subvertes touts lour Terres Tenements fo â— feit al Roy Mes sil passa encounter celuy que port cest attaint il serra imprison grievousment ransom al volunt le Roy. Vide le Stat â— 23 Hin 8. cap. 3. Attaint auxy est quant Judgment est done en Treason ou Felony Attendant ATtendant est ou un doit un Duty ou service al a â— ter ou coÌ„e il fuit depend sur auter Come si la soit Seignior Mesme Tenant le Tenant tient del Mesne pur uÌ„ denier le Mesne tient ouster 〈◊〉 deux deniers le Mesne release al Tenant tout le droit que il ad en le terre le Tenent morust sa feme serra endow del terre el serra Attendant al Heir del tierce part dun denier nemy del tierce part del deux deniers car el serra endow del mieux possession de sa baren Auxi ou le feme est endow 〈◊〉 le Gardian el serra Attenaant al Gardian al Heir a son plein age Attournment ATtournment est quant un est Tenant pur term de vie cestuy en l'Reversion ou Remainder graÌ„â— a son droit ou estate a un aut ' donques il covieÌ„t qÌ„â— e TenaÌ„t pÌ„ vie agree a ceo cest agreement est appel Attournment Car si cest â— y en le Reversion grant son estate son droit a uÌ„ auter si le Tenant pÌ„ vie ne attourna riens pas 〈◊〉 le grant Mes sil soit grant per Fine en Court de Record il serra compel 〈◊〉 attourne Et vide de ceo apres Titulo Quid â—â— ris clamat Littl. lib. 3. cap. 10. Atturney ATturney est un designe per auter home a faire ascun chose en son lieu le quel â— est issint ad define Atturneys sont tiels Persons qÌ„ per consent commandment ou request caveont veieront al prendront sur eux le charge de besoigns de au â— ers homes en lour absence Et lou en ancient temps ceux 〈◊〉 authority eÌ„ Courts oÌ„t aver ceo eÌ„ lour arb tremÌ„t ou ils voilent â— mitter homes de appearer ou suer 〈◊〉 ascun aut ' qÌ„ eux mesmes come appiert â— F. N. B. 25. en le Brief de Dedimus potestatem de Attornato faciendo ou il est monstre qÌ„ homÌ„s fuerÌ„ chase a procurer les Briefs ou Letters Patents del Roy al appointer Atturneys pur eux il est ore provide â— divers Stat. qÌ„ il serra loyal issint a faire sans ascÌ„ tiel circuit Et la est graÌ„d diversity de Briefs eÌ„ le table del Register â— qÌ„ le Roy comÌ„and ces Judges al admit ' 〈◊〉 Atturnys Per quel meaÌ„s al darrein la fueront cy plusors imperite Atturneys cy plusors mischiefs â— eux qÌ„ un Act fuit 4 H. 4. 18. ordeigne pÌ„ lour restraint que les Justices examineront eux mittront hors le imperites An. 33 H. 6. c. 7. qÌ„ la ne serront mes un certain number de eux en Norfolk Suffolk En queux cas â— s home a cest jour poit aver uÌ„ Atturney en queux nemy veies F. N. B. en le lieu devant cite Atturney est ou general ou special Atturney general est cestuy que est designe a touts nostre affaires ou Suits comÌ„ le Atturney general del Roy Atturney general del Duke Crom. 105. Atturney special ou particular est cestuy que est imploy en un ou plusors choses particularmÌ„t specifies Atturneys geÌ„eral sont faits deux voyes ou per les Letters Patents del Roy on per nostre appointment devant Justices en Eyre en overt Court Veies Glan l. 11. c. 1. Brit. 126. Curia de Audience CUria
ê‘ deux ans nul sufficient Distress poit estre trove sur le terre donques jeo avera cest Brief per que jeo recovera le tetre Mes si le Tenant vient en Court devant Judgment tendra les Arrerages les Damages trove Surety que il ne cessera pluis en payment de dit Rent jeo serra compel de prender les Arrerages les Damages donques le Tenant ne perdera la terrÌ„ Le Heir ne poit maintaine cel Brief pur Cesser fait en temps son Ancestor Auxy ne gist mes pur Annual service come Rent huju â— nodi nient pur Homage Fealry Auxy il y ad auter Brief appel Cessavit de Cantaria gist ou un done terrÌ„s a Meason de religion a trover pur lalme de luy de ses ancestors de ses heires anÌ„ualnÌ„it un Chandel ou Lampe eÌ„ Esglise ou pÌ„ faire Divine Service de paster les povers ou auters Almes ou auter tiel chose faire donque si les di â— s Services ne sont pas fait per 2 ans le Donor ou ses Heires averÌ„ ces brief vers quecunque est eins apres tiel Cesser Vide le Statute W. 2. cap. 41. Cession CEssion est quant un Ecclesiastical ê‘son est cree Evesque cu quant un Parson â— un Parsonage prist un auter benefice sans dispensation ou auternÌ„it nient qualified c. En ambideux cases lour primer benefices sont devenus void sont appelle destre void ê‘ Cession Et al ceux que il ad que fuit cree Evesque le Roy presentera pro illa vice quicunque soit Patron de eux Et en lauter case le Patron poit presenter Vies 41 E. 3. 5. 11 H. 4. 37. Cestuy a que vie cestuy a que use CEstuy a que vie est il pur quel vie un auter teigne un estate cestuy a que use est il qÌ„ est un feoffee pur le use â— un auter Challenge CHallenge est un Exception prise ou envers Persons ou Choses Persons coÌ„e en un Assise les Jurors ou ascÌ„ un ou pluis de eux ou en case 〈◊〉 Felony ê‘ le PrisonÌ„ al Barre vers Choses comÌ„ un Declaration Vet. N. B. fol. 76. Challenge faits a les Jurors est fait ou al Array ou a les Polls Challenge al Array est ou Exception est prise al entire nomber come impanel ê‘tialment Challenge al ou per le Poll est ou Exception est prise al ascun un ou pluis come nient indifferent Challenge a les Jurors est aux ' divide en Challenge principal Challenge pur cause ces â— adire sur cause ou reason Challenge principal ou peremptory est ceo que le Ley allows sans cause alledge ou examination com un PrisonÌ„ al Barr arraine sur Felony poit peremptoriment chalenge al nombre de vint un apres auter del Jury impanel sur luy nient alledgant d â— scÌ„ cause mes son dislike demesne ils serront discharge novels mise en lour lieus ceo est in favorem vitae Mes en le case de hault Treason nul peremptory Challenge est allow Vide 25 H. 8. cap. 3. Et un difference poit estre observe perent ' challenge principal challenge ê‘emptory pÌ„ ceo que challenge ê‘emptory semble solemÌ„t destre use eÌ„ choses criminal merement sans ascun cause alledge pluis que le sole phantasie del Prisoner Stamf. Pl. Co. f. 124. principal pÌ„ le greinder part en civil Actions ove le nosmant de ascun Exception qÌ„ esteant trove voyer le â— ey maintenant allowe Come pÌ„ Example si ascun party dit que un des Jurors est le Fits Frere Cousin ou Tenant al auter party ou espouse son file ceo est un bone fort Exception fil soit voyer sans pluis examination del credit del party challenge Et de qÌ„ large extent cest Challenge de Consanguinity est bien applert Plow fol. 425. Auxi en le Plea del mort de ascun home en chescun Action real auxy en chescun Action personal ou le dett ou damages amount al 40 marks il est bone Challenge al ascun del Jurie impannel qui il ne poit dispender 40 s. per le an de son Franktenement demesne An. 11 H. 7. cap. 21. Challenge sur reason ou cause est quant le party alledge ascÌ„ tiel Exception vers un ou pluis del Jurie que nest immediatemÌ„t sufficieÌ„t sur conusance del voierty de ceo mes arbitrable considerable per le residue de Jurors comÌ„ si le fits le Juror ad espouse le file del adverse party Cest Challenge pur cause semble per Kitch fol. 92. destre dit Challenge pur favor ou potius Challenge pÌ„ favor est la dit destre un Species de Challenge per cause Ou poies auxy lier queux Challenges sont communement account pur principal queux nemy Chamberdekins CHamberdekins sont Irish Beggars que ê‘ le Statute de 1 H. 5. c. 8. fueront ê‘ un certain temps deins mesme le Statute express 〈◊〉 avoid cest Terre Champerty CHampertie est un BreÌ„ gist lou deux homes sont impleadants l'un done la moietie ou part del chose en plee a un estranger pur luy mainteiner encounter l'auter donques le party grieve avera cest BreÌ„ devers l'estranger Et semble que ceo ad este un ancient grievance en nostre Terre Car nient obstant divers Statutes un forme de un BreÌ„ frame a ceux uncore Anno 4 E. 3. c. 11. fuit enact Que ou les primer Statutes ê“vide redresse pur ceo solement en Bank le Roy que donques attend le Court il serroit loyal pur les Justices del common Plees ensement Justices Ä‘ Assises en lour Circuits Ä‘ enquirer oyer determiner ceux tiels cases cybien al Suit le Roy come al Suit del party Auxy fuit ordelgne per le Statute de 33 H. 8. que fuit confirm ê‘ le Statute de 37 H. 8. c. 7. Que Justices Ä‘l Peace a lour Quarter Sessions averont authority Ä‘ enquirer cybien ê‘ les seremÌ„ts Ä‘ 12 homes come ê‘ l' enformation done a eux per ascun person ou ê‘sons des defaults contempts offences comÌ„ise encount ' les Leys Statutes fait purview touchant Chamê‘ty Maintenance c. a oyer determiner les ditsfaults offences Champertors sont ceux que mova Plees Suits ou cause destre move ê‘ lour ou auters ê“curemÌ„t sue a lour costages charge demesne pÌ„ aver part del terre ou gaines eÌ„ variance Veies le Stat. Articuli super chartas c. 11. Chance-medley CHance-medley est quant un home
Court of Iustice Magistracy or Title of land for which the party shall be punished according to the nature and quality of his offence sometimes by Action upon the Case for Slander at the Common Law and other times in the Ecclesiastical Court. As if a man contrive any False news or horrible and false Lies of Prelates Dukes Earls c. then an Action De Scandalis Magnatum will lie against him by the Statute of 2 R. 2. cap. 5. and this being proved the party offending shall be grievously punished But for words of Defamation against a private man there the party grieved shall have his Action upon the Case for the Slander and shall recover in dammages according to the quality of the fault wherein the quality of the person who is so defamed is much to be considered But for Defamations determinable in the Spiritual Court they ought to have three incidents First it ought to concern matter meerly Spiritual and determinable in the Ecclesiastical Court as for calling him Heretick Schismatick Adulterer Fornicator c. Secondly that it concern matter meerly Spiritual only for if such Defamation concern any thing determinable at the Common Law the Ecclesiastical Iudge shall not have conusance thereof As if a Divine is to be presented to a Benefice and one to defeat him thereof saith to the Patron that he is an Heretick or a Bastard or that he is Excommunicated whereby the Patron refuses to present him and he loses his Preferment he shall have an Action upon the Case for these Defamations tending to such an end Also if a woman be bound that she shall live continent for if a Lease be made to her so long as she shall live chaste in these cases Incontinency shall be tryed by the Common Law Thirdly although such Defamation be meerly and only Spiritual yet he that is defamed cannot sue there for amends or Dammages but the Suit ought to be only for punishment of the fault for the Soul's health of him that so offends And as for the Slander of a Title to Land if A. saith that B. hath right in the Lands of C. whereby C. is damnified then he may have an Action upon the Case for the Defamation of his Title against A. And although B. hath a colourable Title yet A. shall be punished forasmuch as he hath taken upon him knowledge of the Law and medled in a matter which concerned him not But if a man saith that he himself hath right to the Land of another in this case no Action for Defamation lies although he knows his Title to be false Cok lib. 4. fol. 18. Defeisance DEfeisance is a Condition relating to a Deed as an Obligation Recognisance or Statute which being performed by the Obligor or Recognisor the Act is disabled and made void as if it had never been done And there is no Warrantie Recognisance Rent-charge Annuity Covenant Lease for years or such like but that they may by a Defeasance made with the mutual consent of all those who were parties to the creation thereof by Deed be adnulled discharged and defeated And the difference between a Proviso or Condition in Deed and a Defeasance is in this That the Proviso or Condition is annexed or inserted in the Deed or Grant whereas a Defeasance is usually a Deed by it self concluded and agreed on between the parties and having relation to another Deed. And therefore if the Condition of an Obligation be repugnant to the Deed the Condition is void and the Obligation good As if the Condition be that he shall not sue the Obligation this is void as well as it is of a Feoffment upon Condition that the Feoffee shall not take the Profits But a Defeasance is a Grant that is made after the Obligation to defeat the same Obligation and this is good though it be repugnant and so not like a Condition 21 H. 7. fol. 24. b. For the form and manner of Defeasances according to the diversity of the Case see West part 1. Symb. lib. 2. sect 230 231 c. Defence DEfence is that which the Defendant ought to make immediately after the Count or Declaration made that is that he defends all the Wrong Force and Dammage where and when he ought and then to proceed farther to his Plea or to imparl And note that by defending the Force and Wrong he doth excuse himself of the Wrong against him surmised and makes himself party to the Plea and by defending the Dammage he affirms the Plaintiff able to be answered unto And for the residue of the Defence he accepts the power of the Court to hear and determine their Pleas of this matter For if he will plead to the Iurisdiction he ought to omit in his Defence these words ou quant il devera and if he will shew any disability in the Plaintiff and demand Iudgment if the party shall be answered unto then he ought to omit the Defence of the Dammage Defendant DEfendant is he that is sued in Action personal who is called Tenant in an Action real Defendemus DEfendemus is an ordinary word in a Feoffment or Donation and hath this force that it binds the Donor and his Heirs to defend the Donee if any man go about to lay any Servitude upon the thing given other then is contained in the Donation Braction lib. 2. cap. 16. num 10. See also Warrantizantibus Defender of the Faith DEfender of the Faith is a peculiar Title given to the King of England by the Pope as Catholicus to the King of Spain and Christianissimus to the French King It was first given by Leo. x. to K. Hen. 8. for writing against Martin Luther in behalf of the Church of Rome Stow's Annals p. 863. Deforceor DEforceor is he that overcomes and casts out with Force who differs from a Disseisor first in this that a man may disseise another without Force which act is called Simple Dissesin Britton cap. 33. Then because a man may deforce another that never was in possession as if many have right to Lands as common Heirs and one keeps them out the Law saith that he deforces them though he never disseised them Old Nat. Brev. fol. 118. If Tenant in tail makes a Feoffment in fee by which the Feoffee is in and afterward the Tenant in tail dies and his issue sues a Writ of Formedon against the Feoffee the Writ shall say and also the Count c. that the Feoffee wrongfully deforced him c. though he did not disseise him because he entred in the life of the Tenant in tail and the Heir had no present right Lit fol. 138. And a Deforceor differs from an Intrudor because a Deforceor keeps out the right Heir as aforesaid and a man is made an Intrudor by a wrongful Entry only in Lands or Tentments void of a Possessor Bract. lib. 4. cap. 1. And because Force and Forcible entry into Lands is so opposite to the Peace and Iustice of the Realm and a
dishonour of the King and his Crown and discredit of the Law that any person by birth and oath obliged to the obedience of the King and his Laws should presume of his own authority by Force and strong hand to resist them both by violent Intrusion into the Possession of another before the Law hath decided his Tttle therein therefore divers Statutes have been made for the restraint and reformation of these Abuses as among others the Stat. of 5 R. 2. ca. 7. where the King defends any Entry into Lands or Tenements but in case where Entry is given by the Law and then not with strong hand or with a multitude of people but onely in a peaceable manner See more of this in Po â— lt de pace Reg. f. 34. 35 c. Degrading DEgrading See Disgrading Delegates ARE Commissioners appointed by Letters Patents to determine Appeals upon things testamentary or matrimonial in which sentence was given Demaines DEmaines or Demesnes generally speaking are all the parts of any Mannor which are not in the hands of Freeholders though they be held by Copy-holders Lessees for years or for life as well as Tenants at will And the reason why Copyhold is accounted Demesnes is because they who are Tenants to it are adjudged in Law to have no other Estate but at the will of the Lord so that it is still reputed to be in a manner in the Lords hands yet in common speech that is ordinarily called Demesnes which is neither free nor copy And this word Demesne is sometimes used in a more special signification and is opposite to Frank-fee as those Lands which were in the possession of Edward the Confessor are called Ancient demesne and all others are called Franck-fee Kitch fol. 98. and the Tenants which hold any of those Lands are called Tenants in Ancient demesn the other Tenants in Frank-fee And no common person hath any Demesnes in the simple acceptation of the word because there is no Land but depends mediately or immediately of the Crown that is of some Honor or other belonging to the Crown and not granted in fee to any inferiour person and therefore when a man in pleading will signifie his Land to be his own he saith That he is or was seised thereof in his Demesne as of Fee Littleton f. 3. whereby it appears that though his Land be to him and his Heirs for ever yet it is not true Demesne but depending upon a superiour Lord and holding by Service or Rent in lieu of Service or by Service and Rent together Demaines according to the common speech are only understood the Lords chief Mannor-place which he and his Ancestors have time out of mind kept in their own hands with all buildings and houses meadows pastures woods arable lands and such like therewith occupied Demand DEmand is a word of art and if one release to another all Demands this is as Littleton fol. 117. a. saith the best Release to him to whom the Release is made that he can have and shall most enure to his advantage for by it not onely all Demands but also all causes of Demands are released And there are two manner of Demands that is in Deed and in Law In Deed as in every Praecipe there is expresse Demand and therefore in real Actions he is called Demandant in personal Plaintiff In Law as every Entry in Land Distresse for Rent Taking or seisure of Goods and such like acts in the Countrey which may be done without any words or demands in Law As a Release of Suits is more large then a Release of Quarrels or of Actions so a Release of Demands is more large and beneficial than either of them for by it is released all that which by the others is released and more By Release of all Demands all Freeholds and Inheritances executory are released By Release of all Demands to the Dissetsor the right of the Entry in the land and all that is contained therein is released By Release of all Demands all Executions are released and he that releases all Demands excludes himself from all Actions Entries and Seisures Littleton fol. 170. holds That if Tenant in tail enfeoffs his Vncle who enfeoffs another in fee with Warranty if after the Feoffee by his Deed releases to the Vncle all manner of Demands by such Release the Warranty which is a Covenant real and executory is extinct and the reason is because that by Release of Demands all the means and remedies and their causes which any hath to Lands Tenements Goods Chattels c. are extinct and by consequence the right and interest it self unto the thing Yet a Release of all Demands doth not extend to such Writs by which nothing is demanded neither in Deed nor in Law but lie only to relieve the Plaintiff by way of Discharge and not by way of Demand as a Release of all Demands is no Bar in a Writ of Error to reverse an Outlawry and so of such like See 18 Edw. 3. 59. Coke lib. 8. fol. 153 154. Demandant DEmandant is he that sues or complains in an Action real for Title of land and he is called Plaintiff in an Assise and in an Action personal for Debt Trespass Deceit Detinue and such like Demurrage IS called the time when a Shi â— lies idle in a Port or Harbour or on the Sea in a Calm Demurrer DEmurrer is when any Action is brought and the Defendant pleads a Plea to which the Plaintiff says that he will not answer for that it is not a sufficient Plea in the Law and the Defendant avers the contrary that it is a sufficient Plea and thereupon both parties submit the Cause to the Iudgement of the Court which is called a Demurrer for that they go not forward in pleading but rest upon Iudgement in that point and is called in Latine Records Moratur in Lege For in every Action the difference consists either in Deed or in Law If in Fact it is tried by the Iury if in Law then the matter is either plain or difficult and rare if it be plain then Iudgment is presently given but when it is hard and doubtfull then is stay made and time taken either to consider farther thereupon by the Iudges to agree if they can or otherwise for all the Iustices to meet together in the Exchequer-Chamber and upon hearing of that which the Serjeants shall say unto both parts to advise and determine what is Law and that which is there concluded on by them shall stand firm without further remedy There is also a Demurrer to Evidence given to a Iury upon Tryal of an Issue Plo. Com. 2. 3 Rast Entr. 607. Half bloud HAlf bloud is when a man marries a wife and hath issue by her a son or daughter and the wife dies and then he takes another woman and hath by her also a son or daughter Now these two sons are after a sort Brothers or as they are termed Half-brothers or Brothers of the half