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<sup>2</sup>Croke's English King's Bench reports tempore James I.  
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<sup>2</sup>Croke's English King's Bench reports tempore James I.
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<div id="toc" class="toc"><div id="toctitle"><h2>Contents</h2></div>
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<ul>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1">[[#Abatement|<span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Abatement</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2">[[#[Notes]|<span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">[Notes]</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3">[[#Account|<span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Account</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4">[[#Accord and Satisfaction|<span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">Accord and Satisfaction</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5">[[#Actions in General|<span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">Actions in General</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6">[[#Actions Local & Transitory|<span class="tocnumber">11</span> <span class="toctext">Actions Local &amp; Transitory</span>]]</li>
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<ul>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7">[[#Actions Qui Tam|<span class="tocnumber">11.1</span> <span class="toctext">Actions Qui Tam</span>]]</li>
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</ul>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8">[[#Actions on the Case|<span class="tocnumber">13</span> <span class="toctext">Actions on the Case</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9">[[#Affidavit|<span class="tocnumber">17</span> <span class="toctext">Affidavit</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10">[[#Agreements|<span class="tocnumber">18</span> <span class="toctext">Agreements</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11">[[#Amendment and Jeo Fail|<span class="tocnumber">21</span> <span class="toctext">Amendment and Jeo Fail</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-22">[[#Annuity and Rent Charge|<span class="tocnumber">22</span> <span class="toctext">Annuity and Rent Charge</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24">[[#Arbitrament & Awards|<span class="tocnumber">24</span> <span class="toctext">Abritrament & Awards</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-26">[[#Assault & Battery|<span class="tocnumber">26</span> <span class="toctext">Assault & Battery</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-27">[[#Assignment|<span class="tocnumber">27</span> <span class="toctext">Assignment</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-28">[[#Assumpsit|<span class="tocnumber">28</span> <span class="toctext">Assumpsit</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-30">[[#Attachment|<span class="tocnumber">30</span> <span class="toctext">Attachment</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-31">[[#Audita Querela|<span class="tocnumber">31</span> <span class="toctext">Audita Querela</span>]]</li>
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<ul>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-31">[[#Authority|<span class="tocnumber">31.1</span> <span class="toctext">Authority</span>]]</li>
 +
</ul>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-32">[[#Bail in Civil Causes|<span class="tocnumber">32</span> <span class="toctext">Bail in Civil Causes</span>]]</li>
 +
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-33">[[#Bail in Criminal Causes|<span class="tocnumber">33</span> <span class="toctext">Bail in Criminal Causes</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-35">[[#Bailment|<span class="tocnumber">35</span> <span class="toctext">Bailment</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-37">[[#Bargain & Sale|<span class="tocnumber">37</span> <span class="toctext">Bargain & Sale</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-38">[[#Baron & Feme|<span class="tocnumber">38</span> <span class="toctext">Baron & Feme</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-42">[[#Bastardy|<span class="tocnumber">42</span> <span class="toctext">Bastardy</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-43">[[#Bills of Sale|<span class="tocnumber">43</span> <span class="toctext">Bills of Sale</span>]]</li>
 +
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-44">[[#Bill of Exceptions|<span class="tocnumber">44</span> <span class="toctext">Bill of Exceptions</span>]]</li>
 +
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-45">[[#Burglary|<span class="tocnumber">45</span> <span class="toctext">Burglary</span>]]</li>
 +
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-46">[[#Carriers|<span class="tocnumber">46</span> <span class="toctext">Carriers</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-47">[[#Certiorari|<span class="tocnumber">47</span> <span class="toctext">Certiorari</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-48">[[#Commitments|<span class="tocnumber">48</span> <span class="toctext">Commitments</span>]]</li>
 +
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-49">[[#Condition|<span class="tocnumber">49</span> <span class="toctext">Condition</span>]]</li>
 +
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-55">[[#Coparceners|<span class="tocnumber">55</span> <span class="toctext">Coparceners</span>]]</li>
 +
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-57">[[#Costs|<span class="tocnumber">57</span> <span class="toctext">Costs</span>]]</li>
 +
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-59">[[#Covenant|<span class="tocnumber">59</span> <span class="toctext">Covenant</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-62">[[#Curtesy of England|<span class="tocnumber">62</span> <span class="toctext">Curtesy of England</span>]]</li>
 +
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-63">[[#Damages|<span class="tocnumber">63</span> <span class="toctext">Damages</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-65">[[#Debt|<span class="tocnumber">65</span> <span class="toctext">Debt</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-67">[[#Descent|<span class="tocnumber">67</span> <span class="toctext">Descent</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-69">[[#Detinue|<span class="tocnumber">69</span> <span class="toctext">Detinue</span>]]</li>
 +
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-70">[[#Devises|<span class="tocnumber">70</span> <span class="toctext">Devises</span>]]</li>
 +
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-77">[[#Disseisin|<span class="tocnumber">77</span> <span class="toctext">Disseisin</span>]]</li>
 +
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-78">[[#Distress|<span class="tocnumber">78</span> <span class="toctext">Distress</span>]]</li>
 +
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-80">[[#Dower|<span class="tocnumber">80</span> <span class="toctext">Dower</span>]]</li>
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<ul>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-82">[[#Duress|<span class="tocnumber">82.1</span> <span class="toctext">Duress</span>]]</li>
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</ul>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-83">[[#Ejectment|<span class="tocnumber">83</span> <span class="toctext">Ejectment</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-86">[[#Election|<span class="tocnumber">86</span> <span class="toctext">Election</span>]]</li>
 +
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-87">[[#Error|<span class="tocnumber">87</span> <span class="toctext">Error</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-90">[[#Escape in Civil Cases|<span class="tocnumber">90</span> <span class="toctext">Escape in Civil Cases</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-92">[[#Estates in Fee Simple|<span class="tocnumber">92</span> <span class="toctext">Estates in Fee Simple</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-93">[[#Estate for Life & Ocuppancy|<span class="tocnumber">93</span> <span class="toctext">Estate for Life & Occupancy</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-95">[[#Evidence|<span class="tocnumber">95</span> <span class="toctext">Evidence</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-100">[[#Execution|<span class="tocnumber">100</span> <span class="toctext">Execution</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-102">[[#Executors & Administrators|<span class="tocnumber">102</span> <span class="toctext">Executors & Administrators</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-114">[[#Extinguishment|<span class="tocnumber">114</span> <span class="toctext">Extinguishment</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-100">[[#Execution|<span class="tocnumber">100</span> <span class="toctext">Execution</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-102">[[#Executors & Administrators|<span class="tocnumber">102</span> <span class="toctext">Executors & Administrators</span>]]</li>
 +
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-114">[[#Extinguishment|<span class="tocnumber">114</span> <span class="toctext">Extinguishment</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-115">[[#Extortion|<span class="tocnumber">115</span> <span class="toctext">Extortion</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-116">[[#Felony|<span class="tocnumber">116</span> <span class="toctext">Felony</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-120">[[#Feoffment|<span class="tocnumber">120</span> <span class="toctext">Feoffment</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-122">[[#Forcible Entry & Detainer|<span class="tocnumber">122</span> <span class="toctext">Forcible Entry & Detainer</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-124">[[#Forgery|<span class="tocnumber">124</span> <span class="toctext">Forgery</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-127">[[#Forfeiture|<span class="tocnumber">127</span> <span class="toctext">Forfeiture</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-130">[[#Fraud|<span class="tocnumber">130</span> <span class="toctext">Fraud</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-134">[[#Gaol & Gaoler|<span class="tocnumber">134</span> <span class="toctext">Gaol & Gaoler</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-135">[[#Grants|<span class="tocnumber">135</span> <span class="toctext">Grants</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-141">[[#Guardian|<span class="tocnumber">141</span> <span class="toctext">Guardian</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-145">[[#Heir & Ancestor|<span class="tocnumber">145</span> <span class="toctext">Heir & Ancestor</span>]]</li>
 +
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-151">[[#Highways|<span class="tocnumber">151</span> <span class="toctext">Highways</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-152">[[#Hue & Cry|<span class="tocnumber">152</span> <span class="toctext">Hue & Cry</span>]]</li>
 +
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-153">[[#Idiots & Lunatics|<span class="tocnumber">153</span> <span class="toctext">Idiots & Lunatics</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-157">[[#Indictments|<span class="tocnumber">157</span> <span class="toctext">Indictments</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-162">[[#Infancy & Age|<span class="tocnumber">162</span> <span class="toctext">Infancy & Age</span>]]</li>
 +
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-172">[[#Informations|<span class="tocnumber">172</span> <span class="toctext">Informations</span>]]</li>
 +
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-174">[[#Injunction|<span class="tocnumber">174</span> <span class="toctext">Injunction</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-177">[[#Inns & Innkeeper|<span class="tocnumber">177</span> <span class="toctext">Inns & Innkeeper</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-180">[[#Joint Tenants & Tenants in Common|<span class="tocnumber">180</span> <span class="toctext">Joint Tenants & Tenants in Common</span>]]</li>
 +
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-190">[[#Jointure|<span class="tocnumber">190</span> <span class="toctext">Jointure</span>]]</li>
 +
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-194">[[#Juries|<span class="tocnumber">194</span> <span class="toctext">Juries</span>]]</li>
 +
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-199">[[#Justice of Peace|<span class="tocnumber">199</span> <span class="toctext">Justice of Peace</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-201">[[#Leases & Terms for Years|<span class="tocnumber">201</span> <span class="toctext">Leases & Terms for Years</span>]]</li>
 +
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-221">[[#Legacies|<span class="tocnumber">221</span> <span class="toctext">Legacies</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-235">[[#Libel|<span class="tocnumber">235</span> <span class="toctext">Libel</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-237">[[#Limitation of Actions|<span class="tocnumber">237</span> <span class="toctext">Limitation of Actions</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-240">[[#Mayhem|<span class="tocnumber">240</span> <span class="toctext">Mayhem</span>]]</li>
 +
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-241">[[#Maintenance|<span class="tocnumber">241</span> <span class="toctext">Maintenance</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-242">[[#Mandamus|<span class="tocnumber">242</span> <span class="toctext">Mandamus</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-243">[[#Master & Servant|<span class="tocnumber">243</span> <span class="toctext">Master & Servant</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-247">[[#List of fees recd from Tents Fairfax ads Hite|<span class="tocnumber">247</span> <span class="toctext">List of fees rec<sup>d</sup> from Ten<sup>ts</sup> Fairfax ad<sup>s</sup> Hite</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-252">[[#Fauquier Plantation Dr|<span class="tocnumber">252</span> <span class="toctext">Fauquier Plantation D<sup>r</sup></span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-253">[[#Contra &mdash;|<span class="tocnumber">253</span> <span class="toctext">Contra &mdash;</span>]]</li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-254">[[#Of Fee Simple|<span class="tocnumber">254</span> <span class="toctext">Of Fee Simple</span>]]</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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===<center>Abatement</center>===
 
===<center>Abatement</center>===
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| style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|In personal actions several wrongs & trespasses may be join'd. Fraud & warranty may be join'd.   
 
| style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|In personal actions several wrongs & trespasses may be join'd. Fraud & warranty may be join'd.   
 
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| Ld Ray 58
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| style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"| Ld Ray 58
| But actions founded on a tort & a contract cannot be join'd as assumpsit & trover   
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| style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But actions founded on a tort & a contract cannot be join'd as assumpsit & trover   
 
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| style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|All personal actions may be brought in any C<sup>ty</sup> & aid in any place & the Def<sup>t</sup> cannot traverse it.
 
| style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|All personal actions may be brought in any C<sup>ty</sup> & aid in any place & the Def<sup>t</sup> cannot traverse it.
 
|-
 
|-
|2 Sal 669 pl.6
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| style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2 Sal 669 pl.6
|The Deft cannot by his plea oblige the Plf to lay his action in a dift Cty unless the matter pleaded be local. The motion must be on affidavit
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| style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The Deft cannot by his plea oblige the Plf to lay his action in a dift Cty unless the matter pleaded be local. The motion must be on affidavit
 
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===Page 65===  
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===<center>Debt</center>===
DEBT
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
3.Co.22
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|-
Lev. 54  
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
22.G.2.Ch 27
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the Stat. prohibits a thing under a certn penalty & pres- scribes no particular method for recovering it, the party shall have an action of debt.
p. 249  
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|-
22.G.2.Ch.10
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3.Co.22
4.Co.49
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|On a contract debt lies not till all the days of paymt are pass'd.
Cr.Ja.88  
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|-
5.Co.32
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Lev. 54
2.Ja.685  
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If one enters into a contract to pay money &c at his sev<sup>l</sup> contingencies the obligee has his action at th hap- pening of either of them
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|22.G.2.Ch 27 p. 249
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Debt may be brought on promissory note for money or tobacco & by assignee of bond in his own name and for money due on protested bills of exchange agt the drawer or indorser or both.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|22.G.2.Ch.10
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Debt will lie for rent due on a lease for life as well as years
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|4.Co.49
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a feme lessee for life takes husbd & dies debt lies agt the husbd for rent issuing out of the land.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ja.88
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man sells certain cloths for £66 flemish money he may bring an action of debt for £39-12 monetae angli & setting forth the special matter & avering that £66 flemish money was at the time of sale worth £39.12 english money & that the deft has not paid &c.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|5.Co.32
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If an Exr recovers any thing in the right of hist testator it must be in the detinet only.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ja.685
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But if an Exr. takes oblig<sup>n</sup> for debt due to his testa tor in debt on this oblig<sup>n</sup> it must be in the debet X & detinet
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|}
  
If the Stat. prohibits a thing under a certn penalty & pres-
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===<center>Debt</center>===
scribes no particular method for recovering it, the party
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
shall have an action of debt.
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|-
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr. Ja. 685
On a contract debt lies not till all the days of
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|So if an Exr sells the goods of his testator
paymt are pass'd.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Vent . 321
If one enters into a contract to pay money &c at his
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Also debt agt the Exr shall be in the detinet only unless after judgemt R devast[avi]<sup>t</sup> is suggested
sev<sup>l</sup> contingencies the obligee has his action at th hap-
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|-
pening of either of them
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El. 74
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But if debt be brought agt Exr for arrearages of rent in curr'd after the death of the testator it shall be in the debet Debt agt Baron & feme for debt before marriage in debet.
Debt may be brought on promissory note for money
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In debt on an oblig<sup>n</sup> the deft cannot plead nil debet
or tobacco & by assignee of bond in his own name
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In debt for rent with deed the proper plea is non est factum
and for money due on protested bills of exchange agt the
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|}
drawer or indorser or both.
 
 
Debt will lie for rent due on a lease for life as well as years
 
  
If a feme lessee for life takes husbd & dies debt lies agt
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===<center>Descent</center>===
the husbd for rent issuing out of the land.
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
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|-
If a man sells certain cloths for £66 flemish money he
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Bl.208
may bring an action of debt for £39-12 monetae angli &
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Inheritances shall lineally descend to the issue of the person last actually seised but shall never lineally ascend
setting forth the special matter & avering that £66
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|-
flemish money was at the time of sale worth £39.12
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Bl.212
english money & that the deft has not paid &c.
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The male issue shall be admittee before the female
   
+
|-
If an Exr recovers any thing in the right of hist testator
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Do.214
it must be in the detinet only.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The eldest only of Males shall inherit but the females all together
 
+
|-
But if an Exr. takes oblig<sup>n</sup> for debt due to his testa
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Do.217
tor in debt on this oblig<sup>n</sup> it must be in the debet X
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The lineal descendants in infinitum of any person deceas'd shall represent their ancestor
& detinet
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|-
 
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Do.220
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|On failure of lineal descendants the inheritance shall descend to the blood of the first purchasor
DEBT
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|-
Cr.Ja.685
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|224
Vent . 321
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The collateral beir of the person last seised must be his next collateral kinsman of the whole blood
Cr.El. 74
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|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|234
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|In collateral inheritances the male stock shall be prefer'd to the female unless where lands have descended actually from the female
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.15
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the eldest son enters yet if the relct of the (struck through)widow(struck through)/father/ be endow'd & the eldest son dies the brother of the half blood & not the sister shall have the reversion of the third part For the widow is [  ] in continuance of her husbds estate Secus if the eldest son had made a lease for life & leseee  had endowed the widow.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Lit.sec. 387.8.441
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|In descents which toll entries it is requir'd that the ancestor die seis'd of a freehold & fee
 +
|}
  
So if an Exr sells the goods of his testator
+
===<center>Descent</center>===
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
Also debt agt the Exr shall be in the detinet only
+
|-
unless after judgemt R devast[avi]<sup>t</sup> is suggested
+
| style="width: 80%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A man seis'd of lands in fee on condition dies seised if the condition be broken in his life it does not take away  the right of Entry 1n the feoffer. Lit. sec. 391.
   
+
|-
But if debt be brought agt Exr for arrearages of rent
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man seis'd of lands in fee devises them to another in fee & dies whereby the descent in law is cast on the devisee, & the heir before any entry made by the devisee  enters & dies seised, this descent shall not take away the entry of devisee because he would be without remedy having never had possesion. Co.L.240.
in curr'd after the death of the testator it shall be in the debet
+
|-
Debt agt Baron & feme for debt before marriage
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"| If the younger son enters by abagemt & dies seis'd yet the Heir or his issue may enter. Secus if the younger son has made a feoffmt in fee & the feoffee had died seis'd. Co.L.342
in debet.  
+
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Or if the elder brother had enterd & been disseis'd by the younger L.l 397
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The same law holds of intrusions Co.L.243
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The entry of inf<sup>ts</sup> & feme coverts not taken away by descent s. L.Sec. 402
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|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|So desc<sup>t</sup> lost during imprisonment, or absence in foreign parts /Co.L. 255/
 +
|}
  
In debt on an oblig<sup>n</sup> the deft cannot plead nil debet
+
===<center>Detinue</center>===
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
In debt for rent with deed the proper plea is non
+
|-
est factum
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|In detinue th party is to recover the thing in specie or damages for the detainure.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3. Bl. 150
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|To ground an action of detinue these points are  necessary. 1.That the deft came lawfully by the  goods as either by delivering them to him or find- -ing them. 2d. That the Plf have a property  3. That the goods themseves be of some value &  4. That they be ascertain'd in point of identity
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sid.172<br />Yel.165
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Detinue lies only for or agt the husbd for goods detaind by or from a feme covert before marrige.
 +
|}
  
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===<center>Devises</center>===
DESCENT
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
2.Bl.208
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|-
2.Bl.212
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ver .104
Do.214
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A woman whose husbd is banishd for life by act of Parliamt/may make a will
Do.217
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|-
Do.220
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El.27<br />Cr.Ch.219
224
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Husbd may bind himself by covt or bond to per- -mit his wife to dispose of legacies &c. & this is such an appointmt as the husbd will be oblig'd to stand to.
234
+
|-
Co.L.15
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.112
Lit.sec.  
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A wife may be devisee tho' not grantee to her husbd
387.8.441
+
|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Mod.315<br />Ld.Ray.262<br />Str.73
Inheritances shall lineally descend to the issue of the person
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An <s>inf</s><sup>male</sup> may devise his lands at 21 his negroes at 18 & his personal estate t 14 years of age; a female may dispose of her personal estate at 12 years old.
last actually seised but shall never lineally ascend
+
|-
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sal. 231.pl.10<br />Ray.163<br />Sid. 153<br />Lev.135<br />Ray.162
The male issue shall be admittee before the female
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It has been doubted whether a devise to an inf<sup>t</sup> in ventre sa mere is good but all agree that a devise to an inft when he shall be born or wher God shall give him birth is good & that the freehold shall descend to the heir at law in the mean time.
+
|-
The eldest only of Males shall inherit but the females
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Plow.343<br />Yel.347. pl.16
all together
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man devises lands in which he has nothing & after purchases them such a devise is void.
+
|-
The lineal descendants in infinitum of any person
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Mod.217
deceas'd shall represent their ancestor
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man devises lands & is disseisd & dies before reentry the devise is void.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ch.Ca.39
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|After articles agreed on for a purchase, the purchasor devises the land & dies before a conveyance executed, yet the land passes in equity
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ver.689
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An equitable interest deviseable as well as a legal estate
 +
|}
  
On failure of lineal descendants the inheritance shall
+
===<center>Devises</center>===
descend to the blood of the first purchasor
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
+
|-
The collateral beir of the person last seised must be
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3. Lev. 427
his next collateral kinsman of the whole blood
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A mere possibility not deviseable.
In collateral inheritances the male stock shall be pre-
+
|-
-fer'd to the female unless where lands have descended
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Abr.Eq. 175.6
actually from the female
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A right to set aside a release deviseable & the devise of all the residue of the testators estate to the wife &-constituting her sole Exec<sup>x</sup> apt words for that purpose 
   
+
|-
If the eldest son enters yet if the relct of the (struck through)widow(struck through)/father/ be
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.6<br />2. Bl.108<br />Cr.Ja.416<br />Hob.2
endow'd & the eldest son dies the brother of the half blood
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man devises lands to another forever, or  in fee simple, or to him & his, or th~t such a one shall be universal heir a fee passes. So if XXXX A devises land/s to B to give sell or do what he pleases with it, or to B & his blood, or to B & his succeesors.  So if the words be I release all my lands to A & his  Heirs or I will that A shall have my inheritance  or that A shall be heir to all my lands.
& not the sister shall have the reversion of the third part
+
|-
For the widow is [  ] in continuance of her husbds estate
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El.378<br />5.Co.21<br />2.Sal.685
Secus if the eldest son had made a lease for life &
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A Device shall be intended for the benefit of the devisee therefore wherever there is a sum in gross to  be paid the devisee has a fee
leseee  had endowed the widow.
+
|-
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ver.564<br />Sal.234.pl.13<br />Cr.Ch.447
In descents which toll entries it is requir'd that the
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The word estate in a devise generally passes a fee  But where the word estate is coupled with chattels it  may be construed to mean only chattel interests
ancestor die seis'd of a freehold & fee  
+
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.9
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A devise to a man gen<sup>ly</sup> construed for the life of the devicee
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El.498
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Tho' a devise on a consideration gen<sup>ly</sup> passes a fee yet where there are express words to determine the  intent of the devisor there the devise shall be  construed accordingly
 +
|}
  
===Page 68===
+
===<center>Devises</center>===
DESCENT
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|9.Co.128<br />Vent.230
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man devise lands to his son B & if he has issue male of his body lawfully begotten then to his issue, if no issue male devises over, B has an estate tail
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.99
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Wherever the ancestor takes an estate for life & there is a limitation to his heirs or issue then words are words of limitation & not of purchase
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|6 Co 16 sec<br />Vent.212
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Lands were devis'd to A & his wife & after their decease to their children they having then a son & a daughter living, A & his wife have hird an estate for life
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.66<br />2.Ver.427<br />10 Mod. 181<br />Abr.Eq.184<br />
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An express devise of an estate for life is sometimes not enlarged by a subsequent limitatio to his heir
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3.Co.96<br />Cr.El.311
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man devises lands to his Exrs for paym<sup>t</sup> of his debts &, after paymt the remainder shall not vest title the debts are paid & the estate shall go from Exr. to Exr. for that purpose.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.112, 236
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A man devises lands to be sold by his Exrs or to his Exrs to be sold, the Exrs shall have the profits before sale to their own use secus if the devise had been that his Exrs shou'd sell his land.
 +
|-
 +
|3.Co.20<br />Cr.El.202
 +
|A devises lands to his Exrs till his son comes of age, the profits to be applied to the performance of his will though the son dies before he comes
 +
|}
  
A man seis'd of lands in fee on condition dies seised
+
===<center>Devises</center>===
if the condition be broken in his life it does not take away
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
the right of Entry 1n the feoffer. Lit. sec. 391.
+
|-
 
If a man seis'd of lands in fee devises them to another
 
in fee & dies whereby the descent in law is cast on the
 
devisee, & the heir before any entry made by the devisee
 
enters & dies seised, this descent shall not take away
 
the entry of devisee because he would be without
 
remedy having never had possesion. Co.L.240.
 
 
 
If t11e younger son enters by abagemt & dies seis'd yet the
 
Heir or his issue may enter. Secus if the younger son has
 
made a feoffmt in fee & the feoffee had died seis'd. Co.L.342
 
  
Or if the elder brother had enterd & been disseis'd by the younger L.l 397
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ch. Ca.113
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|of age yet the interest of the Exrs continues till he wou'd have been of age.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Abr.Eq.395<br />Gil. eq. rep. 36
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A man devis'd land to his wife till his son & heir appa- -rent shou'd be of age & then to his son & his heirs, the inte- rest of his wife determines by the death of his son before 21. & the remainder vests in the son on the death of the testator
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cid 151 Sec<br /> Lev.264
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A term was devis'd to B & if he died within the term the residue to C after he attains the age of 21 if C dies before  21. B, tho' he dies first has a bequest of the whole term.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|4 Co. 82<br />Cr.El.390<br />Bl. 4.3. pl. 1<br />Eq.Abr.197
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A devis'd lands to B & C till £800 be rais'd out of them. B & C have the lands no longer than till they might have recd if out of the profits unless the disturbance is by the heir
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2 Ver.708
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Creditors are so far favor'd especially in equity that where ever it appears to be the testators intent that his lands shou'd be liable for his debts they shall be subjected thereto tho there be no express words to charge them. As  where A devises that all his debts &c be paid in the <u>first place</u>
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ver.1O4<br />2.Ch.Ca.2O5
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If lands are devis'd to trustees for paymt of debts & C gains out of the rents & (underlined)profits(underlined) trustees may sell the land itself
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Vagh.251<br />Cr.Ja.75
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where estates are created by implication to the dispersion of th heir at law the implication must be necessary & not merely possible
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Vent.230
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where the devisee takes a particular estate of
 +
|}
  
The same law holds of intrusions Co.L.243
+
===<center>Devises</center>===
 +
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|inheritance by express words in the will, such estate shall not be enlarg'd by implication
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Levin 418<br />Sal.237.pl.16
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A devise of things personal is good though the testator had them not at the time of making his will.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El.387
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|By a devise of all goods a lease for term of years has pass'ed.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ver.35
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Devise to A for life & after his death to the heir of B. Goods vest in him who was heir of B at his decease
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Bl.172.3
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An executory devise needs not any particular estate to support it. A fee simple or other lessXX estate may be limited after a fee simple. A remainder may be limited in a chattel interest after a particular estate for life created in the same
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El.205
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The contingency on which it is to vest must happen in a life or lives in being or nine months after a life; or a reasonable number of years
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ja.590<br />Vagh.272<br />2.[Rol ?] rep. 497
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An executory devise bein a mere collateral possibility is not bound by a recovery.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Mod.289<br />Abr.Eq.288<br />Ld.Ray.204
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|One devises lands to his wife till his son comes to the age of 21 years then to person the fee vests immediately in the son though the wife shall enjoy the lands
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Str.132.Sal.226 pl 4<br />2.Sand.330<br />4.Mod.234<br />2.Lev.39<br />3.Keb.11<br />3.Sal.299
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where a contingent estate is limited & depends on a freehold which is capable of supporting a rem<sup>r</sup> it shall never be construed an executory devise but a contingent remainder.
 +
|}
  
The entry of inf<sup>ts</sup> & feme coverts not taken away by descent s. L.Sec. 402
+
===<center>Devises</center>===
 +
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
  
So desc<sup>t</sup> lost during imprisonment, or absence in foreign parts /Co.L. 255/
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sal.226.pl 4 226<br />Ld.Ray.3<br />2.wILL.20 P.56
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A rem<sup>r</sup> limited per verba in presenti shall not be construed an executory devise
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Dyer.303<br />Vent 224<br />Cr.Ja.448
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|No cross rem<sup>rs</sup> can be created by implication in a will unless the words do plainly express the intent of the devisor to be so, as where de<sup>t</sup> acres are devis'd to A.B.& C. & if they die without issue of their bodies <u>or any of them</u> the lands to remain over there by reason of the words <u>any of them</u> they h&ve cross remainders
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3.Lev.127<br />Co.L.18<br />3.Ch.Ca.35
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where th testator makes the same disposition of his estate as the law wou'd have done, or where his disposition is in such genl terms that his intention  is uncertain, or where h is establishing a settlement agt the reason and policy of the law the will has been rejected.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ch.298
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If on having bnds in fee & other lands for years devises all his lands & tenements the fee simple lands only pass. secus if he had only lease for years
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.And.123
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man devises his house in A & his lands in B a house on his lands in B will not pass
  
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DETINUE
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Vent.285<br />2.Ver.461, 621<br />Abr.eq.211
3.Bl.150
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A Devise of all his lands not before devis'd, or of all  the rest of his lands, or of all his lands out settlement &c sufficient to pass the reversion of lands out  of which ea particular estat was before devisd So a devise of al his lands, tenements & hereditatments
Sid.172
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|}
Yel.165
 
  
In detinue th party is to recover the thing in specie
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===<center>Devises</center>===
or damages for the detainure.
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|-
To ground an action of detinue these points are
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ver.623
necessary. 1.That the deft came lawfully by the  
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|By a genl devise of all lands tenements & hereditaments  Mortgages in fee tho' forfeited will not pas
goods as either by delivering them to him or find-
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-ing them. 2d. That the Plf have a property
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Abr. eq. 214<br />3.Ver.729<br />Co.L.24 Dy.44
3. That the goods themseves be of some value &
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A description of a person by the name of heir tho' not heir genl operating with the intention of the testator, suf<sup>t</sup> to ascertain the person to take. The authorities  of old books contra 
4. That they be ascertain'd in point of identity
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|-
 
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Plow.345<br />Cr.El.422
Detinue lies only for or agt the husbd for goods detaind
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man devises lands to A & his heirs & A dies in th life of the Devisor, B the heir of A takes nothing
by or from a feme covert before marrige.  
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El.423 sec<br />2.Vent.722 
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If there be a devise to A for life rem<sup>r</sup> to B in fee tho A die in the life of the Devisor or refuse , B shall take.  
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|}
  
===Page 70===DEVISES
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===<center>Disseisin</center>===
2.Ver .104
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
Cr.El.27
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|-
Cr.Ch.219
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3lBl.169<br />Co.L.277
Co.L.112
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Disseisin is a wrongful putting out/of him who is actually seised of the freehold.
2.Mod.315
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|}
Ld.Ray.262
 
Str.73
 
Sal. 231.pl.10
 
Ray.163
 
Sid. 153
 
Lev.135
 
Ray.162
 
Plow.343
 
Yel.347. pl.16
 
Mod.217
 
Ch.Ca.39
 
2.Ver.689
 
 
A woman whose husbd is banishd for life by
 
act of Parliamt/may make a will
 
 
Husbd may bind himself by covt or bond to per-
 
-mit his wife to dispose of legacies &c. & this is such
 
an appointmt as the husbd will be oblig'd to stand to.
 
 
A wife may be devisee tho' not grantee to her husbd
 
 
An (struck through)inf(struck through)/male/ may devise his lands at 21 his negroes
 
at 18 & his personal estate t 14 years of age; a female
 
may dispose of her personal estate at 12 years old.
 
 
It hass been doubted whether a devise to an inf<sup>t</sup> in
 
ventre sa mere is good but all agree that a de-
 
vise to ~n inft when he shall be born or wher God
 
shall give him birth is good & that the freehold shall
 
descend to the heir at law in the mean time.
 
 
If a man devises lands in which he has nothing & after
 
purchases them such a devise is void.
 
 
If a man devises lands & is disseisd & dies before
 
reentry the devise is void.
 
 
After articles agreed on for a purchase, the purcha-
 
-sor devises the land & dies before a conveyance
 
executed, yet the land passes in equity
 
 
An equitable interest deviseable as well as a legal
 
estate
 
  
===Page 71===  
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===<center>Distress</center>===
DEVISES
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
3.Lev.427
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Abr.Eq.
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.47<br />5.Co.3
175.6
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the lessor reserve not the reversion h cannot distrain with<sup>t</sup> a clause of distress
Co.L.6
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|-
2. Bl.108
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.169<br />3.Co.22
Cr.Ja.416
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A rent granted for equality of partition by one Parcener to another, or to a widow out of lands whereof she is dowable in lieu of her dower, or by one person to another on an exchange may be distrain'd for of common right
Hob.2  
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|-
Cr.El.378
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|22.G.2.<br />Ch.10.p.204
5.Co.21
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Landlord may distrain for rent arrear after the lease is determind provided it be within six months after such determination, during the land lords interest in the lands & the Tenants possession.
2.Sal.685
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|-
2.Ver.564
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3.Bl.7. CoL. 47
Sal.234.pl.13
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Those things of which no man can have a valuable property cannot be distrain'd.
Cr.Ch.447
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|-
Co.L.9
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3. Bl. 8 <br />Cr.El.569, 552
Cr.El.498
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Whatever is in the personal use or occupation of a Man is for the time privileg'd from/any distress. Also valuable things in the way of trade
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|-
A mere possibility not deviseable.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3.Bl.9.10<br />7.Co.7<br />3.Co.92
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Things for which a replevin will not lye, as money out of a bag, cannot be distressed. So of things which cannot be return'd again in the same plight.<br />Distress for rent shou'd be made in the day. It may be taken in a house if the door be open or out of a window
A right to set aside a release deviseable & the devise
+
|-
of all the residue of the testators estate to the wife
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|22.G.2. ch.10.p.204
&-constituting her sole Exec<sup>x</sup> apt words for that purpose
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Goods fraudulently remov'd may within ten days be seised & sold as if they had been distrein'd on the premiss, provided they had not been bona fide sold before the seisure.  
If a man devises lands to another forever, or
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|}
in fee simple, or to him & his, or th~t such a one
 
shall be universal heir a fee passes. So if XXXX A de-
 
-vises land/s to B to give sell or do what he pleases
 
with it, or to B & his blood, or to B & his succeesors.  
 
So if the words be I release all my lands to A & his
 
Heirs or I will that A shall have my inheritance
 
or that A shall be heir to all my lands.
 
  
A Device shall be intended for the benefit of the  
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===<center>Distress</center>===
devisee therefore wherever there is a sum in gross to  
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
be paid the devisee has a fee
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|-
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|22 G2 Ch 10 p.202
The word estate in a devise generally passes a fee
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Goods distrein'd & not replevied within ten days after such distress & notice given at the chief mansion house or other most uublic flace on th land , by giving (struck through)bond(struck through) suff<sup>t<\</sup> surety for paym<sup>t</sup> of the rent within three days may be sold to the highest bidder
But where the word estate is coupled with chattels it  
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|-
may be construed to mean only chattel interests
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.47<br />2 Inst.106<br />3. Bl.13<br />4.Mod.385<br />Ld.Ray.53
 
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Goods distrein'd if live to be out in a pound overt if dead & liable to damage to be put in a pound covert within three miles of the premises
A devise to a man gen<sup>ly</sup> construed for the life of the devicee
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sal.247 pl.1
Tho' a devise on a consideration gen<sup>ly</sup> passes a fee yet
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|On a similiar act of Parliament with our act of assembly it has been determind that notice given the owner of the goods is suff<sup>t</sup> whether it be left at the chief mansion hous or not.
where there are express words to determine the  
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|-
intent of the devisor there the devise shall be
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3. Bl. 12<br />Vent.183<br />2. Inst.107
construed accordingly
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Distress must be reasonable. A man may distrein an ox or a horse for three pence provided there be no other distress on the premises.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.47<br />22.G.2 Ch 10.p.203
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If distress be with<sup>t</sup> cause owner may rescue the goods before they are impounded.--may have an action of trespass or on the case ag<sup>t</sup> the party distreining their Exrs. or Admrs. & shall recover double the value of the good distrein'd & sold.
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===Page 72===
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===<center>Dower</center>===
DEVISES
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
9.Co.128
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|-
Vent.230
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co. L.33<br />13.Co.22<br />2.Bl.XX 131
Co.99
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The wife must be above nine years old at the death of her husbd otherwise she cannot be endow'd.
6 Co 16
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|-
sec
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.33
Vent.212
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the husbd be attainted of treason or the wife be at- -tainted of treason or felony she shall not be endow'd unless she be pardon'd.
co.66
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|-
2.Ver.427
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|4.Arn (?) ch.2.p.31
Abr.Eq.184
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Widow of person dying intestate allow'd to remain in the mansion house & plantation thereunto adjoin ing with<sup>t</sup> paying rent until dower be assign'd her
3.Co.96
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|-
Cr.El.311
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2. Bl.130<br />Lit, sec.36 <br />10.Co.98
Co.L.112
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A woman is entitled to be endow'd of all lands of which her husbd was seised in fee simple or fee tail during the coverture & to which her issue might possibly have been heir. This excludes frdvrnfible freeholds.
236
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|-
3.Co.20
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Brook 6 sec<br />Cr.El 564<br />3. Lev.437
Cr.El.202
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|To entitle the wife to Dower the husbd must have the freehold & inheritance in him simul & semel, but an intervening estate for years does not bar her dower
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Salk 54.pl.4<br />Ld.Ray.326
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the husb<sup>d</sup> makes a feoff<sup>t</sup> of lands & the feoffee improves them yet the wife shall only be endow'd of the value they were of in the husbds time.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Inst.32<br />Perk.328<br />Perk. 366
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the husbd have only a right of entry during coverture & have neither a seisen in fact or in law the wife shall not be endow'd.  
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.35<br />2 Co. 67
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a disseisor &c assign dower this shall not be avoided unless they be in of such estates by fraud & covin of the woman
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If a man devise lands to his son B & if he has
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===<center>Dower</center>===
issue male of his body lawfully begotten then to his
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
issue, if no issue male devises over, B has an estate tail
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|-
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Dyer 343<br />Co.L.34.37
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A woman entitled to dower cannot enter until it be assign'd to her & set out either by the heir terri tenant<sup>1</sup> or sheriff in certainty.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2. Bl.136
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the thing of which she is endowed be divisible it must be set out by metes & bounds if indivisible she must be endow'd specially as the third toll [dish to a mill(?)] &c
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|7.Co.37<br />Cr. El. 451
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The assignment of Dower must be absolute
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|4.Co.l22
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If lands assign'd for dower be lawfully evicted by elder  title the widow shall be endow'd anew
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Bl.136<br />13.Co.23 <br />4.Ann. Ch.4.p 24<br />19.G 2. Chl. p133<br />1.G.2.Ch4.84<br />2. Bl.137
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A widow may be barred of her dower by elopement or being forc'd away, by living voluntarily with he r adulte- -rer unless/her husbd be reconceild to her, by divorce a vinculo matrimonii, the treason of/her husbd, by detaining the title deeds or evidences of the estate from the heir untill she restore them by aliening the land <s>or negroes</s> assign'd her for dower, or sending the slaves out of the State with<sup>t</sup> consent of him in reversion or by feoffm<sup>t</sup> of husb<sup>d</sup> & wife, the wife being privily examind or by her husb<sup>ds</sup> will, she not renouncing it within nine months or by jointure
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[  ].2.13
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ten<sup>ts</sup> in Dower to recover damages only from the  time of requesting it.
  
Wherever the ancestor takes an estate for life
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& there is a limitation to his heirs or issue then
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<sup>1</sup> i.e. terre-tenent, one who is literally in the possession of land, as distinguished from the owner out of possession.
words are words of limitation & not of purchase
 
  
Lands were devis'd to A & his wife & after their
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===<center>Dower</center>===
decease to their children they having then a son
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
& a daughter living, A & his wife have hird an estate for life
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|-
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
An express devise of an estate for life is some
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
-times not enlarged by a subsequent limitatio
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|}
to his heir
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<br />
   
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====<center><big>Duress</big></center>====
If a man devises lands to his Exrs for paym<sup>t</sup>
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
of his debts &, after paymt the remainder shall
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|-
not vest title the debts are paid & the estate shall
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.253<br />Jenk.166
go from Exr. to Exr. for that purpose.  
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where a person is illegally restrain'd of his liberty & enters into a bond or other security to th person who causes the restraint he may avoid the same for duress of imprisonment.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Inst.483<br />2.Ver.497<br />Cr.Ja.187<br />Sid.123
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A man may avoid his own act for fear of loss of life or member, or mayhem or imprisonm<sup>t</sup>. Also in eq<sup>ty</sup> a man may avoid his deed tho' the terror & force are not suff<sup>t</sup> to make it duress at common law <br />The duress must be done to the party himself his father, his son, or his wife.
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|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|5.Co.119
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Deed by duress to be avoided by special pleading judgement in actio.  
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|}
  
A man devises lands to be sold by his Exrs or to
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===<center>Ejectment</center>===
his Exrs to be sold, the Exrs shall have the profits
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
before sale to their own use secus if the devise
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|-
had been that his Exrs shou'd sell his land.
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sal.225 pl.5<br />Barnes 120<br />2.Bur.1116<br />Rep & ca.of
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practice<br />C.P.115
A devises lands to his Exrs till his son comes of
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Declaration must be servd (struck through)on the premises(struck through) on the Ten<sup>t</sup> himself or his wife/on the premises/unless he absconds in which case it has been holden that it may be serv'd  on his neice, father son or daughter.<br />An affidavit that the declaration was serv'd if the Deft does not appeair & enter into the common rule Plf moves for judgmt agt the casual ejector.
age, the profits to be applied to the performance
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|-
of his will though the son dies before he comes
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sup.to Barnes 24.25<br />2.Barnes 148
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If there be sev<sup>l</sup> persons that claim title the rule may be drawn gen<sup>ly</sup> or particularly. Gen<sup>ly</sup> that he who claims title to the premises in question in his possesei- -on shou'd be admitted deft for such missusages XXX & this puts a necessity on the Plf to distinguish by proof what tenements are in each def<sup>ts</sup> possession Or specially that B who claims title to such lands expressing them particularly  shou'd be admitted deft. In which case the def<sup>ts</sup>
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Barnard<br />K.B.48
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Attorney shou'd give a note of the lands for which he was admitted deft. If on the trial the deft will not appear & confess lease &c. the course is to call the deft & his attorney if he is within the rule & then to call the Plf &[  ] -suit him & then on the return of the postea judgmt will be given agt the casual ajector.
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|}
  
===Page 73===
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===<center>Ejectment</center>===
DEVISES 
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
Ch. Ca.113
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|-
Abr.Eq.395
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Vent.255<br />2.Vent.195
Gil. eq. rep.
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where there are two defts for the same premises & one appears & confesses leave &c & the other does not, the Plf cannot proceed agt the other but he must be nonsuited; if there appear any covin betwee  such person not appearring & the lessor of th Plf the Ct. will stop the judgemt aft th casual ejector for the part of him that appear'd & compel him who did not to release costs.
36
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|-
Cid 151
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Str.694
Sec
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If an inf<sup>t</sup> delivers a declaration some friend or guardian Must be set up as Plf to answer costs.<br />Where the presisses are empty, where a corporation is lessee of the Plf where the sevl interests of the lessors are not known there must be an actual lease &c. Rules for pleading to be given & Ct. mov'd for judgt.
Lev.264
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|-
4 Co. 82
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2 LdRay.1470<br />2.Str.908<br />11.Co.55<br />Cr.El.235<br />Cr.Ja.573 <br />Cr.Ch.435
Cr.El.39O
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|In this action the law requires that the thing demanded be so particularly specified that the shefiff may certainly know what to give the Plf pos- -session of if he shou'd recover
Bl. 4.3. pl. l
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|-
Eq.Abr.197
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Yel.118<br />Rol.rep.3<br />Vent.30<br />Law of Ej.76
2 Ver.708
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The trespass complain'd of in ejectmt must be agt the actual possession. Exr may hav action for eject of testator. Lessor must have a right of entry.
Ver.1O4
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|-
2.Ch.Ca.2O5
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|Yel.182
Vagh.251
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|The Plf must lay commencement of his lease in his declar<sup>n</sup> preceding ouster by the Deft but this
Cr.Ja.75
+
|}
Vent.230
 
 
of age yet the interest of the Exrs continues till
 
he wou'd have been of age.
 
  
A man devis'd land to his wife till his son & heir appa-
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===<center>Ejectment</center>===
-rent shou'd be of age & then to his son & his heirs, the inte-
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
rest of his wife determines by the death of his son before 21.
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|-
& the remainder vests in the son on the death of the testator
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ja.311<br />2 Rel.rep. 461
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|day of the ouster need not be expressly mention'd Neither is the Plf oblig'd to declare the day of his entry
A term was devis'd to B & if he died within the term the
+
|-
residue to C after he attains the age of 21 if C dies before
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Law.ej.81
21. B, tho' he dies first has a bequest of the whole term.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where the limitation of a lease is altogether uncertain the Plf cannot recover secus where tis impossible
+
|-
A devis'd lands to B & C till £800 be rais'd out of them.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Law.ej.82.3
B & C have the lands no longer than till they might have
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Plf shall recover as much as he has title to tho' he lays his ejectmt for more
recd if out of the profits unless the disturbance is by the heir
+
|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ja.613<br />6 Co.14<br />2.Vent.214<br />Hard. 330
Creditors are so far favor'd especially in equity that
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The Plf must declare on such a lease as suits the lessors title<br />Lease made by Guar<sup>n</sup> to try title of inft seems good
where ever it appears to be the testators intent that
+
|-
his lands shou'd be liable for his debts they shall be subjected
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|5.Co.91<br />Leon.145
thereto tho there be no express words to charge them. As
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|After verdict given for the Plf there must be a full & actual possession given to him by the sheriff.
where A devises that all his debts &c be paid in the (underlined)first place(underlined)
+
|-
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|6.Mod.27<br />Sal260pl.1
If lands are devis'd to trustees for paymt of debts & C gains
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The writ of execution is only returnable at the election of the Plaintiff.
out of the rents & (underlined)profits(underlined) trustees may sell the land itself
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|}
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<br />
 +
<center>Alex K  Marshall</center>
 +
<center>Alex K Marshall</center>
  
Where estates are created by implication to the dispersion
+
===<center>Election</center>===
of th heir at law the implication must be necessary & not
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
merely possible
+
|-
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Co.36
Where the devisee takes a particular estate of
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man grants twenty acres parcel of his manor, the grantee has his election of situation
 
+
|-
 
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.145<br />2.Co.37
===Page 74===  
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It is laid down as a genl rule thati if election be given of two sevl things he that is the first agent or is to do th first act has the election
DEVISES
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|-
Levin 418
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Lev.54
Sal.237.pl.16
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|In debt on an oblign that if a ship out to sea & either the goods or the obligor come safe then to pay such a sum. Action lies on the contingency which shall first happen
Cr.El.387
+
|-
Ver.35
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Co.37
2.Bl.172.3
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where the things granted are annual & to have continuance the election remains with the  grantor as well after the day as before When nothing XXXX to the grantee & before passes election it must be made in the time of the grant -tor secus where an estate or interest masses immediately
Cr.El.205
+
|-
Cr.Ja.590
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.145
Vagh.272
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|When one & the same thing passes to the dones or grantee & he  has his election in what man- ner or degree to take it there the interest passes immediately
2.[Rol ?] rep.
+
|}
497
 
2.Mod.289
 
Abr.Eq.288
 
Ld.Ray.204
 
Str.132.Sal.226
 
pl 4
 
2.Sand.330
 
4.Mod.234
 
2.Lev.39
 
3.Keb.11
 
3.Sal.299
 
  
inheritance by express words in the will, such estate
+
===<center>Error</center>===
shall not be enlarg'd by implication
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
    
+
|-
A devise of things personal is good though the testator
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3.Bl.405
had them not at the time of making his will.
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A writ of error lies for some suppos'd mistake in the proceedings of a Ct of record it only lies on matter of law arising on the face of the proceedings
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|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|27 G.2 pa.301
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|XX Upon appeal in personal action where judgemt or decree does not exceed £20 error can only be assignd in matter of right, where it does not exceed £50 it may be assignd in matter of right  & such matters of form as were insisted on in the Ct below, where the judgmt does exceed £50 or in all real actions any errors in form or substance may be assigned.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Dyer 90<br />5 Co 39<br />2.Sid.56<br />Cr.El.419
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|No person can bring a writ of error but him who was party to or privy to the rec<sup>d</sup> or was injurd by th first judgment.  It only lies agt him who was party or privy to the first judgemt his Heirs Exrs or Admrs
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|F.N.B.44<br />[  ] 173<br />[   ] 652<br />Liv.72<br />Sid.213<br />Ray.16<br />Cr.Ja.392<br />Carth.371
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|After the rec<sup>d</sup> is remov'd & the Plf has assign'd his errors, he shall have a sci.fa. ad audiendum er- rores agt the deft who thereupon may plead in nullo erratum or a release &c.  A Sci.fa. lies agt the heir & terre tenants.  Sci.Fa. to the terre- tenants is usually granted but tis not ex de- licto justitia
 +
|}
  
By a devise of all goods a lease for term of years has pass'ed.
+
===<center>Error</center>===
Devise to A for life & after his death to the heir of
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
BGoods vest in him who was heir of B at his decease
+
|-
 
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Book.error. 93<br />Cr.Ja.29
An executory devise needs not any particular estate
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Pleading in nullo est erratism is an acknowlegement of the fact & denial that tis error
to support it. A fee simple or other lessXX estate may
+
|-
be limited after a fee simple. A remainder may
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Rob.658<br />Vent.34<br />Sal.263 Pl.4
be limited in a chattel interest after a narti
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a writ of error abates by default of the party a second writ shall be no supersedeas secus if it abates by act of God or of the law
-cular estate for life created in the same
+
|-
 
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sid.294
The contingency on which it is to vest must happen
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|In a writ of error for want of assigning errors, judgemt is not affirm'd but execn goes on first judgemt party can have no costs but his remedy must be on the  recognizance  by which he is bound to prosecute with effect
in a life or lives in being or nine months after a
+
|-
life; or a reasonable number of years
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr. El. 611<br />Sid.147
 
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|To reverse an outlawry party must appear & assign errors in person
An executory devise bein a mere collateral possibility
+
|-
is not bound by a recovery.
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Vent.252<br />Sal. 268.p115<br />Carth.338
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The Plf in error cannot assign error of fact &  error of law together. In such case deft shoud  demur for simplicity
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ch.53
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It seems a genl rule that nothing can be assignd for  error which contradicts the record
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|5.Co.39
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A man cannot reverse a judgemt for error un  less he can shew the judgemt was to his disadvantage
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Palm.270
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a writ be brought to the damage of /£/30 & the Plf  declares ad damnum /£/40 & the verdict gives 30/£/ this is no error after verdict.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Vent.7
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A fault in a sci.Fa. on judgemt not [  ]  by appearance.
 +
|}
  
One devises lands to his wife till his son comes to
+
===<center>Error</center>===
the age of 21 years then to person the fee vests imme-
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
-diately in the son though the wife shall enjoy the lands
+
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|10.Co.115
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the Plf recovers more damages than he has declar'd for, if before judgemt he releases the over -plus he may take judgemt for the residue
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ch.co.19<br />Cr.Ja.246
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If upon a judgemt the sheriff sells the goods &c of the party & after the judgemt was reversed by writ of error the party can only be restord to the money for which they sold. But if the goods &c were only deliverd to the Plf in satisfaction &c  the party shall be restord to the specific goods.
 +
|}
  
Where a contingent estate is limited & depends on a
+
===<center>Escape in Civil Cases</center>===
freehold which is capable of supporting a rem<sup>r</sup>
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
it shall never be construed an executory devise but
+
|-
a contingent remainder. 
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|8.Co.141<br />Cr.Ja.3
 
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It is a genl rule that wherever a sheriff or other  officer has a person in custody by virtue of an authority from a Ct which has jurisdiction in the matter, that the suffering such person to go at large is an escape
===Page 75===
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|-
DEVISES
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|5.Co.89
Sal.226.pl 4
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If XXXX A is arrested & in the custody of the Sheriff & afterwards another writ is deliver'd to him  at the suit of B. Upon the delivery of the writ A by construction of law is immediately in the Sheriffs custody with<sup>t</sup> an actual arrest
226
+
|-
Ld.Ray.3
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3.Co.44
2.wILL.20 P.56
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the sheriff or other officer who has the custody of a XXXX prisoner either bail him when he is not bailable by law, or suffer him to go out of the limits of the prison tho' with a keeper it is  an escape.
Dyer.303
+
|-
Went 224
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ja.657
Cr.Ja.448
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If man has the judgemt agt two persons & they  are both taken in execution XX if the sheriff suffers one of them to escape he shall (struck through)have(struck through) be answerable for the whole debt
3.Lev.127
+
|-
Co.L.18
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|22.G.2 Ch.6 pa186
3.Ch.Ca.35
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sheriff not liable for an escape unless wilfull or negligent or unless the nrisoner might have been retaken & he neglects to XXXXX make fresh suit.
Cr.Ch.298
+
|}
2.And.123
 
2.Vent.285
 
2.Ver.461
 
621
 
Abr.eq.211
 
 
 
A rem<sup>r</sup> limited per verba in presenti shall not be con-
 
-strued an executory devise
 
 
No cross rem<sup>rs</sup> can be created by implication in a will
 
unless the words do plainly express the intent of the
 
devisor to be so, as where de<sup>t</sup> acres are devis'd to A.B.&
 
C. & if they die without issue of their bodies (underlined)or any of them(underlined)
 
the lands to remain over there by reason of the words
 
(underline)any of them(underline) they h&ve cross remainders
 
 
Where th testator makes the same disposition of
 
his estate as the law wou'd have done, or where
 
his disposition is in such genl terms that his intention
 
is uncertain, or where h is establishing a settlement
 
agt the reason and policy of the law the will has been re-
 
-jected.
 
  
If on having bnds in fee & other lands for years de-
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===<center>Escape in Civil Cases</center>===
-vises all his lands & tenements the fee simple lands on-
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
-ly pass. secus if he had only lease for years
+
|-
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|22.G.2 Ch.6 p.184
If a man devises his house in A & his lands in B a
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Process on escape to be executed at any time or place 
house on his lands in B will not pass
+
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Do.187
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Old sheriff may deliver over prisoners by indenture to the new or have their names with the cause of their commitment recorded in the records of the County Ct.
 +
|}
  
A Devise of all his lands not before devis'd, or of all
+
===<center>Estates in Fee Simple</center>===
the rest of his lands, or of all his lands out settle
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
-ment &c sufficient to pass the reversion of lands out
+
|-
of which ea particular estat was before devisd
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Inst.3.
So a devise of al his lands, tenements & hereditatments
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A feme covert is canable of purchasing an estate in fee simple, but her husbd may disagree to it, if he neither agree or disagree she may disagree to it efter the coverture is determin'd, so/may her heir.<br />If the Father infeoff the son to [  ] to him his heirs & after the son enfeoffeth the Father as fully as the father enfeoff'd him a fee passes.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.9
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the Lord releases all his right to his Tent. if one parsoner <sup>or joint tent</sup> releases all his right to the other, a fee passes. So where one parcener grants a rent to another for [  ] of partition
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Lit.sec.578<br />Co.104
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where the ancestor takes an estate for life & the limitation/is to his right heirs, there the ancestor has <s>an estate</s> the reversion executed in himself & the right heirs are not purchasers<br />
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|And.3<br />Co.L.20<br />Dyer 156<br />Leon.182
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If A makes a lease for life or a gift in tail rem<sup>r</sup> to his right heirs this in its original creation is a void limitation.
 +
|}
  
===Page 76
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===<center>Estate for Life & Ocuppancy</center>===
DEVICES
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
2.Ver.623
+
|-
Abr. eq.  
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Bl.121<br />Co.L XXX 42, 183
214
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If one grants lands to another generally the lease is ten<sup>t</sup> for life &, nrovided the lessor has power to grant such an estate, he is ten<sup>t</sup> for his own life.  
3.Ver.729
+
|-
Co.L.24 Dy.44
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3.Co.20
Plpw.345
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Uncertain interests as an estate to a woman [  ]  viduitate &c are consider'd as estates for life determi- nable on the happening of the contingency to which tis limited.
Cr.El.422
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Cr.El.423
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Vent.65<br />Co.L.251<br />7.Co.55
sec
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If ten,sup>t</sup> for life aliens in fee or attempts to create a greater estate than he has receiv'd which is to the preju- dice of him in reversion tis a forfeiture.
2.Vent.722
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|-
 
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.251<br />[    ]
By a genl devise of all lands tenements & heredita-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But a man cannot by any disposit1on or action in pais for -feit things which may be transfer'd with<sup>t</sup> XXXXXXX the nototoriety of it
-ments  Mortgages in fee tho' forfeited will not pass
+
|-
 
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.42<br />Co.76 sec.<br />1 Co. 140
A description of a person by the name of heir
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where he in rem<sup>r</sup> is party to the conveyance there Ten<sup>t</sup> for life may by solum investiture convey a greater/estate than he had by the first [  ] contract
tho' not heir genl operating with the intention of the
+
|-
testator, suf<sup>t</sup> to ascertain the person to take.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.41<br />2.Bl.122, 35<br />Co.L.55
The authorities  of old books contra 
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Every ten<sup>t</sup> for life unless restraind by cov<sup>t</sup> or agreem<sup>t</sup>, may of common right take on the land reasonable [  ] -version botes
 
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If a man devises lands to A & his heirs & A dies
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Bl.123.4<br />Co.L.55
in th life of the Devisor, B the heir of A takes nothing
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ten<sup>t</sup> for life or his representative shall not be pre -judiced by any sudden determination of his estate <br />Ten<sup>t</sup> or Ten<sup>t</sup> for life shall have the emblements tho the estate is forfeited by act of Ten<sup>t</sup> for life.
+
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If there be a devise to A for life rem<sup>r</sup> to B in fee tho
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===<center>Estates for Life & Occupancy</center>===
A die in the life of the Devisor or refuse , B shall take.
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===Page 77===
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Vaugh.104<br />Co.L.41<br />Cr.El.721
DISSEISIN 
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|There can be no occupant of things which lie in grant & which cannot pass with<sup>t</sup> deed as rents &c unless they are appendant to things which pass by livery
3lBl.169
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|-
Co.L.277
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Vaugh.196
 
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
Disseisin is a wrongful putting out/of him who is
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actually seised of the freehold.  
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El.57<br />Hob.313
 
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a lease be made of lands to A for life hab. to B & C successively. B & C tske no estate in possession or reversion & the lease determines on the death of A.
===Page 78===
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DISTRESS
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Rolls<br />Abr.150
Co.L.47
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a lease be made to A & B for their lives & the life of  the Longest lives they make partition & A dies his part immediately reverts to the lessor
5.Co.3
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|-
Co.L.169
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Vagh.138<br />[2]Bl [  ]<br />Vaugh.189
3.Co.22
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A right by occupancu can only be acquired by  actual entry. Lev. 202. Sid.346.
22.G.2.
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|-
Ch.10.p.204
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ja.554<br />3.Bulst.12
3.Bl.7. CoL.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If Tent pur autre vie dies, his lessee [  ] will or for years having possession such lessee shall be ten<sup>t</sup> by occupancy & the lessor estate shall merge
47
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|-
3. Bl. 8
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|ColL.41<br />Dyer 328<br />3.Bulst.12
Cr.El.569
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If tjere be any intermediate interest the term of the occupant shall not merge & he is to hold the estate subject to the charges laid on it by his lessor
552
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|-
3.Bl.9.10
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Col.L.41<br />Dyer 328<br />2.Bl.259
7.Co.7
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If lands be let to a man & his heir or to a Man his Exrs & assigns dur1ng the life of another the heir in the one case & in the other the Exr shall be a special occupant.
3.Co.92
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|}
22.G.2.
 
ch.10.p.204
 
 
If the lessor reserve not the reversion h cannot dis-
 
-train with<sup>t</sup> a clause of distress
 
 
A rent granted for equality of partition by one
 
Parcener to another, or to a widow out of lands
 
whereof she is dowable in lieu of her dower, or
 
by one person to another on an exchange
 
may be distrain'd for of common right
 
 
Landlord may distrain for rent arrear after the
 
lease is determind provided it be within six months
 
after such determination, during the land lords
 
interest in the lands & the Tenants possession.
 
 
Those things of which no man can have a valuable pro-
 
-perty cannot be distrain'd.
 
 
Whatever is in the personal use or occupation of a Man
 
is for the time privileg'd from/any distress. Also
 
valuable things in the way of trade
 
 
Things for which a replevin will not lye, as money out
 
of a bag, cannot be distressed. So of things which can-
 
not be return'd again in the same plight.
 
 
Distress for rent shou'd be made in the day. It may be
 
taken in a house if the door be open or out of a window
 
  
Goods fraudulently remov'd may within ten days be
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===<center>Evidence</center>===
seised & sold as if they had been distrein'd on the
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premiss, provided they had not been bona fide sold
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before the seisure.
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<br />
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===PAGE 79===
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===<center>Evidence</center>===
DISTRESS
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22 G2
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Ch 10 p.202
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Hawk<br />P.C.452<br />2.Hawk<br />P.C.433
Co.L.47
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A conviction/of treason, felony, piracy, praemunire  perjury or of forgery on the 5th of [  ]. Also a judgm<sup>t</sup> in attaint for giving a false verdict or in conspira cy at the suit of the King. also a judgmt for any crimes to stand in the pillory, or to be whipped or branded being in act which had jurisdiction are good causes of excep<sup>n</sup> ag<sup>t</sup> a witness while there continue in force. If convicted of felony  but admitted to his clergy XXX & burnt in the hand  he is reenabled to be a witness. A pardon restores the party to his credit where it is only the [    ] of the judgem<sup>t</sup> [      ]
2 Inst.106
+
The credit of a witness is to be impeach'd only by genl accounts of his character (struck through) & behavior (struck through) reputation & not by proofs of particular crimes whereof he never was convicted.
3. Bl.13
+
|-
4.Mod.385
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.6<br />Sid.337
Ld.Ray.53
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The testimony of a witness is not to be admitted who is either to be a gainer or loser by the [  ]
Sal.247
+
|-
pl.1
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Mod.107<br />Skin.223
3. Bl. 12
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An Exr if he hath not the sucklusage of the estate only be a witness for a will Children of an intestate cannot be witnesses in any matter relative to  the intestates estate.
Vent.183
+
|-
2. Inst.107
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ray.191<br />Sal.283.p 12 sec<br />Vent.49
Co.L.47
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|He who borrows money XXX upon an [  ]contract  cannot be a witness on an information for the usury unless he has paid the money
22.G.2
+
|}
Ch 10.p.203
 
  
Goods distrein'd & not replevied within ten days after
+
===<center>Evidence</center>===
such distress & notice given at the chief mansion house
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
or other most uublic flace on th land , by giving (struck through)bond(struck through)
+
|-
suff<sup>t<\</sup> surety for paym<sup>t</sup> of the rent within three days
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
may be sold to the highest bidder
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
+
<br />
Goods distrein'd if live to be out in a pound overt if dead
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|}
& liable to damage to be put in a pound covert within
 
three miles of the premises
 
 
On a similiar act of Parliament with our act of assembly
 
it has been determind that notice given the owner
 
of the goods is suff<sup>t</sup> whether it be left at the chief
 
mansion hous or not.
 
  
Distress must be reasonable. A man may distrein
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===<center>Evidence</center>===
an ox or a horse for three pence provided there be no
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
other distress on the premises.  
+
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ver.98 <br />[  ] 625
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|In Cts of eqy a distinction has been taken between evidence that may be offer'd to a jury & to inform the conscience of the Ct.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|5 Co.68
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Also to ascertain a fact parol evidence has been admitted to explain the intent of the testator 
 +
|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ver.366
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If A purchases lands in the name of B, A has been admitted to prove that he paid the purchase money
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ver.473<br />Ch.Ca.19<br />Abr.eq.230 & 243
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Also to oust an implication & rebut an equity parol evidence has been admittcd to explain  the intent of the testator.
 +
|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ver.98.337<br />Sal.234 pl.13
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The Cts are very unwilling to admit of parol  evidence in relation to any thing which appears  on the face of a will
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[  ]tem.Tal. 240.<br />2. Str. 1261<br />Sal.281. p19
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The party who is to prove any fact must do it by the highest evidence the nature of the thing is capable of.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Hawk P.C.431
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|What a witness or a person accus'd of a crime has been heard to say at another time may be given in evidence
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Do. 429
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where ever a mans confession is made use of agt himself it must be taken altogether & ot by parcels.  
  
If distress be with<sup>t</sup> cause owner may rescue the goods before
+
|}
they are impounded.--may have an action of trespass or on
 
the case ag<sup>t</sup> the party distreining their Exrs. or Admrs. & shall
 
recover double the value of the good distrein'd & sold.
 
  
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===<center>Evidence</center>===
DOWER
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
Co. L.33
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|-
13.Co.22
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Gil.ev.62<br />Ath.204<br />Eq.Ca.abr 227.pl.3
2.Bl.XX 131
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Depositions cannot be given in evidence agt any person who was not party to the suit.
Co.L.33
+
|}
4.Arn (?)
 
ch.2.p.31
 
2. Bl.130
 
Lit, sec.36
 
10.Co.98
 
Brook 6
 
sec
 
Cr.El 564
 
3. Lev.437
 
Salk 54.pl.4
 
Ld.Ray.326
 
Inst.32
 
Perk.328
 
Perk. 366
 
Co.L.35
 
2 Co. 67
 
 
The wife must be above nine years old at the
 
death of her husbd otherwise she cannot be endow'd
 
.
 
If the husbd be attainted of treason or the wife be at-
 
-tainted of treason or felony she shall not be endow'd unless she be pardon'd.
 
 
Widow of person dying intestate allow'd to remain
 
in the mansion house & plantation thereunto adjoin
 
ing with<sup>t</sup> paying rent until dower be assign'd her
 
 
A woman is entitled to be endow'd of all lands of
 
which her husbd was seised in fee simple or fee
 
tail during the coverture & to which her issue might
 
possibly have been heir. This excludes frdvrnfible
 
freeholds.
 
 
To entitle the wife to Dower the husbd must have the
 
freehold & inheritance in him simul & semel, but
 
an intervening estate for years does not bar her dower
 
 
If the husb<sup>d</sup> makes a feoff<sup>t</sup> of lands & the feoffee improves
 
them yet the wife shall only be endow'd of the value
 
they were of in the husbds time.
 
 
If the husbd have only a right of entry during coverture
 
& have neither a seisen in fact or in law the wife shall
 
not be endow'd.
 
  
If a disseisor &c assign dower this shall not be avoided
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===<center>Execution</center>===
unless they be in of such estates by fraud & covin
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
of the woman
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|-
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|4 Co. 90<br />Cr.Ja.569
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|All writs of execn which are to be executed by the sole authority of the Sheriff are good if they be properly executed tho' no return be made  secus of an elegit.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.inst.395
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the creditor takes out an elcgit & it appears to the sheriff thrt there are goods & chattels sufft to satisfy the debt he ought not to extend the lands
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El.584
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|In an elegit the jury are not oblig'd to find the certain beginning of a term but if they do find its beginning & are mistaken a subsequent sale by the sheriff on this inquest is erroneous.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|8.Co.171
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|On an elegit the sheriff may either extend a term for years or sell it absolutely
 +
|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ch.240
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|On a ca.ad.sa. the sheriff is to take no bail
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3.Co.12
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The whole personal estate except wearing apparel is  liable to execution on a fi.cr.lev.Fa.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[    ]<br />[  ]. 99<br />Dyer.69
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the Sheriff takes the goods of a stranger tho' the  Plf assures him they are the defts he is a trespasser.  Nor can the sheriff take in execution goods pawnd  or gag'd for debt, nor goods demis'd or letten for years, nor goods distrain'd
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El.181
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the deft dies after execn awarded & before it  be served yet it may be serv'd on his goods in the hands of his Exr or Admr.
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===PAGE 81===
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===<center>Execution</center>===  
DOWER
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
Dyer 343
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|-
Co.L.34.37
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sal.322 pl.1.10<br />22.G.2Ch.3. 194
2. Bl.136
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Neither does the death of the Plf abate the execn Writs bind the property of the Deft from the [  of their delivery to the Sheriff. Where any person whose goods are taken on a fi.fa. does not within five days satisfy the Plf his debt damages & costs the Sheriff, having given notice at the [  Church on sunday may the third day following proceed to sell the same at public auction.<br />If on sale the deft gives security to pay debt &c within three months goods to be returnd.<br />If the goods cannot be sold for 3/4 their value, they may be sold for three months credit and the bonds are to have the foce of judgements.<br />New execn may be sued forth agt the lands &c. of persons dying charg'd in execn.
7.Co.37
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Cr. El. 451
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ch.208
4.Co.l22
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|No person is entitled to or can sue out execn who is not privy to the judgemt or entitled to the thing [ as heir Exr or Admr.
2.Bl.136
+
|-
13.CO.23
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.290<br />[   ] Ch 318
4.Ann.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Inft not liable to execn but the parent must demur<br />If a person recovers in trespass agt Baron & feme exr may be sued agt feme after death of baron.
Ch.4.p 24
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|}
19.G 2. Chl. p133
 
1.G.2.Ch4.84
 
2. Bl.137
 
[ ].2.13
 
  
A woman entitled to dower cannot enter until
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===<center>Executors & Administrators</center>===
it be assign'd to her & set out either by the heir
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
terri tenant or sheriff in certainty.
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|-
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ch. Ca. 121
If the thing of which she is endowed be divisible it must
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Legatee on a bill complaining that the (struck through)testa(struck through) Exr wasted the estate may compel him to give security for paymt of legacy
be set out by metes & bounds if indivisible she
+
|-
must be endow'd specially as the third toll [dish to a mill(?)] &c
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ver. 249<br />22.G.2.<br />Ch.3.162
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Refusal of an Exr to give security is a refusal of the Exr.ship. And Ct. shall take security in all cases unless the testator, leaving more than visible estate sufft to pay all his debts, shall have directed the contrary in his will.
The assignment of Dower must be absolute
+
|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Godol.102-3.<br />[  ] of Ex<sup>r</sup>208-13
If lands assign'd for dower be lawfully evicted by elder
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A child in ventre sa.mere may be appointed Exr but he cannot administer till he is 17.
title the widow shall be endow'd anew
+
|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|5.Co.27<br />Co.L.172<br />Cr.Ch.490
A widow may be barred of her dower by elopement
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If an inft Exr. after 17 gives an acquittance for debt &c due to the testator, such release with<sup>t</sup> an  actual paymt to the inft is void.
or being forc'd away, by living voluntarily with he r adulte-
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|-
-rer unless/her husbd be reconceild to her, by divorce a
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Off Ex<sup>r</sup> 112<br />Godol.109-10
vinculo matrimonii, the treason of/her husbd, by
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a feme covert appointed Executrix administers husbd & wife are afterwards estopped to say that  the wife is no Ex<sup>x</sup> so if husbd addministers with<sup>t</sup> the consent of the wife she shall be bound during  coverture.  
detaining the title deeds or evidences of the estate from
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|-
the heir untill she restore them by aliening the
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Off. of <br />Ex<sup>r</sup>198-9<br />God.110
land (struck through)or negroes(struck through) assign'd her for dower, or sending the
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A feme covert Exec<sup>x</sup> may with<sup>t</sup> the consent of her husbd make a will & appoint her husbd  or other person Exr.  
slaves out of the State with<sup>t</sup> consent of him in reversion
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|}
or by feoffm<sup>t</sup> of husb<sup>d/supa> & wife, the wife being privily examind
 
or by her husb<sup>ds</sup> will, she not renouncing it within nine months
 
or by jointure
 
 
Ten<sup>ts</sup> in Dower to recover damages only from the  
 
time of requesting it.
 
 
<sup>1</sup> i.e. terre-tenent, one who is literall y in the possession
 
of land, as distinguished from the owner out of possession.
 
  
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DOWER
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
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|-
DURESS
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sal.304 <br />Cr.Ch.372
Co.L.253
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Creditor appointed Exr may retain assets to satisfy his debt in equal degree. So of an admr.  
Jenk.166
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|-
2.Inst.483
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|5.Co.30<br />2.Bl.512<br />Cr.Ch.373<br />Ca.tem.Tal. 246
2.Ver.497
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the creditor makes his debtor Exr it is an extinguish -mt of the debt & shall take place of legacies unless the debt be devis'd but shall be assets in the hand of the Exr to pay debts.  
Cr.Ja.187
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|-
Sid.123
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2. Strange 865<br />2.Lev.239
5.Co.119
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If an inft & one of full age are appointed Exrs he whq is full age may take out adm<sup>n</sup> durante minor state of the inft & may declare his Exr or Admr durante minor state
   
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|-
Where a person is illegally restrain'd of his liberty
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|5.Co.29<br />Cr.El.78
& enters into a bond or other security to th person
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An XXX Admr durante minor state cannot sell the goods of the decd further than for the paymt of debts unless they be bora perutura
who causes the restraint he may avoid the
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|-
same for duress of imprisonment.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sid.57<br />5.Co.18
   
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[ ] lies for inft after age agt an Admr durante minoritate who wastes the assets
A man may avoid his own act for fear of loss of life
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|-
or member, or mayhem or imprisonm<sup>t</sup>. Also in eq<sup>ty</sup>  
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El.602<br />5.Co.29
a man may avoid his deed tho' the terror & force are
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If Admr/is granted during the minority of sev<sup>l</sup> infts it ceases on the coming of age of any one of them & it is laid down by L<sup>t</sup> [sic] Coke that admr granted during the minority of an inft Exr ceases on his marriage
not suff<sup>t</sup> to make it duress at common law
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ch.227<br />2.Lev.37
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If an Admr durante minoritate recovers in an action & then his time determines the Exr may have sci. Fa. on this judgemt
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|}
  
The duress must be done to the party himself his
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father, his son, or his wife.
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 
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|-
Deed by duress to be avoided by special pleading
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sal 305
judgement in actio.  
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the Exr dies before probate his Exr cannot be Exr to the first Exr.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ld.Ray.86<br />Ver.200
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Admr de bonis non is to be granted to the next of kin to th first testator or intestate  unless there be a residuary legatee
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|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|5.Co.33<br />Godolp.171<br />Off.Exr.171
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|All acts of acquisition, transferring or possessing the deceased's estate will take an Exr de son tort
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|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|5.Co.38.4<br />Sal.313 pl.19<br />Yel.103
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|There cannot be an Exr de son tort where there is rightful Exr or where admn has been granted unless the person claims to be exr.  
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ja.549<br />Cr.El.102
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An Exr cannot waive a term but shall be  charg'd as far as he has assets tho' the rent be greater than the value of the land. Admr may be granted in part. If an Exr de son tort takes but admn this does not purge the wrongs so but that a creditor may charge him as exr de son tort.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ver.147
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where the things which come to the possession of the Exr de son tort are of very inconsiderable value it is said he may if charg'd with a considerable sum, have releif in equity.
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|-
 +
|2.Bl.507<br />Dyer.166
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|is chargeable with the debts of th e deceased so far as assets
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|}
  
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EJECTMENT
 
Sal.225 pl.5
 
Barnes 120
 
2.Bur.1116
 
Rep & ca.of
 
practice
 
C.P.115
 
Sup.tol
 
Barnes
 
24.25
 
2.Barnes
 
148
 
Barnard
 
K.B.48
 
  
Declaration must be servd (struck through)on the premises(struck through) on the
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
Ten<sup>t</sup> himself or his wife/on the premises/unless he absconds in
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|-
which case it has been holden that it may be serv'd  
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
on his neice, father son or daughter.
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|come to his hands.
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|-
An affidavit that the declaration was serv'd if the Deft
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|5.Co.30
does not appeair & enter into the common rule
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If he pleads ne unques Exr & tis found agt him he subjects himself to the paymt of the whole debt the the goods which came to his hands be of small value
Plf moves for judgmt agt the casual ejector.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Moor 126
If there be sev<sup>l</sup> persons that claim title the rule may
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|In such case he shoud plead plene administravit <br />There can be no Exr de son tort of a term in diversion.
be drawn gen<sup>ly</sup> or particularly. Gen<sup>ly</sup> that he who
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|-
claims title to the premises in question in his possesei-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Godol.82<br />Off.Exr.3
-on shou'd be admitted deft for such missusages XXX &
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The bare naming an Exr in a will makes it a will & is a gift of the goods & chattels undispos'd of
this puts a necessity on the Plf to distinguish by
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|-
proof what tenements are in each def<sup>ts</sup> possession
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Godol.83, 76
Or specially that B who claims title to such lands
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Any words which shew a mans intentio that such a one shou'd be his Exr are sufft
expressing them particularly  shou'd be admitted deft.
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|-
In which case the def<sup>ts</sup> [several lines of XXXX]
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Off.Exr.10<br />Godol.403
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Any word in a will which suspends the assignation of an Exr in expectation of some future event makes the Exr.ship conditional. The condition must relate to something in contingency. Cautious conditions contrary to the disposition made are void. So of necessary XX conditions either in fact or law.  
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Godol.77<br />Off.of.Exr.13<br />Godol.134<br />Off.Exr.95<br />Dyer 23<br />Cr.El.347
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The time & power of an Exr may be limited. <br />Acts done by one Exr which relate either to the delivery gift sale, paymt possession or release of the testators goods are deemd in law the acts of all.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Do.318<br />Sal.318.pl.26
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But one Exr shall not be charg'd with the devastavit of another.<br />In chancery if two Exrs join in a receipt & one only receives the money both are chargeable as to creditors Secus as to Legatees & those who claim distribution
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|}
  
[several lines of XXX]
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Attorney shou'd give a note
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
of the lands for which he was admitted deft.
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|-
If on the trial the deft will not appear & confess
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Godol.135<br />Off.Exr. 99
lease &c. the course is to call the deft & his attorney
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|One Exr cannot regularly sue his coexr touching any thing which is relating to his testators will
if he is within the rule & then to call the Plf &[  ]
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|-
-suit him & then on the return of the postea judgmt
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3.Leon.209<br />[     ]<br />Godol.134
will be given agt the casual ajector.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If one Exr has possession of the testators goods which are taken from him both must join in action of trespass
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Off.Exr.104
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If one Exr alone sells the goods of the testator he  alone may maintain Debt for the money
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|22.G.2 Ch.3.160
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The will of any person who dies shall be prov' d in that C<sup>ty</sup> where his mansion house or known place of abode is, if there be no such place, in the C<sup>ty</sup> where the lands devis'd lie, if the lands lie in sevl Ctys then in that in which he died & if he died in another Cty then in any one of those in which his lands lie.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|162
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ct immediately to receive proof of a will but when lands are devis'd from the heir at law he must be summond to appear at the next Ct & if he be not known proclamation must be made. The Ct may compel any person to produce the will  of a person deceas'd.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El.92<br />Off.Exr.37<br />Godol.141<br />Vent.303
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The refusal of an Exr must be enterd & recorded in Ct When an Exr has once admd he cannot afterwards  refuse to prove the will
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|-
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|Dyer.166<br />Off.Exr.59
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|Whatever the Exr does with relation to the goods &of the testator which shews an intention in him to take upon him the Exr.shp will amount to
  
===Page 84===
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EJECTMENT
 
Vent.255
 
2.Vent.195
 
Str.694
 
2 LdRay.1470
 
2.Str.908
 
11.Co.55
 
Cr.El.235
 
Cr.Ja.573
 
Cr.Ch.435
 
Yel.118
 
Rol.rep.3
 
Vent.30
 
Law of Ej.76
 
Yel.182
 
  
Where there are two defts for the same premises
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& one appears & confesses leave &c & the other does
 
not, the Plf cannot proceed agt the other
 
but he must be nonsuited; if there appear any
 
covin betwee  such person not appearring &
 
the lessor of th Plf the Ct. will stop the judgemt
 
aft th casual ejector for the part of him that
 
appear'd & compel him who did not to release costs.
 
  
If an inf<sup>t</sup> delivers a declaration some friend or guar-
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
-dian Must be set up as Plf to answer costs.
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|-
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
Where the presisses are empty, where a corpo-
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|an admn &. whatever acts will make a man liable as Exr de son tort will be deemd an election of the Exrship
-ration is lessee of the Plf where the sevl interests
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|-
of the lessors are not known there must be an actual
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|22.G.2.Ch.3 162, 167
lease &c. Rules for pleading to be given & Ct. mov'd for judgt.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An Exr or Admr must return a true inventory of the estate of the deceas'd when requir'd by the Ct Wherever an estate is of gra~ter value than £100 probate may oe granted by the Genl Ct.
   
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|-
In this action the law requires that the thing de-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Lev.186
manded be so particularly specified that the
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|When admn has been unduly obtaind it may be revok'd. If Admr has been granted to any person who is not of kin to the intestate it may be revok'd & granted to the next of kin on his application
shefiff may certainly know what to give the Plf pos-
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|-
-session of if he shou'd recover
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Yent. 303 <br />Sid<br />quere<br />6.Co.18 <br />Cr.El.459
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If an Admr be appointed & after an Exr appears & proves a will all meane acts of the Admr shall be avoided. If th Admr sells goods after Admn is repeald & granted to another yet the sale is good
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sal.302
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Tho' an Exr may commence an action in right of his testator yet he cannot declare before -probate
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|5.Co.9<br />2. Will. 576 pl.188<br />2.Ver.514 <br />Sal. 36 pl.2
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Admn may be granted during the absence of an Exr & pendente lite of a will Admn may be granted to two or more & if one of them dies yet tb admn does not cease. Also admn has to  a particular thing may be granted to one & as another part of the estate to another, but sevl Administrations cannot be granted for one & the same thing.
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|}
  
The trespass complain'd of in ejectmt must be agt
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the actual possession. Exr may hav action for eject
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
of testator.  Lessor must have a right of entry.
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|-
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Godol.180 <br />Off. Exr. 5.265
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|All the testators personal estate how remote so ever situated is assets in the hands of the Executor
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Off.Exr.65 <br />Do. 60
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"Debts due to the testator are not assets till recover'd, yet if the Exr releases the debt he is answer- -able to the value. Th possession of chattel real which are corporal is not in the Exr till entry.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Do. 71 <br />3.Leon.51
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the Exr submits to arbitration the debt or damages to which he is entitled in right of his testator & a release &c is awarded he shall be chargd as if he had rec<sup>d</sup> the money.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Vent.161<br />Cr.El. 644<br />see<br />Cr.Ch.207<br />Co.L.47<br />Latch.99
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man posess'd of a term for 50 years makes a  lease <s>for his</s>/for 20 years/reserving rent to him & his Heirs the rent is extinct at his death but had the reservation been during the term/the Exr shou'd have recd the rent >
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El.217 [    ] law<br />Off.Exr.4<br />2.Bl.314-16<br />Prec.Ch..323 <br />1.P.Wm7.541<br />2.do 333. 3d.43<br />Str.559
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where the Exr has no legacy at all the residuum shall gen<sup>ly</sup> be his own, but whereever the re is sufft on the face of the will (by means of a competent legacy or otherwise) to imply that the testator intended his Exr shou'd not have the residue the undevis'd surplus of the estate shall go to the next of kin.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ver.473<br />Abr.eq.24
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|So if there be any fraud in obtaining the Exrship
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|}
  
The Plf must lay commencement of his lease in his
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===<center>Ex<sup>rs</sup> and Adm<sup>rs</sup></center>===
declar<sup>n</sup> preceding ouster by the Deft but this
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
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|-
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ver.736<br />Abr.eq.246<br />Gil.rep.125<br />[  ] ver.252<br />2.Str.865
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Parol proof will be admitted in affirmation of the intention of the testator to give the Exr the undevised surplus but not to proove the contrary.<br />On the Stat. of distributionsthe following points have been resolv'd.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ray.496<br />Sal.250 pl.1<br />Abr.eq.249
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The clause which says there [sha]ll be no representations beyond Brothers & sisters children must be intended Brothers & sisters of the intestate.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Vent.316<br />2.Lev.173
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The half blood shall come in for a share with the whole blood being as near a kin to the the intestate.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Eq.Ca.Abr. 249 pl.7
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The distribution to be per Capita when they all claim in their own rights.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Carth.51
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a Person entitled to a distributive share dies before distribution his part goes to his Exr.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Swin.217
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Such advancemt as will exclude a child from his share of his fathers estate must be given by his Father to him & not to any other in in use for him
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ver.438
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where the heir at law has a settlemt made on him on his fathers marriage out of the personal estate to entitle him to any more he must bring such adancement into Hotch pot
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|}
  
===Page 85===  
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===<center>Ex<sup>rs</sup> and Adm<sup>rs</sup></center>===
EJECTMENT
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
Cr.Ja.311
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|-
2 Rel.rep. 461
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Off.of Exr. 156<br />Godol.203
Law.ej.81
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A devastavit is a mismanagement of the estate & effects of the dec<sup>d</sup> in squandering & misapplying the assets contrary to the trust & confidence repos'd in them & for which Exrs & Admrs shall answer out of their own pockets as far as they had or might have had assets of the dec<sup>d</sup>
Law.ej.82.3
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|-
Cr.Ja.613
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Off.Exr.159 <br />6.Mod.181<br />Cr. El.43<br />2.Lev.189
6 Co.14
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Acts of negligence & wrong adm<sup>n</sup> which will dis- -appoint creditors of their debts amoumt to a  devastavit.
2.Vent.214
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|-
Hard. 330
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Off.Exr. 171:159<br />3.Leon.51
5.Co.91
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|So if an Exr submits whatever he is entitled to in right of his testator, to arbitration
Leon.145
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|-
6.Mod.27
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[  ].31 159 <br />2. Bl. 511
Sal260pl.1
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The Exr or Admr must first pay funeral expenses & the expence of proving the will &c then debts due to the King (now I presume the com- mowealth) on record or specialty. Thus such debts as are by act of Assembly directed first to be paid as money due on protested bills of exchange & where a person dies chargeable with the estate of any Orphan or of of any dec<sup>d</sup> person committed to his care, then debts of rec<sup>d</sup> as judgemts, debts by special contract & lastly debts due by simple contract.
 
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|}
day of the ouster need not be expressly mention'd
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===<center>Ex<sup>rs</sup> and Adm<sup>rs</sup></center>===
Neither is the Plf oblig'd to declare the day of his entry
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
+
|-
Where the limitation of a lease is altogether un-
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.143<br />Lev.355
-certain the Plf cannot recover secus where tis impossible
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A decree in a ct of eqy is equal to a judgmt at law & the filing a bill in equity is equal to filing an original at law to prevent the alienation of assets
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|-
Plf shall recover as much as he has title to tho'
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El.315
he lays his ejectmt for more
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If an action be brought agt an Exr on a simple contract he may plead in bar a bond enterd into by his testator & payable at a future day.
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|-
The Plf must declare on such a lease -as suits the lessors
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Plow.279<br />Sid.230<br />Cr.El.793
title
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But if the Exr has no notice of the specialty it is no devastavit to pay debts by simple contract first. But at their Peril they must take notice of debts on rec<sup>d</sup>
+
|-
Lease made by Guar<sup>n</sup> to try title of inft seems good
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|10.Co.47
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man is both Exr & devisee & he enters on the thing  devis'd. without claim or demonstration of election he shall have it as Exr.
After verdict given for the Plf there must be a
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|-
full & actual possession given to him by the sheriff.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ja.191<br />571
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If an Exr is sued & pleads ne unques Exr & it is found agt him the judgemt shall be de bonis testatoris &c [  ] de bonis propriis
The writ of execution is only returnable at the election of
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|-
the Plaintiff.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|672
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But is an Exr pleads that such a deed is not the deed of his testator, or that a release was given to the testator yet the judgemt shall be de bonis testatoris
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Vent.30
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An Exr may bring ejectmt for an ejectmt in the life of his testator.  
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El.406
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An Exr cannot in the same action join a  demand in his own right & what he hath in right of his testator
 +
|}
  
Alex K Marshall
+
===<center>Ex<sup>rs</sup> and Adm<sup>rs</sup></center>===
Alex K Marshall
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{| style=“width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;”
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If an Exr takes an obligation for a debt to the testator in debt on this contract the writ shall be in the debet & detinet.  So in trespass for goods taken out of the possession of the Exr.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El.711
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|In debt agt Exr for the arrearages of rent incur'd in his time the writ shall be in the debet & detinet
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sal.297.pl.6<br />Off.Exr.119
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But the Exr may plead that he has not assets & that the land is of less value than the rent & demand judgemt of he ought not to be charged in the detinet only
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sid.397
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|After judgemt agt an Exr one may in a new action  in the debet & detinet, suggest a devastavit & (struck through)demand(struck through) charge him de bonis propriis.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|9.co.87<br />Cr.Ja.293, 405
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It is now agreed that, where there is a duty as XXXX well as a wrong an action lies an Exr or Admr.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.G.2.ch3. 166
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Exrs & Admrs of Exrs & Admrs chargeable for devastavits in same manner as their testators or intestates might have been charged.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ja.228<br />Vent.92<br />Cr.E.503<br />Cr.Ja.350
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Exrs & Admrs when Plfs pay no costs, unless they bring an action in their own right<br />An Exr deft pays costs in all cases <br />Exrs & Admrs are not to be held to special bail  
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===<center>Ex<sup>rs</sup> and Adm<sup>rs</sup></center>===
ELECTION
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
2.Co.36
+
|-
Co.L.145
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
2.Co.37
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
Lev.54
 
2.Co.37
 
Co.L.145
 
  
If a man grants twenty acres parcel of his
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|}
manor, the grantee has his election of situation
 
 
It is laid down as a genl rule thati if electi-
 
-on be given of two sevl things he that is the
 
first agent or is to do th first act has the election
 
  
In debt on an oblign that if a ship out to sea
+
===<center>Extinguishment</center>===
& either the goods or the obligor come safe
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
then to pay such a sum. Action lies on the  
+
|-
contingency which shall first happen
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Pollex.142<br />[  ] ex.17<br />Vaugh.34<br />Cr.El.47 <br />10.Ca. 48
 
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the Lessor purchases the land demased from the Lessee, or if the Lessee be evicted the rent is extinguish'd. But if the conveyance to the Lessor be on condition or if only part of the land be evicted the rent in the one instance is only suspended, in the other is proportiond
Where the things granted are annual & to have
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|-
continuance the election remains with the
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|4. Co.52<br />Vent.277
grantor as well after the day as before
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A Lessor's entering wrongfully into part of the lands demised suspends the whol rent.
When nothing XXXX to the grantee & before passes
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|-
election it must be made in the time of the grant
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Burro.9<br />6.Co.44
-tor secus where an estate or interest masses immediately
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It seems to be agreed as a genl rule that a cre -ditors accepting a higher security than he had before is an extinguishmt of the first debt.
 
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|-
When one & the same thing passes to the dones
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Leon.110
or grantee & he  has his election in what man-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But this must be understood where the debtor himself enters into these securities
ner or degree to take it there the interest passes
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|-
immediately
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ja.579<br />Cr.El.304
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The accepting a security of a lower nature or of an  equal degree is no extinguishment
 +
|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El.920
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If an Inft becomes 'indebted for necessities & the creditor takes his bond this shall not wxtinguish the simple contract debt, because the bond is of no force
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===Page 87===
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===<center>Extortion</center>===
ERROR
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
3.Bl.4O5
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|-
27 G.2
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.368<br />2.Co.102
pa.301
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Extortion is the taking of money by any officer under color of his office, either where none at all is due, or not so much is due, or where it is not yet due
Dyer 90
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|-
5 Co 39
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ray.315<br />Inst.209
2.Sid.56
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|This offence is punishable at common law by fine & imprisonment & also by removal from the office, & the Stat. of West. 1. enacts that no Sheriff nor other Kings Officer shall take any reward to do his office but shall be paid of that which they take of the King: & that he who so doth shall yield twice as much & shall be punishd at the Kings pleasure
Cr.El.419
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F.N.B.44
 
[  ] 173
 
[  ] 652
 
Liv.72
 
Sid.213
 
Ray.16
 
Cr.Ja.392
 
Carth.371
 
  
A writ of error lies for some suppos'd mistake
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===<center>Felony</center>===
in the proceedings of a Ct of record it only lies
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
on matter of law arising on the face of the
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|-
proceedings
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Hawk. P.C.94
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|There may be felony in taking goods the owner wrhereof is unknown
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El. 536
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A man may be guilty of felony in stealing goods the absolute property whereof is in himself as where one delivers goods to a carrier or Taylor &c. afterwards with an intent to charge such carrier or Taylor fraudulently & secretly takes them away.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|H.P.C.61<br />Hawk. P.C. XX 69
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|To constitute an offense felony there must be an actual taking as well as an intent to steal & every indictmt for larceny must have both the words cepit & aspor XXXXtavit.<br />If I send a box to a carrier, & he sells it this is not felony, but if the box be broke open & the goods carried away this is felony, so if he carry the goods to the place & then take them away
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|-
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|Hawk P/C.90<br />3.Inst.108
 +
|He who ags the bare charge of goods may be guilty of larceny in taking them away, also he who intending to steal them obtains a delivery of them, as from a sheriff by virtue of a
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|}
  
XX Upon appeal in personal action where judgemt
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===<center>Felony</center>===
or decree does not exceed £20 error can only be
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
assignd in matter of right, where it does not ex-
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|-
-ceed £50 it may be assignd in matter of right
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|4.P.C.63<br />Hawk. P.C.90
& such matters of form as were insisted on in
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|replevin, or by way of execution of a judgemt obtain by imposition on a Ct with<sup>t</sup> any color of title by false affidavits &c Also he who steals goods from one who has stolen them from me
the Ct below, where the judgmt does exceed £50
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|-
or in all real actions any errors in form or
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3.Inst.108<br />Hawk. P.C.92
substance may be assigned.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a felon be caught in the first act of carrying the goods away before he is out of the house it is a felony
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Hawk. P.C.2
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A feme covert shaill not suffer any thing for committing a bare theft in company with or by coercion of her husband.<br />It is said to be no felony for a person reducd to extreme necessity to take so much of anothers <s>goods</s> victuals as will save him from starving.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|H.P.C.70<br />Hawk P.C.95
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If two or more persons steal goods above the value of 12d this is grand larceny in each of them. If a person is indicted for stealing goods to the value of 10/ & the jury find him guilty but find specially that the goods are not worth more than 10d he shall have only judgemt of petit larceny, whlch is forfeiture of goods & whipping or other corporal punishment.
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No person can bring a writ of error but him who was
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===<center>Felony</center>===
party to or privy to the rec<sup>d</sup> or was injurd by th first judg-
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
-ment. It only lies agt him who was party or privy to
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|-
the first judgemt his Heirs Exrs or Admrs
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|H.P.C.232<br />Hawk P.C. 342
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Wherever a person is denied his clergy except in high treason or sacrilege such denial must be grounded on some Act of Parliament.<br />Where an offense is made felony by stat. it shall have the benefit of clergy unless expressly excluded. An indictmt must bring a mans case expressly within the words of the Stat. which denies him his clergy. A stat. by excluding principals doth not therby exclude accessories from their clergy likewise.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Hawk P.C.98
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where clergy is allowable those who stand mute or challeng above twenty, or are outlaw'd are as much entitled to it as those who are convicted. Also a stat. by taking away Clergy from those who shall be found guilty doth not take it away from those who stand mute who challenge above twenty or are outlaw'd, but it extends to those who shall confess themselves guilty upon record. B the 8th of Eliz. ch.4. Clergy is taken from all those who steal goods from the person of another to the value of 12.<br />By the 1 Ed. 6.ch.18.& 2&3.E.6.ch.33. Horse stealers are excluded the benefit of clergy
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|}
  
After the rec<sup>d</sup> is remov'd & the Plf has assign'd his
+
===<center>Felony</center>===
errors, he shall have a sci.fa. ad audiendum er-
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
rores agt the deft who thereupon may plead
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|-
in nullo erratum or a release &c. A Sci.fa. lies
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|4.G.2 ch.3.p.92
agt the heir & terre tenants.  Sci.Fa. to the terre-
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Burning any Tobacco house, ware house store house /or any other house/ or abetting the same or breaking any ware house or store house & taking from thence goods to the value of 20/ sterling felony with<sup>t</sup> benefit of clergy.
tenants is usually granted but tis not ex de-
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|-
licto justitia
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|9.G.2.ch 2.315
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Persons stealing slaves felons with<sup </sup> clergy.
===Page 88===
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ERROR
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Person
Book.er-
 
ror. 93
 
Cr.Ja.29
 
Rob.658
 
Vent.34
 
Sal.263 Pl.4
 
Sid.294
 
Cr. El. 611
 
Sid.147
 
Vent.252
 
Sal. 268.p115
 
Carth.338
 
Cr.Ch.53
 
5.Co.39
 
Palm.270
 
Vent.7
 
  
Pleading in nullo est erratism is an acknow
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===<center>Feoffment</center>===
-legement of the fact & denial that tis error
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 
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|-
If a writ of error abates by default of the party
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
a second writ shall be no supersedeas secus if
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
it abates by act of God or of the law
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|}
 
In a writ of error for want of assigning 
 
errors, judgemt is not affirm'd but execn goes 
 
on first judgemt party can have no costs 
 
but his remedy must be on the  recognizance 
 
by which he is bound to prosecute with effect
 
 
To reverse an outlawry party must appear
 
& assign errors in person
 
 
The Plf in error cannot assign error of fact &
 
error of law together. In such case deft shoud
 
demur for simplicity
 
 
It seems a genl rule that nothing can be assignd for
 
error which contradicts the record
 
  
A man cannot reverse a judgemt for error un
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===<center>Feoffment</center>===
less he can shew the judgemt was to his disadvantage
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
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|-
If a writ be brought to the damage of /£/30 & the Plf
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
declares ad damnum /£/40 & the verdict gives
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
30/£/ this is no error after verdict.
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A fault in a sci.Fa. on judgemt not [  ]
 
by appearance.
 
  
===Page 89===  
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===<center>Forcible Entry & Detainer</center>===
ERROR
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
10.Co.115
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|-
Ch.co.19
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2 Inst.235<br />sec.1. Hawk P.C.145<br />[    ] 136
Cr.Ja.246
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man whose entry is lawful entice another out of the house & enter the door being open or only latch'd, his entry is justifiable
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Hawk P.C.145-147
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If he who hath an estate in land by a defensible title continues with force in the possession thereof, after a claim made by one who had a right of entry thereto, he shall be adjudged to have enter'd forcibly
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|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr. Ja.190
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The same circumstances of violence or terror which will make an entry forcible will make a detainer forcible likewise
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|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Dalt. 315
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A joint Ten<sup>t</sup> or Ten<sup>t</sup> in common may offend agt the purport of these statutes.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Dalt. 300
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An inft at the age of 18 some say l4 or a feme covert by their own acts may be guilty of a forcible entry
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|}
  
If the Plf recovers more damages than he has
+
===<center>Forcible Entry & Detainer</center>===
declar'd for, if before judgemt he releases the over
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
-plus he may take judgemt for the residue
+
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
|}
  
If upon a judgemt the sheriff sells the goods &c
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===<center>Forgery</center>===
of the party & after the judgemt was reversed by
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
writ of error the party can only be restord to the
+
|-
money for which they sold. But if the goods &c
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Haw. P.C. 186<br />11.Co.27
were only deliverd to the Plf in satisfaction &c
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man makes a deed of feoffment to J.S. & after makes a deed of a prior date to J.D. tis forgery.
the party shall be restord to the specific goods.
+
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Nay. 101<br />3.Ins. 170
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Also to insert legacies in a will without the direction of the testator. So to incert in an indictmt the names of those agt whom it was not found.<br />The fraud & intention to deceive by imposing on the world that as the act of another, which he never consented to are the principal ingredients which constitute this offence.
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|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2d Ld.Ray 1461
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|To counterfeit a release or acquittance for a sum of money tho' with<sup>t</sup> seal is forgery.
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|-
 +
|Hawk. P.C.182
 +
|Forgery at common law is punishable with fine & imprisonment or such other corporeal punishment as the ct shall think fit<br />By 5th of El. any person guilty of forging, assenting to or causing to be forged any writing seal court roll or the will of any person to the intent that the estate of freehold
 +
|}
  
===Page 90===  
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===<center>Forgery</center>===
ESCAPE IN CIVIL CASES
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 
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|-
8.Co.141
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
Cr.Ja.3
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|or inheritance of any person to any lands may be molested, or shall pronounce publish or shew it forth in evidence as true (except an attorney for his client who was not /party or/ privy to th forgery he shall pay to the party griev'd his double costs & damages, shall be set upon the pillory in some open place & there have both his ears cut off, also his nostrils slit & cut & sear'd with a hot iron & shall forfeit to the King the whole issues & profits of his lands and suffer perpetual imprisonment. And if any person shall forge or cause or assent to be forged any false writing to the intent that any person shall or may have or claim any estate or interest for term of years of in or to any lands or annuity; or shall forge &c. any Obligation or any discharge of any debt &c or shall pronounce puplish or give in evidence &c. He shall pay to the party griev'd his double costs & damages shall be sat in the pillory & there have one of his ears cut off & shall suffer imprisonment for one year. A second offence is felony with<sup>t</sup> benefit of clergy
5.Co.89
+
|}
3.Co.44
 
Cr.Ja.657
 
22.G.2
 
Ch.6 pa186
 
  
It is a genl rule that wherever a sheriff or other
+
===<center>Forgery</center>===
officer has a person in custody by virtue of
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
an authority from a Ct which has jurisdiction
+
|-
in the matter, that the suffering such person to
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3. Inst.170<br />Nay.42<br />Hawk. P.C.186
go at large is an escape
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The forgery of a lease for years or of a grant of a rent charge for years in the name of one who is seised of the Freehold is within the first branch/of the statute; & the words in the 2d part which relate to such estates are meant only for those which were in esse before
+
|-
If XXXX A is arrested & in the custody of the Sheriff
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3.Leon.170
& afterwards another writ is deliver'd to him
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The forgery of a deed containing a gift of mere personal chattels is not within the XXX statute
at the suit of B. Upon the delivery of the writ
+
|-
A by construction of law is immediately in the
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3.Ins.171
Sheriffs custody with<sup>t</sup> an actual arrest
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|He who is truly inform'd by another that a deed is forged is in danger of the statute if he afterwards publish the same to be true<br />Though the 2d offence be not of the same nature with th first yet the person is guilty of felony.
+
|-
If the sheriff or other officer who has the custody
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Keb.707<br />2.Str.901
of a XXXX prisoner either bail him when he is
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the conveyance be defective so as not to pass the thing intended to be conveyed still it is a forgery<br />For a bare non feasance a man cannot be guilty of forgery unless by th omission he conveys a diff<sup>t</sup>, estate to another than he woud have taken
not bailable by law, or suffer him to go out of
+
|-
the limits of the prison tho' with a keeper
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[        ]
it is an escape.
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Person counterfeiting inspectors receipt or stamp or knowing by tendering forg'd receipt, exporting tobacco with forg'd stamp or demanding it by forg'd receipt guilty of felony with<sup>t</sup> clergy.
+
|}
If man has the judgemt agt two persons & they
 
are both taken in execution XX if the sheriff suf
 
-fers one of them to escape he shall (struck through)have(struck through) be an-
 
swerable for the whole debt
 
  
Sheriff not liable for an escape unless wilfull
+
===<center>Forfeiture</center>===
or negligent or unless the nrisoner might have
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
been retaken & he neglects to XXXXX make fresh suit.
+
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.8<br />3.Inst.19
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|By the common law all right of inheritance to lands whereof the offender is seised in his own right, & all rights of entry to lands in the hands of a wrongdoer are forfeited on an attainder of high treason or of petit treason; in the latter case to the Lord.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3.Co. 2-3<br />7.Co.17<br />3.Ins.19
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It seems agreed that no right of action to lands of inheritance cou'd ever be forfeited, neither coud
 +
a right of entry into lands whereof there was a ten<sup>t</sup> by title, nor an use except where lands had been fraudulently convy'd with an intent to avoid forfeiture
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ja.312
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|All personal things settled by way of trust on the offender are as much forfeited as if he had the legal interest
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Rob.564 <br />Lev.279 <br />Mod.16.31<br />Vent.128
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But the power of revocation of the trust of a settlement is not liable to be forfeited if it depends on something personal to be done by the grantor himself.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Hales P.C.271 <br />5.Co.ll6
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A man forfeits all his personal estate on conviction of treason or felony, upon the Coroners inquest taken on view of the dead body & finding him guilty either as principal or as Accessory, before the fact & that he fled for the same whereby he forfeits his goods absolutely & the issues of his lands till he bw acquitted or pardon'd.
 +
|}
  
===Page 91===  
+
===<center>Forfeiture</center>===
ESCAPE IN CIVIL CASES
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
22.G.2
+
|-
Ch.6 p.184
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Hales P.C.271
Do.187
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Upon a Jury's finding that a deft fled at the same time that they acquit him of any capital felony but such finding causes no forfeiture of the profits of his lands, neither will it affect the goods if the indictmt was insufficient or if the flight be disprov'd on a traverse
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|5.Co.110<br />5.Co.129<br />3.Inst.134
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The goods of a person outlaw'd are forfeited, so of he makes default till the award of an exigent
 +
|-
 +
|Cr.El.694
 +
|If a man be felo de se, or if a felon be killed in the robbery, or in attempting to escape by resisting or if a felon waives his goods.<br />By 26 H 8th Ch.13th it is enacted that any offender who shall be lawfully convicted of any manner of high treason shall forfeit all such lands &c which he shall have of any estate of inheritaince in use or possession, saving to every person &c.<br />By the 33.H.8.ch.20. it is enacted that if any personbe attainted of high treason by the course of the common law or statutes of this realm, every such attainder by the common law shall be of as much force as if it had been done by authority of Parliament. <br />Neither a right to a writ of error to reverse an erroneous common recovery, nor
 +
|}
  
Process on escape to be executed at any time or place 
+
===<center>Forfeiture</center>===
 +
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3.Co.2-3<br />Cr.El.289<br />4.Co.48
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|a mere right of action to lands in the hands of a stranger as a discontine[sic], or of the heir of the disseisor are forfeited by either of the Statute.  Secus of rights of entry.  But there must be office found & scier facias or siesure on such office.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|7.Co.12
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A power of revoking the uses of a settlement may be forfeited if the execution of it only require what may be done by another person.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Blow 381
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Neither an annuity granted pro consilio XXX [    ] nor an office granted for life & requiring skill & confidence are forfeitable by these statutes Secus of such an office in fee.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Blow. 488<br />Co.L.2 <br />8.Co.170
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The forfeiture upon an attander either of treason or felony has relation to the time of the offence committed as lands, but to the convictionor fugam fecit found only as to chattels unless the party were kill'd in flying from or in resisting those who had arrested him
 +
|}
  
Old sheriff may deliver over prisoners by indenture
+
===<center>Fraud</center>===
to the new or have their names with the cause
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
of their commitment recorded in the records
+
|-
of the County Ct.
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.3
 
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It may be laid down as a genl rule that with<sup>t</sup> the express provision of any act of Parliamt all deceitful practices in defrauding or indeavoring to defraud another of his known right by means of some artful device are condemn'd by the common law.
===Page 92===
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|-
ESTATES IN FEE SIMPLE
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sid.312<br />Co.L.35
Inst.3.
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Such as causing an illiterate person to execute a deed to his prejudice by reading it over to him in words difft from those in which it was written. Also a wrongful manner of executing a thing shall avoid a matter which might have been executed lawfully
Co.L.9
+
|-
Lit.sec.578
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|4.Inst.984<br />Abr. in Eq.357<br />Sev<sup>l</sup> other<br />cases in point
Co.104
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|All deceits for which there is no remedy by the common course of law are properly in the Cts of equity. As where A by marriage settlemt was ten<sup>t</sup> for life of certain Mills rem<sup>r</sup> to his first son in tail & the son who knows of the settlemt encourages a person to take a lease for thirty years of those mills & to lay out considerable sums of money in improving them. this is such a fraud as ought to be discountenanc'd in equity.  
And.3
+
|-
Co.L.20
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ver.123
Dyer 156
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a security be obtain'd from a person by fraud & practice upon pretence of a demand that is fictitious it ill be releiv'd agt in equity.
Leon.182
+
|}
  
A feme covert is canable of purchasing an \
+
===<center>Fraud</center>===
estate in fee simple, but her husbd may disagree
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
to it, if he neither agree or disagree she may disagree
+
|-
to it efter the coverture is determin'd, so/may her
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2Ver.307
heir.
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|So where A by means of an Attorney prevail'd on E a woman to levy a fine of some houses & to execute a deed leading the uses thereof to A & his heirs, & it being prov'd that she at the time declar'd she must make use of some friends name in trust & devis'd it to J.S. & his heirs subject to the paymt of her debts, decreed that A shou'd convey the estate to the devisee
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3.Co.83<br />3.Co.81<br />Moor.638<br />2.Bulst. 226
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|By the common la a man had right to a thing or a just debt owing to him, he might avoid any fraudulent conveyance made to deceive him of that right or debt, but if the gift or conveyance were precedent to that right or debt there was no way to set it aside to remedy this the Statutes of the 13.& 27.of El.were enacted in the construction of which statutes it/hath been determin'd that where the vendor remains in possession of the goods the sale shall be deem'd fraudulent as to creditors & bona fide purchasers
 +
|-
 +
|Cr.El. 810
 +
|A.to defraud his creditors makes a fraudulent gift of certain goods to his daughter & dies B intermeddles with them the daughter takes possession of them by force of the gift, Administration of all the goods of A is then grantedto B on an action brought it agt him as Exr
 +
|}
  
 +
===<center>Fraud</center>===
 +
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|it was decreed that the gift was fraudulent, that by intermedling he became Exr de son tort & liable as such & that the law continued the possession in him.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|B.A. 606 <br />[  ] 2 <br />Trin.1706<br />Baker & Lloyd<br />per.H.C.J.
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If A makes a bill of sale to Ba creditor & afterwards to C another creditor & delivers possession at the time of the sale to neither & after C gets possession of them & B takes them out of his possession C cannot maintain trespass
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Moor 615
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a gift be made to deceive one creditor tis XXX void agt all
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|5.Co.60
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It is not necessary that he who contracted the debt shoud make the fraudulent conveyance.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.3
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A has a lease of certain lands for 60 years & forges a lease for 90 years, by indenture reciting this forged lease he bargains & sells it with all his interest in the lands to B. in this case Bis not a purchaser within the 27 of El. to defeat the purchases of the true lease of 60 years.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sid.134
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A deed though it be fraudulent in its creation yet by matter ex post facto may become good As where the feoffee aakes a feoffment to another for valuable consideration
 +
|-
 +
|5.Co.60
 +
|It has been held that fraud may be given in evidence to defeat a fraudulent & covinous
 +
|}
  
If the Father infeoff the son to [  ] to him his heirs &
+
===<center>Fraud</center>===
after the son enfeoffeth the Father as fully as the father
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
enfeoff'd him a fee passes.
+
|-
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
If the Lord releases all his right to his Tent. if one parsoner <sup>or joint tent</sup>
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|conveyance & that the party alledging it need not plead it.
releases all his right to the other, a fee passes. So where
+
|}
one parcener grants a rent to another for [  ]
 
of partition
 
 
Where the ancestor takes an estate for life & the
 
limitation/is to his right heirs, there the ancestor
 
has (struck through)an estate(struck through) the reversion executed in himself &
 
the right heirs are not purchasers
 
 
If by limitation the estate may determine in B
 
during the continuance of his life though the
 
rem<sup>r</sup> he in his right  heirs yet it does not rest in B
 
 
If A makes a lease for life or a gift in tail rem<sup>r</sup> to his
 
right heirs this in its original creation is a void
 
limitation.
 
  
===Page 93===
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===<center>Gaol & Gaoler</center>===
ESTATE FOR LIFE & OCCUPANCY
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
2.Bl.121
+
|-
Co.L XXX 42
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
183
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
3.Co.20
+
|}
2.Vent.65
 
Co.L.251
 
7.Co.55
 
Co.L.251
 
[    ]
 
Co.L.42
 
Co.76 sec.
 
1 Co. 140
 
Co.L.41
 
2.Bl.122
 
35
 
Co.L.55
 
2.Bl.123.4
 
Co.L.55
 
  
If one grants lands to another generally the lease is ten<sup>t</sup>
+
===<center>Grants</center>===
for life &, nrovided the lessor has power to grant such an
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
estate, he is ten<sup>t</sup> for his own life.
+
|-
 
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.327
Uncertain interests as an estate to a woman [  ]
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|There can be no discontinuance of things which lie in grant 
viduitate &c are consider'd as estates for life determi-
+
|-
nable on the happening of the contingency to which tis
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.233<br />3.Co.45
limited.
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Of things which can be transfer'd with<sup>t</sup> the notoriety of livery of seisin, which lie in grant a man cannot by any disposition or act in pais forfeit them
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.41<br />Cr.El.721
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|So there can be no occupant of things which lie in grant & which cannot pass with<sup>t</sup> deed.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[    ] 12
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The law distinguishes between grant of Infants which are void & merely voidable, the first of which are all such gifts, grants, or deeds made by an inf<sup>t</sup> as do not take effect by delivery of his hand, as if an Inft give a horse & do not deliver the horse with his hand & the Donee take the horse by force of the gift the Inft shall have an action of trespass.
 +
|-
 +
|13
 +
|But if an Inft enters into an obligation or makes a feoffmt there are only voidable
  
If ten,sup>t</sup> for life aliens in fee or attempts to create a
+
If an Inft grant a rent charge by deed to be issuing out of a carve of land & the grantee distrein he shall punish him as a trespasser.
greater estate than he has receiv'd which is to the preju-
 
dice of him in reversion tis a forfeiture.
 
 
But a man cannot by any disposit1on or action in pais for
 
-feit things which may be transfer'd with<sup>t</sup>  XXXXXXX the nototoriety
 
of it
 
 
Where he in rem<sup>r</sup> is party to the conveyance there Ten<sup>t</sup> for
 
life may by solum investiture convey a greater/estate
 
than he had by the first [  ] contract
 
 
Every ten<sup>t</sup> for life unless restraind by cov<sup>t</sup> or agreem<sup>t</sup>,
 
may of common right take on the land reasonable [  ]
 
-version botes
 
  
Ten<sup>t</sup> for life or his representative shall not be pre
+
If a single woman by deed grant a rent charge to issue out of a carve of Land & delivers the deed to a stranger as an escrol, upon condition that if the grantee got to Rome return by 
-judiced by any sudden determination of his estate
+
|}
  
Ten<sup>t</sup> or Ten<sup>t</sup> for life shall have the emblements tho
+
===<center>Grants</center>===
the estate is forfeited by act of Ten<sup>t</sup> for life.
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|XXXXXXXXX
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Easter that then he shall deliver the same escrol as her deed to the Grantee. The woman marries & before Easter during the coverture the Grantee goes to Rome & returns & the stranger delivers the escrol as the deed of the woman. The Grant is good.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Per.Sci.36
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|In grants if there be sufft shewn to asscertain the grantor & grantee the grants will be good
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Dyer 279<br />Co.L.3<br />Cr.Ja.558
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It seems that a mistake of the Christian name will vitiate the grant. Secus of the surname
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.214
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Regularly by the common law a possibility. Right of entry, thing in action, cause of suit, or title for a condition broken cannot be granted or assignd over.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Per.Sci.65
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A man cannot grant or charge that which he hath not.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|4.Co.66<br />Ray.144<br />[  ] Ch.Ca.8-11
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If there be a devise of a term to A for life rem<sup>r</sup> to B cannot grant over his interest.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.46
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a lease be made to Baron & feme for their lives rem<sup>r</sup> to the /Exrs of the/ survivor of them, the Husbd cant grant it.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Hob.132
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A man may grant that which he hath potentially
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.54
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If A makes a lease of lands to B for life rem<sup>r</sup> to his Exrs for years, the term vests in B so that he can grant it over
 +
|}
  
===Page 94===
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===<center>Grants</center>===  
ESTATES FOR LIFE & OCCUPANCY
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
Vaugh.104
+
|-
Co.L.41
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Per.Sci.99
Cr.El.721
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A personal trust which one Man reposes in another cannot be assign'd over
Vaugh.57
+
|-
Cr.El.57
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.169
Hob.313
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Incorporeal inheritance which lie in grant cannot pass from one to another with<sup>t</sup> XX Deed.
@.Rolls
+
|-
Abr.150
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Moor 831. pl.13
Vagh.138
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man by indenture demises to J.S.the manor of D & bargains & sells to him all the woods & trees &c. on the  s<sup>d</sup> manor to be filled & carried away at pleasure, Habendum the s<sup>d</sup> Manor for life, this is an absolute sale of the woods & trees.
[2]Bl [  ]
+
|-
Vaugh.189
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Moor 496
Cr.Ja.554
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a feoffmt be made of a manor in lease for years & livery/is made with<sup>t</sup> ouster of the lessee by which the feoffmt is void, yet if the lessee attorns this shall be good as a grant of the riversion 
#lBulst.12
+
|-
ColL.41
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Co.35
Dyer 328
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|When the words of a grant allow a double way of taking it the grantee shall judge which way is most beneficial
#.Bulst.12
+
|-
Col.L.41
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Hob.229
Dyer 328
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A slight mistake or error in the /description of the/thing to be pass'd will not vitiate the grant.
2.Bl.259
+
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Mod.3
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But where the thing is not granted by an express name there if a falsity is in the description of that thing the grant is void.
 +
|-
 +
|Co.86<br />2.Co.36
 +
|If a man grant twenty acres parcel of his manor with<sup>t</sup> any other description of them yet the grant is not void for an acre is a
 +
|}
  
There can be no occupant of things which lie in grant
+
===<center>Grants</center>===
& which cannot pass with<sup>t</sup> deed as rents &c unless they
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
are appendant to things which pass by livery
+
|-
 
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Noy.29
If a lease be made of lands to A for life hab. to B & C
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|thing certain & the situation may be reducd to a certainty by the election of the Grantee.
successively. B & C tske no estate in possession or reversion
+
|-
& the lease determines on the death of A.
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.6
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|No Person not nam'd in the premises of the deed can take any thing by the deed tho' he be afterwards namd in the habendum.
If a lease be made to A & B for their lives & the life of  
+
|-
the Longest lives they make partition & A dies his
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Hob.313<br />Cr.Ja.564
part immediately reverts to the lessor
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But a man not nam'd in the premises may take an estate in rem<sup>r</sup> by limitation in the habendum.
 
A right by occupancu can only be acquired by
 
actual entry. Lev. 202. Sid.346.
 
 
If Tent pur autre vie dies, his lessee [  ] will or for
 
years having possession such lessee shall be ten<sup>t</sup>
 
by occupancy & the lessor estate shall merge
 
  
If tjere be any intermediate interest the term of
+
The Habendum cannot pass any thing which is not espressly mention'd as contain'd by implication in the premises of the deed.
the occupant shall not merge & he is to hold the estate
+
|-
subject to the charges laid on it by his lessor
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Salk.346
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where the Habendum is repugnant to the premises tis void.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.146
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Grants are to be construed according to the intention of the parties & if there aupears any doubt or repugnancy in the words such construction is to be made as is most strong agt the grantor
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|6.Co.87
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where a proviso destroys the grant tis void
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Br.tit.lease. 13.22
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If one makes a lease for ten years at the will of the lessor tis a good lease for ten years certain
 +
|-
 +
|Co.L.183
 +
|Tis a genl rule that where it is impossible the grant shoud take effect according to the letter The law will make such constructions
 +
|}
  
If lands be let to a man & his heir or to a Man
+
===<center>Grants</center>===
his Exrs & assigns dur1ng the life of another the heir
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
in the one case & in the other the Exr shall be a spe-
+
|-
-cial occupant.
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|the gift by possibility may take effect.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sid.211<br />Lev.131<br />[  ] 736
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It was found by special verdict that A was seised of a mill in fee & that he built a kiln at the end of the close wherein the mill stood & then granted the Mill with its appurtenances & if the kiln pass'd was the question. The Ct held that if it had been found that the kiln was necessary to the Mill, or that it was built for the use of the Mill, it wou'd have pass'd by a grant of the mill.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|1.Salk. 346 
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It is holden by C.J.Holt that if a termor grants the land the grantee is but tent at will.
 +
 
 +
If a man grant a thing to be taken yearly & the grantee neglects to take it for one year he cannot take doublt the next. Secus if the grantor be to render the thing
 +
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===<center>[blank]</center>===
EVIDENCE [faint]
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
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|-
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
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===Page 96===  
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===<center>Guardian</center>===  
EVIDENCE
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
2.Hawk
+
|-
P.C.452
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.87
2.Hawk
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|By the common law if Tent in socage die his heir being under fourteen, the next of blood to the heir to whom the inheritance cannot descend shall be guardian of his body & land till his age of fourteen
P.C.433
+
|-
Co.L.6
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.84
Sid.337
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A guardian by nature is the Father or Mother
Mod.107
+
|-
Skin.223
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.88
Ray.191
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Guardian by nurture hath only the care of the person & education of the infant & hath nothing to do with his lands merely in virtue of his office.
Sal.283.p 12
+
|-
sec
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Vaugh.179
Vent.49
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|On the 12th of Ch.2.Ch.24, similar to which is the 22.G.2.Ch.25. the following determinations have been made. That a testamentary Guardian or one form'd according to this Stat. comes in loco parentis & is the same in Office & interest with a Guardian in socage
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Vaugh178
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A person under age disposing of his child such disposition draws after it the land.
 +
|-
 +
|Vaugh.184-5
 +
|If a man devise t he custody of his son & heir apparent & mentions no time, this is a good devise XX if the heir be under fourteen at the death of the father, but if above
 +
|}
  
A conviction/of treason, felony, piracy, praemunire
+
===<center>Guardian</center>===
perjury or of forgery on the 5th of [  ]. Also a judgm<sup>t/sup\p>
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
in attaint for giving a false verdict or in conspira
+
|-
cy at the suit of the King. also a judgmt for any
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
crimes to stand in the pillory, or to be whipped
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|fourteen tis void for uncertainty.
or branded being in act which had jurisdiction
+
|-
are good causes of excep<sup>n</sup> ag<sup>t</sup> a witness while
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Vaugh.185-6
there continue in force. If convicted of felony
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|That this testamentary Guardian hath the custody of all lands & goods any way acquird or purchas'd by the infant
but admitted to his clergy XXX & burnt in the hand
+
|-
he is reenabled to be a witness. A pardon restores
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|22.G.2. ch.22 p.156 <br />[  ]
the party to his credit where it is only the [
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Genl Cts & C<sup>ty</sup> Cts have power to take cognizance of all matters concerning Orphans & their estates To appoint Guardians where necessary & take security XXXXX for orphans Estates. Guardian to exhibit at the next ct after his appointmt on oath an acct of his orphans estates & an acct of his profits & once a year which is to be enter'd by the Clerk in a book. Guardian wasting &c orphans estate, neglecting his education &c or likely to become insolvent Cts to make orders for securing the estate &c or to anpoint another Guardian. Their Accts to be examind &c in Augt. their mismanagement &c. to be enquird into at any time.
  ] of the judgem<sup>t</sup> [      ]
+
|-
The credit of a witness is to be impeach'd only by genl
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ja.55 <br />Cr.El.678, 734
accounts of his character (struck through) & behavior (struck through) reputation
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a Guardian in socage makes a lease for years to continue beyond the time of his guardianship such lease seems not to be absolutely void by the Infts coming of age but only voidable.  
& not by proofs of particular crimes whereof he
+
|}
never was convicted.
 
 
 
The testimony of a witness is not to be admitted who
 
is either to be a gainer or loser by the [  ]
 
 
An Exr if he hath not the sucklusage of the estate only
 
be a witness for a will Children of an intestate
 
cannot be witnesses in any matter relative to
 
the intestates estate.
 
  
He who borrows money XXX upon an [  ]contract
+
===<center>Guardian</center>===
cannot be a witness on an information for the
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
usury unless he has paid the money
+
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Blow. 293
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a woman who is guardian in socage to her son marries again & her husbd & she join in a lease of the infts lands the lease upon the death of the husband becomes void.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Rol.Abr. 256<br />2.B.Ab.68
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A Guardian or prochein Amy may make partition in behalf of the inft & it shall bind the inft if equal
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[  ].79<br />Mod.259<br />Vent.72<br />Ray.311<br />[  ] pr.229<br />[  ].4
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a Guardian puts in an answer /for an inft/to a bill in Chancery on oath such answer shall not conclude the inft or be read in evidence agt him for the effect of infts answer is only to make proper parties so as to take depositions & examine witnesses.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Str.506<br />Abr.Eq.261
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A Guardian with<sup>t</sup> any direction may pay the interest of any real /incumbrances/(struck through)estate(struck through) & the principal of a Mortgage
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ver.436<br />2,Ch.Ca.197
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|He may pay off a judgmt with the profits of the infts estate.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2. Ver. 606
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A Guardian not compeliable to apply the profits of the estate of the inft heir to nay off the bond debts.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ver.403, 435<br />[  ]2.Ver.193
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Tis not in the power of the Guardian with<sup>t</sup> the direction of the court to turn the personal into real estate
 +
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
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|-
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===<center>Heir & Ancestor</center>===  
EVIDENCE
 
2.Ver.98
 
[  ] 625
 
5 Co.68
 
Ver.366
 
Ver.473
 
Ch.Ca.19
 
Abr.eq.230
 
&
 
243
 
2.Ver.98.337
 
Sal.234 pl.13
 
[  ]tem.Tal.
 
240. 2. Str.
 
1261
 
Sal.281. p19
 
Hawk
 
P.C.431
 
Do. 429
 
  
In Cts of eqy a distinction has been taken between
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
evidence that may be offer'd to a jury & to inform the
+
|-
conscience of the Ct.
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Vent.311<br />Ray.330<br />2.Lev.232
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A person may take by purchase or descriptio personae by the name of heir even in the life time of the ancestor for Heirs males now living in a will are a full description of the person who is then heir apparent to the person nam'd & is known by the devisor to be so.
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|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ver.215<br />Abr.Eq.265
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the ancestor agrees to convey lands & receives part of the purchase money but dies before conveyance, heir will be decreed to convey
 +
|-
 +
|See 1.Ver.16
 +
|If a father conveys to a younger son by a defective conveyance & dies the heir at la will in two cases be oblig'd to make it good  1st. Where there is a cov<sup>t</sup> for farther assurance binding the heir. 2d. Where there is a provision made by the father in his life-time for the heir or when he hath such provision by descent from his father
  
Also to ascertain a fact parol evidence has been
+
The heir at law is bound by a decree obtaind agt the Ancestor which may be carried into execution two ways. 1st. If the decree is enrolled the party may sue out a subpoena scire facias agt the heir to shew cause agt the decree. 2d. The Plf may bring his bill of revivor to
admitted to explain the intent of the testator
+
|}
If A purchases lands in the name of B, A has
 
been admitted to prove that he paid the purchase
 
money
 
  
Also to oust an implication & rebut an equity
+
===<center>Heir & Ancestor</center>===
parol evidence has been admittcd to explain
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
the intent of the testator.  
+
|-
 
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
The Cts are very unwilling to admit of parol
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|carry the decree into execution
evidence in relation to any thing which appears
+
|-
on the face of a will
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.233<br />8.Co.44
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|As the heir at law is the only person who can take advantage of conditions &c annex'd to the real estate, so shall he be bound by all such conditions &c which run with the land.  
The party who is to prove any fact must do it by
+
|-
the highest evidence the nature of the thing is ca-
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|10.Co.41<br />Vent.199 <br />Cr.El.833<br />2.Ver.519
-pable of.
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where a condition is annex'd to the estate given to the heir & which goes in abridgement & restraint thereof the same shall in some cases be construed a limitation
+
|-
What a witness or a person accus'd of a crime
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|8.Co <br />Frances's case<br />2.Ch.re.26
has been heard to say at another time may
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But wherever the ancestor makes a conveyance or disposition on cond<sup>n</sup> w<sup>h</sup> goes in restraint & abridgemt of the estate of the heir he must have notice of it.
be given in evidence
+
|-
 
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.164
Where ever a mans confession is made use of
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The heir may bring any real action or action droitural in right of his ancestor but no personal action
agt himself it must be taken altogether &
+
|-
ot by parcels.
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Dyer 90<br />1.Leon.261
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Also if an erroneous judgemt be given agt the ancestor by which he loseth the lan the heir may bring a/writ of error
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3.Co.12<br />Cr.Ja.450 <br />Abr.Eq.44
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|When the ancestor binds himself & his Heirs in an obligation the Obligee may sue the heir or Exr & may have execution of the land descended to the heir.
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|}
  
===Page 99===
+
===<center>Heir & Ancestor</center>===  
EVIDENCE 
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
Gil.ev.62
+
|-
Ath.204
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Dyer.81<br />2. Inst.19<br />Co.L.102
Eq.Ca.abr
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But the body of the heir is protected.
227.pl.3
 
  
Depositions cannot be given in evidence agt any
+
Also the heir must be expressly nam’d.
person who was not party to the suit.  
 
  
===Page 100===
+
By the common law if the heir before the action brought agt him had alien'd the assets the obligee was with<sup>t</sup> any remedy, but if he only alien'd hanging the writ the lands he had by descent at the time of the original purchase had been liable
EXECUTION
+
|-
4 Co. 90
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[  ] 355.pl.2<br />[  ].126<br />Lev.286<br />Ver.180<br />3.Co.36
Cr.Ja.569
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the heir be sued upon a bond or covenant it must be alleged that he is bound, but it need not be shewn how he is heir. But where the heir sues he must shew his pedigree & consent Haeres. The action agt the heir on the bond of his ancestor must be in the debit & detinet.
2.inst.395
+
|-
Cr.El.584
+
|5.Co.35<br />Dyer. 81.pl. 62<br />Cr.Ch.256<br />Car.93<br />Plow.440<br />Sal.354<br />Ld.Ray.753
8.Co.171
+
|Tho' the Heir at law is bound by the obligation of his ancestor in which he is expressly nam'd no further than he hath assets by descent yet by false pleading he make himself liable de bonis propriis. As where he pleads riens per discent,(unless it be in a scire faciae on a judge ment) or where he confesses the action but does not set forth the assets in certainty or where judgemt goes agt him by default non sum informatus, nihil dicit &c. or where he
Cr.Ch.240
+
|}
3.Co.12
 
[    ]
 
[  ]. 99
 
Dyer.69
 
Cr.El.181
 
  
All writs of execn which are to be executed by the
+
===<center>Heir & Ancestor</center>===
sole authority of the Sheriff are good if they be
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
properly executed tho' no return be made
+
|-
secus of an elegit.
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|pleads in bar that J.S. was jointly & severally bound with his Ancestor which is found agt him the judgemt is genl & it is said that in these cases the Ct cannot give a special judgemt with<sup>t</sup> the assent of the Plf though certain lands by descent are found by the jury.
If the creditor takes out an elcgit & it appears to
+
|-
the sheriff thrt there are goods & chattels sufft
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3.Leon.67
to satisfy the debt he ought not to extend the lands
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where the heir is bound in an the obligation of his Ancestor but has no assets by descent a promise to the obligee that if he will not sue him he will pay the money shall not charge the heir
+
|-
In an elegit the jury are not oblig'd to find the certain
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2. Sand 136<br />Vent.159<br />Lev.165
beginning of a term but if they do find its beginning
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|So in an assumpsit agt an heir upon such promise it must be expressly shewn that the heir was bound otherwise it shall not be intended tho' after a verdict.
& are mistaken a subsequent sale by the sheriff
+
|-
on this inquest is erroneous.
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sid.31<br />[  ] Co.56
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But in such a case where the Plf declar'd that the deft in consideration the Plf woud deliver the bond to him & discharge the debt promis’d &c. it was held a good declaration & that it shoud be intended he was liable
On an elegit the sheriff may either extend a
+
|-
term for years or sell it absolutely
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Br. tit. Assets.
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Wherever the ancestor binds himself & his Heirs all his lands in freehold & which descend in fee simple are assets by descent
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sal. 354. pl. 1
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A reversion after a lease for years made
 +
|}
  
On a ca.ad.sa. the sheriff is to take no bail
+
===<center>Heir & Ancestor</center>===
 +
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Car.129<br />2.Ver.134
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|by the Ancestor is present assets tho' the Plf cannot have benefit of the reversion till the lease be determin'd & the judgemt is of Assets quando acciderint
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|4.Ch.Ca.148<br />[ ] in.Ch.39
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An equity of a redemption of an inheritance is assets
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|6.Co.58
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A right with<sup>t</sup> any estate in possession reversion or remainder is not assets till it be recover'd & reduc'd into possession
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|22.G.2.ch. 81 p.196<br />Abr.Eq.149
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|On the Stat. made in the 3d year of W.& M. entitled an act for the relief of creditors agt fraudulent devises & which is adopted by an act of Assembly made the 22.G.2.ch.8. it has been determin'd that any settlemt or disposition which a man makes in his life time of lands whether it be voluntary or other wise shall be good agt bond creditors.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ch.Ca.175<br />Ver.400<br />Dyer.344
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It seems that neither the Exr or Admr of the heir are liable. But see 2.Ver.62 where it is said that if the heir aliens the land to prevent the creditors of satisfaction of their debts equity will follow the money into the hands of the heir or his Exr.
 +
|}
  
The whole personal estate except wearing apparel is
+
===<center>Heir & Ancestor</center>===
liable to execution on a fi.cr.lev.Fa.
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Liv.30
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If there be judgemt in debt agt two & one dies a scire facias lies agt the other alone
 +
|}
  
If the Sheriff takes the goods of a stranger tho' the
+
===<center>Highways</center>===
Plf assures him they are the defts he is a trespasser.
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
Nor can the sheriff take in execution goods pawnd
+
|-
or gag'd for debt, nor goods demis'd or letten for
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
years, nor goods distrain'd
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
+
|}
If the deft dies after execn awarded & before it
 
be served yet it may be serv'd on his goods in
 
the hands of his Exr or Admr.
 
  
===Page 101===  
+
===<center>Hue & Cry</center>===  
EXECUTION 
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
Sal.322
+
|-
pl.1.10
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
22.G.2
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
Ch.3.194
+
|}
Cr.Ch.208
 
Co.L.290
 
[  ] Ch
 
318
 
  
Neither does the death of the Plf abate the execn
+
===<center>Idiots & Lunatics</center>===
Writs bind the property of the Deft from the [
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
of their delivery to the Sheriff. Where any person
+
|-
whose goods are taken on a fi.fa. does not within
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Hale. Hale. hist. P.C.30<br />4.Co.125
five days satisfy the Plf his debt damages
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The King is entitled to the receipt of the rents & profits of an idiots estate during his life with<sup>t</sup> accounting for them, he must account for the profits &c. of a lunatics estate
& costs the Sheriff, having given notice at the [
+
|-
Church on sunday may the third day following
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Hale. His. P.C.33
proceed to sell the same at public auction.
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Every person of the age of discretion is in law presum'd to be of sound mind & memory unless the contrary appear
 
+
|-
If on sale the deft gives security to pay debt &c
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|9.Co.31
within three months goods to be returnd.
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The trial of idiocy &c. in civil cases is by writ or commission to the sheriff or escheator or particular commissioners both by their own inspection & by inquisition to enquire & return their inquisition into the chancerys & thereupon a grant or commitment of the party & his estate ensues, & a special writ may afterwards issue to bring the party before the chancellor to be inspected.
 +
|-
 +
|Hale.Hist P.C.35-36
 +
|If a man in a phrensy happen, by some oversight or by means of his Gaoler to plead to his indictmt & is put upon his trial the Judge in his discretion may discharge the Jury of him & remit him to Gaol or, if there be no color of
 +
|}
  
If the goods cannot be sold for 3/4 their value, they
 
may be sold for three months credit and the bonds
 
are to have the foce of judgements.
 
 
 
New execn may be sued forth agt the lands &c. of persons dying
 
charg'd in execn.
 
  
No person is entitled to or can sue out execn who is not
 
privy to the judgemt or entitled to the thing [
 
as heir Exr or Admr.
 
  
Inft not liable to execn but the parent must demur
+
===<center>Idiots & Lunatics</center>===
 +
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|evidence agt him may proceed to try him & enlarge him
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ver.262
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The Committees of a Lunatick cannot make leases or any ways incumber the lunaticks estate with<sup>t</sup> a special order from the ct of chancery
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.2<br />2.Vent.203
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A person non compos may purchase & if after the recovery of their memory they agree think it cannot be avoided, but if they die in their lunacy or after the recovery of their memory with<sup>t</sup> agreemt to the purchase then Heir may avoid it.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[  ] 365
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A Lunatick shall be ten<sup>t</sup> by the curtesy & shall have Dower
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Lit. sec. 405<br />Co.L.247
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a person non compos be disseis'd & a discent cast, this it is said takes away his entry but not the entry of his heir.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Hale. His. P.C.30
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|In criminal cases the insanity of the person is left both to the Judge & Jury. My Lord Hale saith that the best rule to be guided by in such matters is if the person hath ordinarily as great understanding as ordinarily a child of fourteen years hath such person may be guilty of treason or felony
 +
|}
  
If a person recovers in trespass agt Baron & feme exr
+
===<center>Idiots & Lunatics</center>===  
may be sued agt feme after death of baron. 
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 
+
|-
===Page 102===
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|6.Co.124<br />Co.L.247
EXECUTORS & ADMINISTRATORS
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Acts solemnly acknowledged by an Idiot in a Ct of record are not voidable
Ch. Ca.
+
|-
121
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|4.Co.123<br />Ld. Ray. 313<br />2. Sal. 127.pl.2
2,Ver.249
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The feoffmt of an idiot or non compos is not void but voidable, but it cannot be avoided by himself. But the King may by writ de idiota inquirendo avoid such alienation or office found, and after such office if the commission of tennacy be discharg'd the lunatick is restord to his lands. Also the heir may avoid such alienation. Secus of the remainder man or reversioner
22.G.2.
+
|-
Ch.3.162
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|4.Co.124<br />3.Lev.284
Godol.1O2-3.
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But the release surrender, letter of Attorney to give livery, warranty, or any other deed or writing obligatory, tho' they regularly at law bind the non compos are mere nullities with respect to others.
[  ] of Ex<sup>r</sup>208-13
+
|-
5.Co.27
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Abr.Eq.279
Co.L.172
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The contracts of idiots & Lunaticks, after office found & the party legally committed, are void. The suit for restoration must be by committee
Cr.Ch.490
+
|-
Off Ex<sup>r</sup> 112
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Godolph. 26<br />4.Co.126<br />Ver.105
Godol.109-10
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a person of sound memory makes a will & after becomes non compos, this is no revocation of the will, yet a bill will not lie in the life of the non compos to establish the testimony of the Witness.
Off. of  
+
|}
Ex<sup>r</sup>198-9
 
God.110
 
 
 
Legatee on a bill complaining that the (struck through)testa(struck through) Exr
 
wasted the estate may compel him to give security
 
for paymt of legacy
 
 
Refusal of an Exr to give security is a refusal of
 
the Exr.ship. And Ct. shall take security in all cases
 
unless the testator, leaving more than visible estate
 
sufft to pay all his debts, shall have directed
 
the contrary in his will.  
 
  
A child in ventre sa.mere may be appointed Exr
+
===<center>[blank]</center>===
but he cannot administer till he is 17.
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
+
|-
If an inft Exr. after 17 gives an acquittance for
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
debt &c due to the testator, such release with<sup>t</sup> an
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
actual paymt to the inft is void.
+
|}
  
If a feme covert appointed Executrix administers
+
===<center>Indictments</center>===
husbd & wife are afterwards estopped to say that
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
the wife is no Ex<sup>x</sup> so if husbd addministers with<sup>t</sup>  
+
|-
the consent of the wife she shall be bound during
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|PaCe6 Hist2.<br />H.P.C.20
coverture.
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An indictmt is a brief narrative of an offence committed by any person which the publick good requires shou'd be punish’d.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Hal.His.<br />P.C.171
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a Stat. prohibit any act to be done & gives a recovery by action of debt &c. & mentions not indictmt yet the person may be indicted on the probabitory clause.<br />Secus if the act be not prohibitory.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Hal.His.<br />P.C.ch.20
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a person indicted of treason or felony confessed the fact & accuses another by which he becomes an approver, the parties accus'd may be tried on his appeal with<sup>t</sup> other indictmt or presentment.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Haw P.C.211
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a civil action in the Kings bench de muliere abducta cum bonis viri, upon not guilty pleaded the deft be convicted, he may be put to answer the felony with<sup>t</sup> further accusation
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|210<br />Sid.23
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It seems to be generally agreed that a grand jury must find either billa vera or ignoramus for the whole.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El.147<br />2.Haw. P.C.225
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It is laid down as a good genl rule that in indictments the special manner of the whole fact ought to be set forth with such certainty that it may Judicially appear to the ct the indictors have not given on insufficient [premisses?]
 +
|}
  
A feme covert Exec<sup>x</sup> may with<sup>t</sup> the consent of  
+
===<center>Indictments</center>===
her husbd make a will & appoint her husbd
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
or other person Exr.
+
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Haw. P. C.224
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Hence it hath been held that no circumlocution whatsoever will supply the place of those words of the act which the law hath appropriated for the description of the offence, as felonies in an indictmt for any felony whatever &c.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|225
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It hath been holden that an indictmt for a felonious breach of prison with<sup>t</sup> shewing the cause of the imprisonmt is not good.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|228
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If one material part of an indictmt be repugnant to another or if the fact as laid be impossible or absurd the indictmt is void
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3.Hal. Hist.
 +
P.C.175
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The name & addition of the party indicted ought regularly to be inserted & inserted truly in every indictmt. But if the party answer to the name on the arraignmt or plead not guilty to the indictmt he is concluded.
 +
|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Hawk. P.C.231
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The deft & all other persons nam'd in the indictment must be describd with convenient certainty
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|-
 +
|238
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|An indictmt which doth not with sufft certainty set forth the thing wherein the offence was committed is insufft, as where one is indicted for having forg'd a lease of certain lands with<sup>t</sup>
 +
|}
  
===Page 103===
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===<center>Indictments</center>===
EX<sup>rs</sup> and ADM<sup>rs</sup>
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
Sal.3O4
+
|-
Cr.Ch.372
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|235
5.Co.30
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|naming any one certain parcel.
2.Bl.512
 
Cr.Ch.373
 
Ca.tem.Tal.
 
246
 
2. Strange 865
 
2.Lev.239
 
5.Co.29
 
Cr.El.78
 
Sid.57
 
5.Co.18
 
Cr.El.602
 
5.Co.29
 
Cr.Ch.227
 
2.Lev.37
 
 
Creditor appointed Exr may retain assets to
 
satisfy his debt in equal degree. So of an admr.  
 
  
If the creditor makes his debtor Exr it is an extinguish
+
No indictmt whatever can be good with<sup>t</sup> precisely shewing a certain year & day of the material facts alledged in it.
-mt of the debt & shall take place of legacies unless
+
|-
the debt be devis'd but shall be assets in the hand of
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Hal His. P.C.179
the Exr to pay debts.  
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But it is not necessary to prove the crime to have been committed on the very day laid in the indictmt
 
+
|-
If an inft & one of full age are appointed Exrs he
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Hawk. P.C.245<br />Cr.El.236<br />[  ] Co.48
whq is full age may take out adm<sup>n</sup> durante
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|There is no necessity for any indictmt or information on a public stat. to recite the Stat. But if a prosecutor take upon him to recite the Stat. & materially vary from it & conclude contra formam statuti praedictus he vitiates the indictmt
minor state of the inft & may declare his
+
|-
Exr or Admr durante minor state
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Haw.P.C. 246
 
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A misrecital of the place or day on which a Parliament was holden vitiates the indictment.
An XXX Admr durante minor state cannot sell
+
|-
the goods of the decd further than for the paymt
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|247
of debts unless they be bora perutura
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A variance no way altering the sense does no hurt Neither is the misrecital of the preamble of the Stat. material
 +
|-
 +
|249
 +
|It is a genl rule that unless the Stat. be recited neither the words contraforms in Statute, nor any [persprasis?] intendmt or conclusion will make good an indictmt which does not bring the offence nor then all the material
 +
|-
  
[  ] lies for inft after age agt an Admr durante
+
|}
minoritate who wastes the assets
 
 
If Admr/is granted during the minority of sev<sup>l</sup> infts
 
it ceases on the coming of age of any one of them & it
 
is laid down by L<sup>t</sup> [sic] Coke that admr granted during
 
the minority of an inft Exr ceases on his marriage
 
 
If an Admr durante minoritate recovers in an
 
action & then his time determines the Exr may have
 
sci. Fa. on this judgemt
 
  
===Page 104===
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===<center>Indictment</center>===
EX<sup>rs</sup> and ADM<sup>rs</sup>
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
Sal 305
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|-
Ld.Ray.86
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
Ver.200
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|words of the Statute, as if an indictmt for rape omit the word rapuit, or an indictmt of perjury on 5th of El.Ch. 9. omit the words voluntarie & corrupte
5.Co.33
+
|-
Godolp.171
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|249
Off.Exr.171
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Neither is it always sufft to pursue the words of the Stat. unless in so doing you fully, directly & expressly alledge the matter where in the offence consists.
%.Co.38.4
+
|-
Sal.313 pl.19
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|250
Yel.103
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the Stat. relate only to such & such persons particularly describ'd by it the indictmt must bring the deft within all such descriptions unless they carry with them the bare denial of a matter, the affirmation whereof will be a proper natural plea for the deft.
Cr.Ja.549
+
|-
Cr.El.102
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|250
2.Ver.147
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A conviction on a penal Stat. ought expressly to shew that the deft is not within any of its provisions.
2.Bl.507
+
|-
Dyer.166
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|251
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A conviction on a penal Stat. ought expressly to shew that the deft is not within any of its provisions.An indictmt grounded on a stat. & concluding contra formum statute may be maintain’d as an indictmt at common law. The contrary was formerly held.
 +
|}
  
If the Exr dies before probate his Exr cannot
+
===<center>Indictment</center>===
be Exr to the first Exr.  
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|251
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It seems to be agreed that a judgemt on a Stat. shall never be given on an indictmt which doth not conclude contra formam statuti.
 +
|}
  
Admr de bonis non is to be granted to the
+
===<center>Infancy & Age</center>===
next of kin to th first testator or intestate
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
unless there be a residuary legatee
+
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Dyer 143<br />Ray . 84<br />[  ] 162
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If one under the age of 21 years makes his will & devises his lands & after attains the age of 21 years & dies with<sup>t</sup> any republication thereof this devise is void.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Mod.315<br />Ven.255<br />[  ] 316<br />[  ]. 35
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An inft male at fourteen & female at twelve may dispose of their personal estate, at eighteen of their Negroes & at 21 of their lands.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.35
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The age of consent to marriage in an inft male is fourteen in a female twelve
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|5.Co.29
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An inft at the age of 17 may be an Exr
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.247
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The age of fourteen is the common standard at which both males & females are by our law obnoxious to capital punishments.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Hal.His. P.C.26<br />27<br />28-29
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the party be above twelve though under fourteen & appears to be dole capax he may be convicted if an inft be above seven & under twelve he is prima facie to be adjudged not guilty; but yet if it appear by strong & pregnant circumstances that he was dole capax, Judgemt of death may be given agt him for malitia supplet aetatem[                                    ]
 +
|}
  
All acts of acquisition, transferring or possessing
+
===<center>Infancy & Age</center>===
the deceased's estate will take an Exr de son tort
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|God.or.leg.<sup>1</sup> 102<br />2.Ver.110
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A child in ventre sa mare may be appointed Exr or may take a legacy & if there be two or more at a birth they shall be joint Exrs or joint legatees
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co. L. 244
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If there be bastard eigne & mulier puisne the bastard enters & dies siesed leaving issue in ventre a mere, the mulier enters & then a son is born he cannot enter on the mulier.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Br.dev.32<br />Cr.El.423<br />Sid.153<br />liv.135<br />Ray.163
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It has been a matter of much controversy whether a devise of lands to an inft in ventre sa mere is good, but all the books agree that a devise to an inft when he shall be born or when God shall give him birth is good /as an Exrs devise/& that the free hold shall descend in the mean time to the heir at law
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Lev.142<br />Sid.321<br />Cr.Ja.59
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It is laid down as a rule in some books that where it is alledged upon the pleadings that the party was & still is under age, it shall be tried by inspection of the Ct. but where the inft is of full age at the time of the plea it shall be tried per pais
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Buls. 69
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If an inft take a lease for years rendering rent if he enter upon the land he shall be charged with an action of debt during his minority.
 +
|}
  
There cannot be an Exr de son tort where there
+
===<center>Infancy & Age</center>===
is rightful Exr or where admn has been
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
granted unless the person claims to be exr.
+
|-
An Exr cannot waive a term but shall be  
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ver.386
charg'd as far as he has assets tho' the rent be
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An inft is not to be barred by the laches of his trustees, nor to be barred of a trust-estate during his infancy.
greater than the value of the land. Admr
+
|-
may be granted in part. If an Exr de son
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[  ] sec 402
tort takes but admn this does not purge the
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The entry of an inft is not taken away by a descent cast
wrongs so but that a creditor may charge him
+
|-
as exr de son tort.
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.245
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But if a man seised of lands in fee die, his wife privement ensient & a stranger abates & dies seised & after the son is born he shall be bound by the descent.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Inst.303
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If an inft be ten<sup>t</sup> by the curtesy or lessee for life or years he shall answer for waste.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Inst.233<br />8.Co.44<br />Vent.200
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An inft is bound by all conditions charges & penalties in an original conveyance whether he comes in by descent or by purchase
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.ver.343, 560
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Bound in eq<sup>y</sup> as well as law
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.246
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man make a feoffment in fee to another reserving rent & if he pay not the rent with in a month that he shall double the rent, the feoffee dieth his heir within age payeth not the rent he shall forfeit nothing. because the inft is provided for by the statute
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[  ]<br />[  ]<br />[  ]
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[                                            ]<br />[                            ]
 +
|}
  
Where the things which come to the possession
+
===<center>Infancy & Age</center>===
of the Exr de son tort are of very inconsiderable
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
value it is said he may if charg'd with a
+
|-
considerable sum, have releif in equity.
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Broke disseisin 19
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Two infts Jt Tents one releases to the other by which the other holds the whole this seems a disscisin, But if livery had been made it woud have been no disseisin but it woud have been void
An Exr de son tort cannot sue in right of the de-
+
|-
-ceas'd but he may be sued & is chargeable
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.172<br />Cr.Ja.500
with the debts of th e deceased so far as assets
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An inft may bind himself to pay for his necessary meat, drink, apparel necessary physick & such other necessaries & likewise for his good teaching & instruction but it must appear that the things were really necessary & of reasonable prices & suitable to the infts degree & estate which regularly must be left to the Jury who need not find particularly wh<sup>t</sup> the necessaries were nor of what price each thing was
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Val.386 pl.2, 279.pl.4
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An inft not liable for money which he borrows to lay out for necessaries
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ch.502
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Those contracts from which an inft can receive no benefit or semblance of benefit are absolutely void. Sed quaere
 +
|-
 +
|Br.sci. 12-19
 +
|There is a diversity between the actual delivery of the thing contracted for & a bare agree-
 +
|}
  
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===<center>Infancy & Age</center>===
EX<sup>rs</sup> and ADM<sup>rs</sup>
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
5.Co.30
+
|-
Moor 126
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sid.129<br />Lev.169
Godol.82
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|ment to deliver it, the first is voidable, the last absolutely void.
Off.Exr.3
+
|-
Godol.83
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ver.132<br />2.Ver.224
76
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If one deliver goods to an inft on a contract knowing him to be an inft he shall not be chargeable in trover & conversion or any other action for them, secus if he take goods under pretence that he is of full age.
Off.Exr.10
+
|-
Godol.403
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Mod.248<br />[  ].446<br />Vent.51
Godol.77
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If an inft of the age of discretion commit any fraud by affirming himself to be of full age or by combination with his Guardian enter into any contracts with an intent afterwards to Elude them a ct of eq<sup>y</sup> will decree it good agt him according to the circumstances of the fraud.
Off.of.Exr.13
+
|-
Godol.134
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[  ].Co.42<br />2. Inst.483
Off.Exr.95
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Infancy is a personal privilege of which only the inft himself can take advantage
Dyer 23
+
|-
Cr.El.347
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Lev.144<br />Sal.279.pl.4
Do.318
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|None but the inft himself or his representatives privies in blood can avoid a conveyance made by the inft during his nonage In assumpsit agt an inft he may give infancy in evidence & need not plead it.
Sal.318.pl.26
+
|-
 +
|[  ]<br />Vent.213
 +
|If lands be sold to an inft & he contr [  ] possession after he comes of age
 +
|}
  
come to his hands.  
+
===<center>Infancy & Age</center>===
 +
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It is a tacit consent to the agreement.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ver. 224
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where an inft deseis'd lands subject to trust for paymt of younger childrens portions might not be sold & offer'd by his answer to settle other lands for raising the portions, it was held that he shoud be bound by the offer made by him in his answer if the other side were thereby delay'd & if the inft did not immediately after his coming of age apply to the Ct in order to retract his offer & amend his answer.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|4.Leon.4
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An inft made a lease for years & at full age said to the Lessee “God give you joy of it.” held an affirmation of the lease.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3.Leon.164<br />Comb. 381<br />[  ]
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The deft under age borrow'd money of the Plf & at full age promis'd to pay him. bound by the promise
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|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Abr.of Eq.282
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Decreed in Ch. that if an inft borrows a sum of money for which he gives his bond & devises his personal estate (being of sufft capacity) for the paymt of his debts particularly those he had set his hand to this bond debt shall be paid.
 +
|}
  
If he pleads ne unques Exr & tis found agt him he sub-
+
===<center>Infancy & Age</center>===
-jects himself to the paymt of the whole debt the the
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
goods which came to his hands be of small value
+
|-
   
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ja. 464
In such case he shoud plead plene administravit
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If Judgemt be given agt an inft by default after the default he shall have a writ of error & reverse the judgemt for his nonage, but if an inft after appearance make default judgemt shall be given agt him.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Hal.Hist. P.C.20<br />Co.L.359<br />Cr.Ja.274
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An inft shall be privileg'd from fine & imprisonment in those cases where a person of full age shall be thus punish’d.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.127<br />[ ].Co.61
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An inft being Plf or demandant shall not be amerced
  
There can be no Exr de son tort of a term in diversion.  
+
If an inft by his Guardian or prochein ami bring an ejectmt & after the Guardian &c. becomes insolvent the inft shall be amerced
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[  ] Ver. 342
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|No decree shall be made agt an inft with<sup>t</sup> giving him a day to shew cause agt it when he comes of age
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Palm.215
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An inft must appear by prochein Amy or Guardian but he must defend by Guardian
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[  ] 369
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If an inft be sued the Plf must move to have a proper Guardian assign'd him
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Vent. [  ]
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|In an action agt Baron & Feme the Feme being within age she ought to appear by Guardian
 +
|}
  
The bare naming an Exr in a will makes it a will
+
===<center>Infancy & Age</center>===
& is a gift of the goods & chattels undispos'd of
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ja.420
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Debt brought agt an inft Exr he cannot appear by attorney but by Guardian
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|441
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But if an inft Exr brings an action by Attorney & hath judgemt to recover this is not erroneous
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El. 278<br />Vent.102<br />see Lev.181
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If an inft & man of full age be Exrs they may bring an action as Exrs & the inft may sue by Attorney
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Car.256
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The Plf being an inft had sued by his Guardian but the entry on the roll was T.S. by his Guardian omitting “admitted especially by the ct for this purpose, the entry sufft
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Abr.Eq. 72<br />260
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An inft cannot bring a bill in Chy but by his prochein amy. And it is said that a Guardian cannot otherwise be appointed than by bringing the inft into ct or his praying a commission to have a Guardian assign'd him
  
Any words which shew a mans intentio that such
+
Where a bill is brought agt an inft & he reglects to appear to have a Guardian assignd
a one shou'd be his Exr are sufft
+
him, it is a motion of cause (he being in contempt to an attachmt) to pray for a messenger to bring him into Court
  
Any word in a will which suspends the assignation of
+
In all cases where a naked right in fee
an Exr in expectation of some future event makes
+
|}
the Exr.ship conditional. The condition must relate
 
to something in contingency. Cautious conditions con-
 
trary to the disposition made are void. So of necessary XX
 
conditions either in fact or law.
 
  
The time & power of an Exr may be limited.  
+
===<center>Infancy & Age</center>===
   
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
Acts done by one Exr which relate either to the deli
+
|-
-very gift sale, paymt possession or release of the testa-
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|6.Co.3<br />Dyer.133<br />Cr.Ja.469
-tors goods are deemd in law the acts of all.
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|descends from any ancestor to an inft there in every action ancestral the parol shall demur Secus in real actions brought by an inft on his own possession
+
|-
But one Exr shall not be charg'd with the devastavit of another.
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Inst.89
   
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If an action of debt on the obligation of the Ancestor be brought agt the heir the parol shall demur & so in all cases where the fee may be charg’d.
In chancery if two Exrs join in a receipt & one only
+
|-
receives the money both are chargeable as to creditors
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[ ].Co.85
Secus as to Legatees & those who claim distribution
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|In a writ of mesne the parol shall not demur for the non age of the demandant
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|6.Co.3<br />Dyer.137
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where a naked right descends of lands of w<sup>h</sup> the ancestor was once in possession there in an action ancestorel brought by the inft the parol shall demur with<sup>t</sup> plea secus where the ancestor died seised or where the action is brought of the seisin or possession of the inft In Detinue agt an Exr for a delivery to the Testator the parol shall not demur for the non age of the Exr.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[ ]<br />[  ]
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If an inft be in by purchase he shall not have his age
 +
|-
 +
|
 +
|If an inft hath an estate in possession by purchase sufft to answer the action than he
 +
|}
  
===Page 106===
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===<center>Infancy & Age</center>===
EX<sup>rs</sup> and ADM<sup>rs</sup>
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
Godol.135
+
|-
Off.Exr. 99
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.338
3.Leon.209
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|hath the residue of the estate by descent yet he shall not have his age. Thus if Lessee for life surrenders to an inft who hath the reversion he shall not have his age
[    ]
 
Godol.134
 
Off.Exr.104
 
22.G.2
 
Ch.3.160
 
162
 
Cr.El.92
 
Off.Exr.37
 
Godol.141
 
Vent.303
 
Dyer.166
 
Off.Exr.59
 
  
One Exr cannot regularly sue his coexr touching
+
If an inft be vouched & bound to warranty by the deed of his ancestor the parol shall demur for the non age of the inft
any thing which is relating to his testators will
+
|-
If one Exr has possession of the testators goods which
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|45.Ed.3.23
are taken from him both must join in action of trespass
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If two are vouch'd if the parol demurs for the non age of one it shall for the other also
 
+
|-
If one Exr alone sells the goods of the testator he
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|6.Co.5
alone may maintain Debt for the money
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The Ct ex officio ought to grant that the parol shall demur though the ten<sup>t</sup> will answer.
+
|-
The will of any person who dies shall be prov' d in that C<sup>ty</sup>
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Inst.258
where his mansion house or known place of abode
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where age is granted or the parol demurs the writ Does not abate but the plea is put with<sup>t</sup> [ ] until full age
is, if there be no such place, in the C<sup>ty</sup> where the lands
+
|}
devis'd lie, if the lands lie in sevl Ctys then in that in
 
which he died & if he died in another Cty then in any
 
one of those in which his lands lie.
 
   
 
Ct immediately to receive proof of a will but when
 
lands are devis'd from the heir at law he must
 
be summond to appear at the next Ct & if he be not
 
known proclamation must be made. The Ct
 
may compel any person to produce the will
 
of a person deceas'd.
 
  
The refusal of an Exr must be enterd & recorded in Ct
+
===<center>Informations</center>===
When an Exr has once admd he cannot afterwards
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
refuse to prove the will  
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|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Haw.P.C. 260<br />[  ] 14-15
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An information may be defin'd an accusation agt a person for some criminal which from its enormity or dangerour tendency the publick good requires shou’d be restraind & punishd.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Hal. His. P.C.ch. 28
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|In crimes not capital the proceeding may be by information
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Lev.125<br />Sid.174
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|For a conspiracy alone with<sup>t</sup> any prosecution information lies.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Carth. 226
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|In every information a single offence ought to be laid & ascertain’d.
 +
|-
 +
||2.Hawk P.C.262
 +
|An information is not to be admitted to be filed (except those exhibited in the name of his Majesties attorney Genl) with<sup>t</sup> first making a rule on the persons complain'd of to shew cause to the contrary, which rule is never granted but on motion made in open Ct & grounded upon affidavit of some misdemeanor which doth either from its enormity or dangerous tendency seem proper for the most publick prosecution. Sometimes upon special circumstances a Ct will grant it agt those who cannot be personally servd
 +
|}
  
Whatever the Exr does with relation to the goods &c
+
===<center>Informations</center>===
of the testator which shews an intention in him
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
to take upon him the Exr.shp will amount to
+
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|with such rule as if they purposely absent themselves
  
===Page 107===
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But if he shew good cause to the contrary the ct will not grant the information with<sup>t</sup> some particular circumstances the judgemt whereof lies in discretion
EX<sup>rs</sup> and ADM<sup>rs</sup>
+
|}
22.G.2.Ch.3
 
162
 
167
 
Lev.186
 
Yent. 303
 
Sid
 
quere
 
6.Co.18
 
Cr.El.459
 
Sal.302
 
5.Co.9
 
2. Will. 576
 
pl.188
 
2.Ver.514
 
Sal. 36
 
pl.2
 
  
an admn &. whatever acts will make a man liable
+
===<center>Injunction</center>===
as Exr de son tort will be deemd an election of the Exrship
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Moor 920 pl. 1108
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Injunction is a prohibitory writ restraining a person from doing a thing which appears to be agt eq<sup>y</sup> & conscience
  
An Exr or Admr must return a true inventory of
+
An injunction to stay restitution upon an indictmt of forcible entry.
the estate of the deceas'd when requir'd by the Ct
+
The most usual injunction is to stay proceedings at law on some equitable circumstances of which the party cannot have the benefit at law in each case the Plf in equ may move for an injunction either upon an attachmt or praying a dedimus, or praying a further time to answer, but this injunction only stays execution touching the matters in question & there is always a clause giving liberty to call for a plea to proceed to trial, for want of it, to obtain judgmt but exn is stay’d till answer or further order
Wherever an estate is of gra~ter value than £100 pro-
+
|-
-bate may oe granted by the Genl Ct.
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ver.330<br />Vel.161<br />[  ].14<br />[ ].Ch.454
   
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man be tent for life witht impeachmt of waste with rem<sup>r</sup> to his first &c son in tail yet if he shd pull down the house or any part of the buildings thereunto belonging eqy would enjoin him
When admn has been unduly obtaind it may be
+
|-
revok'd. If Admr has been granted to any person who
+
|[ ].Ca 66
is not of kin to the intestate it may be revok'd
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|An injunction granted to stay trial at law is never granted but upon notice, as where one files
& granted to the next of kin on his application
+
|}
   
 
If an Admr be appointed & after an Exr appears
 
& proves a will all meane acts of the Admr shall be avoided.
 
If th Admr sells goods after Admn is repeald & gran-
 
-ted to another yet the sale is good
 
 
Tho' an Exr may commence an action in right of
 
his testator yet he cannot declare before -probate
 
  
Admn may be granted during the absence of an Exr
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===<center>Injunction</center>===
& pendente lite of a will
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
Admn may be granted to two or more & if one of them
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|-
dies yet tb admn does not cease. Also admn has to
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
a particular thing may be granted to one & as
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|his bill & it appears to the Ct that the Plf eqy must rise out of the defts answer
another part of the estate to another, but sevl Admi-
+
|-
nistrations cannot be granted for one & the same
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ver.156
thing.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An injunction for quieting the possession is only grantable where the Plf has been in possession three years before the bill exhibited on a title yet undetermind, or in case the clause hath been heard & judgemt pass’d on its merits by the Ct
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ver.22
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|There is an injunction to prevent multiplicity of suits
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2. [Kell?] 17
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|injunction intended to stay proceedings agt Bail
  
===Page 108===
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It hath been of late practis'd to commit the party on affidavit of a breach of an injunction & personal notice given to him
EX<sup>rs</sup> and ADM<sup>rs</sup>
+
|}
Godol.180
 
Off. Exr.
 
Off.Exr.65
 
Do. 60
 
Do. 71
 
3.Leon.51
 
Vent.161
 
Cr.El. 644
 
see
 
Cr.Ch.207
 
Co.L.47
 
Latch.99
 
Cr.El.217
 
[    ]
 
law
 
Off.Exr.4
 
2.Bl.314-16
 
Prec.Ch..323
 
1.P.Wm7.541
 
2.do 333. 3d.43
 
Str.559
 
Ver.473
 
Abr.eq.24
 
 
All the testators personal estate how remote
 
so ever situated is assets in the hands of the
 
Executor
 
  
Debts due to the testator are not assets till reco-
+
===<center>Injunction</center>===
-ver'd, yet if the Exr releases the debt he is answer-
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
-able to the value. Th possession of chattel real
+
|-
which are corporal is not in the Exr till entry.
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
If the Exr submits to arbitration the debt or dama-
+
|}
-ges to which he is entitled in right of his testator
 
& a release &c is awarded he shall be chargd as
 
if he had rec<sup>d</sup> the money.
 
 
If a man posess'd of a term for 50 years makes a
 
lease (struck through)for his (struck through)/for 20 years/reserving rent to him & his Heirs
 
the rent is extinct at his death but had the
 
reservation been during the term/the Exr
 
shou'd have recd the rent
 
  
Where the Exr has no legacy at all the residuum
+
===<center>Inns & Innkeeper</center>===
shall gen<sup>ly</sup> be his own, but whereever the re is
 
sufft on the face of the will (by means of a compe-
 
-tent legacy or otherwise) to imply that the testator
 
intended his Exr shou'd not have the residue
 
the undevis'd surplus of the estate shall go to
 
the next of kin.
 
 
So if there be any fraud in obtaining the Exrship
 
  
===Page 109===
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
EX<sup>rs</sup> and ADM<sup>rs</sup>
+
|-
2.Ver.736
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|22.G.2.Ch.<br />24.p.241
Abr.eq.246
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Any person retailing liquors witht license to forfeit ten pounds
Gil.rep.125
+
|-
[  ] ver.252
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Palm.374<br />2.Roll.<br />Rep.345
2.Str.865
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A person who makes it his business to entertain travellers & passengers is a common
Ray.496
+
innkeeper.
Sal.250 pl.1
+
|-
Abr.eq.249
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr. Ch. 549
Vent.316
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An Innkeeper cannot be a bankrupt
2.Lev.173
+
|-
Eq.Ca.Abr.
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.47
249 pl.7
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The horse & goods of a Guest cannot be distrained
Carth.51
+
|-
Swin.217
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ray.231
2.Ver.438
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man keeps an inn & a person who lives just by him designing to get away his customers tells a person who enquires for such inn that no one lives there this is actionable
  
Parol proof will be admitted in affirmation of the
+
If an innkeeper refuses to take a traveller as a Guest into his house unless house be full or if he refuse to furnish him with victuals on being tenderd a reasonable price for the same an action lies agt him|-
intention of the testator to give the Exr the undevi-
+
|-
sed surplus but not to proove the contrary.
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sal.18
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|He who takes upon himself a public employmt must serve the public as far as his employment goes, therefor the Inkeener must answer for the neglects of those he keeps under him though he shoud expressly caution agt it
 +
|}
  
On the Stat. of distributionsthe following points
+
===<center>Inns & Innkeeper</center>===
have been resolv'd.
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 
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|-
The clause which says there [sha]ll be no representati-
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[  ]. Co. 32<br />[ ]. 96
-ons beyond Brothers & sisters children must
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man desires his horse to be put to grass & the horse is stole the innkeeper is not liable. secus if the man does not direct his horse to be put to grass, or if he be lost by the voluntary & wilful negligence of the innkeeper
be intended Brothers & sisters of the intestate.
+
|-
 
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|22.G.2.ch<br />[  ].p.241
The half blood shall come in for a share with the
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ordinary keeper selling at higher rates than allowd to pay 10/ to the informer which is recoverable before any justice of peace.
whole blood being as near a kin to the the intestate.  
+
|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[ ].6.53<br />Roll.abr.95<br />Dyer.266
The distribution to be per Capita when they all claim in their
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If an Innkeeper or his sert sell corrupt wine or victuals an action lies agt the Master.
own rights.
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|-
 
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|8 Co.32<br />Br.ac.on the case.41
If a Person entitled to a distributive share dies before
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Innkeepers are chargeable for the goods of guests stolen or lost out of their inns & of this duty they cannot discharge themselves by sickness absence &c.
distribution his part goes to his Exr.
+
|-
 
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|8.Co.33.
Such advancemt as will exclude a child from his
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the host delivers the key of the chambers where the goods are to the guest & he leaves the door open & the goods are stolen yet an action lies agt the host. secus if he be robb'd by one who was with him or who desires to be lodged with him It seems the host is answerable if the guest does not acquaint him with what goods he has.
share of his fathers estate must be given by his
+
|-
Father to him & not to any other in in use for him
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Moor 158 pl.299
 
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Secus if the host ask him & he deny that he hath any or says that he has less than he has in reality. Said by Anderson, but Windham & [  ] contra
Where the heir at law has a settlemt made on him
+
|}
on his fathers marriage out of the personal estate
 
to entitle him to any more he must bring
 
such adancement into Hotch pot
 
  
===Page 110===
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===<center>Inns & Innkeeper</center>===
EX<sup>rs</sup> and ADM<sup>rs</sup>  
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
Off.of Exr.
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|-
156
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2. Brom. 214<br />8.Co.32
Godol.203
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If an host invites one to stay all night yet if he be afterwards robb’d the host shall not be chargd for he was no traveller
Off.Exr.159
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|-
6.Mod.181
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ja.188<br />Moor 877<br />Hay 126<br />Sal.388 pl.2
Cr. El.43
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man comes to an inn with a hamper in which he has sevl goods & leave it with the innkeeper he shall not be chargeable if the goods are stolen unless the man returns that night. Secus if it be any thing which the host hath benefit by keeping
2.Lev.189
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|-
Off.Exr.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ja.224
171:159
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a mans servt travelling on his masters business comes to an inn where the horse is stolen the master shall have an action
3.Leon.51
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|-
[  ].31 159
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ch.27<br />Sal.388.nl.2
2. Bl. 511
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The Innkeeper may retain the person of the guest who eats or the horse which eats till paymt.
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|-
A devastavit is a mismanagement of the estate & effects
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Moor 877
of the dec<sup>d</sup> in squandering & misapplying the assets
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An innkeeper who detains a horse for his meat cannot use him.
contrary to the trust & confidence repos'd in them &
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|}
for which Exrs & Admrs shall answer out of their own
 
pockets as far as they had or might have had assets of
 
the dec<sup>d</sup>
 
 
Acts of negligence & wrong adm<sup>n</sup> which will dis-
 
-appoint creditors of their debts amoumt to a  
 
devastavit.
 
 
So if an Exr submits whatever he is entitled to in
 
right of his testator, to arbitration
 
  
The Exr or Admr must first pay funeral expenses
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& the expence of proving the will &c then
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
debts due to the King (now I presume the com-
+
|-
mowealth) on record or specialty. Thus such
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[  ] Co.27<br />Co. L.30<br />Co.L.9 200
debts as are by act of Assembly directed first to be
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The wife of a Joint tent cannot be endow’d If there be two joint tents & one releaseth to the other this passeth a fee with <sup>t</sup> the word heirs. Tents in common cannot release to each
paid as money due on protested bills of exchange
+
|-
& where a person dies chargeable with the estate
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[  ] H.6.51
of any Orphan or of of any dec<sup>d</sup> person commit-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|One joint tent cannot surrender to the other
-ted to his care, then debts of rec<sup>d</sup> as judgemts,
+
|-
debts by special contract & lastly debts due by
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sal.392 pl.4
simple contract.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|One Tent in common cannot deseise the other otherwise than by an actual disseisin
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|ColL.190
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A Layman & a Bishop may be joint tents of a lease for years & of a personal thing
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[  ] sec.291
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If an estate be made to husband & wife & a third person the husband & wife shall take
 +
but one moiety.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.187
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If Lands be given to husband & wife & their heirs the husband cannot during the life of the wife dispose of any part of it. Secus if it be given to a man & a woman before marriage.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.188<br />[  ] 101<br />Dyer 340
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man make a feoffmt to the use of himself & such wife as he shall afterwards marry they are joint tenants
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ver.683
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It has been ruld in ch<sup>y</sup> that where the husbd binds out money in the names of himself & wife, upon Mortgages & bonds & dies that the wife is entieled to the money.
 +
|-
 +
|Co.L.351
 +
|If baron & feme be joint tenants of a lease or other personal thing he may grant though
 +
|}
  
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===<center>Joint Tenants & Tenants in Common</center>===
EX<sup>rs</sup> and ADM<sup>rs</sup>  
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
Co.143
+
|-
Lev.355
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
Cr.El.315
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|He cannot devise it.
Plow.279
+
|-
Sid.230
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|10.Co.5<br />Cr.El.341<br />Co.L.46
Cr.El.793
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a lease be made to Baron & feme for their lives remainder to the survivor & or to the Exrs of the survivor & the baron grants the term & dies this will not bar the wife surviving because she had but a possibility & no interest.
10.Co.47
+
|-
Cr.Ja.191
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.55
571
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Baron & feme joint tents for life, baron sows the land & dies, his Exrs shall have the emblements
672
+
|-
Vent.30
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Carth.170
Cr.El.406
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The survivor alone of two joint Merchants may bring trover for goods lost.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Str.217
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If two take a lease jointly of a farm the stock though occupied jointly shall not survive
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El.431<br />2. Sid. 53<br />3.Lev.127
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man hath issue only two daughters & devises land to them & their heirs they are joint tenants
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.189<br />Lit sec.309
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If there be three joint tents & one of them aliens his part the other two are joint tents of their parts & hold them in common with the alience, &c.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co. L.190
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If lands be given to two habendum the one moiety to one & his heirs the other moiety to the other & his heirs this is a tenancy in common
 +
|-
 +
|2. Vent. 365
 +
|The words equally divided or equally to be divided do not create a tenancy in common indeed such estate in conveyance can only be
 +
|}
  
A decree in a ct of eqy is equal to a judgmt at law & the
+
===<center>Joint Tenants & Tenants in Common</center>===
filing a bill in equity is equal to filing an original at
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
law to prevent the alienation of assets
+
|-
   
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[  ]<br />[  ]<br />[ ] 330
If an action be brought agt an Exr on a simple contract
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|created by limiting the estate to them to take expressly as tents in common, or by limiting a part to one & a part to another
he may plead in bar a bond enterd into by his testator
+
|-
& payable at a future day.
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[ ]<br />Moor 550<br />Cr.Ja.448
   
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|In a will the intention of the testator is to govern therefore a devise to two equally & their heirs has been held a tenancy in common.
But if the Exr has no notice of the specialty it is no
+
|-
devastavit to pay debts by simple contract first.
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Holt. 410<br />Abr.Eq.292<br />[  ]332
But at their Peril they must take notice of debts on rec<sup>d</sup>
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A mortgage devisd to two daughters being held in common if they purchase the eqy of redemption that shall be held in common likewise
   
+
|-
If a man is both Exr & devisee & he enters on the thing
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[ ].16
devis'd. without claim or demonstration of election
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If £500 a piece is devised to two legatees who take a Mortgage jointly to them both for securing the paymt of their legacies & interest one of them dies, the other shall have nothing by survivorship
he shall have it as Exr.
+
|-
   
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Abr.Eq. 192<br />[  ]<br />[ ]<br />Phillips
If an Exr is sued & pleads ne unques Exr & it is found
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|One devisd £100 to five equally to be devided between them & the survivors & survivor of them & if A (one of the five) died before marriage, her share to go over to another person, held a tenancy in common
agt him the judgemt shall be de bonis testatoris
+
|-
&c [  ] de bonis propriis
+
|Ver.33
+
|In eqy where two or more purchase lands & it appears in the deed itself that the proportions of money paid are not equal, however the legal estate may survive, the survivor shall be considered but as a trustee for the others, in proportion to the money paid
But is an Exr pleads that such a deed is not the deed
+
|}
of his testator, or that a release was given to the
 
testator yet the judgemt shall be de bonis testatoris
 
 
An Exr may bring ejectmt for an ejectmt in the
 
life of his testator.
 
  
An Exr cannot in the same action join a  
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===<center>Joint Tenants & Tenants in Common</center>===
demand in his own right & what he hath
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
in right of his testator
+
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|So if one lays out a considerable sum of money in repairs or improvements.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Abr.Eq.290
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Five persons purchasd lands & after enterd into articles (in order to improve & cultivate the lands) whereby they agreed to be equally concern'd as to profit & loss & to advance each of them such a sum to be laid out in the manurance &c of the land, It was held that they were tents in common as to the benificial interest or right in those lands For it may happen that some may have paid their share of the money & others nothing.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|5.Co.9
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If an estate is limited to Husband & wife during their joint lives it determines with the death of either of them
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Lit.Sec.283<br />Co.L.25
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If lands be given to two men & the heirs of their bodies they have a joint estate for life & sev<sup>l</sup> inheritances. Secus if given to a man & a woman
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.168<br />Br.Lit.Grants 154
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Joint tents & tents in common may according to the interest they have join or sever in making leases
 +
|-
 +
|Co.L.47<br />Vent.161
 +
|But if there be two Joint tents &c & they make a lease by parol or deed both reserving rent to one only yet it shall enure to both
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|}
  
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===<center>Joint Tenants & Tenants in Common</center>===
EX<sup>rs</sup> and ADM<sup>rs</sup>
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
Cr.El.711
+
|-
Sal.297.pl.6
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
Off.Exr.119
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Secus if it be by deed indented.
sid.397
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|-
O.co.87
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Roll.Abr. 877<br />[  ].202
Cr.Ja.293
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If two tents in common of lands join in a lease for years by indenture of their sevl lands this shall be the lease of each for his part & the cross confirmation of each for the part of the other
405
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|-
@.G.2.ch3.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sal.285 pl.17<br />Ld.Ray.741<br />Bridg. 129
166
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The possession of one joint tent is the possession of the other so far as to prevent the Stat. of limitations. So if they be disseis’d & one enters this is the entry of both
Cr.Ja.228
+
|-
Vent.92
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[  ] sec. 306<br />Co.L.194
Cr.E.503
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If these be two joint tents by disseisin &c & the disseisee &c release to one of them it shall enure to his advantage only. Secus if the disseisors enfeoff two persons
Cr.Ja.350
+
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[  ] sec.207<br />Co.L.49<br />3.Vent.202<br />[  ] Co. 95
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a feoffment be made to A & B by deed & livery be made to one in the name of both it shall enure to both. Secus if the feoffmt be witht deed.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Dalr.44 pl.33
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If two joint tents make a feoffmt on condn that if they paid such a sum before such a day they might reenter, before the day one of them releases this condn to the feoffer it shall not bind his companion
 +
|}
  
If an Exr takes an obligation for a debt to
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===<center>Joint Tenants & Tenants in Common</center>===
the testator in debt on this contract the writ
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
shall be in the debet & detinet. So in trespass for
+
|-
goods taken out of the possession of the Exr.
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|1. Inst. 302
 
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Two joint tents for years or for life one of them does waste, this is the waste of both as to the place wasted, but treble damages shall be recover’d agt him who did the waste only
In debt agt Exr for the arrearages of rent incur'd
+
|-
in his time the writ shall be in the debet & detinet
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.18
But the Exr may plead that he has not assets &
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A naked trust or authority cannot survive but a trust coupled with an interest shall survive.
that the land is of less value than the rent & de-
+
|-
mand judgemt of he ought not to be charged in the detinet only 
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|  191
 
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a lease be made for A & B for their lives & the life of the longest liver & they make partition & A dies, the lessor shall enter into his part
After judgemt agt an Exr one may in a new action
+
|-
in the debet & detinet, suggest a devastavit &
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Roll. Abr.86
(struck through)demand(struck through) charge him de bonis propriis.
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Two joint tents sow their corn & one dies the corn shall go to the survivor. secus where husbd & wife are joint tents.
 
+
|-
It is now agreed that, where there is a duty as XXXX
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Perk. Sec.523
well as a wrong an action lies an
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|One of two tents in common sows the land then his Exrs shall have the corn
Exr or Admr.
+
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.181
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The right of survivorship takes place immediately on the death of the joint tent whither it be a natural or civil death
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|  188
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|There shall be no right of survivorship unless the thing be in jointure at the instant of the death of him who first dieth
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|  185
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Two femes joint tents of a lease for years one of them takes husbd & dies yet the term shall survive. secus of personal goods
 +
|}
  
Exrs & Admrs of Exrs & Admrs chargeable
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===<center>Joint Tenants & Tenants in Common</center>===
for devastavits in same manner as their testators
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
or intestates might have been charged.
+
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co. L.186
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Although joint tents are seisd per [  &  ] yet to sevl purposes each of them hath but a right to a moiety, as to enfeoff give or demise, forfeit release by default in a praecipe.
  
Exrs & Admrs when Plfs pay no costs, unless they
+
If two joint tents make a feoffmt in fee with cond<sup>n</sup> & on the breach thereof one of them shall enter into the whole yet he shall enter into but a moiety
bring an action in their own right
+
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2. Ver.23
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An agreem<sup>t</sup> to alien does not sever the joint tenancy
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[  ].193
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The conveyance from one joint tent to another is by release. Tents in common must convey by feoffmt &c.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Vent.78<br />[  ].452<br />Leon.167
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the jury find that one joint tent did grant or convey to another this amount to a release one joint tent of a rent cannot release the arrearages to another.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.167
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A partition between joint tents of a preehold must be by deed . Secus of tents in common
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|  168
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Regularly every disposition by one joint tent to bind his companion must be an immediate disposition.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|  185<br />Br.titl Grants <br />[ 254?]
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But if one, of two joint tents in fee lets his moiety to J.S. for years to begin after his death this is good
 +
|}
  
An Exr deft pays costs in all cases
+
===<center>Joint Tenants & Tenants in Common</center>===
 +
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Lit. sec.281<br />Cr. Ja.101
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If one of two joint tents devises his part & survive the other joint tent the devise is good for the whole
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ja.91<br />Co.L.184<br />Co.96
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If one of two joint tents for life makes a lease for years to commence immediately or after his death for his moiety, it shall be good & binding agt the survivor, but if rent be [  ] ’tis determin’d & gone by the death of the lessor.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sal.158
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|In Eqy if three persons are jointly possess’d of a term for years & one of them mortgages his third part the joint tenancy is wholly sever’d
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.188
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If there be two Joint tents of a rent & one of them disseises the tent of the land this severs the joint tenancy for a time
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El.33
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If one of two joint tents grants a parcel of the term to a stranger by this the jointure of all is severd
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Lit. sec.286<br />Co.L.184
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Regularly all grants or charges on the land by one joint tent fall of with his life
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.And.202<br />2.Co.60<br />Cr.El. 750
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Two joint tents for life the reversion descends or is granted to one of them this severs the jointure
 +
|-
 +
|Cr.El. 65
 +
|If a writ of partition be brought by one joint tent agt sevl & there happens to
 +
|}
  
Exrs & Admrs are not to be held to special bail 
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===<center>Joint Tenants & Tenants in Common</center>===
 
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
===Page 113===
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[remainder of page blank]
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|error & one of the defts releases all errors to the Plf this shall not bar the others
 
+
|-
===Page 114===
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Dalison 59.
EXTINGUISHMENT
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If after the awarding of the judicial writ & before the return of it the deft dies yet the partition is good
Pollex.142
+
|-
[  ] ex.17
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|F.N.B.62
Vaugh.34
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The process in the writ is summons attachment & distress infinite
Cr.El.47
+
|-
10.Ca. 48
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co. L.18O
4. Co.52
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Joint tents must jointly implead & be impleaded with others.
Vent.277
+
|-
Burro.9
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|  197<br />Lit.sec.314<br />Lit.sec.315
6.Co.44
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Tents in common where the thing is entire must likewise join in an action as for a horse &c.
2.Leon.110
+
|-
Cr.Ja.579
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.198
Cr.El.304
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|So in actions personal as in trespass for breaking open a house &c.
Cr.El.920
+
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|    185<br />Carth.289
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Tents in common may join or sever in debt or covenant for rent, but if they sever the demand must be de una medietate of the whole
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr. Ja.19
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If two joint tents bring trespass & pending the action one of them dies the writ shall abate. Secus if brought agt them.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.188
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If one joint tent be summond & sever'd & dies the writ abates because the survivor [goes?] for the whole
 +
|}
  
If the Lessor purchases the land demased from
+
===<center>Joint Tenants & Tenants in Common</center>===
the Lessee, or if the Lessee be evicted the rent is
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
extinguish'd. But if the conveyance to the Lessor be
+
|-
on condition or if only part of the land be evicted the
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.197
rent in the one instance is only suspended, in the
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Secus in personal & mix’d actions where there is summons & severance & yet after such summons & severance the plf goes on for the whole
other is proportiond
+
|}
  
A Lessor's entering wrongfully into part of
+
===<center>Jointure</center>===
the lands demised suspends the whol rent.
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
+
|-
It seems to be agreed as a genl rule that a cre
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.36<br />4.Co.2<br />2.Bl.137
-ditors accepting a higher security than he had be-
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A jointure is a competent lively hood of freehold for the wife of lands &c to take effect presently [the] possession as profit after the death of the husband for the life of the wife at least
-fore is an extinguishmt of the first debt.  
+
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|4.Co.23
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The estate must take effect immediately after the death of the husbd therefore if an estate be made to A for life or to the use of A for life rem<sup>r</sup> to the wife this is no good jointure tho A dies living the husbd
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.36
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It must be for the term of the wifes life or a greater estate, therefore if an estate be made for the lives of many others or for any term of years tis no good jointure
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|4.Co.23<br />Sed vide—<br />Moor 31.pl.10
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If an estate be limited to the wife upon condition, as durante viduitate, her acceptance of such conditional jointure makes it good
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.36<br />Br.Ab,224
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It must be made to herself & not to others in trust for her. But this rule has some times been dispens’d with in a Ct of eqy.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.36
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It must be in satisfaction of her whole Dower & so express’d.
 +
|-
 +
|[  ].Abr.824
 +
|Of this quaere for it is not requird either within
 +
|}
  
But this must be understood where the debtor
+
===<center>Jointure</center>===
himself enters into these securities
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Owen 33
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|the words or intent of the Stat. And therefore where an assurance was made to a woman to the intent it shoud be for her jointure but it was not so express'd in the deed, the opinion of the Ct was that it might be aver’d & that such avermt was not traversable
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ja.490
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a wife has an old right before coverture & afterwards takes a jointure of the same lands she shall be remitted
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ch.Ca. 162
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a feme covert joins with her husband in levying a fine to raise a sum of money by way of
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ver.41<br />2.Vent.343
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Mortgage this shall bind her, yet in this case she doth not absolutely part with her estate for life but there results a trust to the wife to redeem, & the money shall be paid out of the personal estate of the husband
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|  Do<br />Ver.427, 207
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man before marriage articles to settle a jointure on his intended wife, & the marriage is consummated & the husband dies before any settlemt made; eqy will decree an execution of the articles
  
The accepting a security of a lower nature or of an
+
If there be a jointress & a covt that her jointure shall be of such a year by value
equal degree is no extinguishment
+
|}
  
If an Inft becomes 'indebted for necessities
+
===<center>Jointure</center>===
& the creditor takes his bond this shall not wxtin
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
-guish the simple contract debt, because the bond is of
+
|-
no force
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Abr.Eq. 221
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|& it falls short, she may commit waste so far as to make up the defect of the jointure
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ver. 707<br />Ver.479
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a bill is brought by the heir at law or any other person agt the jointress whereby the party woud avoid a jointure under pretence that his Ancestor was only tent for life &c & he seeks for a discovery of deeds whereby he woud avoid the title of the jointress he shall never have such discovery unless he will submit by his bill to confirm her
 +
title. So if jointress prays such discovery agt an heir at law if the heir submitts by answer
 +
to confirm the jointress title she shall have no such discovery.
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|}
  
===Page 115===
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===<center>[blank]</center>===
EXTORTION 
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
Co.L.368
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|-
2.Co.102
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
Ray.315
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
Inst.209
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|}
  
Extortion is the taking of money by any officer
+
===<center>Juries</center>===
under color of his office, either where  none at all
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
is due, or not so much is due, or where it is not yet due
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|-
 
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
This offence is punishable at common law by
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
fine & imprisonment & also by removal from
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|}
the office, & the Stat. of West. 1. enacts that no
 
Sheriff nor other Kings Officer shall take any
 
reward to do his office but shall be paid of that
 
which they take of the King: & that he who so doth
 
shall yield twice as much & shall be punishd
 
at the Kings pleasure
 
  
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FELONY 
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
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|-
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|}
  
Hawk.
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===<center>[blank]</center>===
P.C.94
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
Cr.El.
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|-
536
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
H.P.C.61
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
Hawk.
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|}
P.C. XX 69
 
Hawk
 
P/C.90
 
3.Inst.108
 
  
There may be felony in taking goods the owner
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===<center>[blank]</center>===
wrhereof is unknown
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
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|-
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
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|}
  
A man may be guilty of felony in stealing goods
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===<center>[blank]</center>===
the absolute property whereof is in himself
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
as where one delivers goods to a carrier or
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|-
Taylor &c. afterwards with an intent to charge
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
such carrier or Taylor fraudulently & secretly
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
takes them away.
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|}
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===<center>Justice of Peace</center>===
To constitute an offense felony there must
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
be an actual taking as well as an in-
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|-
tent to steal & every indictmt for larceny
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
must have both the words cepit & aspor XXXX-
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
-tavit.
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|}
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===<center>“        2          “</center>===
If I send a box to a carrier, & he sells it this
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
is not felony, but if the box be broke open
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|-
& the goods carried away this is felony, so if
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
he carry the goods to the place & then take
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
them away
+
|}
 
He who ags the bare charge of goods may be
 
guilty of larceny in taking them away, also
 
he who intending to steal them obtains a delivery
 
of them, as from a sheriff by virtue of a
 
 
 
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FELONY
 
4.P.C.63
 
Hawk.
 
P.C.90
 
3.Inst.108
 
Hawk.
 
P.C.2
 
H.P.C.70
 
Hawk
 
P.C.95
 
 
 
replevin, or by way of execution of a judgemt obtain
 
by imposition on a Ct with<sup>t</sup> any color of title
 
by false affidavits &c Also he who steals
 
goods from one who has stolen them from me
 
 
 
If a felon be caught in the first act of carrying
 
the goods away before he is out of the house
 
it is a felony
 
  
A feme covert shaill not suffer any thing for
+
===<center>Leases & Terms for Years</center>===
committing a bare theft in company
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
with or by coercion of her husband.
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|-
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[      ]<br />[  ] 149<br />[  ] Co.16<br />Dyer.56<br />Br. tit.<br />[        ]<br /> .23<br />Bul.7<br />Lit. sec. 71<br />Co.L.57
It is said to be no felony for a person reducd
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Not only lands & houses have been let for years but also goods & chattels. If one lease for years a stock of live cattle such lease is good & the lessee hath only the use & profits of them during the term, but yet the lessor hath not any reversion in them to grant over to another till the lessee hath redeliver’d them to him. If any of them die during the term the lessee need not replace them & all the young ones belong absolutely to the lessee. The lessee cannot kill, sell &c. the old ones witht being subject to an action of trespass. In case of a lease of a house together with goods it is usual to have a schedule thereof & affix it to the lease & to have a covt from the Lessee to redeliver them at the end of the term. Witht such covt the lessor woud have no other remedy but trover or detinue for them after the end of the term.
to extreme necessity to take so much of anothers
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|-
(struck through)goods(struck through) victuals as will save him from starving.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Hard.46<br />2.Lev.245
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A ministerial tho' not a judicial office may be granted for years
If two or more persons steal goods above the
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|-
value of 12d this is grand larceny in each of
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Moor 105<br />2 Lit. sec. 547.     
them. If a person is indicted for stealing goods
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Some opinions are that all leases made by
to the value of 10/ & the jury find him guilty
+
Co.L.45.  Lev.6.  Bos.tit.leases. [50?]
but find specially that the goods are not worth
+
|}
more than 10d he shall have only judgemt of petit
 
larceny, whlch is forfeiture of goods & whipping
 
or other corporal punishment.  
 
  
===Page 118===
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===<center>Leases & Terms for Years</center>===
FELONY
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
H.P.c.232
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Hawk
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Lit.sec.259<br />Will. rep. 389<br />3. Co.119<br />Cr.El.127
P.C,342
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Infants are absolutely void unless rent be reserv’d. Others seem to be of opinion that they are only voidable
Hawk
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|-
PlC.98
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ja.332<br />Co.L.45<br />P.C.137
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Husbd may make a lease for lands held in right of the wife & such lease is good during the life of the husbd & after if the wife do not disagree to it.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr. Ja. 563
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|So if wife join in such lease for years by indenture unless made pursuant to 32.H.8. she is after her Husbds death at liberty to affirm it by acceptance of rent or to avoid it by bringing action of trespass. She may plead non dimuit.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Yel. 1<br />Cr.Ch.155<br />Cr. Ja. 617<br />2.Bul. 13<br />[            ]<br />[          ]
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the wifes part in such lease were merely void then the Lessee ought in his declaration on such lease to leave out the wife; as where Husbd & wife sealed a lease for years of the wifes lands & at the same time executed a letter of attorney to a third person to deliver such lease as thir deed to the lessee.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr. El. 656
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A parol lease of the wifes lands tho' by Husbd & wife determines absolutely by the death of the Husbd.
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Wherever a person is denied his clergy except
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in high treason or sacrilege such denial must
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be grounded on some Act of Parliament.
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|-
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El.287<br />Co.155
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Husbd & wife joint tents for /50/ years if they or either of them so long live the Husbd by indenture lets the lands for fifty years to commence immediately after his decease. This shall bind the wife. Secus if he had granted the term to commense after his death
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Br. tit.<br />[  ]vo/w/ry.123<br />Va/u/gh 46
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|a Husbd seis'd of land in right of his wife makes a lease for years reserving rent , his wife dies witht issue, yet he may avow for the rent till the heir hath made actual entry.
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|-
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|Cr. Ja. 22
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|The Stat. 32.H.8.Ch.28. has made an alteration in the common law & enabled all Husbds seised of lands in right of their wives to make leases for twenty one years or three lives, observing the directions therein given
  
Where an offense is made felony by stat. it
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That all leases to be made by any person or persons having any estate of inheritance in fee simple or fee tail in right of their wives or jointly with their wives, of an estate of inheritance made before the coverture or after shall be good provided that the wife be made party to every such lease to be made by her husband of any manors &c. being the inheritance if the wife
shall have the benefit of clergy unless ex-
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|}
pressly excluded. An indictmt must bring
 
a mans case expressly within the words of
 
the Stat. which denies him his clergy. A stat. by
 
excluding principals doth not therby exclude
 
accessories from their clergy likewise.
 
  
Where clergy is allowable those who stand mute
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or challeng above twenty, or are outlaw'd are as
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much entitled to it as those who are convicted.
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|-
Also a stat. by taking away Clergy from those
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
who shall be found guilty doth not take it away
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|And that every such lease be made by indenture in the name of the husband & wife & she to seal the same & that the rent be reserv’d to Husband & wife & to the heirs of the wife according to her estate of inheritance therein
from those who stand mute who challenge above
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twenty or are outlaw'd, but it extends to those
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Br.tit.<br />acceptance 14<br />Cr.Ch.398<br />Co.147<br />10.Co.49<br />Co.L.47<br />6.Co.15<br />Co.L.300
who shall confess themselves guilty upon record.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Leases for years made by tent in dower or curtesy can endure no longer than the life of the Lessor. So of leases made by tent for life unless confirm’d by him in rem<sup>r</sup> or reversion or unless the rem<sup>r</sup> man &c join with tent for life in an assignmt of the term with<sup>t</sup> mentioning the life estate. Nor can the acceptance of rent by him in reversion make good the lease. Neither will it be good if tent for life purchases the reversion
B the 8th of Eliz. ch.4. Clergy is taken from all those
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who steal goods from the person of another to the
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[      ] 650
value of 12.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a disseisor makes a lease for years & the disseisee confirms it & after reenters yet he shall not avoid the lease or rent.
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|-
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|Co.L.48<br />Cr.El.483<br />[    ] Co.55
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|If one be disseis’d of lands & while he is out of possession intends to make a lease for years the way is to prepare a deed of lease & after he hath sign’d & seal’d it, before any actual
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|}
  
By the 1 Ed. 6.ch.18.& 2&3.E.6.ch.33. Horse stealers are
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excluded the benefit of clergy
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FELONY
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|delivery thereof as his deed, to deliver it as his escrow to a third person to be deliver’d as his deed after entry & actual possession taken in his name, or after signing & sealing before actual delivery he may make a letter of attorney to a third person to enter upon the land in his name & after such entry to deliver it, as his deed to the lessee.
4.G.2
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ch.3.p.92
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|6.Co.63<br />5.Co.29<br />Princes<br />    case
9.G.2.ch 2.315
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Admr derrante minoritate may grant leases for years which will be good till the Exr attains the age of seventeen
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|B.2.tit <br />leases.37<br />Cr.Ja.99
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A bailiff of a manor cannot by virtue of his office make leases for years.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2. Ch. Ca. 202
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But if the bailiff of a manor bath a special power to make leases for years as they ought to be made in the name of their master so they ought to be made in writing that the authority may appear to be pursued
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|-
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|Lit. sec.123<br />Co.L. 88<br />Vaugh.18
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|A Guardian in socage make leases for years in his own name and is accountable to the inft when he comes of the age of fourteen or at
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|}
  
Burning any Tobacco house, ware house store
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house /or any other house/ or abetting the same or breaking any
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ware house or store house & taking from
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|-
thence goods to the value of 20/ sterling felony
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
with<sup>t</sup> benefit of clergy.  
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|any time after, so of Guardian by testament.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.Ja.55
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If such guardian makes a lease for years to continue longer than his interest in the lands tis not absolutely void but voidable only
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Plow.293
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a woman who is guardian in socage marries again & such husbd makes a lease for years of the infts lands, this lease upon the death of the husband becomes void.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|9.Co.76<br />Cr.El.115<br />Dyer.132
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If one hath power by letter of Attorney generally to make leases for years /or ought to make them/in the name & stile of his master & not in his own name.
  
Persons stealing slaves felons with<sup </sup> clergy.
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But in the conclusion of such lease it is proper to say In witness whereof A.B. of such a place &c. in pursuance of a letter of Attorney hereunto annex’d, bearing date such a day. Or if the letter of Attorney be genl & concern more lands than those compris’d in the present lease then to say In pursuance of a letter of Attorney bearing date such a day, hereunto annex’d, a true copy whereof is hereunto annexed hath put the hand & seal of the master & so write the masters name
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Person
 
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FEOFFMENT
 
  
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|-
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Vaugh. 28<br />8.Co.70<br />2.Str.992
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where leases for years are made pursuant to powers in private conveyances or settlemts those powers must be strictly pursued or the lease is void.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.134<br />8.Co.71
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a feoffmt in fee be made to the use of A for life rem<sup>r</sup> to B in tail with power to A to make leases reserving the accustomable rent payable to all those who shall have the reversion or rem<sup>r</sup>. If A makes leases accordingly these leases derive their essence out of the feoffmt & after they are made do in point of time precede all the other estate limited by that feoffmt.
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|-
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|Pope 81<br />Co.176<br />Cr. Ja.180<br />Ray.247
 +
|But these leases can only be made by virtue of such powers executed by transmutation of possession, therefore if one bargains & sells lands to another by indenture enrolld for the life of the bargainee with power for the bargainee to make leases for three lives or twenty one years yet this is of
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FEOFFMENT
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
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|-
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|effect to give him such power.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Lev.167<br />Sid.260<br />Ray.132<br />Reb.778, 910<br />Ch.Ca.17
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where tent in possession makes a settlemt with power to make leases generally there he can only make leases in possession But where he that makes the settlement had only a reversion at the time there he may make leases out of that reversion
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Leon 147
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Devise for life with power to make leases generally, before the expiration of his first lease may make a second to commence presently which shall be good as a concurrent lease
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|9.Co.76
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Tent for life with power to make leases for three lives &c cannot make them by Attorney
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ch.Ca.10 sec<br />Abr.Eq.<br />[            ]
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|One who has power to make a lease for ten makes it for twenty years this in Eqy is good for the ten years
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|-
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|[            ]
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|Whatever words are sufft to explain the intent of the parties that the one shall devest himself of the possession & the other come into it for such a determinate period of time, whether they run in form of a licence, covt or agree-
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|-
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3. Buls. 252<br />Sid.428
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|-mt are of themselves sufft to create a lease for years. And on the contrary if the most proper & authentic form of words are us’d yet if on the whole deed there appears no intent to pass a lease, but that they are only preparatory & relative to a future lease to be made, the law will rather do violence to the words than break through the intent of the parties. So if one only license another to enjoy such a house or land for such a time this amounts to a present & certain lease for the time.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Leon.136<br />Cr.El.1.173<br />Cr.Ja.42<br />3 Buls. 252<br />Cr.Ch.207<br />Cr.El.223
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|So if A by articles covenants with B that he shall have or enjoy such lands for such a time this is a good lease. Secus if the Covt had been with B that C a third person or that the Exrs of B might enjoy the lands. In the first case tho’ there be covts in the same articles that A shall hereafter make a good & perfect lease as counsel shall advise, yet that will not destroy the operation of the first words, such covt being only in majorem cautitam, that the lessee might require further assurance, if he found it necessary
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FORCIBLE ENTRY & DETAINER
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2 Inst.235
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sec.1. Hawk
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|[        ]
P.C.145
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|One made his will in this manner; I have made a lease to J.S. for twenty one years paying but 20/ rent. Held a good lease or devise
[    ] 136
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|-
Hawk
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Moor pl.31<br />Cr.El. 33.306
P.C.145-147
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|One said to another you shall have a lease of my lands in D for 21 years paying 10 rent, make a lease in writing & I will seal it. Held good.
Cr. Ja.190
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Dalt. 315
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Nay 128
Dalt. 300
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Articles were drawn between A & B in this manner A doth demise such a close to B to have it for 40 years, & a rent reserv'd with clause of distress &c. In witness whereof &c. And afterwards there was written on the same paper a memorandum that these articles are to be order’d by counsel of both parties according to the due form of law. Not a sufft lease because of the intent of the parties.
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|Dyer 150<br />Co.155<br />Moor 480<br />2.Mod.31<br />[        ]. rep 16.<br />Gil. Eq. re.108<br />[            ]
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|The sd A is contented to demise such lands &c to the sd B from Michaelmass next for 6 years, & after these words the rent reserv'd is 100 per Annum a rentry for nonpaymt of the rent, a covt for reparations & a covt to do such other thing these articles are sealed & deliverd by the parties, yet they do not amount to a lease, but were [stated wrong?] in Cr.Ja.172
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If a man whose entry is lawful entice another
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out of the house & enter the door being open
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or only latch'd, his entry is justifiable
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|-
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If he who hath an estate in land by a defensible
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|only preparatory covts or instructions for a lease & never were intended to have the force or effect of a lease themselves. Besides that, the word “contented” imports only an approbation of something to be done after
title continues with force in the possession
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|-
thereof, after a claim made by one who had a
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Mod.180<br />Sid.461<br />Vent.84
right of entry thereto, he shall be adjudged to have
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where the lease is to begin from the date if the date is impossible, it shall take effect from the delivery, but if the date be possible & uncertain it shall be totally void.
enter'd forcibly
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Dyer 261
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A leas’d lands to B for 40 years if he shou’d so long live & after to C pass for 21 years from the end of the term of B to commence & be accounted from the date of these presents. The lease to C shall begin from the end of the term of B & the last words are so construed as to give an interest as a future interest presently.
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|Plow.198<br />Co.L.45<br />Co.154<br />2. Bl.
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|The word term comprehends as well the estate & interest of the lessee in the lands as the time for which it is demisd. Secus of the word time If a reciting that B hath a lease for years of such lands demises the same lands to C for
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The same circumstances of violence or terror
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which will make an entry forcible will
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make a detainer forcible likewise
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|-
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Dyer.116 pl.70<br />Br. titles. .sec. 62<br />Plow.148<br />Cr.Ch.395<br />Co.L.46<br />Lev.77<br />Vaugh.73<br />Lev.234<br />Sid.460<br />2.Hub. 322
A joint Ten<sup>t</sup> or Ten<sup>t</sup> in common may offend agt
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Years to begin after the end of the Sd lease to B. where B hath not any lease the lease to C shall begin presently, for in judgemt of law a void limitation & no limitation is all one. So if he recites a lease which in construction of law appears after to be void or misrecites a good lease in a point material, Hab. from the end of the sd lease this new lease shall begin presently.
the purport of these statutes.  
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|Vaugh. 73<br />Dyer 93 pl.28<br />4 Co.74<br />Cr.El.603
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|Tho' when the first lease is good in law & only misrecited in a point material the new lease shall only commence in enumeration of years & not in interest till the determination of the first lease. So there a jury find an indenture of lease, whereby it is recited that the lessor made such former lease of such date & under such rent witht finding the former lease in fact but only by way of recital in the deed, such second shall be adjudged to begin presently tho’ in the deed it is limited to begin after the first lease so recited. Because the jury do not actually find the first lease but only a recital of it in another deed which recital may be
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An inft at the age of 18 some say l4 or a feme co-
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-vert by their own acts may be guilty of a
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forcible entry
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FORCIBLE ENTRY & DETAINER
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Bur. rep. 190
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A lease may commence one day in point of computation & another day in point of interest & such a lease"Hab. from a day past for 50 years then ll next ensuing, the sd term to commence from & after the determination for erecting lease of the same premises 11 shall not be esteem'd uncertain in its commencemt.
FORGERY
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|-
 
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.45<br />Co.155<br />Bl.
Haw. P.C.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If one makes a lease for years for so many years as J.S. shall name this is good provided J.S, names the yea rs in the life of the lessor.
186
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11.Co.27
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L.45<br />Bl.
Nay. 101
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man makes a lease for so many years as he shall live tis for uncertainty void from the beginning.
3.Ins. 170
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2d Ld.Ray
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Vent.13?
1461
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Scriptum obligaborium in pleadings may be intended an indenture
Hawk.
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P.C.182
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|6.Co.35
 
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a woman be enceinte of a son & a lease is made till such issue in ventre sa mere shall come to full age this is a lease at will only
If a man makes a deed of feoffment to J.S.
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|-
& after makes a deed of a prior date to J.D.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Do
tis forgery.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A lease for years witht saying how many good for two years
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|}
Also to insert legacies in a will without the
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===<center>Leases & Terms for Years</center>===
direction of the testator. So to incert in an
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
indictmt the names of those agt whom it was
+
|-
not found.
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Br. tit. leases.13
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A lease for ten years at the will of the Lessor good for ten years certain
The fraud & intention to deceive by imposing
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|-
on the world that as the act of another, which
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|5.Buls.158<br />Dyer 24[. ]<br />[. ]
he never consented to are the principal in-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A parson made a lease of his rectory for three years & so from three years to three years <s>during his life</s> and so from three years to three
XXXX -gredients which constitute this offence.
+
years during his life, held a good lease for 12 years
+
|-
To counterfeit a release or acquittance for
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Plow.273<br />co.L.45<br />6.Co.35<br />Cr.Ja.308<br />Bulst.215
a sum of money tho' with<sup>t</sup> seal is forgery.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man makes a lease for a year & so from year to year cqua indica ambabus partibus placierit?l this is an estate for two years certain at least & at most after three years tis but an estate at will
+
|-
Forgery at common law is punishable with
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3.Co.66<br />3.Bulst.131
fine & imprisonment or such other corpo-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a lease is made /for 40 yeara/ to A & B if they live so long the death of either of them will determine the lease
-real punishment as the ct shall think fit
+
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr. El. 643
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A lease was made for 21 years if the lessee so long liv'd & continued in the lessors service, the lessor dies the lease is not deter mind because it is the act of God that he coud serve no longer.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Dyer 67<br />[ ]l8<br />Co.L.219
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A lease is made to two for years with a proviso that if the lessees die within the term the term shall cease , one aliens & dies, the assignee shall have his part during the term or the life of the survivor.
 +
|}
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===<center>Leases & Terms for Years</center>===
 +
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
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|-
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Plow.421<br />Cr.El. 160<br />Co.155<br />3.Leon 17 <br />4.Do.23<br />5.Co.113
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If one makes a lease to A for ten years & the same day makes another lease to B by parol for ten years the last lease is absolutely void, but if it had been made for twenty years it woud have been good as a future interess.termini to talce effect when the first lease had by efflux of time expird. If such second lease had been made by deed poll it woud enact as a grant of the reversion & draw after it the rents & services of the first lessee if he woud attorn. If such second lease had been made by indenture it woud have been good as a present lease. But in all the cases beforementiond such lease by indenture or deed poll if made by way of bargain & sale for years then it shoud seem, it woud pass aw a reversionary interest presently witht any attornment by force of the Stat. of uses.
 +
|-
 +
|Co.L.47<br />4 Co.53
 +
|If a lease be made by indenture & the lessor have nothing in the lands at the time this
 +
|}
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===<center>Leases & Terms for Years</center>===
 +
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|shall operate mutually as an estoppel. But if the lessor bad any interest in the
 +
lands he may confess & avoid
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El.37 700<br />Co.L.352
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It is generally said that an estoppel ought to be mutual therefor a lease by feme covert &c binds neither party as an estoppel
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El.15<br />5.Co.124<br />Cr. El. 125<br />Cr.Ja. 60
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man makes a lease for years to commence after the death of a tent for life, & after the death of tent for life before the entry of Lessee for years a stranger enters still may the Lessee for years transfer his right of entry to another secus if he had enterd & was disseis'd.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El.169
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The Lessee must enter when his lease comes into possession & if he enters before this is a disseisin.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Co.L,52<br />Cr.Ja.117
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If Lessee for years has a letter of attorney to make livery of the freehold this shall not merge his term
 +
|}
  
By 5th of El. any person guilty of forging, assent-
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===<center>Leases & Terms for Years</center>===
-ing to or causing to be forged any writing seal
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
court roll or th e will of any person
+
|-
to the intent that the estate of freehold
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|7.co.48
 
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the Lessor infeoff's his Lessee for years to several uses the interest of the Lessee is saved by 27 of H.8.of uses.
===Page 125===
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|-
FORGERY
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|C.L.339<br/>Plow.
 
+
418
or inheritance of any person to any lands may
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|My Lord Coke lays it down that a man cannot have a term for years in his own right & freehold in auter droit, tho' one may have a term for years in auter droit & a freehold in his own right
be molested, or shall pronounce publish or shew
+
|-
it forth in evidence as true (except an attorney
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.J.275<br />Bulst 118
for his client who was not /party or/ privy to th for-
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But this rule admits of divers excentions: for where the Husband possess'd of a term for years took a wife & after the inheritance descends to the wife his term is not thereby merged because the descent was an act of law which the Husband coud not prevent.
-gery he shall pay to the party griev'd his dou-
+
|-
ble costs & damages, shall be set upon the
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El. 156
pillory in some open place & there have
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Any form of words whereby the intent & agreement of the parties may appear is sufficient to work a surrender.
both his ears cut off, also his nostrils slit
+
|-
& cut & sear'd with a hot iron & shall forfeit
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El.179, 302<br/>Co.L.308<br/>2.Vent.326<br />Co.L.173.<br />Per.sec.584
to the King the whole issues & profits of his lands
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Doubtful whether a lease for years may be surrender'd to one who has a term in remainder
and suffer perpetual imprisonment. And if any
+
|}
person shall forge or cause or assent to be forged
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===<center>Leases & Terms for Years</center>===
any false writing to the intent that any person
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
shall or may have or claim any estate or interest
+
|-
for term of years of in or to any lands or annu-
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Br.tit.leases. 14<br />5.Co.11<br />Cr.El.521
-ity; or shall forge &c. any Obligation or any
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A surrender in law of leases in possession is wrought by acceptance of a new lease from the reversioner
discharge of any debt &c or shall pronounce pu-
+
either to begin presently or at any distance of time during the continuance of the first lease.
-plish or give in evidence &c. He shall pay to
+
|-
the party griev'd his double costs & damages
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr.El.873<br />Hutton 104
shall be sat in the pillory & there have one of his ears
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If such second lease be void for any defect in the making or execution of it yet it is a surrender of the first lease secus if it were void for want of power in the Lessor to make it.
cut off & shall suffer imprisonment for one
+
|-
year. A second offence is felony with<sup>t</sup> benefit of
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|C.L.338<br />5.Co.11<br />Cr.El. 522
clergy
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Leases in futuro can only be surrender'd in law, for a surrender of them in fact is not good.
 
+
|}
===Page 126===
 
FORGERY
 
 
 
3. Inst.170
 
Nay.42
 
Hawk.
 
P.C.186
 
3.Leon.170
 
3.Ins.171
 
Keb.707
 
2.Str.901
 
  
The forgery of a lease for years or of a grant of a
+
===<center>Leases & Terms for Years</center>===
rent charge for years in the name of one
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
who is seised of the Freehold is within the first
+
|-
branch/of the statute; & the words in the 2d part
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
which relate to such estates are meant only
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
for those which were in esse before
+
|}
  
The forgery of a deed containing a gift of
+
===<center>Leases & Terms for Years</center>===
mere personal chattels is not within the XXX
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
statute
+
|-
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
He who is truly inform'd by another that a
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
deed is forged is in danger of the statute if he
+
|}
afterwards publish the same to be true
 
 
Though the 2d offence be not of the same nature
 
with th first yet the person is guilty of felony.
 
 
If the conveyance be defective so as not to
 
pass the thing intended to be conveyed still
 
it is a forgery
 
  
For a bare non feasance a man cannot be
+
===<center>Legacies</center>===
guilty of forgery unless by th omission he con-
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
veys a diff<sup>t</sup>, estate to another than he
+
|-
woud have taken
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Leon. 119
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man covenants with J.S. to pay him £20 & after devises him £20 in discharge of the covt this is not a legacy but a debt, but if he coven/an/ts with J.S. to pay A,B & C £20 a piece & devises them £20
 +
a piece in discharge of the covenant this is a Legacy & they being strangers to the covenant may sue as Legatees
 +
|-
 +
|Godolph. 281<br />2.Ver.467
 +
|Any words which manifest the intention of the testator to be to create or give a legacy will be suffient for that purpose as where a man gives £100 besides a cloak: this is a good bequest of the cloak Or if a man say out of the £100 which I gave to A I give B £50 this is a good bequest of the £50 because only a false demonstration in an immaterial circumstance, but A takes nothing. If there be a devise of a personal thing to A for life
 +
|}
  
Person counterfeiting inspectors receipt or stamp
+
===<center>Legacies</center>===
or knowing by tendering forg'd receipt, exporting tobacco
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
with forg'd stamp or demanding it by forg'd receipt
+
|-
guilty of felony with<sup>t</sup> clergy.
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.ver. 467
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|directing him at his death to give it to B this amounts to a devise of the [    ] of A only to A for life rem<sup>r</sup> to B.
===Page 127===
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|-
FORFEITURE
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.ver. 181
Co.L.8
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A devises his land to Bin fee paying £400 £200 of which to be at the disposal of his wife by her last will & testament. These words vest an absolute interest in the wife & if she dies intestate her Administrator shall have the £200
3.Inst.19
+
|-
3,Co. 2-3
+
|2.Ver. 513<br />do<br />Ver.355<br />2.ver. 421
7.Co.17
+
|If a man gives legacies to his children to be paid at 21 & if ei§her of them die before 21 his wife whom he makes sole Excutrix to dispose of such legacy to two or more of his children as she shoud think fit. The wife may appoint such legacy to one of the other children & it will be good. -- But if an Exr has a genl power to distribute a sum of money among children & makes an unreasonable distribution it
3.Ins.19
+
|}
Cr.Ja.312
 
2.Rob.564
 
Lev.279
 
Mod.16.31
 
Vent.128
 
Hales
 
P.C.271
 
5.Co.ll6
 
  
By the common law all right of inheritance to
+
===<center>Legacies</center>===
lands whereof the offender is seised in his own
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
right, & all rights of entry to lands in the
+
|-
hands of a wrongdoer are forfeited
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
on an attainder of high treason or of
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|will be controul'd in equity.
petit treason; in the latter case to the Lord.  
+
|-
 
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ver. 153
It seems agreed that no right of action to lands of
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If one devises £400 a piece to two of his sisters & to his third as much as his Exr shall think fir, the third shall have £400 also if the estate will hold out.
inheritance cou'd ever be forfeited, neither coud
+
|-
a right of entry into lands whereof there was a
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Dyer 177<br />C.L.112<br />Prec.in Ch.470<br />the contra<br />2. Ver. 105
ten<sup>t</sup> by title, nor an use except where lands
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It seems agreed that if a man devises legacies to all his children & grandchildren that this extends only to those who were in esse at the time the will was made, unless there are future words in the will as To all his children or grandchildren which shou'd be living at his death.
had been fraudulently convy'd with an intent to
+
|-
avoid forfeiture
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ver.405
 
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If one devise the surplus of his personal estate to the children of A & B & neither of them have a child at the time of making the will or at the death of the testator, the devise shall be executory & the children of each born after shall take per cauita
All personal things settled by way of trust on the
+
|}
offender are as much forfeited as if he had the legal interest
 
  
But the power of revocation of the trust of a settlement
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===<center>Legacies</center>===
is not liable to be forfeited if it depends on something
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
personal to be done by the grantor himself.
+
|-
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2. Ver. 106
A man forfeits all his personal estate on convic-
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where there is no child to take Grandchildren may take by the name of children
tion of treason or felony, upon the Coroners
+
|-
inquest taken on view of the dead body & finding
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3.Ch.rep.1.
him guilty either as principal or as Accessory,
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where lands are devis'd to younger children a son tho' a younger child by birth if he is heir to a considerable inheritance shall not take by the devise
before the fact & that he fled for the same whereby
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|-
he forfeits his goods absolutely & the issues of his
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ver.35
lands till he bw acquitted or pardon'd.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A man by will devis'd all his goods in such a house to G for life rem<sup>r</sup> to the heirs of J.S. He who was heir of J.S. at the time of his death shall have them.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.ver.381
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A gave legacies of £15 a piece to each of his relations of his father's & mother's side the Ct woud not restrain the devise to those who were within the Statute of distributions.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Prec.in Chy.401
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Yet the contrary is the genl rule
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Swin.428<br />Sal.237 pl.16
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
A devise of all a mans personal estate passes whatever he dies possessd of
 +
|}
 +
===<center>Legacies</center>===
 +
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.ver. 688
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man devises to his wife all his personal estate at a place call'd Wall his personal estate which is there at the time of his death passes.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Abr.Eq. 201
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But where a man devises all his goods chattels , household stuff , furniture & other things at W ready money passes not for the words other things can only intend things of the like nature with those enumerated
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Swin. 524
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the testator being constraind by necessity, as for the payment of his debts, supplying himself or his family with food &c. alienate the thing bequeath'd this is no ademption of the legacy & therefor
 +
is the Exr bound to redeem the same or to pay the just value to the legatary.
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|-
 +
|
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|If a legary be given to one person & after the same thing in the same will or in a codicil is given to another this
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|}
  
===Page 128===  
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===<center>Legacies</center>===
FORFEITURE
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
Hales
+
|-
B.C.271
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Swin. 528, 529
5.Co.110
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|is no ademption of the legacy given to the first person unless it appeard to be the testator's intention, but they shall divide the legacy between them
5.Co.129
+
|-
3.Inst.134
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ray.335
Cr.El.694
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If A give to B £500 due to him from C as by bond appears, & after receive the money this is no ademption of the legacy
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Abr.Eq. 302. n 2.<br />Ver.681<br />Abr.Eq.302.
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A distinction has been taken between a voluntary & a compulsory payment but this distinction is now overruled.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Swin. 530
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If A give to B 100 & in the same will another £ 700 witht taking notice of the first the second disposition is understood to be but a repetition of the first.
 +
|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2. Ver.115<br />Pree.ch. 206<br />3 Ver.95
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If A by will devises 200 to his daughter & afterwards on her marriage gives her more than that sum this shall be an extinguishment of the legacy
 +
|}
  
Upon a Jury's finding that a deft fled at the
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===<center>Legacies</center>===
same time that they acquit him of any capital
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
felony but such finding causes no forfeiture
+
|-
of the profits of his lands, neither will it affect
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Abr.Eq.203<br />Sal.155 pl.5
the goods if the indictmt was insufficient or if
+
2.Ver.177<br />Prec.Ch.240<br />Sa.1.508<br />Prec.Ch.295<br />2.Ver.478<br />
the flight be disprov'd on a traverse
+
Trin. 1729<br />Crompton<br />ver.Sale
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It has been establishd as law that where ever a Person gives a legacy as great or greater than the debt he owes the Legatee, such legacy shall be a satisfaction of the debt. But if the legacy be less than the sum due, payable on a contingency or future day, on these & the like circumstances it will be construed an additional bounty & not a satisfaction. And in all these cases the intention of the party ought to be the rule
The goods of a person outlaw'd are forfeited, so of he
+
|-
makes default till the award of an exigent
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Abr.Eq. 296
 
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the legatee dies in the life time of the testator the legacy is lapsed.
If a man be felo de se, or if a felon be killed in the  
+
|-
robbery, or in attempting to escape by resisting
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Do<br />2.Ver.496<br />Prec. Ch. 200
or if a felon waives his goods.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where a person in the execution of a trust nominates those who are to receive a legacy given in a former will survives the nominees yet is not the legacy lapsed.
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|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2. Ver. 116
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A difference taken where there is a devise of money & quaere
 +
|}
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===<center>Legacies</center>===
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{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
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|-
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| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Abr.eq. 243<br />Prec.Ch. 470-1<br />2.Ver.207<br />Ver.425<br />Abr.eq.298
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where the legatee dies in the life time of the testator & there is a limitation over the limitation is good.
 +
|-
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Dyer 59<br />Swin. 311<br />Off.Exr.347<br />2 Vent.342
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a legacy be devis 1d to one generally to be paid or payable at the age of 21 this is a vested legacy & tho he dies before he attains that age yet shall it go to his Exr
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2 Ch.Ca.155<br />2 Sal.415 pl.2<br />Ver.462<br />Pr.Ch.21<br />Ab.eq.294<br />Bus.rep.227<br />Atk.rec.504
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But if a legacy be devis'd one at 21 so as the <s>legacy</s> time be annex'd to the legacy itself & the legatee dies before he attainsthat age the legacy is lapsed
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Pasch. 7<br />Annae<br />Strick ver<br />Hudson canc.
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But if legacies are given to children and if any of them die their legacies to survive there shall be no survivorship after 21 or marriage tho' the words be general.
 +
|-
 +
|2.Ver.673
 +
|But if the time be annex'd to the legacy if interest be devised in the mean time tis a vested legacy & shall not lapse
  
By 26 H 8th Ch.13th it is enacted that any offender
+
If a legacy be given on condition not to
who shall be lawfully convicted of any manner
+
|}
of high treason shall forfeit all such lands &c
 
which he shall have of any estate of inheritaince
 
in use or possession, saving to every person &c.
 
 
By the 33.H.8.ch.20. it is enacted that if any person
 
be attainted of high treason by the course of the
 
common law or statutes of this realm, every
 
such attainder by the common law shall be
 
of as much force as if it had been done by
 
authority of Parliament.
 
  
Neither a right to a writ of error to reverse
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===<center>Legacies</center>===
an erroneous common recovery, nor
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ver.
 +
91
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|dispute a will & the legatee commences a writ whereby he disputes the validity of the will yet it is no forfeiture of the legacy provided there was probabiles causa litigandi
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Swin. 266
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|All conditions in restraint of Marriage are to be considerd strictly
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|G.O.L.45<br />Swin 266<br />Ver.20<br />Str.214
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A devise upon condition not to marry or not to marry a person of such a profession or calling is void unless it be in the
 +
case of a husband devising to his wife, whether there be a limitation over or not
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2 Ch.ca.22<br />Vent.199<br />Ver.20<br />Atk.rep.502<br />Prec. ch. 565
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A condition which retrains marriage as to time place or person is good.
  
===Page 129===
+
The prevailing distinction in the Cts of eqy is between such conditions as bind the legatee & such as are in terrorem only. If a legacy be given to a person on condition that he or she marry with the consent of
FORFEITURE
+
A this is in terrorum only but if there be a limitation over this is binding.
3.Co.2-3
+
|}
Cr.El.289
+
===<center>Legacies</center>===
14.Co.48
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
Blow
+
|-
381
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ch.58<br />2 Ver. 573
Blow. 488
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the person who is to give or refuse his assent derives an advantage from it the condition is in terrorem
Co.L.2  
+
|-
8.Co.170
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Vent.199<br />Ch.138<br />Gil.eq rep.26<br />Wil.rep 284<br />Cr. 583<br />Ver.580
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where there is a limitation over if the parties who were to assent to the marriage declare their dissent but afterwards assent thereto this subsequent assent cannot devest the estate which dissent had vested in the person to whom it was limited.
a mere right of action to lands in the hands of
+
|-
a stranger as a discontine[sic], or of the heir of
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2 Ch.Ca 25<br />Ver.31<br />2 Salk 416.pl.3
the disseisor are forfeited by either of the
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Where a tacit consent is sufficient A specific legatee is not to abate in proportion , in case of a deficiency of assets as pecuniary legatees must do, Cr.El. 467
Statute. Secus of rights of entry. But there
+
|-
must be office found & scier facias or siesure
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Abr.eq.298
on such office.  
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man devise his personal estate at W. this is a specific legacy
 
+
|-
A power of revoking the uses of a settlement may
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2 Ver.688<br />Prec. Ch. 392, 393
be forfeited if the execution of it only require what
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But if a man devises his personal estate at A & his personal estate at B & then devises a legacy to be paid out of his personal estate & has no other but at A & B, the legacy must be paid out of his specific legacies.
may be done by another person.
+
|-
 
+
|Do
Neither an annuity granted pro consilio XXX [    ]
+
|If a specific legacy be seised in execution the legatee shall have recompence in
nor an office granted for life & requiring skill
+
|}
& confidence are forfeitable by these statutes
+
===<center>Legacies</center>===
Secus of such an office in fee.
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 
+
|-
The forfeiture upon an attander either of trea-
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
-son or felony has relation to the time of the
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|equity agt the Exrs or residuary legatee
offence committed as lands, but to the conviction
+
|-
or fugam fecit found only as to chattels unless the  
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ver.31
party were kill'd in flying from or in resisting those
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man devise sevl legacies as 100£ to one and £50 to another tho' he directs the £100 legacy to be paid in the first place yet if the other legacies fall short the legatee of the £100 must make a proportionable abatement.
who had arrested him
+
|-
 
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ver.434
===Page 130===
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|So if a legacy be given to Exrs for care & pains
FRAUD
+
|-
Co.L.3
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ver.94<br />2.Vent.358<br />2.ver.205<br />Ch.Ca.136
Sid.312
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Creditors may compel legatees in eqy to refund. And a creditor may follow the assets in eqy into whose hands soever they come. Also one legatee may compel another to refund
Co.L.35
+
|-
4.Inst.984
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Palm. 409
Abr. in  
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If there be a residuary legatee & the Exr omits part of the testators effects out of the inventory or undervalues those which he puts in the residuary legatee may file a bill of discovery against him before he has paid the testators debts
Eq.357
+
|-
Sev<sup>l</sup> other
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Abr.Eq.
cases in
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Equity will not in favor of the residuary legatee compel the Exr to plead the Stat. of limitations.
point
+
|}
2.Ver.123
+
===<center>Legacies</center>===
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
It may be laid down as a genl rule that with<sup>t</sup>  
+
|-
the express provision of any act of Parliamt
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Pr.Ch. 228<br />2.Ver.21
all deceitful practices in defrauding or in-
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|An Exr in the payment of a legacy shoud be careful that he takes a proper receipt
-deavoring to defraud another of his known
+
|-
right by means of some artful device are
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ch.Ca. 245<br />Abr.eq. 300
condemn'd by the common law.
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Witht a decree or order of ll a ct of eqy a legacy cannot be paid to the father or other relation of an infant
+
|-
Such as causing an illiterate person to execute
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ver.261
a deed to his prejudice by reading it over to  
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a legacy be given to a feme covert it must be paid to her husband tho' she lives separate from him, & tho they be divorced a mensa et thoro
him in words difft from those in which it
+
|-
was written. Also a wrongful manner of exe-
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ver. 659
cuting a thing shall avoid a matter which might
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|But a person wy by deed or will give any thing in trust for the seperate use of a feme covert & this shall be out of the power of her husband
have been executed lawfully
+
|-
 
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|G.O.L.272<br />2. Sal. 415. pl. 2
All deceits for which there is no remedy by the  
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It is a rule in chy that Exrs have a years time to pay legacies.
common course of law are properly in the  
+
|-
Cts of equity. As where A by marriage settlemt
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.Ver.31 299, 300<br />Abr. eq. 299
was ten<sup>t</sup> for life of certain Mills rem<sup>r<sup> to his first
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a legatee dies before the legacy becomes payable his Admr &c must wait till the legacy woud have been payable to his testator.
son in tail & the son who knows of the settlemt
+
|-
encourages a person to take a lease for thirty
+
|2. Sal.415, pl.2<br />Ver.251
years of those mills & to lay out considera-
+
|If a legacy be devis 1d generally it is regularly to carry interest from the first year after the death of the testator
-ble sums of money in improving them. this is
+
|}
such a fraud as ought to be discountenanc'd
+
===<center>Legacies</center>===
in equity.  
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|unless the legatee is of full age & neglects to demand it.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A legatee cannot take his legacy witht the Exrs assent.
  
If a security be obtain'd from a person by fraud
+
If one is himself both Exr & devisee & he enters witht demonstration of election he shall be in as Exr.
& practice upon pretence of a demand that is fic-
+
|-
-titious it ill be releiv'd agt in equity.
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|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
An Exr may assent before probate of the will
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|}
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===Page 131===
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FRAUD
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2Ver.307
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|
3.Co.83
+
Charles Marshall
3.Co.81
+
<br />
Moor.638
+
Charles Marshall, esquire<br />
2.Bulst.226
+
Thomas Marshall<br />
Cr.El.
+
Colo Thomas Marshall<br />
810
+
Colo Thomas Marshall<br />
 +
Kentucky District<br />
 +
Colo Thomas Kentucky District
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<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
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So where A by means of an Attorney prevail'd on
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===<center>Legacies</center>===
E a woman to levy a fine of some houses & to exe
+
<center>Money paid for my house</center>
-cute a deed leading the uses thereof to A & his heirs,
+
<br />
& it being prov'd that she at the time declar'd
+
{| style="width: 60%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
she must make use of some friends name
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|-
in trust & devis'd it to J.S. & his heirs subject
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| style="width: 10%;"|October 88
to the paymt of her debts, decreed that A shou'd
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. B. Lewis
convey the estate to the devisee
+
| style="width: 10%;"|£ 80
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|-
By the common la a man had right to a thing
+
| style="width: 10%;"|Novr 88
or a just debt owing to him, he might avoid any
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Sydnor (specie)
fraudulent conveyance made to deceive him of
+
| style="width: 10%;"|6.17.4
that right or debt, but if the gift or conveyance
+
|-
were precedent to that right or debt there was
+
| style="width: 10%;"|Jany 4th 89
no way to set it aside to remedy this the Statutes
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid for plank
of the 13.& 27.of El.were enacted in the construction
+
| style="width: 10%;"|3. 9
of which statutes it/hath been determin'd that where
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|-
the vendor remains in possession of the goods the
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
sale shall be deem'd fraudulent as to creditors & bona
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Keeting & Smith
fide purchasers
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| style="width: 10%;"|1.15 . 5
 
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|-
A.to defraud his creditors makes a fraudulent gift of
+
| style="width: 10%;"|Jany 8th
certain goods to his daughter & dies B intermeddles with them
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Lewis
the daughter takes possession of them by force of the
+
| style="width: 10%;"|29. 8. 2
gift, Administration of all the goods of A is then granted
+
|-
to B on an action brought it agt him as Exr
+
| style="width: 10%;"|Jany 22d
 
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| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Keeting & Smith
===Page 132===
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| style="width: 10%;"|10. 5
FRAUD
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|-
B.A. 606
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| style="width: 10%;"|
[  ] 2
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| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Sydnor ( in specie)
Trin.1706
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| style="width: 10%;"|16. 0. 8
Baker &
+
|-
Lloyd
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
per.H.C.J.
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| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Sydnor in warrante
Moor 615
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| style="width: 10%;"|49.19. 4
5.Co.60
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|-
Co.L.3
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| style="width: 10%;"|
Sid.134
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Lewis
5.Co.60
+
| style="width: 10%;"|38. 10. 5
 
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|-
it was decreed that the gift was fraudulent,
+
| style="width: 10%;"|March 14th
that by intermedling he became Exr de son tort
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Goode
& liable as such & that the law continued the possession
+
| style="width: 10%;"|24.
in him.
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|-
 
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
If A makes a bill of sale to Ba creditor & after
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Keeling & Smith
-wards to C another creditor & delivers possession
+
| style="width: 10%;"|12
at the time of the sale to neither & after C gets
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|-
possession of them & B takes them out of his possession
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
C cannot maintain trespass
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid d<sup>o</sup>
 
+
| style="width: 10%;"|8. 1. 8
If a gift be made to deceive one creditor tis XXX void agt all
+
|-
+
| style="width: 10%;'|Apl 4th
It is not necessary that he who contracted the debt
+
| style="width: 20%;'|Paid Mr. Goode
shoud make the fraudulent conveyance.  
+
| style="width: 10%;"|16. 2. 1
 
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|-
A has a lease of certain lands for 60 years & for-
+
| style="width: 10%;"|d<sup>o</sup>
ges a lease for 90 years, by indenture reciting this
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Sydnor (specie)
forged lease he bargains & sells it with all his
+
| style="width: 10%;"|18
interest in the lands to B. in this case Bis not
+
|-
a purchaser within the 27 of El. to defeat the
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
purchases of the true lease of 60 years.
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid d<sup>o</sup> (int. warrants)
 
+
| style="width: 10%;"|27. 3. 8
A deed though it be fraudulent in its creation
+
|-
yet by matter ex post facto may become good
+
| style="width: 10%;"|May 9th
As where the feoffee aakes a feoffment to
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Lewis (specie)
another for valuable consideration
+
| style="width: 10%;"|51
 
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|-
It has been held that fraud may be given in
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
evidence to defeat a fraudulent & covinous
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| style="width: 20%;"|Nails
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;5. 9
 +
|-
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| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Keating & Smith
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|1. 3. 7
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|-
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| style="width: 10%;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;16
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Sydnor
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|25
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid d<sup>o</sup> (specie)
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|12. 6. 3 1/2
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|428 5 4 1/ 2
 +
<br />
 +
|}
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|-
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 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
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===Page 133===
+
===<center>Libel</center>===
FRAUD 
+
{| style="width: 60%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 
+
|-
conveyance & that the party alledging it need not 
+
| style="width: 10%;"|June 11th
plead it.
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Duke for Levelling the cellar
 
+
| style="width: 10%;"|0.18. 0
===Page 134===
+
|-
GAOL & GAOLER
+
| style="width: 10%;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;89
[remainder blank]
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Goode
 
+
| style="width: 10%;"|6. 1
===Page 135===  
+
|-
GRANTS
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
Co.L.327
+
| style="width: 20%;"|for nails
Co.L.233
+
| style="width: 10%;"|6
3.Co.45
+
|-
Co.L.41
+
| style="width: 10%;"|June 25
Cr.El.721
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Lewis (specie) £14
[    ] 12
+
| style="width: 10%;"|14
13
+
|-
 
+
| style="width: 10%;"|June 29th
There can be no discontinuance of things which lie
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Keating & Smith
in grant 
+
| style="width: 10%;"|12.7
 
+
|-
Of things which can be transfer'd with<sup>t</sup> the notoriety of
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
livery of seisin, which lie in grant a man cannot by
+
| style="width: 20%;"|nails £1.9.6&mdash;oil & paint £4.5.6
any disposition or act in pais forfeit them
+
| style="width: 10%;"|5.10
 
+
|-
So there can be no occupant of things which lie in
+
| style="width: 10%;"|July 6th
grant & which cannot pass with<sup>t</sup> deed.
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Sydnor thro' Mr. Winston
 
+
| style="width: 10%;"|6
The law distinguishes between grant of Infants which
+
|-
are void & merely voidable, the first of which are
+
| style="width: 10%;"|July 20th
all such gifts, grants, or deeds made by an inf<sup>t</sup> as
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Duke altering a window
do not take effect by delivery of his hand, as if an
+
| style="width: 10%;"|6
Inft give a horse & do not deliver the horse with
+
|-
his hand & the Donee take the horse by force of the
+
| style="width: 10%;"|July 20th
gift the Inft shall have an action of trespass.  
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Lewis
+
| style="width: 10%;"|20
But if an Inft enters into an obligation or  makes  a
+
|-
feoffmt there are only voidable
+
| style="width: 10%;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;23d
+
| style="width: 20%;"|freight for nails 6/ carriage for
If an Inft grant a rent charge by deed to be issu-
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
-ing out of a carve of land & the grantee distrein
+
|-
he shall punish him as a trespasser.
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
 
+
| style="width: 20%;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;d<sup>o</sup> 2/
If a single woman by deed grant a rent charge
+
| style="width: 10%;"|8
to issue out of a carve of Land & delivers the deed
+
|-
to a stranger as an escrol, upon condition
+
| style="width: 10%;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;29th
that if the grantee got to Rome return by 
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Keating & Smith
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|16. 4. 8
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Lewis
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|8. 4. 3
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|Augt
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Goode
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|6
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid for glue
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|6
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;31st
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Locks for vault
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|1
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Lewis
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|30. . 2 1/2
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|Sept 1st
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid for 4 douzen pullies
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|1.16
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;8th
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Lewis thro' D. Cockran
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|5
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;14th
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Duke for the window
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|7.12
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;26th
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Keating & Smith
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|4
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|Oc. 12
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid for 26 gallons of oil
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|4.11
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid for Hinges
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|1.16
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|145. 5. 1 1/2
 +
<br />
 +
|}
 +
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
|}
  
===Page 136===
+
===<center>Libel</center>===
GRANTS
+
{| style="width: 60%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
XXXXXXXXX
+
|-
Per.Sci.36
+
| style="width: 10%;"|Oc. 15th
Dyer 279
+
| style="width: 20%;"|
Co.L.3
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
Cr.Ja.558
+
|-
Co.L.214
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
Per.Sci.65
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Keating & Smith
4.Co.66
+
| style="width: 10%;"|8.17.4
Ray.144
+
|-
[  ] Ch.Ca.8-11
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
Hob.132
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid for hinges
Co.L.54
+
| style="width: 10%;"|1. 5
 
+
|-
Easter that then he shall deliver the same escrol
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
as her deed to the Grantee. The woman marries
+
| style="width: 20%;"|for brads
& before Easter during the coverture the Grantee
+
| style="width: 10%;"|9
goes to Rome & returns & the stranger delivers
+
|-
the escrol as the deed of the woman. The
+
| style="width: 10%;"|Novr 9th
Grant is good.  
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Goode £14.18
 
+
| style="width: 10%;"|14.8
In grants if there be sufft shewn to asscertain the
+
|-
grantor & grantee the grants will be good
+
| style="width: 10%;"|16th
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Lewis in full
It seems that a mistake of the Christian name
+
| style="width: 10%;"|39.11.   1/2
will vitiate the grant. Secus of the surname
+
|-
 
+
| style="width: 10%;"|Decr.2
Regularly by the common law a possibility.
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid M<sup>r</sup>. Sydnor
Right of entry, thing in action, cause of
+
| style="width: 10%;"|9 .8
suit, or title for a condition broken cannot
+
|-
be granted or assignd over.  
+
| style="width: 10%;"|4th
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|To Mr. Keating
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|2. 5. 6
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|6th
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Goode in full
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|8. 0.11
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Glass & nails (to Mr. Morris)
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|56. 0. 5
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|22d
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|To Mr. Keating
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|21. 5
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|Jany. 90 7th
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|To Mr. Neron for Nails & paint
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|5. 6. 3
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Glue 3 dollars
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|18
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|Feb 9th
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|4d. nails&mdash;10000
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|2
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Keating
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|6
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|March 7th
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Keating
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|5. 0. 9
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|13
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|paid d<sup>o</sup> in int. war.
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|10. 1. 6
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|26th
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|p<sup>d</sup> d<sup>o</sup> in d<sup>o</sup>
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|9.10. 9
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|May 12
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|p<sup>d</sup> d<sup>o</sup> in d<sup>o</sup>
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|9. 1. 6
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|15
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|pd Mr. Booker for 2.5
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|2. 5
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|20
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|nails
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|1. 1
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|24th
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Keating
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|7. 4
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|220 8 11 1/2
 +
<br />
 +
|}
 +
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
|}
  
A man cannot grant or charge that which he
+
===<center>Limitation of Actions</center>===
hath not.  
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 
+
|-
If there be a devise of a term to A for life rem<sup>r</sup>
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Cr. Ch. 141
to B cannot grant over his interest.  
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Limitation of personal actions extends not to slander of title.
 
+
|-
If a lease be made to Baron & feme for their lives
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sid.95<br />Sal.206 pl. 5<br />Cr.Ch. 163
rem<sup>r</sup> to the /Exrs of the/ survivor of them, the Husbd cant grant it.
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If the words are of themselves actionable the Stat. of limitations is a bar tho' a there be afterwards special damages secus where the words are not actionable but the special damage gives the cause of action
+
|-
A man may grant that which he hath potentially
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Will. rep. 742<br />Lev.273
 
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|No stat. cannot be pleaded to an action of debt brought agt a sheriff for money levied by him on a Fi. Fa. or to an award under hand & seal tho' the submission be by parol.
If A makes a lease of lands to B for life rem<sup>r</sup> to his
+
|-
Exrs for years, the term vests in B so that he
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Carth.3
can grant it over
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Tis a good bar to an action brought against the drawer of a bill of exchange.
===Page 137===
+
|-
GRANTS
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ch.Ca.26<br />2 Vent.345
Per.Sci.99
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A trust is not within these statutes
Co.L.169
+
|-
Moor
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ver. 256
831.pl.13
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A charity or legacy is not barred by length of time
Moor 496
+
|-
2.Co.35
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ch. Ca, 102
Hob.229
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Mortgages not within the stat. generally
2.Mod.3
+
|-
Co.86
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2. Sal. 424 pl.13<br />Sal. 421. pl. 4<br />Str.907
2.Co.36
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|It is said in genl ihat where one brings an action within the time & dies before judgement the time being then expir'd this shall not prevent his Exr but the prosecution must be recent.
 
+
|}
A personal trust which one Man reposes in another 
+
===<center>Limitation of Actions</center>===
cannot be assign'd over
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2 Ver. 695
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If there is no Exr agt whom the Plf may bring his action the stat. is no bar.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Ver.73
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a bill in chy is dismiss'd because the matter is properly cognizable at law the ct willpreserve the Plfs right agt this act.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sal.420
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Suing out a writ saves the stat.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sal.28<br />2 Vent.151
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If after the debt is barred the debtor acknowleged the debt & promises payment it revives it.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Car. 470<br />Bur.1099
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|A conditional promise will revive a debt, so will a bare acknowledgement.
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sal.154 pl.3<br />2 Ver.141
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|If a man by will or deed subject his lands to the payment of his debts those barred by the Stat. may be paid
 +
|-
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Abr. eq. 305
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|So of book debts &c where a person advertizes generally that he will pay all persons what he owes them
  
Incorporeal inheritance which lie in grant
+
The Stat. must be pleaded positively
cannot pass from one to another with<sup>t</sup> XX Deed.
+
In debt for rent on nil debet pleaded
 
+
|-
If a man by indenture demises to J.S.the manor of
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|Sal.278 pl. 1
D & bargains & sells to him all the woods & trees &c.
+
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|The Stat. of limitation may be given in evidence
on the  s<sup>d</sup> manor to be filled & carried away at plea-
+
|}
-sure, Habendum the s<sup>d</sup> Manor for life, this is an
 
absolute sale of the woods & trees. 
 
  
If a feoffmt be made of a manor in lease for years
+
===<center>Limitation of Actions</center>===
& livery/is made with<sup>t</sup> ouster of the lessee by which
+
{| style="width: 60%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
the feoffmt is void, yet if the lessee attorns this
+
|-
shall be good as a grant of the riversion 
+
| style="width: 10%;"|Morris
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|£ 6. 12
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|A.R.
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|7. 16
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|G.P.
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|1. 8
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|H.B.
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|4. 10
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|J.Currie
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|8. 8
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|J .Dawson
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|6. 10
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|Stras
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|11. 4
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|Burwell
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|3. 10
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|Currie
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|16. 16
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
|}
 +
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
|}
  
When the words of a grant allow a double way of
+
===<center>Mayhem</center>===
taking it the grantee shall judge which way is most be-
+
{| style="width: 60%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
-neficial
+
|-
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
A slight mistake or error in the /description of the/thing to be pass'd
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Money Paid for house
will not vitiate the grant.
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
 
+
|-
But where the thing is not granted by an express
+
| style="width: 10%;"|June 2
name there if a falsity is in the  description of
+
| style="width: 20%;"|
that thing the grant is void.
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
+
|-
If a man grant twenty acres parcel of his manor
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
with<sup>t</sup> any other description of them yet
+
| style="width: 20%;"|leads for windows
the grant is not void for an acre is a
+
| style="width: 10%;"|£ 12.11
 
+
|-
===Page 138===
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
GRANTS
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Nails
Noy.29
+
| style="width: 10%;"|1.18
Co.L.6  
+
|-
Hob.313
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
Cr.Ja.564
+
| style="width: 20%;"|lead for house
Salk.346
+
| style="width: 10%;"|1.18. 9
Co.L.146
+
|-
6.Co.87
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
Br.tit.lease.
+
| style="width: 20%;"|plank
13.22
+
| style="width: 10%;"|1.10
Co.L.183
+
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|nails
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;12
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|nails
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;12
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|shingles 12/
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[12]
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Keating
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|9
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Shays for plaistering
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|33
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Cord for windows
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;12
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|July
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|paint
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|1. 3. 6
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|nails
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;12
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|plank
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|1.12. 6
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|July 4th
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Keating (specie)
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|10. 0.10
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Keating (warrants)
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|13.19. 1
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|plank to Mr. Briton
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|4.11
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|drayage plank from Rocket
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;5
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|To Mr. Lipscomb for putting in grates &c)
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|6.12
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|& cellar door&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;)
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|Augt
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|paint & nails
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|16
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Hinges
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|2. 8
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Painting roof
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|1. 4
 +
|-
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| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|104.18. 8
 +
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thing certain & the situation may be reducd
+
===<center>Maintenance</center>===
to a certainty by the election of the Grantee.
+
{| style="width: 60%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
+
|-
No Person not nam'd in the premises of the deed
+
| style="width: 10%;"|Augt
can take any thing by the deed tho' he be after-
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Hinges bought in .Alexandria
-wards namd in the
+
| style="width: 10%;"|1.17. 6
habendum.
+
|-
 
+
| style="width: 10%;"|Sep
But a man not nam'd in the premises may
+
| style="width: 20%;"|paint 10/6 d<sup>o</sup>. 24/
take an estate in rem<sup>r</sup> by limitation in the 
+
| style="width: 10%;"|1.14.6
habendum.  
+
|-
 
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
The Habendum cannot pass any thing which is
+
| style="width: 20%;"|blacksmith for iron bars
not espressly mention'd as contain'd by im
+
| style="width: 10%;"|1.16
-plication in the premises of the deed.  
+
|-
 
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
Where the Habendum is repugnant to the pre
+
| style="width: 20%;"|paid Voss for plaistering &c.
-mises tis void.
+
| style="width: 10%;"|55. 6. 2 3/4
+
|-
Grants are to be construed according to the inten
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
-tion of the parties & if there aupears any doubt
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Hinges Glue Skews
or repugnancy in the words such construction
+
| style="width: 10%;"|19
is to be made as is most strong agt the grantor
+
|-
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
Where a proviso destroys the grant tis void
+
| style="width: 20%;"|P<sup>d</sup>. Keating
+
| style="width: 10%;"|2. 8
If one makes a lease for ten years at the will
+
|-
of the lessor tis a good lease for ten years certain
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
 
+
| style="width: 20%;"|paint 18/ d<sup>o</sup> 6
Tis a genl rule that where it is impossible the
+
| style="width: 10%;"|1. 4
grant shoud take effect according to the letter
+
|-
The law will make such constructions
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
 
+
| style="width: 20%;"|P<sup>d</sup> Doctor McClurg for grate
===Page 139===
+
| style="width: 10%;"|5. 5. 2
GRANTS
+
|-
Sid.211
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
Lev.131
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Nails
[  ] 736
+
| style="width: 10%;"|9
1.Salk.
+
|-
346
+
| style="width: 10%;"|26
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Keating
the  gift  by possibility  may take  effect.
+
| style="width: 10%;"|16. 1. 4
 
+
|-
It was found by special verdict that A was sei-
+
| style="width: 10%;"|Oct.
-sed of a mill in fee & that he built a kiln at the
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid d<sup>o</sup> in warrants
end of the close wherein the mill stood & then granted
+
| style="width: 10%;"|18.12. 9
the Mill with its appurtenances & if the kiln pass'd
+
|-
was the question. The Ct held that if it had been found
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
that the kiln was necessary to the Mill, or that it
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Allen for painting
was built for the use of the Mill, it wou'd have
+
| style="width: 10%;"|3.12
pass'd by a grant of the mill.
+
|-
 
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
It is holden by C.J.Holt that if a termor grants  the
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paper &c
land the grantee is but tent at will.
+
| style="width: 10%;"|12. 2. 5
 
+
|-
If a man grant a thing to be taken yearly & the
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
grantee neglects to take it for one year he cannot
+
| style="width: 20%;"|iron for porch
take doublt the next. Secus if the grantor be to  ren-
+
| style="width: 10%;"|7
-der the thing
+
|-
 
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
===Page 140===
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Nails
 
+
| style="width: 10%;"|1. 4
[blank]
+
|-
 
+
| style="width: 10%;"|16.
===Page 141===
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Burton for )
GUARDIAN
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
Co.L.87
+
|-
Co.L.84
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
Co.L.88
+
| style="width: 20%;"|scantling to porches &c )
Vaugh.179
+
| style="width: 10%;"|6.12
Vaugh178
+
|-
XXXXX
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
Vaugh.184-5
+
| style="width: 20%;"|d<sup>o</sup> £2.8.42)
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|6.12
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Painter £3.12
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|brick work £3.11 £3
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|6.11
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|putting up paper
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|1. 1
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|laying marble slabs
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|1.11. 3
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|paint 36/
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|1.16
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|nails
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|1. 2. 6
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|Three brass locks
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #000000; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|3. 4
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|151. 18. 7. 3/4
 +
|}
 +
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 +
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 +
|}
  
By the common law if Tent in socage die his heir
+
===<center>Mandamus</center>===
being under fourteen, the next of blood to the heir
+
{| style="width: 60%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
to whom the inheritance cannot descend shall
+
|-
be guardian of his body & land till his age of fourteen
+
| style="width: 10%;"|27th
 
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Glazing windows
A guardian by nature is the Father or Mother
+
| style="width: 10%;"|1. 4
 
+
|-
Guardian by nurture hath only the care of
+
| style="width: 10%;"|No. 3d
the person & education of the infant & hath nothing
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Mr. Keating
to do with his lands merely in virtue of his
+
| style="width: 10%;"|7
office.
+
|-
+
| style="width: 10%;"|6
On the 12th of Ch.2.Ch.24, similar to which is
+
| style="width: 20%;"|p<sup>d</sup> D<sup>o</sup>
the 22.G.2.Ch.25. the following determinations have
+
| style="width: 10%;"|6. 0. 8
been made. That a testamentary Guardian
+
|-
or one form'd according to this Stat. comes in lo
+
| style="width: 10%;"|8th
-co parentis & is the same in Office & interest
+
| style="width: 20%;"|p<sup>d</sup> Mr. Burton for )
with a Guardian in socage
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
 
+
|-
A person under age disposing of his child such
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
disposition draws after it the land.
+
| style="width: 20%;"|scantling for porches <sup>in full</sup>)
+
| style="width: 10%;"|8.10. 9
If a man devise t he custody of his son & heir
+
|-
apparent & mentions no time, this is a good
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
devise XX if the heir be under fourteen at
+
| style="width: 20%;"|brick work
the death of the father, but if above
+
| style="width: 10%;"|3. 4. 3
+
|-
===Page 142===
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
GUARDIAN
+
| style="width: 20%;"|iron for porch &c
Vaugh.185-6
+
| style="width: 10%;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2. 9
22.G.2.  
+
|-
ch,22
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
p.156
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid M<sup>r</sup>. Mp<sup>c</sup>Kim for banisters
[  ]
+
| style="width: 10%;"|2.17 6
Cr.Ja.55
+
|-
Cr.El.678
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
734
+
| style="width: 20%;"|paid for latches
 
+
| style="width: 10%;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;12
fourteen tis void for uncertainty.
+
|-
 
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
That this testamentary Guardian hath the custo-
+
| style="width: 20%;"|paint
-dy of all lands & goods any way acquird or
+
| style="width: 10%;"|1. 8
purchas'd by the infant
+
|-
 
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
Genl Cts & C<sup>ty</sup> Cts have power to take cognizance
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Shingles &c
of all matters concerning Orphans & their estates
+
| style="width: 10%;"|3. 8
To appoint Guardians where necessary & take se-
+
|-
curity XXXXX for orphans Estates.  
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
Guardian to exhibit at the next ct after
+
| style="width: 20%;"|M<sup>r</sup>. Keating
his appointmt on oath an acct of his orphans
+
| style="width: 10%;"|29
estates & an acct of his profits & once a year which
+
|-
is to be enter'd by the Clerk in a book. Guardian
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
wasting &c orphans estate, neglecting his educa-
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Grates & Franklin
-tion &c or likely to become insolvent Cts to
+
| style="width: 10%;"|19. 1. 7
make orders for securing the estate &c or to
+
|-
anpoint another Guardian. Their Accts
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
to be examind &c in Augt. their mismanage-
+
| style="width: 20%;"|Glass
ment &c. to be enquird into at any time.
+
| style="width: 10%;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;12
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid Keating warrants
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|2.11
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid d<sup>o</sup>specie
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|26.19.2
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Paid D<sup>o</sup> in bonds
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|30. 7. 3
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|paint & nails
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|12.10. 2
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|iron for cellar windows
 +
|style="border-style: solid; border-color: #000000; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|2.19. 9
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|161&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;10
 +
|}
 +
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 +
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 +
|-
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 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
|}
  
If a Guardian in socage makes a lease for years
+
===<center>Master & Servant</center>===
to continue beyond the time of his guardianship
+
{| style="width: 60%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
such lease seems not to be absolutely void by the
+
|-
Infts coming of age but only voidable.  
+
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Lock
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|0. 7. 6
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|
 +
| style="width: 20%;"|Making end windows
 +
| style="width: 10%;"|3.10
 +
|}
 +
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 +
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
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| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
|}
  
===Page 143===
+
===<center>[blank]</center>===
GUARDIAN
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
Blow.
+
|-
293
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
2.Rol.Abr.
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
256
+
|}
2.B.Ab.68
 
[  ].79
 
Mod.259
 
Vent.72
 
Ray.311
 
[  ] pr.229
 
[  ].4
 
Str.506
 
Abr.Eq.261
 
Ver.436
 
XXXXXX
 
2,Ch.Ca.197
 
2. Ver. 606
 
Ver.403
 
435
 
[  ]2.Ver.193
 
 
If a woman who is guardian in socage to her son
 
marries again & her husbd & she join in a lease of
 
the infts lands the lease upon the death of the hus
 
-band becomes void.
 
  
A Guardian or prochein Amy may make partition
+
===<center>[blank]</center>===
in behalf of the inft & it shall bind the inft if equal
+
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
+
|-
If a Guardian puts in an answer /for an inft/to a bill in Chan
+
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
cery on oath such answer shall not conclude the
+
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
inft or be read in evidence agt him for the effect of
+
|}
infts answer is only to make proper parties so as
 
to take depositions & examine witnesses.
 
  
A Guardian with<sup>t</sup> any direction may pay the interest
+
===<center>Master & Servant</center>===
of any real /incumbrances/(struck through)estate(struck through) & the principal of a Mortgage
+
<br />
 +
<br />
 +
<center>Ashby Skinner</center>
 +
<br />
 +
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 +
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
| style="width: 50%; border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"|
 +
|}
  
He may pay off a judgmt with the profits of the
+
===<center>List of fees rec<sup>d</sup> from Ten<sup>ts</sup> Fairfax ad<sup>s</sup> Hite</center>===
infts estate.  
+
{| style="width: 60%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 
+
|-
A Guardian not compeliable to apply the profits
+
| style="width: 10%|
of the estate of the inft heir to nay off the bond debts.
+
| style="width: 20%|Stroude John )
 
+
| style="width: 10%|£ 4-11- 8
Tis not in the power of the Guardian with<sup>t</sup> the direction
+
|-
of the court to turn the personal into real estate
+
| style="width: 10%|
 
+
| style="width: 20%|Vanmeter wm. on same land)
===Page 144===
+
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+
|-
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+
| style="width: 10%|
 
+
| style="width: 20%|Godwin Swift, Wm Dark Jacob Miller )
===Page 145===
+
| style="width: 10%|
HEIR & ANCESTOR
+
|-
Vent.311
+
| style="width: 10%|
Ray.330
+
| style="width: 20%|Phillip Ingle, Robt Lomy, Michael )
2.Lev.232
+
| style="width: 10%|9-17
2.Ver.215
+
|-
Abr.Eq.265
+
| style="width: 10%|
See 1.Ver.16  
+
| style="width: 20%|Ingles, Abraham Neale )
+
| style="width: 10%|1- 8
A person may take by purchase or descriptio
+
|-
personae by the name of heir even in the life
+
| style="width: 10%|
time of the ancestor for Heirs males now living
+
| style="width: 20%|Neale has paid but one Guinea of this)
in a will are a full description of the person
+
| style="width: 10%|
who is then heir apparent to the person
+
|-
nam'd & is known by the devisor to be so.
+
| style="width: 10%|
 
+
| style="width: 20%|Abraham Neal (relinquish'd
If the ancestor agrees to convey lands & receives
+
| style="width: 10%|2-16
part of the purchase money but dies before
+
|-
conveyance, heir will be decreed to convey
+
| style="width: 10%|
+
| style="width: 20%|James Leith (800 acres of this in name of
If a father conveys to a younger son by a
+
| style="width: 10%|
defective conveyance & dies the heir at la
+
|-
will in two cases be oblig'd to make it good
+
| style="width: 10%|
1st. Where there is a cov<sup>t</sup> for farther assurance
+
| style="width: 20%|Jonah)
binding the heir. 2d. Where there is a provision made
+
| style="width: 10%|7-8
by the father in his life-time for the heir or when
+
|-
he hath such provision by descent from his
+
| style="width: 10%|
father
+
| style="width: 20%|Jeremiah Whitson
 +
| style="width: 10%|1- 8
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%|
 +
| style="width: 20%|Ebenezer Leith
 +
| style="width: 10%|1- 8
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%|
 +
| style="width: 20%|John Yates
 +
| style="width: 10%|1-8
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%|
 +
| style="width: 20%|Edward Snickers Joseph Anderson Cornelius)
 +
| style="width: 10%|
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%|
 +
| style="width: 20%|Anderson, Jasper Ball, Thomas Shepherd )
 +
| style="width: 10%|3-12
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%|
 +
| style="width: 20%|Francis Stribling John Milton
 +
| style="width: 10%|1-16
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%|
 +
| style="width: 20%|Wm Booth , Wm Taylor John Milton
 +
| style="width: 10%|19-4
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%|
 +
| style="width: 20%|Launcelot Lea
 +
| style="width: 10%|12-2
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%|
 +
| style="width: 20%|Jonathan Adle & Samuel)
 +
| style="width: 10%|
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%|
 +
| style="width: 20%|Jonathan proprietor)
 +
| style="width: 10%|1- 8
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%|
 +
| style="width: 20%|From Fort tract
 +
| style="width: 10%|3- 8
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%|
 +
| style="width: 20%|
 +
| style="width: 10%|<u>8-12</u>
 +
|-
 +
| style="width: 10%|
 +
| style="width: 20%|
 +
| style="width: 10%|46-18
 +
|}
 +
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 +
{| style="width: 80%; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
 +
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 +
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Latest revision as of 11:51, 7 October 2024

JOHN MARSHALL "Law notes, etc."

A transcription of pages (1-253) of Marshall's Accounts and Law Notes

JOHN MARSHALL (1755-1835)

Law Notes


Abbreviation of source footnoted in red: Cr.Ja.4832

Source taken from "Table of Abbreviations," 11 an appendix to Henry C. Black, A law dictionary, 2nd ed., St.Paul, Minn., West Publishing Co., 1910, p. 1239-1314:

2Croke's English King's Bench reports tempore James I.

Contents


Abatement

1. B. 2
His. of the crown 186
Abatemt is a plea put in by the Deft in which he shews cause to the Ct why he shou'd not be impleaded or if impleded not in the manner & form he then is.
1. B. 2
Gil. H. crown 187
Show. 386.
C.L. 127.
A plea in Abatemt to the jurisdiction of the Ct. [must] be put in by the Deft in person & before any imparlance. He must make but half defence.
1. B. 2
G.H.C. 196
There are several pleas to the person of the Pf. Outlawry does not entirely abate the writ but only suspends it.
This disability is not pleadable when the action is brought in Auter droit.
C.L. 128 Excommunication, Premunire & popish recusancy are pleas in abatement
Secus Ld. R. 282 An Alien Enemy can bring no action. 4. Mod. 285. An Alien in Lague may bring personal actions.
1. B. 5 Officers of a court are privileged in actions brought in their own right
1. B. 6
12 Mod. 273
Fitz. B. 219, 231
If a writ vary materially from that in the register or be defective in point of substance the party may [take] advantage of it so if the declaration varies from the writ
1. B. 7
G.H.C. 242
12 Mod. 251
Tis a genl. rule that where any party dies & the plea [is in] the same condition as if such party [were living] death makes no abatement of the writ

Abatement

1. B. 8 Two Exrs bring debt, one dies the writ does not abate. Secus if one was dead when the writ was brought
Action agt several Defts one dies the writ does not abate
22. G. 2., Ch. 5, 180, 181 Actions originally maintainable by & against Exrs &c. not to abate after interlocutory judgmt.
Death of other party between verdict & judgmt not to be pleaded in abatement.
Do. 184 Process agt one returned, no Inhabitant shall abate
1. B. 9
Doct. pl. 3
Sid. 140
Leon. 168, 169
Coverture is a good plea in Abatement & may be either before the writ sued or pending the writ. By the first the writ is abated de facto, by the second tis only abateable. Coverture pending the writ must be pleaded since the last continuance. If a feme sole takes out a writ & after marries the deft may plead in Abatemt or in chief
Fitz. B. 476 If a writ is false when sued out it shall abate
1. B. 10
Doct. pl. 3
Cr. El. 121, 185, 193, 330
Cart. 172, the Ct. gave a
If a writ is defacto a nullity & destroy'd so that judgmt thereupon wou'd be erroneous there the writ is defact abated as if an action be brought agt a feme covert as sole, or where the Plaintiff by his own shewing had no cause of action at the time the writ was brought.
Where the writ is only abateable it must be

Abatement

sal. 2 pl. 5
Ld. R. 853
abated by pleading in time, for matters in & before the writ cannot be taken advantage of in error.
Cr. El 554
1. B. 10
Tis a good plea that a stranger in tenant in common with the Plaintiff.
1. B. 13
12 Mod. 418
5 Coke 61
Whenever it appears on record that the Plaintiff has sued out two writs against the same Defendant for the same thing the second writ shall abate.
1. B. 14
Vent. 249
2 Ld R 984
Whatever destroys the Plfs action & disables him forever from recovering may be pleaded in bar but the Deft may sometimes plead it in Abatemt. As in Replevin the Deft may plead property in himself or in a stranger either in bar or in Abatemt.
1 B 14
2 Mod 64
Ld R 593
6 Mod 103
Con 2.
Ld R. 1018
If a Deft pleads matter in bar & concludes in Abatemt or matter in Abatemt & concludes in bar this shall be deem'd a plea in bar.
1 B 15
Moor 30
5 Mod 136
Where the matter of Abatemt appears on the face of the record the plea shall begin & end with petit judicium de brevi but where the matter is dehors the Deft shall only end his plea with petit judicium
Pleas in abatemt are not to be recd but on oath Suits shall not abate for want of form if there be matter sufficient in the Declara

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Peyton Short Esq.

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Account

1 B 17
C 1 L 90
Account at common law, lay only agt a Guardian in socage, Bailiff or Receiver or by one in favor of trade & commerce. The stat. 13 Ed. ch 23. The statutes on that subject have given this action to the Execrs of Merchants the Exrs of Exrs & to Administrators.
22. G. 2, Ch 3, p. 164 Action of account is by the laws of Virga given agt the Exrs or Admrs of every Guardian Bailiff or Receiver & also to one joint tenant or tenan[ts] in common his Exrs or Admrs against the other as Bailiff for receiving more than comes to his proposition or agt his Exrs or Admrs.
1. B. 17.
4 Leon 32
sec. 1 Vern 208
An infant appointed Factor &c not accountable in law or equity but by his sureties.
Do If I make J.S. my Bailiff &c who appoints a Depy I cannot have account against his Deputy
11 Co. 89 An apprentice by the name of an apprentice is not chargeable in account
1. B. 18
Co. L. 172
To maintain an action of account there must be a privity either in law or by the provision of the parties.
1. B. 18 Equity will make all persons account for the

Account

The case of Coventry
vers. Hall
profits of lands they have receiv'd to such as have the equitable title.
1. B. 19 A Bailiff cannot be charg'd as receiver whether the same person may be charg'd as Bailiff & Receiver. Quere
1. B. 19 No action of account lies for a thing certain
1. B. 19
Cr. El. 644
If a man by obligation acknowleges that he has recd money ad proficiendum & computandum the obligee may either sue the bond or bring account.
1. B. 19, 20
Sal. 9. pl. 1
Where account wou'd lie asssumpsitt may be brought on an express promise. Wherever one acts as Bailiff he promises to render an account
1 B. 20
Cr. Ch. 116
Br. 48
A release or submission to an award are good pleas in bar of account
It is no good plea that the Deft has paid the money
1. B. 21
Mod. 42
Co. Ent. 46
In an action of account the first judgment is quod computet after which the Ct. assigns Auditor arm'd with authority to convene the parties before them from day to day at any day & place that they shall appoint till the account be settled. The time by which the account is to be settled is prefix'd by the Ct. but may be enlarg'd. Either of the parties on injustice may apply to the Court. If the Deft denies any article or demurs to any demand it is to be

Account

tried in court
1. B. 21
Cr. Ch. 116
Whatever may be pleaded to the action shall never be allow'd of as a good discharge before the Auditors.

Accord and Satisfaction

1. B. 22
Ray 450
Accord cannot be pleaded in bar unless satisfaction be actually made
1. B. 22
9 Ed. 4, 19.
Rol. Ab. 128
An accor'd must appear to be advantageous to the party otherwise it can be no satisfaction
1. B. 22
4 Co. 1
An accord with satisfaction is no good plea to an action real
1. B. 22
6 Co. 43
Cr. Ja. 254
When a duty in certain accrues by a deed tempore confectionis scripti it ought to be avoided by matter of as high a nature
1. B. 25
9 Co. 80
Rolls Abr. 129
If an accord be pleaded by way of accord in precise execution thereof in every part must be pleaded if by way of satisfaction the Deft need plead no more but that he paid the Plf 10/ in full satisfaction of the action which he receiv'd Accord cannot be plead without satisfaction
 

 

Peyton Short Esq.

Peyton Short Esq.

Actions in General

1. B. 28
Co. L. 145
Stile 4
It is clear that for every injury a man shall have an action & for every right he has a remedy - where a person has several remedies he may chuse which he pleases but in this he must follow the rules of that society of which he is a member, for tho' a man has a right & is barred by the Statute of limitations yet he can have no remedy.
Roll. Abr. 107
1 Mod. 69
Also in cases where there may be damnum absque injuria the party can have no action.
Co. L. 128 None are excluded from bringing an action except on account of their crimes or their country.
Mod. 30 A man that hath a special property in goods shall have an action agt a stranger who takes them away because he is answerable in damages to the absolute owner.
Dyer 98 A man who has cause of action agt two may bring it agt which he pleases.
8.Co.87
F.N.B. 209
Dyer 145
In real actions in those writs which contain the time place & demand particularly several lands by several titles cannot be demanded in the same writ secus where there is only a genl complaint as in the writ of trespass quare classium fregit.
1 Ba 30. 8
Co 87
Ray 233
In personal actions several wrongs & trespasses may be join'd. Fraud & warranty may be join'd.
Ld Ray 58 But actions founded on a tort & a contract cannot be join'd as assumpsit & trover

Actions in General

1. Ba. 31
Yel. 63
Cro. Ja. 68
Where one hath a right to recover in the same kind of action though he derives his right from difft titles yet being conjoin'd in him he may recover in one action
Cro. El. 486 But one cannot in the same action join a demand in his own right & one which he hath in right of another
Roll. Ab. 31 Several persons may join in an action where their interest is joint

Actions Local & Transitory

1. Ba. 34 All actions real or mix'd must be laid in the county where the lands lie
1 Ba 35
Co. L. 282 7 Co 3
All personal actions may be brought in any Cty & aid in any place & the Deft cannot traverse it.
2 Sal 669 pl.6 The Deft cannot by his plea oblige the Plf to lay his action in a dift Cty unless the matter pleaded be local. The motion must be on affidavit

Actions Qui Tam

Ca. En. 375
4 Co 13
2 Haw. 265
Wherever a statute prohibits a thing as being an immediate offence agt the publick good under a certain penalty the whole or part of which is given to him who will sue for it any person may bring such action or information & lay his demand with a qui tam. Also where a statute prohibits or commands a thing the doing or omission of which is both an immediate damage

Actions Qui Tam

to the party & also highly concerns the good of the publick, the party may & some say ought to bring his action with a qui tam
Ca.El.236
2 Haw. P. 6 246
An action on a publick stat. need not recite the stat. But if the prosceutor recites the stat. & materially varies from a substantial part this is fatal
C. Ja.104 If an information contain several offences & be well laid as to some but defective as to others the informer may have judgt for such as are well laid
C. Ja 129 An action or information need not conclude contra pacem or in contemptum as an Indictment ______
18 El. Ch. 5 Every informer on any penal statute shall exhibit his suit in person & pursue it by himself XXX or attorney
Rd. rep.49 134 The Deft cannot plead specially & the genl issue either to the whole or to any part of the charge
3 H.P.C.276 If there be more than one deft they ought not to plead jointly
2 Hawk P.C.274. Where a stat. gives a certain penalty to the party griev'd he is entitled to his costs
18 El.Ch.5 Any informer (not griev'd) who willingly delays his suit &c. shall pay costs charges & damages to be assign'd by Ct & no informer shall compound without leave of Ct.

under penalty of standing in the pillory, of being disabled to sue in any popular or penal statute & of forfeiting ten pounds

Actions on the Case

Berister 68 If A delivers goods to B to deliver to C & B does not deliver them but converts them to his own use either A or C may have an action agt. B. They cant join
Cr. Ja. 223 If a servant is cozen'd of his Masters money the master may have an action agt the cozener
Sid 298 No action lies by a master agt. his sert for the bare Breach of his com. but if a servt does anything falsely & fraudulently to the damage of his Master an action lies
Dal 282 pl. 11 No master is chargeable with the acts of his Servant but when he acts in execution of the authority given by his master & then the act of the servt is the act of the master
Cr.El.219 If I deliver goods to A who delivers them to B to keep to the use of A who wastes them I may have an action a- -gainst AB
Though an injury happens to a man in his property by the neglect of another yet if by law he was no o- oblig'd to be more careful no action lies If a man uses or abuses the thing he finds he shaa answer for it.
Cr.Ja.474
Cr.El.53
If by the wrongful act of A- B becomes chargeable to C B may have his action against A before he is sued by C.

Actions on the Case

Hob. 267
vide 6 Mod. 46
If a man forges bond in my name tis possible I may be injur'd by XXX it, but 'till it be put in suit agt me I have no action agt the forger
Sal.210.pl.2
Ld.Ray.284
Cr.Ja.474
Where a man has the possession of any personal chattel & sells it, the bare affirming it to be his amounts to a warranty & gives an action
Sal.211 pl.3 If on a breaty for the purchase of a house the Deft affirms the rent of the house to be £30 whereas it was but £20 & thereby the Pltf is induced to give so much more than the house is worth an action lies.
Cr.Ja.469 If I sell unsound goods & knowing them to be unsound warrantaffirm them to be sound or not knowing them to be unsound warrant them to be sound an action lies.
Vent.295
LdRay.38
If man rides an unruly horse in places much frequented & the horse breaks from him & runs over B & hurts him B shall have an action For an injury accruing to a man in his real estate of freehold or inheritence the action lies
Cr.El. 777 If a man lend or hire anothers horse & for want of safe keeping the horse dies an action lies
If A obtains a judgt in debt agt B as Ext to his Father & thereupon a takes out a Fi:Fra. but before

Actions on the Case

Godb 285
2.Rol.Rep 312 vide con.
Mod 286
the sheriff can execute it B removes & disposes of all the Testators goods so that the sheriff is forc'd to re- turn nulla bona an action on th case lies agt B for the sheriff coud not return __________ & if this action does not lie the party is without remedy.
Carth 3.4 In genl where by the covin of a third person a man loses his debt an action on the case lies agt him. Also for injuries done to a man with respect to his wife his child or his servant an action lies.<
3 Bal 212
Cr.El.873
If a minister of justice have warrant to attach the goods of another & can do it & does it not an action lies against him.
Jan.312
1. Bulster 373
Cr. 6a.395
If a smith refuses to shoe my horse or if he pricks him, if a farrier kills my horse with bad medicine or by neglect in curing him, or if client receives an injury by the neglect or fraud of his attorney an action lies.
Cr 6a .446
Ld.Ray 370
If by common nusance I suffer a particular da- mage an action lies. So too for continuing a nusance.
Cr.El.7al34 It seems agreed that for a false & malicious prosecu -tion for any crime whether capital as not by which a man may be endangerd of his life, suf- -fer in this liberty reputation or property

Actions on the Case

Sal.15 an action on the case in nature of a writ of conspiracy lies whether an indictment was ex- hibited or not.
Ray.503
Cr.El. 629
If a stranger brings an action in the name of J with -out consulting J. an action lies
Style 379
Sand. 228
If an action on the case is brought for a civil action special grievance must be shewn.
Stile 346
Yel. 99
It seems the better opinion that a person guilty of felony & pardon'd or burnt in the hand may be proceeded agt at the suit of the party inju
Skin.119 Action lies for a virgin of good fame married by a man who had a wife.

Affidavit

Agreements

see Eg.ca. ab.25 pl.6 A person non compos, an infant & a feme covert are generally incapable of entering into agreements.
2.Ver.215 The ancestor seis'd in fee may by his agrt bind his Heir.
Ab.Eq.16
chan.rep 158
Ch.ca.42
Tis a genl rule that wherever the matter of the bill is merely in damages the remedy is at com. law but if there be matter of fraud mixt with the damages the remedy is in chancery. So where the agreemt is to do something in specie
Ver 189 pl.190
2 Ch.ca.140
A court of equity has decreed a performance of cove- -nants & directed a trial in a quantum damnificat.
Ab.Eq.17
2 Ch.ca.17
Ver 227 pl.225
Agreemts out of which an equity can be rais'd for a dunce in specie ought to be obtain'd with all ima -ginable fairness & without any mixture tending to surprise or circumvention and that they be not unreasonable in themselves.-
2 Ch.Ca.136
Ver.271
Ren. in Eq 155
2 Ver.127
Act of eqty XXXX will much sooner dismiss a bill which prays a specific execution of an unreasonable agrt than set aside an agrt though not strictly fair on a bill for that purpose and when such agreements are set aside it must be on refunding what was paid ma- -king reasonable allowances for improvemt &c.
100, 464 In law & equity voluntary conveyances are good agt the parties & cannot be revokd nor will the Ct interpose in behalf of one volunteer agt another

Agreements

But if they affect creditors purchasers or younger children the Ct. will set them aside
2 Van 365
2 Ver 40
If there be a defective conveyance without an equi table consideration equity will not oblige the party to make it good though there be a covenant for further assurances
Ver 121 If the agreemt be to quit the possession of lands the ct will not decree a conveyance
2 Ver 394
Preced.met 533
If on is bound to transfer £300 stock before such a time which he does not do, & the stock is much risen he shall transfer the stock in specie & account for dividends since the time
19 G.2 Ch.1
p 142, 143
No estate for life or any higher estate sha11 be made to take effect nor shall any use thereof be created unles it be by deed indented seal'd & recorded in the Genl. Ct. in the Ct of that Coty where the land lies. The deed of residents to be recorded in 8 months of non residents in 2 years. The deed to be acknowleg'd by the granter or provd by three witnesses before it can be admitted to record. Deeds of inheritance for term of years or for marriage settlements, all deeds of trust & Mortgages whatsoever not recorded &c. to be void as to subsequent purchasers & creditors but binding between the parties & their heirs

Agreements

Note the stat. of Frauds
&c. does not
require recording
The foregoing act is very similar to the stat. of frauds & perjuries on which the following determi -nations have been made by the Judges in England.
ab.E.19.pl.3
Ver.151, 159
If the Deft in his answer confesses the substance of a bill setting forth a parol agrt & demanding a specific execution the Ct will decree it.
Ab. eq.20 A parol agreemt which is intended to be reduc'd to writing but is prevented by fraud may be decreed in specie
2Ver.322
2 Vent.361
Rec.in Ch 361
A letter from a father promising a portion & a mar- -riage had in consequence thereof has been deem'd sufficient
Ver.151
2. Ch.Ca.135
Str.426
Gil.His.Ch. 239
Contra
2 Ch.Ca 36


Gil.His.Ch. 239

It seems to be admitted that if an agreement be made concerning lands &c. tho not in writing & the whole or part of the money is recd by the party equity will decree a specific execution. The doubt is what evidence shall be admitted as proof of the receipt.
If the Deft confesses it in his answer tis sufft if he denies it the Plaintiff must prov it by written evidence.
Ver.159
2 Vent. 361
If a man on the promise of a lease lays out mo- -ney on improvements he shall oblige the lessee to execute a lease _____ if he has been at no expense
Ver.366 If a man purchases lands in another name & pays the money it shall be a trust for him

Amendment and Jeo Fail

Annuity and Rent Charge

Co.L.147
7 Co.151
Whenever the remedy by way of charge for the rent is not commensurate to the rent, the rent is call'd seek & the charge is only appurtenant.
Co.L.147
Booke rent.14
If I bind my land & goods for the payment of a rent, or if I grant that if such a rent be arrear B may distrain for it in the manor of C. this is a good rent charge.
Booke grant 86
2 Vent. 204
B. grant 86
If an original grant be made of a rent charge to commence after the death of J.S. it is good _____ of a rent in being
Lit.XXX Sci 219, 220
6 Co.58
If a man grants by his deed an annual rent out of certaiin landswith distress & does not providethat the grant shall not charge his person, the grantee XXXXXXXXXXXX may distrain for the rent or have a writ of annuity
Co.L.146
6 Co.41
6 Co.58
If a rent be granted out of lands in which the granter has no interest, or in which the grantee cannot by the deed distrain, with a proviso that it shall not charg his person the pro viso is void.

Annuity and Rent Charge

Co.L.146 A grant that a man may distrain in certain lands if a rentcertain sum be arrearunpaiddoes not chargethe person
Co.L.147
Cr.Ja.390
A rent is granted out of an inheritance & term for years the grantee may distrain in both but must avow for a rent issuing out of the inheritance
Pay.135
[Sun] 112
If such power is given in the deed the grantee may when rent is arrear enter & hold the lands till he is satisfied by the percention of the profits.
Co.L.182
4 Co.48
Cr.El. 268
An action of debt does not lie for the arrearages of an annuity if the grantee be seised of it for life or in fee _______ if for years
Lit.S.219
B.L.145
If the grantee distrains & avow or brings a writ of annuity and declares he has determind his elec- -tion & shall ever after be confin'd to the remedy he has adopted
Co.L.148
see 2 Ver 143-4
If the grantee of a rent charge before he has made his election purchases a part of the land he is without any remedy

Arbitrament & Awards

9 Co.78 A right of freehold cannot be transferd, an Annuity determind, partition made by award But if the parties are bound in mutual obligations to stand to the award & a transfer &c is awarded the party refusing forfeits his obligation.
6 Co.44
Cr.Ja.99
2 Vent.109
Debt certain & fix'd cannot be discharg'd by na- -ked award, nor causes criminal or matrimo- -nial decided.
9 Co.78 Chattels & actions personal may be determind by arbitrament & transfer'd by award without deed. The submission is to be taken largely & accor- -ding to the intent of the parties, where tis made by word the remedy to enforce a performance of the award is by reciprocal actions on the case an action of debt will lie if money be awarded
8 Co.81
8 Co.82
2 [Keb] 845
Ex need a submission non oritur actio but notice must be given. If the submission be by deed tis still revocable but the party forfeits his obli- -gation. Marriage of feme sol is a revocation
[Vid]290 In debt on a bond to perform an award if non sub -misit be pleaded no breach need be alledg'd

Arbitrament & Award

8 Co.98 An award must be made according to the submission It ought to be certain, equal, & mutually satisfactory It must be lawful XX & possible. It must be final. If the award is good as to one party & void as to the other party tis void in the whole. If money be awarded & not paid the party may either have his first action or action of debt
Moor 3.pl 9 In pleading a man should set forth the award & there- -in how he hath perform'd it.
Carth 378
Ld Ray 247
When anything is awarded in satisfaction the award is a bar, but where releases are awarded tis no bar till performance
2 Browne 137 Not necessary to lay time & place of the award

Assault & Battery

6 Mod 149
Ld.Ray.62
[Salk]407 p.12
Any injury whatever actually done to the person of a man, in an angry revengeful, rude or insolent manner is a battery
3 Bl.120 The least touching of another person wilfully or in anger is a battery
Hawk.P.C.130
3 Bl.120
6 Mod.172
A Parent may moderately chastise his child, a mas -ter his servt or his scholar. An officer having a warrant agt one who will not be asserted may beat or wound him in the attempt to take him. XXXXXX A man may beat wound or maim one who makes an assault on his person or on that of his wife parent child or master, or who attempts to kill a stranger I may justify an asst in defense of my land or goods In an action on the case the Deft must plead the matter of justification specially.
Inst.316
[ ].159
Every asst will not justify every beating

Assignment

2 Bl.326-7 In assignments of a lease for life or years a man parts with his whole property & the assignee stands in the place of the assignor
19.G.2.ch.1 143 Assignment of lease &c. to be recorded &c.
Co.L.214 27.G.2.249 To avoid maintenance a possibility, right of entry thing in action cause of suit or title for a con -dition broken cannot be granted or assignd over assignee of bond or note for money or tobacco may sue in his own name allowing all discounts the Deft can prove either agt the Plf himself or the first obligee before notice of assignment

A personal trust not assignable

Assumpsit

4 Co 92 In assumpsit damages are recoverd in proportion to the loss sustaind by the violation of the contract. Indebitatus will lie in no case but where debt woud/lie.
Hutt. 34
Cr. El 240
Obligor in bond with.t any new consid.n promises to pay the Money Asst will not lie but debt
Hard 485
Sal.23.pl.3
Neither debt or genl Ind. ass. will lie agt the acceptor of bill of exchange but action on the case
LdRay.175 But debt or a genl Ind. may be brought agt th drawer
2 Vent.175 An Ind. lies for money won at play. paid by mistake
Salk 27. pl.14 An indeb lies for money recd to the Pl. use on an implied contract
Lies agt sheriff for money levied on a Fi.Fa.
All/promises are to be taken most strong agt the promisor & are not to be rejected if they can be reducd to XXXcerty
2 Buls.269 Wherever a person promises without a benefit arising to the promisor or loss to the promissee tis a

void promise as being without sufft consideration

Leon.192
Cr.El.163
If the father of A & B lying sick declares his intention of devising a rent for his youngerson during his life & theelder in consideration his father will not change the lands promises to pay the rent in consequence of which the rent lands is not changd. This is a good consideration.
A consideration altogether executed & past, unless made by a precedent request will not maintain asset.
Cr.Ja.103 Where the consideration is agt law promise void.
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Assumpsit

Polly Ambler

XXXMarch 1001 The Plf must set forth every thing essential to the Gist of the action with such certainty that it may appear there was cause of action. But the law requires no greater certainty than the nature of the thing requires
The Deft must shew there was no contract, or that the contract was void & without consideration or that he has perform'd it.
An entire promise cannot be apportion'd.
Cr.Ja.4832 The Deft. cannot plead that he has revok'd the promise.
 



Polly Ambler 

1 March's translation of Brooke's new cases, King's Bench.
2 Croke's English King's Bench reports tempore James I.

Attachment

Dyer 218
2 Haw.P.6 142, 145
Attachm't is a process that issues at the discretion of the Judges of a Ct. of record agt a person for some contempt for which he is to be committed & may be awarded by them upon a bare suggestion or on their XXX own knowledge
All courts of record have a discretionary power over their own Officers & will punish them for disobeying their commands for executing them oppressively or otherwise misdemeaning themselves in their office
Sal.24.pl.4
Mod.21
2 Haw.P.6 154
Attach m'ts have been granted for speaking contemptuous words concerning the rules of Ct for disobedience of those rules & for the abuses of the process.

Audita Querela

An Audit querela is a writ tn be releivd against an injust judgement or execution by setting them aside for some injustice of the party that obtaind them which cou'd not be pleaded in bar to the action.
If A being within age becomes bail for B & judgement is given against him he may avoid it by Audita querela.

Authority

Co.L.181 113 A naked  authority must be  strictly  executed.  Several persons nam'd in a will to sell lands, one dies, the survivors cannot sell
Cr.Ja.153 Deed  not  deliver'd  till  after  the day of date, attorney makes XXXXX livery on  the delivery of the deed good.
Co.L.258 Letter of Attorney  to make livery absolutely, he delivers on condition good. Secus if to make livery on condion & he delivers absolutely.
Co.L.49 Testment made to A &  B. livery to  attorney to one in name of both good.  Authority cannot be transfer'd.  4  Co.77
Co.L.52 Must be executed during the life of the person that gives it.

 

Bail in Civil Causes

Vent. 55
3 Bl. 290
When the Shf arrests anyone he is olig'd to take bail otherwise an action on the case lies agt him.
22 G.2.Ch.4 171
27.G.2.Ch.1 296
Deft failing to appear, or give special bail when ruled thereto, the bail return'd shall be subject to the same judgement & have the same liberty of defence as Deft wou'd have had.
No bail to be taken after judgement
22 G.2.Ch.4.172 In suit on a penal stat. the Deft not held to Bail.
2 Brown 296 Heir, Exr., or  Admr not held to special bail
22.G.2.Ch.4.178 Bail subject to judgement of Genl Ct in appeals
The Bail liable to judgt &c agt Def unless he render his body in execution. If the Bail plead a render of the principal he must plead prout patet per recordum

Bail in Criminal Causes

1&2.Ph &
Ma.Ch.13
Two Justices Quorum unus having examin'd the prisoner & put in writing so much as is material, as also the information of those who bring him may bail any person who is repevisable.
stat.West.1
3.Ed.1 Ch.15
1&2.Ph.&
Ma.ch.13
4.Bl.295-6
No justice of peace can bail 1. on an accusati on of treason. 2. of murder, in case of manslaughter if the prisoner be clearly the slayer or if an indictmt be found agt him. 4th such as being committed for felony have broken prison. 5. Outlaws, 6 such as have abjur'd the realm 7. Approvers & such as are by them accus'd. 8 Persons taken with the mainour. 9. those charg'd with arson. 10. Ex-communicated persons. Others are of a dubious nature

as 11. Theves openly defam'd & known. 12 persons charg'd with other felonies or manifest & enormous offences not being of good fame  13. Accessories to felony who labor under the same want of reputation. Others must be bail'd on offering sufft surety, as 14 persons of good fame charg'd with a bare suspicion of Manslaughter or other inferior homicide, 15. such persons being charg'd with petty larceny or other felony not before specified, or 16 with being accessory to any felony.
The Ct. of Kings Bench mayadmit any person whatever to bail, yet will it pay due regard to the rules prescrib'd by H. West. 3.Ch.131


1 West's reports, English House of Lords(?) or Statute of Westminster

Bail in Criminal Causes

2. Hawk P.C. 88 No person  shall be bail'd for felony by less than two.
Justice taking insufft sureties, the party not appearing fineable.
2.Hawk P.C. 90 Justices before they bail a man under commitment must at their peril inform themselves of the cause of the commitment. bailing a man not bailable punishable by sevl stat. West.l.Ch.15.27.E.1.ch.3.182.P.M.13
Do. To delay or deny or obstruct bail where it ought to be granted punishable by indictment as well as action
Haw.97 Where a person in Ct is baild for a crime punishable with loss of life or member, a recogn. may be taken from each bail in a certn sum of money body for body or both ways but bail is only liable to be fin'd
2.Do.115 For crimes of an inferior nature  the recog. only in certn sum
Do.  Recog. not forfeited if the Principal stands mute
  

Bailment

2.Bl.452 Bailmt is delivery of goods on a contract expres[sed] or implied that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part  of the XXXXXX Bailee.
Co.L.89
4 Co.83
If A leave a chest lock'd with B without acquainting B with the particulars & take away the key the goods are still in possession of A.
Broke att. on Assise 20 The naked possession of chattels XX personal cannot be alien'd.
If the goods of A are bail'd by B to C - C must redeliver them to B, but if C dies his Exr is chargeable only to A.
Doc.&.Stu.130
2 Sal.522.pl 1
Co.1.89
Cr.Ja.243
Do
Where goods are pledgd for money lent the pawnee may use them without injuring them & if they are stolen he shall not answer for them unless the money for which they were pledg'd had been tenderd
2.Leon 30
Yel.164
If the money be tenderd or the goods decay the duty remains
The Pawnbroker hath a special property though the goods be not deliverd to him at the time of the money lent, provided they be deliver'd for the livery is not countermandable
2.Co.79 If goods be pawn'd without mentioning time of redemption the pledger has time during life though the pledgee dies.
4.Co.84
Cr.Ja.162
If a carrier, ferry man or hostler be robb'd he shall answer the value of the goods
Moore[?] 43 If A takes a XXXXXXXXX gelding to pasture & he be stolen no action lies agt A without a special  assumpsit to restore him

Bailment

Sal.26 pl.12

2 Ld Ray 209 
My Lord Holt has laid down the following rules with regard to Bailment.

There are six sorts of bailment which lay a care & obligation on the party to whom tis made
1. A bare bailt to another to keep for the use of the bailor, bailee not answerable witht gross neglect.
2. A delivery of g oods to another which are in themselves useful to keep, bailer if guilty of the least neglect or abuse of the loan answerable
3 A delivery of goods for hire, hirer to take all imaginable care & to restore them at the time.
4.A delivery by way of pledge if the goods are not the worse for using pawnee may use them at his peril as also if the keeping them be a charge, if not with-standing all his diligence the goods be lost he shall have/his/debt
5.Goods to be carried for a r eward. if you deliver them to a public or common carrier he XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX must be chargeable at all events, but if to one who has particular private employment he is not chargeable at all events though he receive a hire
6. Where goods are deliverd to do some act about them as carrying witht a rewd. The person to whom they are deliver'd only chargeable if they are lost by his own particular neglect.

Bargain & Sale

2.Bl.338 Bargain & sale is a kind of a real contra ct whereby the bargainor bargains & sells that is contracts to convey, for some pecuniary consideration, the land to the bargainee, & thereby becomes seis'd to his use.
[Br.Fox(?)] to uses.33
7.Co.40
Cr.El.394
No person can bargain & sell who cannot be seis'd to an(?) use. Though words of bargain & sale be used if no consideration of money be inserted it can only operate as a covt to /rec'd/ [  ]
2. Co.54 Any freehold or inheritance & possession remainder on reversion on an estate for use or years may be bargaind and be sold
8 Co.93
2 Co.35
A man seis'd of a freehold may bargain & sel l it for years but a man possess'd of a term cannot bargain & sell it so as to be executed by the statute.

Baron & Feme

Co.L.33
6.Co.22
The age of consent in an inft male is fourteen & in a female twelve. Both must be bound or neither
Bur.rep. 542 A wife seperated by articles, in consideration of money recd by the Husbd & covenants by him, cannot be seis'd & forcd to live with him
Co.L.351 If a man marries a woman seised on fee he gains a freehold. Baron & feme may by deed (the wife being privately exam?) transfer a freehold of which he is seis'd in her right.
Br. 24
Co.L.46

2.Bl.434
Co.L.300
Marriage is a gift in law to the husbd of the wifes chattels real, but if he does not dispose of them in his life they survive to her & he cannot devise them away. If the husbd survives the wife they are absolutely his
Pop.5.97
Co.L.46, 351
Cr.Ch.344
If a husbd possess'd of a term for seventy years makes a lease for twenty years to begin after his death this is good because a present interest passes. Secus if a rent be granted to issue out of the lands because the term comes entire to the wife by a title paramount the grant
2.Bl.433.B
3.Mod.186
Choses in action do not survive to the husbd on/the death of the wife nor has he any right to them but as Admr.
Salk 115 pl 4 Husbd & wife divors'd from bed & board the wife having alimony brings suit & is allow'd costs husbd cannot release them
Ver.261 A legacy was given to a feme covert who liv'd seperate/from her husbL, the Exr paid it to the feme & took her receipt for it, decreed to pay it over again to the husbd with interest.
1 Co 10 Lease at will not determin'd by marriage

Baron & Feme

4 Co 60 A will or submission to an award made by feme sole are revok'd by her subsequent marriage
Salk. 325
Ld. Ray. 315
Contracts or debts in presenti from hus'bd to wife, also such as are contingent & may happen during coverture are extinguish'd by marriage
2 Ver 410
Ch. Ca. 21
2. Vent. 343
A man enters into a bond to his intended wife condition'd to leave her £1000 & mortgages his estate not leaving personal assets to discharge the bond. Decreed in equity tho void in law
2. Ch. re. 81-79
2 Ver 17
Equity will set aside the intended wife's contracts enterd into before marriage when they appear to have been made with an intent to deceive & cheat the husbd & are in derogation of the rights of marriage.
Ver. 408 Widow before her marriage with a second husbd may without his knowledge, make provision for her children by the first
Moor. 468 The husbd. is liable for the wifes debts contracted before marriage whether he had any portion with her or not
3 Mod 186 Husbd. not liable for her debts before coverture unless recoverd in her life time
Haw. P. C. 65 Feme covert not punishable for theft if committed in compy. with or by coercion of her husbd. Secus if the theft be only by the command of her husband.
Haw. P. C. 3 If the wife incur the forfeiture of a penal statute the husbd may be made a party to an action or information for the same.
Ver.143 Sevl goods were devis'd to A's wife for life & after her death to B. Though A & his wife were parted & there had been great suits for alimony, & they during the seperation had wasted the goods yet husbd charg'd for this conversion of the wife's.

Baron & Feme

Mod. 128
2 Vent. 155
Salk. 116, 118. pl.10
2d Ld.Ray. 1006
Str. 647
Show. 283
A husbd may by law be compel'd to find his wife with necessaries suitable to his degree circumstances estate of which & of the wifes necessity the jury are to determine. The wife has no absolute power by any contract of hers though for necessaries to bind the husbd without his assent precedent or subsequent of which likewise the jury are to judge. If she cohabits with her husbd & bought necessaries for herself children or family the husbd is liable for them so if he runs from her, or turns her away, or forces her by cruelty to go away from him. But if he allows her a separate maintenance or prohibits particular persons from trusting her he shall not be liable during the time he pays that maintenance or for goods taken from the particular persons prohibited ---- If the wife pawns his cloaths & borrows money to redeem husbd not liable
Br.Dissesin 67 If Baron or stranger desseise another to the use of a feme covert her agreement signifies nothing. But if a Feme covert actually enters & commits a desseisin, binding
Dyer 159 Husbd & wife make a lease by indenture of the wifes lands reserving rent, he dies, she marries again, the second husbd receives the rent & dies she cannot avoid the lease.

Baron & Feme

Co.L.3 A femme covert is capable of purchasing, but the husbd may disagree & it shall avoid the purchase, though the husbd should agree to the purchase yet after his death she may waive it & if she does no act which proves her assent to it her heirs may waive it after her.
Moor.432
Str.239
In those cases where the debt or cause of action will survive to the wife husbd & wife are regularly to join in the action.
Salk.114 The fruit of the labor of the wife belongs to the husbd. for which he only shall bring the action unless there is an express promise to the wife.
Vent.328 For a personal tort done to the wife they must join & if the wife dies the action dies with her
Co.L.133 All actions for which the wife stood attachd at the time of the coverture, also for all her torts or trespasses during coverture the action must be brought agt both baron & feme
Co.L.351
Yel.166
If goods come to feme covert by trover, the action my be brought agt both but the conversion must be laid solely in the husbd.
Bro. B & F. 66
Co.L.933
A husbd who has abjur'd the realm or who is banish'd is civiliter mortuus, his wife must be consider'd as a feme sole
A woman whose husbd had left her about twelve years had carried on a trade & given receipts in her own name, being sued for debt contracted in the course of her trade gave coverture in evidence & her husband was prov'd to have been lately alive in ireland. Jury found for Deft.

Bastardy

Sal.122 pl.5 All persons born in lawful wedlock are deemd legitamate unless there is an apparent impossibility that they shou'd be generated by the husband.
Br.bar.36
Co.L.344
If a person be castrate, be under the age of fourteen or out of the realm the issue are bastards
Godol.281 The usual time for the legitimation of children born after the death of the husbd is nine solar months & ten days.
Co.L.8 A lewd woman immediately after her husbds death married her adulterer & within six months had a child -adjudged to be her first husbands
Co.L.8 Widow married immediately child born within nine months & eleven days adjudged the secd husbds
Co.L.245 If there be bastard eigne & a mulier & on the death of the father the bastard enters & enjoys the land during XXX life the mulier cannot enter on his own issue
7 Co.44
Sal 120
No man can bastardize another after his death
To exclude the mulier from his inheritance the possession of the bastard must be uninterupted & a descent cast to his issue.
 

 

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Bills of Sale

3 Co.81 Blood & natural affection a void consideration agt creditors
Mo.638 If goods continue in the possession of the vendor after a bill of sale of them, thoh there is a clause in the bill that the vendor shall account annually with the vendee for them, yet it is fraud.
3 Co.8l A genl conveyance of them all without any exception, also a secret manner of transacting the said bill as that it be also unusual clauses containd in it, as that it be made honestly, truly, & bonafide are marks of fraud & collusion.
2 Bulst. 226 Possession of a lease for years after an absolute conveyance or gift fraudulent, secus if the conveyance or sale be conditional as that on paymt of so much money it shall go to the vendee
5.Co.60 Fraud need not be pleaded but may be given in evidence

Bill of Exceptions

2. inst. 426 At common law a writ of error lay error lay not for an error in law not appearing in the record & therefore. 13th of Ed. 1.ch.30. gives a bill of exceptions in such case.
2 Inst. 427
Dyer 231 pl 3
Ray.46
The stat. extends to all pleas dilatory or peremptory to prayers to be receiv'd, oyer of records & deeds &c also to any material evidence offer'd & overruld
2.Inst. 427 The party/must pray the justices to put their seals to his bill before judgement & after judgement they may (if they have before refus'd) be commanded to it
Vent. 366 The Ct. will not suffer the party to move any thing in arrest of judgement on the point on which the bill of exceptions has been before allow'd.

Burglary

Hale P.C. 80 Burglary is a breaking & entering the mansion house of another or a church or the walls or gates of a walld town with an intent to commit some felony.
Hale P.C. 81
Hawk P.C.102
4.Bl.227
One who comes down a chimney, opens a window, ^or breaks the glass thereof, unlocks the door or draws the latch of a door, or if persons coming to a house with an intent to rob it, are let in under pretence of business & then rob the house, or take lodgings in the house & then fall on the Landlord & rob him, or having brought a Constable with hue & cry bind the constable & rob - these cases have been adjudged burglary.

Any the least entry either with the whole or with a part of the body or with a pistol or weapon is sufficient.

There may be also an entry in law a.s where sevl come to commit a felony & some stand in parts adjacent while others enter & rob.

It must be in the night, not day light to distinguish the face A house which a man dwells in but for part of the year Or which he has hird & brought nart of his goods in but has not yet lodged in, or which XX his wife has hird tho' with his privity & lives in will satisfy the wds mansion house. Also out buildings which are part of the mansion house, as a lodging in one of the Inns of Ct or in a house actually divided from the rest with a door to the street in which case the indictmt shd term it the mansion house of the proprietor. There must be an intention to commit a felony.

Carriers

Co.L.89 All persons carrying goods for hire come under the denomination of common carriers
Sal. 232. pl.11
Comyns 25 pl.10
The master of a stage coach who only carries passengers for hire not liable for goods of those passengers.
4 Co.84 If a carrier be robd he shall answer the value of the goods.
Vent. 238
Carth. 485
If A delivers a box to a carrier to carry & he asks what is in it & A tells him a book & tobacco, tho' there is a hundred pounds besides if the carrier is robd he shall answer for the money But if A being a common carrier receives by his book keeper from the servt of B two bags of money seald up containing as was told him £200 & the book keeper gives a receipt to this effect Recd of &c two bags of money seald up said to contain £200 which I promise to deliver such a day at Exeter to __ he to pay 10/pr Ct for carriage & risk. Though the bags contain'd £450 & the carrier is robd he shall be answerable only for the £200 for this is a particular undertaking; & the fraud of the Plaintiff.
Co.L.89
4 Co.83
A carrier may maintain trover & conversion agt a stranger by reason of his special property.
Hawk P.C. 90
Hale P.C. 60
If a carrier opens a pack & takes out part of the goods, or if he having brought the goods to the place apoointed takes them away again secretly animo furandi he is guilty of felony

Certiorari

F.N.B. 543 Certiorari is an original writ out of Chancery or the Kings bench to the judges of an inferior Ct. comg them to return recds of a cause depending before them.
22 G.2 Ch 4 Certiorari is not to be allow'd fter issue or demurrer joind. Cause once remov'd by certiorari & sent back by procedendo &c never after to be removd
27 G.2 ch.1. Certiorari not to be granted here the matter in dispute was not originally cognizable in Genl Court.

Commitments

2 Haw. P.C.46 All persons who are apprehended for offences not bailable as also those who neglect to offer bail for offences which are bailable must be committed
Also wherever a justice has power to bind a person over or to compel him to do such a thing he may commit quousque &c if in his presence he shall refuse to be bound or to do such a thing
2.&3. P.& M Ch.10 Previous to commt the justice must take the examinatim of the Prisoner & the information of those that bring him & certify the same in writing.
2. Haw. P.C.119, 120 Every commitmt must be in writing under the hand & sea1 of him that made it, shewing his authority & directed o the keeper of the prison. It ought to set forth the crime with convenient certainty
Every Mittimus ought to have a lawful conclusion And if grounded on an act of Parliament ought to be conformable to the method prescribd by that Statute.

Condition

C.L.203 The word condition or sub conditione does most properly create a condition. Other word create con -dition as proviso; but it must depend on another sentence, also it must be the words of the grantor and compulsory to enforce the grantee to do some act
Co.L.204 As the intent of the testator chiefly governs in wills these words faciendum, faciendo ca intentione, ad effectum &c create a condition
[ ] 12
9 CoXXX 85
Conditions cannot be annex'd to estates of inheritance or freehold estates without deed. Secus of Rents annuities warranties &c. Executory interests. Also of Chattels.

A person cannot resign or a condition be releas'd on condition. A man cannot release a personal thing on a condition subsequent, secus on a condn precedent.

Moor 92
8 Co.44
Conditions can only be reserv'd to parties & privies, their Heirs Feme covert & infant hound by express conditions.
5 Co.68
Cr.Ja.398
Vaugh.31
Co.L.163
Conditions which defeat an estate are to be taken strict -ly therefore if a man leases lands for years on condition that the lessee /nor his assigns/ shall not alien but to one of his bro- -thers & the lessee aliens to one of his Brothers the assignee is not within the condition but he may alien to whom he pleases.

If a man makes a lease for years by indenture

Condition

Co.L.203 provided always & it is covenanted & agreed between the parties that the lessee shall not alien this is both a condition & a covenant.
2.Bl.154

1 Vent.202
10 Co.42
When the estate is so expressly confin'd & limited by the words of its creation that it cannot endure for any longer time than till the contingency happens upon which the estate is to fail this is denominated a limitation. These words are proper for its creation While, so long as, until, &c. In such cases the estate determines so soon as the contingency happens & the next subsequent estate which depends on such determination becomes immediately vested without any act to be done by him who is next in expectancy. But though X strict words of condition be used in its creation yet if on breach of the condition the estate be limited over to a third person the law construes it into a limitation.
Ver.79, 167
2.Vent.952
In equity with respect to conditions precedent & subsequent the prevailing distinction seems to be to releive agt the breach or non performance of a condition where a composition can be made.

As where one devised L 10000XX a piecelands to J.S. his

Condition

2.Ver.366 kinsman paying £1000 a piece to his two daughters who were his heirs at law and J.S.made default & the daughters recovd in ejectmt yet J.S. was releiv'd on paymt of principal, interest & costs.
2.Bl.156
2 Vent.109
10 Co.38
If a condition be impossible at the time of its creation or afterwards become impossible by the act of God or the act of the feoffer himself, or if (struck through)they(struck through)/ it/ be contrary to law or repugnant to the (struck through)estate(struck through) nature of the estate tis void.
Co.L.206 If the condition of a bond be impossible at the time of making it the condition is void & the obligation stands single. But if the condition is possible at the time of making it & becomes impossible at the time of making it by the act of God of the law or of the Obligee &c the obligation is saved.
Eq.Abr. 18 The condition of a bond was to settle certain lands in such a manor by such a day; the obligor died before the day the bond savd at law, but a specific execution decreed in chancery.
Cr.El.815 If there be lessee for years on cndn not to lien with<supra>t/supra> the assent of the lessor, makes his Exr & devises it to him & the Exr enters generally the testator not being indebted to any body, this is forfeiture of the condition

Condition

7 Co.56
Vaug.32
If there be a nomine pend given to the lessor for the nonpayment of the rent he must demand the rent before he can be entitled to the penalty. Or if the clause had been that if the rent were behind that the estate of the lessee shoud cease & be void, In these cases a demand must be made at the day prefixd for the payment & alledged expressly to have been made in the nleadings.
Dyer. 656 But where the power of reentry is given to the lessor for default of payment without any further demd the lessee has undertaken to pay it whether demanded or not
Vaugh.31 If words of limitation be us'd the Lessee must at his peril pay the rent

If man leases land on condn that he shall not alien the land or any part thereof & after aliens part with the assent of the lessor the whole condition is dispens'd with

Co.L. 202 It is laid down as a rule that he who enters for a condition broken shall be in of the same estate he was before & therefore shall avoid all mesne incumbrances.
Co.L.30 But a man entitled to be tenant by the Curtesy makes a feoffment in fee on condition, enters for condition broken & then his wife dies he shall not be tenant by the Curtesy


Condition

Lit.sec. 337
Co.L.308
If a man makes a feoffmt in fee with condition to be void if the feoffer pays a certain sum of money to the feoffee & he dies before paymt the heir cannot pay it. But when a day of paymt is limited & the feoffor dies before the day his heir/may tender the money
Co.L.207
5 Co.96
If A enfeoffs B on condition that B ehall pay money on a day & before the day B enfeoffs C either of them may tender the money
Co.L.210
5 Co.97
If a man bargains & sells lands with a proviso that /it/ the vendor before such a day pay so much money to the vendee his heirs or assignes then the sale to be void a tender to the Exr is not good. secus if a feoffee be to pay money to the feoffer. Designatio unius est exclusio alterius.
Cr. El.798 If the condition of an obligation be to pay less sum & no day of paymt be limited the obligor ought to pay it presently that is in convenient time.
Cr.El.363 The intent of the condition must be honestly performd. If the condition be in th copulative & it is not possible to be perform'd it shall be taken in the disjunctive
Hob.103 If the condition of an obligation be that the obligor shall pay £10 to th obligee which is for the rent of certn lands & the obligee enters on the land & so suspends the rent yet this shall not excuse the paymt for it is but a recital that it is for rent & therefore not material.

Condition

Co.L.207
Cr.El.755
If the condition of an oblig~tion be to pay a small sum at a certain day & the obligee refuses it at the day, tho' this saves the penalty yet the principal must be naid. Secus if the condition be for the performance of an act collateral to the obligation
Cr.El.755
Cr.Ja.14
Regularly if the condition be to be perform'd by a stranger & he refuses the obligation is forfeited.

If the condition be to make a gift in tail to a stranger who refuses obligation and because it was intended that the feoffeeobligee shoud have the reversion

Coparceners

Co.L.163 If a man having lands in fee hath issue two daughters & one of them is attainted of felony & the father dies both daughters being alive one moity shall descend to the innocent daughter & the other moity shall escheat. Had it been remainder to the right Heirs of A whoXX is dead leaving issue two daughters when of one is attaint ed of felony the remainder void for the whole
5 Mod.141
Ld.Ray.64 pl. 1
One coparcener cannot before partition mke avowry for the moity of a rent
Co.L.164 If coheirs are disseir'd before partition their possessory action must be joint, secus of an action brought by their issue
    255
Co.L.171
If two parceners of full age make an unequal partition it shall bind them secus if one had been within age
8.Co.101 If two Parceners take husbands who make an equal partition this shall bind their wives, secus if the partition be uneql
F.N.B.62
Booth 244
When a partition is made by writ tis directed to the sheriff to summon the refractory coparcener to shew cause why she will not make partition of the lands &c.

There are two judgements, the first that partition be made between the aforesd parties of the aforesd tenements & appurtenances, on which there goes out a writ to the sheriff commanding him to go in person with a jury to the tenemts to be divided & there in presence

Coparceners

Booth 245
Co.L.167
Cr.El.9
of the parties (if they anpear on summons) by the oath(?) of twelve men, to make An equal & fair partition & then return the inquisition of the partition annex'd to the writ under the seals of the Sheriff & the jurors whose names are likewise to be return'd
Dalison 28 All must be concluded in a partition by writ. There is a condition annex'd to a partition that if either the whole of any one share, or an estate for lif or in tail, be there out evicted by entry witht action the party may avoid the partition.

Costs

22.G.2 ch 5 180
Cr.Ch.141
Sal.206. pl.5
Mod.129
2 Ld.Ray.831
Str.645
In actions of Asst & battery & slander if the jury give under five pound damages in the Genl. Ct. or under forty shillings in Chy Ct . Plaintiff shall recover no costs. In the construction of a similar stat. in Engd it has been held that it extends not to slander of title or to slander which can only lie where there is special damage, or in an action for beating his sert per quad servetium amisit.
G.2.ch 5 180 And in all actions of trespass & all other personal ac- -tions where it shall not be enter'd on accd. that the interest &c. in lands might be in dispute, or that the trespass was wilful or malicious if the jury find under forty shillings the Pltf shall not recover more costs than damages
Sal.314 pl 21 Exrs or Admrs Plfs pay no costs unless the action is brought in their own right as for a conversi- -on or trespass in their own time
25 G.2 ch 5 Also in Chy Ct. unless Ct. shall certify probable cause for prosecu /tion
7.G.3.ch.23 Prosecutors for offences not capital in Genl Ct. whose names sh~ll be set at th foot of the indictmt liable to costs on bill not found or deft acquitted.
Vent.193
Sal.206 pl 4
2 Inst. 288
A common informer on a popular stat. can in no case recover costs unless they be expressly given by such stat.

Costs

Cr.Ch.559 But in an action on a stat. by the party griev'd for a certain penalty given by such stat. Plaintiff shall recover costs
10.Co.116 Where damages were before recoverable & a stat. encreases them to double or treble the value, costs also as parcel of the damages shall be trebled



 

  Where there is nothing in the will which can convince the mind of the Court that no
favor was intended by the Testator to those children born posterior to the Divise


Covenant

1.Ch.Ch.294 Any wds in a writing seal'd. &c which shew the parties concurrence to the performance of a future act will create a covenant.
Sal.197 . pl 3 Covt on deed poll the parties must be nam'd therein
5.Co.XX 17 If a man makes a lease for years of land by the words concessi or demissi these import a covenant.
4.Co , 80 Bond for performance of covts genly extend to covts in law & deed.

But an express covt qualifies the generality of covt in law.

Owen 104 Covt does not lie for goods leas'd by indenture though they be evicted within the term.
5 Co.18-19 Where there is a joint interest the action of covt must be joint. But if two bind themselves severally to pay money the obligee may sue which he pleases
Str.Cas.12
Cr.El.553
In every case where the testator is bound by a covt the Exr. shall be bound by it if it be not determin'd by his death
And .55
Vent. 175
Covts real or such as are annexd to the estates shall descend to the heir of the covenantee & he alone shall take advan- -tage of them. Secus of covts in gross .Also for Breaches in the time of the covenanter action shall be brought by Exr.
Cr. El. 457
5.Co.16
The assignee of a term is bound to perform all the covts annex'd to the estate, as where it extends to a thing in esse
5 Co.15
Cr.Ja.438
If the covt be for a thing not in esse; Assignee not bound unless nam'd. If the assignee be nam'd yet if the thing to be done be merely collateral & no way concern the thing demisd, it shall not bind him

Covenant

Hard. 87
5 Co.17
Assignee not bound by a covt for the delivery of per- -sonal things though particularly namd
Ba.Cov.32
Cr.Ja.309
Ray.303
Sal.31.pl.2
Ld.Ray.368
4 Co 80. 5 Co. 17.
Cr.El.303
Cr.El.599
Where a man leases for years & covenants for him & his assigns, the lessee assigns over.Lessor has his action agt assignee or Lessee. Also an Assignee who assigns over is liable for the rent due before & during his enjoymt Lease by indenture covt in law created by the word de- -mise shall go to the assignee. So of all Covts vrhich run with the land.
8.Co.83 All contracts are to be taken according to the intent of the parties express'd in their words & if there be any doubt it shall be construed most strong agt covenanter
Sid.309
Ray.27
Broke obligation
Dyer 4.28
If the principal thing to b perform'd as conveying an estate &c /be void/ further covts which are relative & dependant thereon are so likewise. So if lessee for years grants so much of the term as shall be to come at the time of his death & covts that the lessee shall enjoy it & gives bond for the perforwance of covts, yet the principal thing Viz. the grant being void for uncertainty, both bond & Covts are void likewise.
Sal.198 pl.4 Where A covts not to do an act which was lawful to do an act of Parlt comes after & xompels him to do it it repeals the covt, so if covts to do a thing which is lawful & an act hinders him from doing it.

Covenant

2 Jones 195 Secus if a man covts to do a thing which was unlawful & an act comes & renders ti lawful.

If two men on sale of their wives lands covt that they & their wifes have good right to convey lands & to make farther assurances if one of th wives be within age the covt. is broke

Cr.Ch. 176 In an action of covt several breaches may be assign'd other- -wise in debt on an obligation condition'd to per- form covenants.
Cr.Ja.661 If the breach be assign'd in the words of the covt sufficient.
Co.L.303
Cr.El.635
If a man be bound to perform all the covts in an in- -denture if they are all in the affirmative he may plead performance generally. Secus for the negative
Lev.152
contra
2 Mod.309
5 Co.78
Cr.Ja.645
It has been adjudged that where there are reciprocal covts in the same deed one may be pleaded in bar of the other.
? pl.2 If the assignee of a term have a covt from the assignor that he shall quietly free from all arrears of rent &c if there be rent arrear yet he cannot assign this as any breach/of the covt unless he be sued or charged therewith
27 G 2, ch6 181 In actions on bonds for performance of covts &c. jury may assess damages for such breaches as Plf shall prove. And on Demr for such as Plf shall assign after judgmt. Such judgmt to remain as a security to the Plf. his Exrs. or Admrs on which they may have a XXXXX scire Facias agt Deft & assign any other breach.

Curtesy of England

If a man marries a woman seir'd of lands of inheritance & has issue by her which might possibly inherit those lands he shall be tent by the Curtesy
D.& stud. 203
Co.l. 123
Co.L.144
He cannot be tent. of a [ ] at common law or what is now called a trust, or of an Annuity after writ brought
7.Vin.156 pl.23
Co.L.30.326
Dyer 363 pl.26
8 Co.72
A man may be tent. of an equity of redemption

If a husbd after issue makes a feoffment in fee & the wife dies the feoffee shall hold it during the life of the husbd. But Quere if such feoffment or lease made before issue shall be good by subseqt issue.

2 Inst. 309 If Tent by curtesy attempt to alien a greater estate he in reversion shall have a writ of entry.
Br. [ ] 6
Co.111
If the husbd make a feoft in fee & retake an estate to him & his wife by which the wife is remitted he shall not be tent. by the curtesy

Damages

Co.L 42 If Tent for life & he in reversion join in a lease for life & then in an action of wast tent for life shall recover the place wasted & he in reversion damages.
Morr 419
Vent. 267
In all actions which sound in damages the jury may give what damages they think proper, though in con- -tracts the very sum specified & agreed on is usually given yet if there are any circumstances of hardship fraud or deceit, XXX tho not sufft to invalidate the contract the jury may consider them & proportion & mitigate the damages accordingly
10 Co 117
Cr.El.544
Impersonal actions the Plf shall recover damages only for the tort done before the action brought & cannot recover more than he has counted for
Br. Dam. 68 Plf in Detue may recover more damages agt Garnishee than he has counted for
Roll.Abr. 578 In trespass for rescuing distress, Deft justifies on special matter, demurrer, for the Plf he shall have the damages he has counted for
Yel.45 vide
11.Co.56
Where the jury find higher damages than are containd in the declarn Ct may give judgmt for so much as the party hae declard for or plaintiff may release
11.Co.6
Cr.El.860
The jury cannot regularly assess sevel damages for one trespass with which the Defts are jointly charg'd. But if one Deft is found guilty at one time & the other at another time sevl damages may be

Damages

3 Mod.12 be taxed & the Plf hath election to take execution de melioribus damnis
3.Tal.15 pl.6
Ld.Ray.116
In battery pro amputatione manus dextrae the Court may increase the damages for it is apparent from the recd & view of the Ct.
So in trespass on a nihil dicit if a writ of enquiry of damages be awarded the Ct. may encrease or di -minish the damages found by the inquest adjudged in an action of asst Battery & wounding
Yel.176
Cr.Ch.438
If action of trespass if brought on a Stat. on which the Plf is to recover double or treble damages the damages are to be assised by the jury & doubled by the Ct.

Debt

If the Stat. prohibits a thing under a certn penalty & pres- scribes no particular method for recovering it, the party shall have an action of debt.
3.Co.22 On a contract debt lies not till all the days of paymt are pass'd.
Lev. 54 If one enters into a contract to pay money &c at his sevl contingencies the obligee has his action at th hap- pening of either of them
22.G.2.Ch 27 p. 249 Debt may be brought on promissory note for money or tobacco & by assignee of bond in his own name and for money due on protested bills of exchange agt the drawer or indorser or both.
22.G.2.Ch.10 Debt will lie for rent due on a lease for life as well as years
4.Co.49 If a feme lessee for life takes husbd & dies debt lies agt the husbd for rent issuing out of the land.
Cr.Ja.88 If a man sells certain cloths for £66 flemish money he may bring an action of debt for £39-12 monetae angli & setting forth the special matter & avering that £66 flemish money was at the time of sale worth £39.12 english money & that the deft has not paid &c.
5.Co.32 If an Exr recovers any thing in the right of hist testator it must be in the detinet only.
2.Ja.685 But if an Exr. takes oblign for debt due to his testa tor in debt on this oblign it must be in the debet X & detinet

Debt

Cr. Ja. 685 So if an Exr sells the goods of his testator
Vent . 321 Also debt agt the Exr shall be in the detinet only unless after judgemt R devast[avi]t is suggested
Cr.El. 74 But if debt be brought agt Exr for arrearages of rent in curr'd after the death of the testator it shall be in the debet Debt agt Baron & feme for debt before marriage in debet.

In debt on an oblign the deft cannot plead nil debet In debt for rent with deed the proper plea is non est factum

Descent

2.Bl.208 Inheritances shall lineally descend to the issue of the person last actually seised but shall never lineally ascend
2.Bl.212 The male issue shall be admittee before the female
Do.214 The eldest only of Males shall inherit but the females all together
Do.217 The lineal descendants in infinitum of any person deceas'd shall represent their ancestor
Do.220 On failure of lineal descendants the inheritance shall descend to the blood of the first purchasor
224 The collateral beir of the person last seised must be his next collateral kinsman of the whole blood
234 In collateral inheritances the male stock shall be prefer'd to the female unless where lands have descended actually from the female
Co.L.15 If the eldest son enters yet if the relct of the (struck through)widow(struck through)/father/ be endow'd & the eldest son dies the brother of the half blood & not the sister shall have the reversion of the third part For the widow is [ ] in continuance of her husbds estate Secus if the eldest son had made a lease for life & leseee had endowed the widow.
Lit.sec. 387.8.441 In descents which toll entries it is requir'd that the ancestor die seis'd of a freehold & fee

Descent

A man seis'd of lands in fee on condition dies seised if the condition be broken in his life it does not take away the right of Entry 1n the feoffer. Lit. sec. 391.
If a man seis'd of lands in fee devises them to another in fee & dies whereby the descent in law is cast on the devisee, & the heir before any entry made by the devisee enters & dies seised, this descent shall not take away the entry of devisee because he would be without remedy having never had possesion. Co.L.240.
If the younger son enters by abagemt & dies seis'd yet the Heir or his issue may enter. Secus if the younger son has made a feoffmt in fee & the feoffee had died seis'd. Co.L.342
Or if the elder brother had enterd & been disseis'd by the younger L.l 397
The same law holds of intrusions Co.L.243
The entry of infts & feme coverts not taken away by descent s. L.Sec. 402
So desct lost during imprisonment, or absence in foreign parts /Co.L. 255/

Detinue

In detinue th party is to recover the thing in specie or damages for the detainure.
3. Bl. 150 To ground an action of detinue these points are necessary. 1.That the deft came lawfully by the goods as either by delivering them to him or find- -ing them. 2d. That the Plf have a property 3. That the goods themseves be of some value & 4. That they be ascertain'd in point of identity
Sid.172
Yel.165
Detinue lies only for or agt the husbd for goods detaind by or from a feme covert before marrige.

Devises

2.Ver .104 A woman whose husbd is banishd for life by act of Parliamt/may make a will
Cr.El.27
Cr.Ch.219
Husbd may bind himself by covt or bond to per- -mit his wife to dispose of legacies &c. & this is such an appointmt as the husbd will be oblig'd to stand to.
Co.L.112 A wife may be devisee tho' not grantee to her husbd
2.Mod.315
Ld.Ray.262
Str.73
An infmale may devise his lands at 21 his negroes at 18 & his personal estate t 14 years of age; a female may dispose of her personal estate at 12 years old.
Sal. 231.pl.10
Ray.163
Sid. 153
Lev.135
Ray.162
It has been doubted whether a devise to an inft in ventre sa mere is good but all agree that a devise to an inft when he shall be born or wher God shall give him birth is good & that the freehold shall descend to the heir at law in the mean time.
Plow.343
Yel.347. pl.16
If a man devises lands in which he has nothing & after purchases them such a devise is void.
Mod.217 If a man devises lands & is disseisd & dies before reentry the devise is void.
Ch.Ca.39 After articles agreed on for a purchase, the purchasor devises the land & dies before a conveyance executed, yet the land passes in equity
2.Ver.689 An equitable interest deviseable as well as a legal estate

Devises

3. Lev. 427 A mere possibility not deviseable.
Abr.Eq. 175.6 A right to set aside a release deviseable & the devise of all the residue of the testators estate to the wife &-constituting her sole Execx apt words for that purpose
Co.L.6
2. Bl.108
Cr.Ja.416
Hob.2
If a man devises lands to another forever, or in fee simple, or to him & his, or th~t such a one shall be universal heir a fee passes. So if XXXX A devises land/s to B to give sell or do what he pleases with it, or to B & his blood, or to B & his succeesors. So if the words be I release all my lands to A & his Heirs or I will that A shall have my inheritance or that A shall be heir to all my lands.
Cr.El.378
5.Co.21
2.Sal.685
A Device shall be intended for the benefit of the devisee therefore wherever there is a sum in gross to be paid the devisee has a fee
2.Ver.564
Sal.234.pl.13
Cr.Ch.447
The word estate in a devise generally passes a fee But where the word estate is coupled with chattels it may be construed to mean only chattel interests
Co.L.9 A devise to a man genly construed for the life of the devicee
Cr.El.498 Tho' a devise on a consideration genly passes a fee yet where there are express words to determine the intent of the devisor there the devise shall be construed accordingly

Devises

9.Co.128
Vent.230
If a man devise lands to his son B & if he has issue male of his body lawfully begotten then to his issue, if no issue male devises over, B has an estate tail
Co.99 Wherever the ancestor takes an estate for life & there is a limitation to his heirs or issue then words are words of limitation & not of purchase
6 Co 16 sec
Vent.212
Lands were devis'd to A & his wife & after their decease to their children they having then a son & a daughter living, A & his wife have hird an estate for life
Co.66
2.Ver.427
10 Mod. 181
Abr.Eq.184
An express devise of an estate for life is sometimes not enlarged by a subsequent limitatio to his heir
3.Co.96
Cr.El.311
If a man devises lands to his Exrs for paymt of his debts &, after paymt the remainder shall not vest title the debts are paid & the estate shall go from Exr. to Exr. for that purpose.
Co.L.112, 236 A man devises lands to be sold by his Exrs or to his Exrs to be sold, the Exrs shall have the profits before sale to their own use secus if the devise had been that his Exrs shou'd sell his land.
3.Co.20
Cr.El.202
A devises lands to his Exrs till his son comes of age, the profits to be applied to the performance of his will though the son dies before he comes

Devises

Ch. Ca.113 of age yet the interest of the Exrs continues till he wou'd have been of age.
Abr.Eq.395
Gil. eq. rep. 36
A man devis'd land to his wife till his son & heir appa- -rent shou'd be of age & then to his son & his heirs, the inte- rest of his wife determines by the death of his son before 21. & the remainder vests in the son on the death of the testator
Cid 151 Sec
Lev.264
A term was devis'd to B & if he died within the term the residue to C after he attains the age of 21 if C dies before 21. B, tho' he dies first has a bequest of the whole term.
4 Co. 82
Cr.El.390
Bl. 4.3. pl. 1
Eq.Abr.197
A devis'd lands to B & C till £800 be rais'd out of them. B & C have the lands no longer than till they might have recd if out of the profits unless the disturbance is by the heir
2 Ver.708 Creditors are so far favor'd especially in equity that where ever it appears to be the testators intent that his lands shou'd be liable for his debts they shall be subjected thereto tho there be no express words to charge them. As where A devises that all his debts &c be paid in the first place
Ver.1O4
2.Ch.Ca.2O5
If lands are devis'd to trustees for paymt of debts & C gains out of the rents & (underlined)profits(underlined) trustees may sell the land itself
Vagh.251
Cr.Ja.75
Where estates are created by implication to the dispersion of th heir at law the implication must be necessary & not merely possible
Vent.230 Where the devisee takes a particular estate of

Devises

inheritance by express words in the will, such estate shall not be enlarg'd by implication
Levin 418
Sal.237.pl.16
A devise of things personal is good though the testator had them not at the time of making his will.
Cr.El.387 By a devise of all goods a lease for term of years has pass'ed.
Ver.35 Devise to A for life & after his death to the heir of B. Goods vest in him who was heir of B at his decease
2.Bl.172.3 An executory devise needs not any particular estate to support it. A fee simple or other lessXX estate may be limited after a fee simple. A remainder may be limited in a chattel interest after a particular estate for life created in the same
Cr.El.205 The contingency on which it is to vest must happen in a life or lives in being or nine months after a life; or a reasonable number of years
Cr.Ja.590
Vagh.272
2.[Rol ?] rep. 497
An executory devise bein a mere collateral possibility is not bound by a recovery.
2.Mod.289
Abr.Eq.288
Ld.Ray.204
One devises lands to his wife till his son comes to the age of 21 years then to person the fee vests immediately in the son though the wife shall enjoy the lands
Str.132.Sal.226 pl 4
2.Sand.330
4.Mod.234
2.Lev.39
3.Keb.11
3.Sal.299
Where a contingent estate is limited & depends on a freehold which is capable of supporting a remr it shall never be construed an executory devise but a contingent remainder.

Devises

Sal.226.pl 4 226
Ld.Ray.3
2.wILL.20 P.56
A remr limited per verba in presenti shall not be construed an executory devise
Dyer.303
Vent 224
Cr.Ja.448
No cross remrs can be created by implication in a will unless the words do plainly express the intent of the devisor to be so, as where det acres are devis'd to A.B.& C. & if they die without issue of their bodies or any of them the lands to remain over there by reason of the words any of them they h&ve cross remainders
3.Lev.127
Co.L.18
3.Ch.Ca.35
Where th testator makes the same disposition of his estate as the law wou'd have done, or where his disposition is in such genl terms that his intention is uncertain, or where h is establishing a settlement agt the reason and policy of the law the will has been rejected.
Cr.Ch.298 If on having bnds in fee & other lands for years devises all his lands & tenements the fee simple lands only pass. secus if he had only lease for years
2.And.123 If a man devises his house in A & his lands in B a house on his lands in B will not pass
2.Vent.285
2.Ver.461, 621
Abr.eq.211
A Devise of all his lands not before devis'd, or of all the rest of his lands, or of all his lands out settlement &c sufficient to pass the reversion of lands out of which ea particular estat was before devisd So a devise of al his lands, tenements & hereditatments

Devises

2.Ver.623 By a genl devise of all lands tenements & hereditaments Mortgages in fee tho' forfeited will not pas
Abr. eq. 214
3.Ver.729
Co.L.24 Dy.44
A description of a person by the name of heir tho' not heir genl operating with the intention of the testator, suft to ascertain the person to take. The authorities of old books contra
Plow.345
Cr.El.422
If a man devises lands to A & his heirs & A dies in th life of the Devisor, B the heir of A takes nothing
Cr.El.423 sec
2.Vent.722
If there be a devise to A for life remr to B in fee tho A die in the life of the Devisor or refuse , B shall take.

Disseisin

3lBl.169
Co.L.277
Disseisin is a wrongful putting out/of him who is actually seised of the freehold.

Distress

Co.L.47
5.Co.3
If the lessor reserve not the reversion h cannot distrain witht a clause of distress
Co.L.169
3.Co.22
A rent granted for equality of partition by one Parcener to another, or to a widow out of lands whereof she is dowable in lieu of her dower, or by one person to another on an exchange may be distrain'd for of common right
22.G.2.
Ch.10.p.204
Landlord may distrain for rent arrear after the lease is determind provided it be within six months after such determination, during the land lords interest in the lands & the Tenants possession.
3.Bl.7. CoL. 47 Those things of which no man can have a valuable property cannot be distrain'd.
3. Bl. 8
Cr.El.569, 552
Whatever is in the personal use or occupation of a Man is for the time privileg'd from/any distress. Also valuable things in the way of trade
3.Bl.9.10
7.Co.7
3.Co.92
Things for which a replevin will not lye, as money out of a bag, cannot be distressed. So of things which cannot be return'd again in the same plight.
Distress for rent shou'd be made in the day. It may be taken in a house if the door be open or out of a window
22.G.2. ch.10.p.204 Goods fraudulently remov'd may within ten days be seised & sold as if they had been distrein'd on the premiss, provided they had not been bona fide sold before the seisure.

Distress

22 G2 Ch 10 p.202 Goods distrein'd & not replevied within ten days after such distress & notice given at the chief mansion house or other most uublic flace on th land , by giving (struck through)bond(struck through) sufft<\ surety for paymt of the rent within three days may be sold to the highest bidder
Co.L.47
2 Inst.106
3. Bl.13
4.Mod.385
Ld.Ray.53
Goods distrein'd if live to be out in a pound overt if dead & liable to damage to be put in a pound covert within three miles of the premises
Sal.247 pl.1 On a similiar act of Parliament with our act of assembly it has been determind that notice given the owner of the goods is sufft whether it be left at the chief mansion hous or not.
3. Bl. 12
Vent.183
2. Inst.107
Distress must be reasonable. A man may distrein an ox or a horse for three pence provided there be no other distress on the premises.
Co.L.47
22.G.2 Ch 10.p.203
If distress be witht cause owner may rescue the goods before they are impounded.--may have an action of trespass or on the case agt the party distreining their Exrs. or Admrs. & shall recover double the value of the good distrein'd & sold.

Dower

Co. L.33
13.Co.22
2.Bl.XX 131
The wife must be above nine years old at the death of her husbd otherwise she cannot be endow'd.
Co.L.33 If the husbd be attainted of treason or the wife be at- -tainted of treason or felony she shall not be endow'd unless she be pardon'd.
4.Arn (?) ch.2.p.31 Widow of person dying intestate allow'd to remain in the mansion house & plantation thereunto adjoin ing witht paying rent until dower be assign'd her
2. Bl.130
Lit, sec.36
10.Co.98
A woman is entitled to be endow'd of all lands of which her husbd was seised in fee simple or fee tail during the coverture & to which her issue might possibly have been heir. This excludes frdvrnfible freeholds.
Brook 6 sec
Cr.El 564
3. Lev.437
To entitle the wife to Dower the husbd must have the freehold & inheritance in him simul & semel, but an intervening estate for years does not bar her dower
Salk 54.pl.4
Ld.Ray.326
If the husbd makes a feofft of lands & the feoffee improves them yet the wife shall only be endow'd of the value they were of in the husbds time.
Inst.32
Perk.328
Perk. 366
If the husbd have only a right of entry during coverture & have neither a seisen in fact or in law the wife shall not be endow'd.
Co.L.35
2 Co. 67
If a disseisor &c assign dower this shall not be avoided unless they be in of such estates by fraud & covin of the woman

Dower

Dyer 343
Co.L.34.37
A woman entitled to dower cannot enter until it be assign'd to her & set out either by the heir terri tenant1 or sheriff in certainty.
2. Bl.136 If the thing of which she is endowed be divisible it must be set out by metes & bounds if indivisible she must be endow'd specially as the third toll [dish to a mill(?)] &c
7.Co.37
Cr. El. 451
The assignment of Dower must be absolute
4.Co.l22 If lands assign'd for dower be lawfully evicted by elder title the widow shall be endow'd anew
2.Bl.136
13.Co.23
4.Ann. Ch.4.p 24
19.G 2. Chl. p133
1.G.2.Ch4.84
2. Bl.137
A widow may be barred of her dower by elopement or being forc'd away, by living voluntarily with he r adulte- -rer unless/her husbd be reconceild to her, by divorce a vinculo matrimonii, the treason of/her husbd, by detaining the title deeds or evidences of the estate from the heir untill she restore them by aliening the land or negroes assign'd her for dower, or sending the slaves out of the State witht consent of him in reversion or by feoffmt of husbd & wife, the wife being privily examind or by her husbds will, she not renouncing it within nine months or by jointure
[ ].2.13 Tents in Dower to recover damages only from the time of requesting it.

1 i.e. terre-tenent, one who is literally in the possession of land, as distinguished from the owner out of possession.

Dower


Duress

Co.L.253
Jenk.166
Where a person is illegally restrain'd of his liberty & enters into a bond or other security to th person who causes the restraint he may avoid the same for duress of imprisonment.
2.Inst.483
2.Ver.497
Cr.Ja.187
Sid.123
A man may avoid his own act for fear of loss of life or member, or mayhem or imprisonmt. Also in eqty a man may avoid his deed tho' the terror & force are not sufft to make it duress at common law
The duress must be done to the party himself his father, his son, or his wife.
5.Co.119 Deed by duress to be avoided by special pleading judgement in actio.

Ejectment

Sal.225 pl.5
Barnes 120
2.Bur.1116
Rep & ca.of

practice
C.P.115

Declaration must be servd (struck through)on the premises(struck through) on the Tent himself or his wife/on the premises/unless he absconds in which case it has been holden that it may be serv'd on his neice, father son or daughter.
An affidavit that the declaration was serv'd if the Deft does not appeair & enter into the common rule Plf moves for judgmt agt the casual ejector.
Sup.to Barnes 24.25
2.Barnes 148
If there be sevl persons that claim title the rule may be drawn genly or particularly. Genly that he who claims title to the premises in question in his possesei- -on shou'd be admitted deft for such missusages XXX & this puts a necessity on the Plf to distinguish by proof what tenements are in each defts possession Or specially that B who claims title to such lands expressing them particularly shou'd be admitted deft. In which case the defts
Barnard
K.B.48
Attorney shou'd give a note of the lands for which he was admitted deft. If on the trial the deft will not appear & confess lease &c. the course is to call the deft & his attorney if he is within the rule & then to call the Plf &[ ] -suit him & then on the return of the postea judgmt will be given agt the casual ajector.

Ejectment

Vent.255
2.Vent.195
Where there are two defts for the same premises & one appears & confesses leave &c & the other does not, the Plf cannot proceed agt the other but he must be nonsuited; if there appear any covin betwee such person not appearring & the lessor of th Plf the Ct. will stop the judgemt aft th casual ejector for the part of him that appear'd & compel him who did not to release costs.
Str.694 If an inft delivers a declaration some friend or guardian Must be set up as Plf to answer costs.
Where the presisses are empty, where a corporation is lessee of the Plf where the sevl interests of the lessors are not known there must be an actual lease &c. Rules for pleading to be given & Ct. mov'd for judgt.
2 LdRay.1470
2.Str.908
11.Co.55
Cr.El.235
Cr.Ja.573
Cr.Ch.435
In this action the law requires that the thing demanded be so particularly specified that the shefiff may certainly know what to give the Plf pos- -session of if he shou'd recover
Yel.118
Rol.rep.3
Vent.30
Law of Ej.76
The trespass complain'd of in ejectmt must be agt the actual possession. Exr may hav action for eject of testator. Lessor must have a right of entry.
Yel.182 The Plf must lay commencement of his lease in his declarn preceding ouster by the Deft but this

Ejectment

Cr.Ja.311
2 Rel.rep. 461
day of the ouster need not be expressly mention'd Neither is the Plf oblig'd to declare the day of his entry
Law.ej.81 Where the limitation of a lease is altogether uncertain the Plf cannot recover secus where tis impossible
Law.ej.82.3 Plf shall recover as much as he has title to tho' he lays his ejectmt for more
Cr.Ja.613
6 Co.14
2.Vent.214
Hard. 330
The Plf must declare on such a lease as suits the lessors title
Lease made by Guarn to try title of inft seems good
5.Co.91
Leon.145
After verdict given for the Plf there must be a full & actual possession given to him by the sheriff.
6.Mod.27
Sal260pl.1
The writ of execution is only returnable at the election of the Plaintiff.


Alex K Marshall
Alex K Marshall

Election

2.Co.36 If a man grants twenty acres parcel of his manor, the grantee has his election of situation
Co.L.145
2.Co.37
It is laid down as a genl rule thati if election be given of two sevl things he that is the first agent or is to do th first act has the election
Lev.54 In debt on an oblign that if a ship out to sea & either the goods or the obligor come safe then to pay such a sum. Action lies on the contingency which shall first happen
2.Co.37 Where the things granted are annual & to have continuance the election remains with the grantor as well after the day as before When nothing XXXX to the grantee & before passes election it must be made in the time of the grant -tor secus where an estate or interest masses immediately
Co.L.145 When one & the same thing passes to the dones or grantee & he has his election in what man- ner or degree to take it there the interest passes immediately

Error

3.Bl.405 A writ of error lies for some suppos'd mistake in the proceedings of a Ct of record it only lies on matter of law arising on the face of the proceedings
27 G.2 pa.301 XX Upon appeal in personal action where judgemt or decree does not exceed £20 error can only be assignd in matter of right, where it does not exceed £50 it may be assignd in matter of right & such matters of form as were insisted on in the Ct below, where the judgmt does exceed £50 or in all real actions any errors in form or substance may be assigned.
Dyer 90
5 Co 39
2.Sid.56
Cr.El.419
No person can bring a writ of error but him who was party to or privy to the recd or was injurd by th first judgment. It only lies agt him who was party or privy to the first judgemt his Heirs Exrs or Admrs
F.N.B.44
[ ] 173
[ ] 652
Liv.72
Sid.213
Ray.16
Cr.Ja.392
Carth.371
After the recd is remov'd & the Plf has assign'd his errors, he shall have a sci.fa. ad audiendum er- rores agt the deft who thereupon may plead in nullo erratum or a release &c. A Sci.fa. lies agt the heir & terre tenants. Sci.Fa. to the terre- tenants is usually granted but tis not ex de- licto justitia

Error

Book.error. 93
Cr.Ja.29
Pleading in nullo est erratism is an acknowlegement of the fact & denial that tis error
Rob.658
Vent.34
Sal.263 Pl.4
If a writ of error abates by default of the party a second writ shall be no supersedeas secus if it abates by act of God or of the law
Sid.294 In a writ of error for want of assigning errors, judgemt is not affirm'd but execn goes on first judgemt party can have no costs but his remedy must be on the recognizance by which he is bound to prosecute with effect
Cr. El. 611
Sid.147
To reverse an outlawry party must appear & assign errors in person
Vent.252
Sal. 268.p115
Carth.338
The Plf in error cannot assign error of fact & error of law together. In such case deft shoud demur for simplicity
Cr.Ch.53 It seems a genl rule that nothing can be assignd for error which contradicts the record
5.Co.39 A man cannot reverse a judgemt for error un less he can shew the judgemt was to his disadvantage
Palm.270 If a writ be brought to the damage of /£/30 & the Plf declares ad damnum /£/40 & the verdict gives 30/£/ this is no error after verdict.
Vent.7 A fault in a sci.Fa. on judgemt not [ ] by appearance.

Error

10.Co.115 If the Plf recovers more damages than he has declar'd for, if before judgemt he releases the over -plus he may take judgemt for the residue
Ch.co.19
Cr.Ja.246
If upon a judgemt the sheriff sells the goods &c of the party & after the judgemt was reversed by writ of error the party can only be restord to the money for which they sold. But if the goods &c were only deliverd to the Plf in satisfaction &c the party shall be restord to the specific goods.

Escape in Civil Cases

8.Co.141
Cr.Ja.3
It is a genl rule that wherever a sheriff or other officer has a person in custody by virtue of an authority from a Ct which has jurisdiction in the matter, that the suffering such person to go at large is an escape
5.Co.89 If XXXX A is arrested & in the custody of the Sheriff & afterwards another writ is deliver'd to him at the suit of B. Upon the delivery of the writ A by construction of law is immediately in the Sheriffs custody witht an actual arrest
3.Co.44 If the sheriff or other officer who has the custody of a XXXX prisoner either bail him when he is not bailable by law, or suffer him to go out of the limits of the prison tho' with a keeper it is an escape.
Cr.Ja.657 If man has the judgemt agt two persons & they are both taken in execution XX if the sheriff suffers one of them to escape he shall (struck through)have(struck through) be answerable for the whole debt
22.G.2 Ch.6 pa186 Sheriff not liable for an escape unless wilfull or negligent or unless the nrisoner might have been retaken & he neglects to XXXXX make fresh suit.

Escape in Civil Cases

22.G.2 Ch.6 p.184 Process on escape to be executed at any time or place
Do.187 Old sheriff may deliver over prisoners by indenture to the new or have their names with the cause of their commitment recorded in the records of the County Ct.

Estates in Fee Simple

Inst.3. A feme covert is canable of purchasing an estate in fee simple, but her husbd may disagree to it, if he neither agree or disagree she may disagree to it efter the coverture is determin'd, so/may her heir.
If the Father infeoff the son to [ ] to him his heirs & after the son enfeoffeth the Father as fully as the father enfeoff'd him a fee passes.
Co.L.9 If the Lord releases all his right to his Tent. if one parsoner or joint tent releases all his right to the other, a fee passes. So where one parcener grants a rent to another for [ ] of partition
Lit.sec.578
Co.104
Where the ancestor takes an estate for life & the limitation/is to his right heirs, there the ancestor has an estate the reversion executed in himself & the right heirs are not purchasers
And.3
Co.L.20
Dyer 156
Leon.182
If A makes a lease for life or a gift in tail remr to his right heirs this in its original creation is a void limitation.

Estate for Life & Ocuppancy

2.Bl.121
Co.L XXX 42, 183
If one grants lands to another generally the lease is tent for life &, nrovided the lessor has power to grant such an estate, he is tent for his own life.
3.Co.20 Uncertain interests as an estate to a woman [ ] viduitate &c are consider'd as estates for life determi- nable on the happening of the contingency to which tis limited.
2.Vent.65
Co.L.251
7.Co.55
If ten,sup>t</sup> for life aliens in fee or attempts to create a greater estate than he has receiv'd which is to the preju- dice of him in reversion tis a forfeiture.
Co.L.251
[ ]
But a man cannot by any disposit1on or action in pais for -feit things which may be transfer'd witht XXXXXXX the nototoriety of it
Co.L.42
Co.76 sec.
1 Co. 140
Where he in remr is party to the conveyance there Tent for life may by solum investiture convey a greater/estate than he had by the first [ ] contract
Co.L.41
2.Bl.122, 35
Co.L.55
Every tent for life unless restraind by covt or agreemt, may of common right take on the land reasonable [ ] -version botes
2.Bl.123.4
Co.L.55
Tent for life or his representative shall not be pre -judiced by any sudden determination of his estate
Tent or Tent for life shall have the emblements tho the estate is forfeited by act of Tent for life.

Estates for Life & Occupancy

Vaugh.104
Co.L.41
Cr.El.721
There can be no occupant of things which lie in grant & which cannot pass witht deed as rents &c unless they are appendant to things which pass by livery
Vaugh.196
Cr.El.57
Hob.313
If a lease be made of lands to A for life hab. to B & C successively. B & C tske no estate in possession or reversion & the lease determines on the death of A.
2.Rolls
Abr.150
If a lease be made to A & B for their lives & the life of the Longest lives they make partition & A dies his part immediately reverts to the lessor
Vagh.138
[2]Bl [ ]
Vaugh.189
A right by occupancu can only be acquired by actual entry. Lev. 202. Sid.346.
Cr.Ja.554
3.Bulst.12
If Tent pur autre vie dies, his lessee [ ] will or for years having possession such lessee shall be tent by occupancy & the lessor estate shall merge
ColL.41
Dyer 328
3.Bulst.12
If tjere be any intermediate interest the term of the occupant shall not merge & he is to hold the estate subject to the charges laid on it by his lessor
Col.L.41
Dyer 328
2.Bl.259
If lands be let to a man & his heir or to a Man his Exrs & assigns dur1ng the life of another the heir in the one case & in the other the Exr shall be a special occupant.

Evidence


Evidence

2.Hawk
P.C.452
2.Hawk
P.C.433
A conviction/of treason, felony, piracy, praemunire perjury or of forgery on the 5th of [ ]. Also a judgmt in attaint for giving a false verdict or in conspira cy at the suit of the King. also a judgmt for any crimes to stand in the pillory, or to be whipped or branded being in act which had jurisdiction are good causes of excepn agt a witness while there continue in force. If convicted of felony but admitted to his clergy XXX & burnt in the hand he is reenabled to be a witness. A pardon restores the party to his credit where it is only the [ ] of the judgemt [ ]

The credit of a witness is to be impeach'd only by genl accounts of his character (struck through) & behavior (struck through) reputation & not by proofs of particular crimes whereof he never was convicted.

Co.L.6
Sid.337
The testimony of a witness is not to be admitted who is either to be a gainer or loser by the [ ]
Mod.107
Skin.223
An Exr if he hath not the sucklusage of the estate only be a witness for a will Children of an intestate cannot be witnesses in any matter relative to the intestates estate.
Ray.191
Sal.283.p 12 sec
Vent.49
He who borrows money XXX upon an [ ]contract cannot be a witness on an information for the usury unless he has paid the money

Evidence


Evidence

2.Ver.98
[ ] 625
In Cts of eqy a distinction has been taken between evidence that may be offer'd to a jury & to inform the conscience of the Ct.
5 Co.68 Also to ascertain a fact parol evidence has been admitted to explain the intent of the testator
Ver.366 If A purchases lands in the name of B, A has been admitted to prove that he paid the purchase money
Ver.473
Ch.Ca.19
Abr.eq.230 & 243
Also to oust an implication & rebut an equity parol evidence has been admittcd to explain the intent of the testator.
2.Ver.98.337
Sal.234 pl.13
The Cts are very unwilling to admit of parol evidence in relation to any thing which appears on the face of a will
[ ]tem.Tal. 240.
2. Str. 1261
Sal.281. p19
The party who is to prove any fact must do it by the highest evidence the nature of the thing is capable of.
Hawk P.C.431 What a witness or a person accus'd of a crime has been heard to say at another time may be given in evidence
Do. 429 Where ever a mans confession is made use of agt himself it must be taken altogether & ot by parcels.

Evidence

Gil.ev.62
Ath.204
Eq.Ca.abr 227.pl.3
Depositions cannot be given in evidence agt any person who was not party to the suit.

Execution

4 Co. 90
Cr.Ja.569
All writs of execn which are to be executed by the sole authority of the Sheriff are good if they be properly executed tho' no return be made secus of an elegit.
2.inst.395 If the creditor takes out an elcgit & it appears to the sheriff thrt there are goods & chattels sufft to satisfy the debt he ought not to extend the lands
Cr.El.584 In an elegit the jury are not oblig'd to find the certain beginning of a term but if they do find its beginning & are mistaken a subsequent sale by the sheriff on this inquest is erroneous.
8.Co.171 On an elegit the sheriff may either extend a term for years or sell it absolutely
Cr.Ch.240 On a ca.ad.sa. the sheriff is to take no bail
3.Co.12 The whole personal estate except wearing apparel is liable to execution on a fi.cr.lev.Fa.
[ ]
[ ]. 99
Dyer.69
If the Sheriff takes the goods of a stranger tho' the Plf assures him they are the defts he is a trespasser. Nor can the sheriff take in execution goods pawnd or gag'd for debt, nor goods demis'd or letten for years, nor goods distrain'd
Cr.El.181 If the deft dies after execn awarded & before it be served yet it may be serv'd on his goods in the hands of his Exr or Admr.

Execution

Sal.322 pl.1.10
22.G.2Ch.3. 194
Neither does the death of the Plf abate the execn Writs bind the property of the Deft from the [ of their delivery to the Sheriff. Where any person whose goods are taken on a fi.fa. does not within five days satisfy the Plf his debt damages & costs the Sheriff, having given notice at the [ Church on sunday may the third day following proceed to sell the same at public auction.
If on sale the deft gives security to pay debt &c within three months goods to be returnd.
If the goods cannot be sold for 3/4 their value, they may be sold for three months credit and the bonds are to have the foce of judgements.
New execn may be sued forth agt the lands &c. of persons dying charg'd in execn.
Cr.Ch.208 No person is entitled to or can sue out execn who is not privy to the judgemt or entitled to the thing [ as heir Exr or Admr.
Co.L.290
[ ] Ch 318
Inft not liable to execn but the parent must demur
If a person recovers in trespass agt Baron & feme exr may be sued agt feme after death of baron.

Executors & Administrators

Ch. Ca. 121 Legatee on a bill complaining that the (struck through)testa(struck through) Exr wasted the estate may compel him to give security for paymt of legacy
2.Ver. 249
22.G.2.
Ch.3.162
Refusal of an Exr to give security is a refusal of the Exr.ship. And Ct. shall take security in all cases unless the testator, leaving more than visible estate sufft to pay all his debts, shall have directed the contrary in his will.
Godol.102-3.
[ ] of Exr208-13
A child in ventre sa.mere may be appointed Exr but he cannot administer till he is 17.
5.Co.27
Co.L.172
Cr.Ch.490
If an inft Exr. after 17 gives an acquittance for debt &c due to the testator, such release witht an actual paymt to the inft is void.
Off Exr 112
Godol.109-10
If a feme covert appointed Executrix administers husbd & wife are afterwards estopped to say that the wife is no Exx so if husbd addministers witht the consent of the wife she shall be bound during coverture.
Off. of
Exr198-9
God.110
A feme covert Execx may witht the consent of her husbd make a will & appoint her husbd or other person Exr.

Exrs and Admrs

Sal.304
Cr.Ch.372
Creditor appointed Exr may retain assets to satisfy his debt in equal degree. So of an admr.
5.Co.30
2.Bl.512
Cr.Ch.373
Ca.tem.Tal. 246
If the creditor makes his debtor Exr it is an extinguish -mt of the debt & shall take place of legacies unless the debt be devis'd but shall be assets in the hand of the Exr to pay debts.
2. Strange 865
2.Lev.239
If an inft & one of full age are appointed Exrs he whq is full age may take out admn durante minor state of the inft & may declare his Exr or Admr durante minor state
5.Co.29
Cr.El.78
An XXX Admr durante minor state cannot sell the goods of the decd further than for the paymt of debts unless they be bora perutura
Sid.57
5.Co.18
[ ] lies for inft after age agt an Admr durante minoritate who wastes the assets
Cr.El.602
5.Co.29
If Admr/is granted during the minority of sevl infts it ceases on the coming of age of any one of them & it is laid down by Lt [sic] Coke that admr granted during the minority of an inft Exr ceases on his marriage
Cr.Ch.227
2.Lev.37
If an Admr durante minoritate recovers in an action & then his time determines the Exr may have sci. Fa. on this judgemt

Exrs and Admrs

Sal 305 If the Exr dies before probate his Exr cannot be Exr to the first Exr.
Ld.Ray.86
Ver.200
Admr de bonis non is to be granted to the next of kin to th first testator or intestate unless there be a residuary legatee
5.Co.33
Godolp.171
Off.Exr.171
All acts of acquisition, transferring or possessing the deceased's estate will take an Exr de son tort
5.Co.38.4
Sal.313 pl.19
Yel.103
There cannot be an Exr de son tort where there is rightful Exr or where admn has been granted unless the person claims to be exr.
Cr.Ja.549
Cr.El.102
An Exr cannot waive a term but shall be charg'd as far as he has assets tho' the rent be greater than the value of the land. Admr may be granted in part. If an Exr de son tort takes but admn this does not purge the wrongs so but that a creditor may charge him as exr de son tort.
2.Ver.147 Where the things which come to the possession of the Exr de son tort are of very inconsiderable value it is said he may if charg'd with a considerable sum, have releif in equity.
2.Bl.507
Dyer.166
is chargeable with the debts of th e deceased so far as assets

Exrs and Admrs

come to his hands.
5.Co.30 If he pleads ne unques Exr & tis found agt him he subjects himself to the paymt of the whole debt the the goods which came to his hands be of small value
Moor 126 In such case he shoud plead plene administravit
There can be no Exr de son tort of a term in diversion.
Godol.82
Off.Exr.3
The bare naming an Exr in a will makes it a will & is a gift of the goods & chattels undispos'd of
Godol.83, 76 Any words which shew a mans intentio that such a one shou'd be his Exr are sufft
Off.Exr.10
Godol.403
Any word in a will which suspends the assignation of an Exr in expectation of some future event makes the Exr.ship conditional. The condition must relate to something in contingency. Cautious conditions contrary to the disposition made are void. So of necessary XX conditions either in fact or law.
Godol.77
Off.of.Exr.13
Godol.134
Off.Exr.95
Dyer 23
Cr.El.347
The time & power of an Exr may be limited.
Acts done by one Exr which relate either to the delivery gift sale, paymt possession or release of the testators goods are deemd in law the acts of all.
Do.318
Sal.318.pl.26
But one Exr shall not be charg'd with the devastavit of another.
In chancery if two Exrs join in a receipt & one only receives the money both are chargeable as to creditors Secus as to Legatees & those who claim distribution

Exrs and Admrs

Godol.135
Off.Exr. 99
One Exr cannot regularly sue his coexr touching any thing which is relating to his testators will
3.Leon.209
[ ]
Godol.134
If one Exr has possession of the testators goods which are taken from him both must join in action of trespass
Off.Exr.104 If one Exr alone sells the goods of the testator he alone may maintain Debt for the money
22.G.2 Ch.3.160 The will of any person who dies shall be prov' d in that Cty where his mansion house or known place of abode is, if there be no such place, in the Cty where the lands devis'd lie, if the lands lie in sevl Ctys then in that in which he died & if he died in another Cty then in any one of those in which his lands lie.
162 Ct immediately to receive proof of a will but when lands are devis'd from the heir at law he must be summond to appear at the next Ct & if he be not known proclamation must be made. The Ct may compel any person to produce the will of a person deceas'd.
Cr.El.92
Off.Exr.37
Godol.141
Vent.303
The refusal of an Exr must be enterd & recorded in Ct When an Exr has once admd he cannot afterwards refuse to prove the will
Dyer.166
Off.Exr.59
Whatever the Exr does with relation to the goods &c of the testator which shews an intention in him to take upon him the Exr.shp will amount to

Exrs and Admrs

an admn &. whatever acts will make a man liable as Exr de son tort will be deemd an election of the Exrship
22.G.2.Ch.3 162, 167 An Exr or Admr must return a true inventory of the estate of the deceas'd when requir'd by the Ct Wherever an estate is of gra~ter value than £100 probate may oe granted by the Genl Ct.
Lev.186 When admn has been unduly obtaind it may be revok'd. If Admr has been granted to any person who is not of kin to the intestate it may be revok'd & granted to the next of kin on his application
Yent. 303
Sid
quere
6.Co.18
Cr.El.459
If an Admr be appointed & after an Exr appears & proves a will all meane acts of the Admr shall be avoided. If th Admr sells goods after Admn is repeald & granted to another yet the sale is good
Sal.302 Tho' an Exr may commence an action in right of his testator yet he cannot declare before -probate
5.Co.9
2. Will. 576 pl.188
2.Ver.514
Sal. 36 pl.2
Admn may be granted during the absence of an Exr & pendente lite of a will Admn may be granted to two or more & if one of them dies yet tb admn does not cease. Also admn has to a particular thing may be granted to one & as another part of the estate to another, but sevl Administrations cannot be granted for one & the same thing.

Exrs and Admrs

Godol.180
Off. Exr. 5.265
All the testators personal estate how remote so ever situated is assets in the hands of the Executor
Off.Exr.65
Do. 60
style="border-style: solid; border-color: #dcdcdc; border-width: 0 0 1px 0;"Debts due to the testator are not assets till recover'd, yet if the Exr releases the debt he is answer- -able to the value. Th possession of chattel real which are corporal is not in the Exr till entry.
Do. 71
3.Leon.51
If the Exr submits to arbitration the debt or damages to which he is entitled in right of his testator & a release &c is awarded he shall be chargd as if he had recd the money.
Vent.161
Cr.El. 644
see
Cr.Ch.207
Co.L.47
Latch.99
If a man posess'd of a term for 50 years makes a lease for his/for 20 years/reserving rent to him & his Heirs the rent is extinct at his death but had the reservation been during the term/the Exr shou'd have recd the rent >
Cr.El.217 [ ] law
Off.Exr.4
2.Bl.314-16
Prec.Ch..323
1.P.Wm7.541
2.do 333. 3d.43
Str.559
Where the Exr has no legacy at all the residuum shall genly be his own, but whereever the re is sufft on the face of the will (by means of a competent legacy or otherwise) to imply that the testator intended his Exr shou'd not have the residue the undevis'd surplus of the estate shall go to the next of kin.
Ver.473
Abr.eq.24
So if there be any fraud in obtaining the Exrship

Exrs and Admrs

2.Ver.736
Abr.eq.246
Gil.rep.125
[ ] ver.252
2.Str.865
Parol proof will be admitted in affirmation of the intention of the testator to give the Exr the undevised surplus but not to proove the contrary.
On the Stat. of distributionsthe following points have been resolv'd.
Ray.496
Sal.250 pl.1
Abr.eq.249
The clause which says there [sha]ll be no representations beyond Brothers & sisters children must be intended Brothers & sisters of the intestate.
Vent.316
2.Lev.173
The half blood shall come in for a share with the whole blood being as near a kin to the the intestate.
Eq.Ca.Abr. 249 pl.7 The distribution to be per Capita when they all claim in their own rights.
Carth.51 If a Person entitled to a distributive share dies before distribution his part goes to his Exr.
Swin.217 Such advancemt as will exclude a child from his share of his fathers estate must be given by his Father to him & not to any other in in use for him
2.Ver.438 Where the heir at law has a settlemt made on him on his fathers marriage out of the personal estate to entitle him to any more he must bring such adancement into Hotch pot

Exrs and Admrs

Off.of Exr. 156
Godol.203
A devastavit is a mismanagement of the estate & effects of the decd in squandering & misapplying the assets contrary to the trust & confidence repos'd in them & for which Exrs & Admrs shall answer out of their own pockets as far as they had or might have had assets of the decd
Off.Exr.159
6.Mod.181
Cr. El.43
2.Lev.189
Acts of negligence & wrong admn which will dis- -appoint creditors of their debts amoumt to a devastavit.
Off.Exr. 171:159
3.Leon.51
So if an Exr submits whatever he is entitled to in right of his testator, to arbitration
[ ].31 159
2. Bl. 511
The Exr or Admr must first pay funeral expenses & the expence of proving the will &c then debts due to the King (now I presume the com- mowealth) on record or specialty. Thus such debts as are by act of Assembly directed first to be paid as money due on protested bills of exchange & where a person dies chargeable with the estate of any Orphan or of of any decd person committed to his care, then debts of recd as judgemts, debts by special contract & lastly debts due by simple contract.

Exrs and Admrs

Co.143
Lev.355
A decree in a ct of eqy is equal to a judgmt at law & the filing a bill in equity is equal to filing an original at law to prevent the alienation of assets
Cr.El.315 If an action be brought agt an Exr on a simple contract he may plead in bar a bond enterd into by his testator & payable at a future day.
Plow.279
Sid.230
Cr.El.793
But if the Exr has no notice of the specialty it is no devastavit to pay debts by simple contract first. But at their Peril they must take notice of debts on recd
10.Co.47 If a man is both Exr & devisee & he enters on the thing devis'd. without claim or demonstration of election he shall have it as Exr.
Cr.Ja.191
571
If an Exr is sued & pleads ne unques Exr & it is found agt him the judgemt shall be de bonis testatoris &c [ ] de bonis propriis
672 But is an Exr pleads that such a deed is not the deed of his testator, or that a release was given to the testator yet the judgemt shall be de bonis testatoris
Vent.30 An Exr may bring ejectmt for an ejectmt in the life of his testator.
Cr.El.406 An Exr cannot in the same action join a demand in his own right & what he hath in right of his testator

Exrs and Admrs

If an Exr takes an obligation for a debt to the testator in debt on this contract the writ shall be in the debet & detinet. So in trespass for goods taken out of the possession of the Exr.
Cr.El.711 In debt agt Exr for the arrearages of rent incur'd in his time the writ shall be in the debet & detinet
Sal.297.pl.6
Off.Exr.119
But the Exr may plead that he has not assets & that the land is of less value than the rent & demand judgemt of he ought not to be charged in the detinet only
Sid.397 After judgemt agt an Exr one may in a new action in the debet & detinet, suggest a devastavit & (struck through)demand(struck through) charge him de bonis propriis.
9.co.87
Cr.Ja.293, 405
It is now agreed that, where there is a duty as XXXX well as a wrong an action lies an Exr or Admr.
2.G.2.ch3. 166 Exrs & Admrs of Exrs & Admrs chargeable for devastavits in same manner as their testators or intestates might have been charged.
Cr.Ja.228
Vent.92
Cr.E.503
Cr.Ja.350
Exrs & Admrs when Plfs pay no costs, unless they bring an action in their own right
An Exr deft pays costs in all cases
Exrs & Admrs are not to be held to special bail

Exrs and Admrs

Extinguishment

Pollex.142
[ ] ex.17
Vaugh.34
Cr.El.47
10.Ca. 48
If the Lessor purchases the land demased from the Lessee, or if the Lessee be evicted the rent is extinguish'd. But if the conveyance to the Lessor be on condition or if only part of the land be evicted the rent in the one instance is only suspended, in the other is proportiond
4. Co.52
Vent.277
A Lessor's entering wrongfully into part of the lands demised suspends the whol rent.
Burro.9
6.Co.44
It seems to be agreed as a genl rule that a cre -ditors accepting a higher security than he had before is an extinguishmt of the first debt.
2.Leon.110 But this must be understood where the debtor himself enters into these securities
Cr.Ja.579
Cr.El.304
The accepting a security of a lower nature or of an equal degree is no extinguishment
Cr.El.920 If an Inft becomes 'indebted for necessities & the creditor takes his bond this shall not wxtinguish the simple contract debt, because the bond is of no force

Extortion

Co.L.368
2.Co.102
Extortion is the taking of money by any officer under color of his office, either where none at all is due, or not so much is due, or where it is not yet due
Ray.315
Inst.209
This offence is punishable at common law by fine & imprisonment & also by removal from the office, & the Stat. of West. 1. enacts that no Sheriff nor other Kings Officer shall take any reward to do his office but shall be paid of that which they take of the King: & that he who so doth shall yield twice as much & shall be punishd at the Kings pleasure

Felony

Hawk. P.C.94 There may be felony in taking goods the owner wrhereof is unknown
Cr.El. 536 A man may be guilty of felony in stealing goods the absolute property whereof is in himself as where one delivers goods to a carrier or Taylor &c. afterwards with an intent to charge such carrier or Taylor fraudulently & secretly takes them away.
H.P.C.61
Hawk. P.C. XX 69
To constitute an offense felony there must be an actual taking as well as an intent to steal & every indictmt for larceny must have both the words cepit & aspor XXXXtavit.
If I send a box to a carrier, & he sells it this is not felony, but if the box be broke open & the goods carried away this is felony, so if he carry the goods to the place & then take them away
Hawk P/C.90
3.Inst.108
He who ags the bare charge of goods may be guilty of larceny in taking them away, also he who intending to steal them obtains a delivery of them, as from a sheriff by virtue of a

Felony

4.P.C.63
Hawk. P.C.90
replevin, or by way of execution of a judgemt obtain by imposition on a Ct witht any color of title by false affidavits &c Also he who steals goods from one who has stolen them from me
3.Inst.108
Hawk. P.C.92
If a felon be caught in the first act of carrying the goods away before he is out of the house it is a felony
Hawk. P.C.2 A feme covert shaill not suffer any thing for committing a bare theft in company with or by coercion of her husband.
It is said to be no felony for a person reducd to extreme necessity to take so much of anothers goods victuals as will save him from starving.
H.P.C.70
Hawk P.C.95
If two or more persons steal goods above the value of 12d this is grand larceny in each of them. If a person is indicted for stealing goods to the value of 10/ & the jury find him guilty but find specially that the goods are not worth more than 10d he shall have only judgemt of petit larceny, whlch is forfeiture of goods & whipping or other corporal punishment.

Felony

H.P.C.232
Hawk P.C. 342
Wherever a person is denied his clergy except in high treason or sacrilege such denial must be grounded on some Act of Parliament.
Where an offense is made felony by stat. it shall have the benefit of clergy unless expressly excluded. An indictmt must bring a mans case expressly within the words of the Stat. which denies him his clergy. A stat. by excluding principals doth not therby exclude accessories from their clergy likewise.
Hawk P.C.98 Where clergy is allowable those who stand mute or challeng above twenty, or are outlaw'd are as much entitled to it as those who are convicted. Also a stat. by taking away Clergy from those who shall be found guilty doth not take it away from those who stand mute who challenge above twenty or are outlaw'd, but it extends to those who shall confess themselves guilty upon record. B the 8th of Eliz. ch.4. Clergy is taken from all those who steal goods from the person of another to the value of 12.
By the 1 Ed. 6.ch.18.& 2&3.E.6.ch.33. Horse stealers are excluded the benefit of clergy

Felony

4.G.2 ch.3.p.92 Burning any Tobacco house, ware house store house /or any other house/ or abetting the same or breaking any ware house or store house & taking from thence goods to the value of 20/ sterling felony witht benefit of clergy.
9.G.2.ch 2.315 Persons stealing slaves felons with<sup </sup> clergy.

Person

Feoffment

Feoffment

Forcible Entry & Detainer

2 Inst.235
sec.1. Hawk P.C.145
[ ] 136
If a man whose entry is lawful entice another out of the house & enter the door being open or only latch'd, his entry is justifiable
Hawk P.C.145-147 If he who hath an estate in land by a defensible title continues with force in the possession thereof, after a claim made by one who had a right of entry thereto, he shall be adjudged to have enter'd forcibly
Cr. Ja.190 The same circumstances of violence or terror which will make an entry forcible will make a detainer forcible likewise
Dalt. 315 A joint Tent or Tent in common may offend agt the purport of these statutes.
Dalt. 300 An inft at the age of 18 some say l4 or a feme covert by their own acts may be guilty of a forcible entry

Forcible Entry & Detainer

Forgery

Haw. P.C. 186
11.Co.27
If a man makes a deed of feoffment to J.S. & after makes a deed of a prior date to J.D. tis forgery.
Nay. 101
3.Ins. 170
Also to insert legacies in a will without the direction of the testator. So to incert in an indictmt the names of those agt whom it was not found.
The fraud & intention to deceive by imposing on the world that as the act of another, which he never consented to are the principal ingredients which constitute this offence.
2d Ld.Ray 1461 To counterfeit a release or acquittance for a sum of money tho' witht seal is forgery.
Hawk. P.C.182 Forgery at common law is punishable with fine & imprisonment or such other corporeal punishment as the ct shall think fit
By 5th of El. any person guilty of forging, assenting to or causing to be forged any writing seal court roll or the will of any person to the intent that the estate of freehold

Forgery

or inheritance of any person to any lands may be molested, or shall pronounce publish or shew it forth in evidence as true (except an attorney for his client who was not /party or/ privy to th forgery he shall pay to the party griev'd his double costs & damages, shall be set upon the pillory in some open place & there have both his ears cut off, also his nostrils slit & cut & sear'd with a hot iron & shall forfeit to the King the whole issues & profits of his lands and suffer perpetual imprisonment. And if any person shall forge or cause or assent to be forged any false writing to the intent that any person shall or may have or claim any estate or interest for term of years of in or to any lands or annuity; or shall forge &c. any Obligation or any discharge of any debt &c or shall pronounce puplish or give in evidence &c. He shall pay to the party griev'd his double costs & damages shall be sat in the pillory & there have one of his ears cut off & shall suffer imprisonment for one year. A second offence is felony witht benefit of clergy

Forgery

3. Inst.170
Nay.42
Hawk. P.C.186
The forgery of a lease for years or of a grant of a rent charge for years in the name of one who is seised of the Freehold is within the first branch/of the statute; & the words in the 2d part which relate to such estates are meant only for those which were in esse before
3.Leon.170 The forgery of a deed containing a gift of mere personal chattels is not within the XXX statute
3.Ins.171 He who is truly inform'd by another that a deed is forged is in danger of the statute if he afterwards publish the same to be true
Though the 2d offence be not of the same nature with th first yet the person is guilty of felony.
Keb.707
2.Str.901
If the conveyance be defective so as not to pass the thing intended to be conveyed still it is a forgery
For a bare non feasance a man cannot be guilty of forgery unless by th omission he conveys a difft, estate to another than he woud have taken
[ ] Person counterfeiting inspectors receipt or stamp or knowing by tendering forg'd receipt, exporting tobacco with forg'd stamp or demanding it by forg'd receipt guilty of felony witht clergy.

Forfeiture

Co.L.8
3.Inst.19
By the common law all right of inheritance to lands whereof the offender is seised in his own right, & all rights of entry to lands in the hands of a wrongdoer are forfeited on an attainder of high treason or of petit treason; in the latter case to the Lord.
3.Co. 2-3
7.Co.17
3.Ins.19
It seems agreed that no right of action to lands of inheritance cou'd ever be forfeited, neither coud

a right of entry into lands whereof there was a tent by title, nor an use except where lands had been fraudulently convy'd with an intent to avoid forfeiture

Cr.Ja.312 All personal things settled by way of trust on the offender are as much forfeited as if he had the legal interest
2.Rob.564
Lev.279
Mod.16.31
Vent.128
But the power of revocation of the trust of a settlement is not liable to be forfeited if it depends on something personal to be done by the grantor himself.
Hales P.C.271
5.Co.ll6
A man forfeits all his personal estate on conviction of treason or felony, upon the Coroners inquest taken on view of the dead body & finding him guilty either as principal or as Accessory, before the fact & that he fled for the same whereby he forfeits his goods absolutely & the issues of his lands till he bw acquitted or pardon'd.

Forfeiture

Hales P.C.271 Upon a Jury's finding that a deft fled at the same time that they acquit him of any capital felony but such finding causes no forfeiture of the profits of his lands, neither will it affect the goods if the indictmt was insufficient or if the flight be disprov'd on a traverse
5.Co.110
5.Co.129
3.Inst.134
The goods of a person outlaw'd are forfeited, so of he makes default till the award of an exigent
Cr.El.694 If a man be felo de se, or if a felon be killed in the robbery, or in attempting to escape by resisting or if a felon waives his goods.
By 26 H 8th Ch.13th it is enacted that any offender who shall be lawfully convicted of any manner of high treason shall forfeit all such lands &c which he shall have of any estate of inheritaince in use or possession, saving to every person &c.
By the 33.H.8.ch.20. it is enacted that if any personbe attainted of high treason by the course of the common law or statutes of this realm, every such attainder by the common law shall be of as much force as if it had been done by authority of Parliament.
Neither a right to a writ of error to reverse an erroneous common recovery, nor

Forfeiture

3.Co.2-3
Cr.El.289
4.Co.48
a mere right of action to lands in the hands of a stranger as a discontine[sic], or of the heir of the disseisor are forfeited by either of the Statute. Secus of rights of entry. But there must be office found & scier facias or siesure on such office.
7.Co.12 A power of revoking the uses of a settlement may be forfeited if the execution of it only require what may be done by another person.
Blow 381 Neither an annuity granted pro consilio XXX [ ] nor an office granted for life & requiring skill & confidence are forfeitable by these statutes Secus of such an office in fee.
Blow. 488
Co.L.2
8.Co.170
The forfeiture upon an attander either of treason or felony has relation to the time of the offence committed as lands, but to the convictionor fugam fecit found only as to chattels unless the party were kill'd in flying from or in resisting those who had arrested him

Fraud

Co.L.3 It may be laid down as a genl rule that witht the express provision of any act of Parliamt all deceitful practices in defrauding or indeavoring to defraud another of his known right by means of some artful device are condemn'd by the common law.
Sid.312
Co.L.35
Such as causing an illiterate person to execute a deed to his prejudice by reading it over to him in words difft from those in which it was written. Also a wrongful manner of executing a thing shall avoid a matter which might have been executed lawfully
4.Inst.984
Abr. in Eq.357
Sevl other
cases in point
All deceits for which there is no remedy by the common course of law are properly in the Cts of equity. As where A by marriage settlemt was tent for life of certain Mills remr to his first son in tail & the son who knows of the settlemt encourages a person to take a lease for thirty years of those mills & to lay out considerable sums of money in improving them. this is such a fraud as ought to be discountenanc'd in equity.
2.Ver.123 If a security be obtain'd from a person by fraud & practice upon pretence of a demand that is fictitious it ill be releiv'd agt in equity.

Fraud

2Ver.307 So where A by means of an Attorney prevail'd on E a woman to levy a fine of some houses & to execute a deed leading the uses thereof to A & his heirs, & it being prov'd that she at the time declar'd she must make use of some friends name in trust & devis'd it to J.S. & his heirs subject to the paymt of her debts, decreed that A shou'd convey the estate to the devisee
3.Co.83
3.Co.81
Moor.638
2.Bulst. 226
By the common la a man had right to a thing or a just debt owing to him, he might avoid any fraudulent conveyance made to deceive him of that right or debt, but if the gift or conveyance were precedent to that right or debt there was no way to set it aside to remedy this the Statutes of the 13.& 27.of El.were enacted in the construction of which statutes it/hath been determin'd that where the vendor remains in possession of the goods the sale shall be deem'd fraudulent as to creditors & bona fide purchasers
Cr.El. 810 A.to defraud his creditors makes a fraudulent gift of certain goods to his daughter & dies B intermeddles with them the daughter takes possession of them by force of the gift, Administration of all the goods of A is then grantedto B on an action brought it agt him as Exr

Fraud

it was decreed that the gift was fraudulent, that by intermedling he became Exr de son tort & liable as such & that the law continued the possession in him.
B.A. 606
[ ] 2
Trin.1706
Baker & Lloyd
per.H.C.J.
If A makes a bill of sale to Ba creditor & afterwards to C another creditor & delivers possession at the time of the sale to neither & after C gets possession of them & B takes them out of his possession C cannot maintain trespass
Moor 615 If a gift be made to deceive one creditor tis XXX void agt all
5.Co.60 It is not necessary that he who contracted the debt shoud make the fraudulent conveyance.
Co.L.3 A has a lease of certain lands for 60 years & forges a lease for 90 years, by indenture reciting this forged lease he bargains & sells it with all his interest in the lands to B. in this case Bis not a purchaser within the 27 of El. to defeat the purchases of the true lease of 60 years.
Sid.134 A deed though it be fraudulent in its creation yet by matter ex post facto may become good As where the feoffee aakes a feoffment to another for valuable consideration
5.Co.60 It has been held that fraud may be given in evidence to defeat a fraudulent & covinous

Fraud

conveyance & that the party alledging it need not plead it.

Gaol & Gaoler

Grants

Co.L.327 There can be no discontinuance of things which lie in grant
Co.L.233
3.Co.45
Of things which can be transfer'd witht the notoriety of livery of seisin, which lie in grant a man cannot by any disposition or act in pais forfeit them
Co.L.41
Cr.El.721
So there can be no occupant of things which lie in grant & which cannot pass witht deed.
[ ] 12 The law distinguishes between grant of Infants which are void & merely voidable, the first of which are all such gifts, grants, or deeds made by an inft as do not take effect by delivery of his hand, as if an Inft give a horse & do not deliver the horse with his hand & the Donee take the horse by force of the gift the Inft shall have an action of trespass.
13 But if an Inft enters into an obligation or makes a feoffmt there are only voidable

If an Inft grant a rent charge by deed to be issuing out of a carve of land & the grantee distrein he shall punish him as a trespasser.

If a single woman by deed grant a rent charge to issue out of a carve of Land & delivers the deed to a stranger as an escrol, upon condition that if the grantee got to Rome return by

Grants

XXXXXXXXX Easter that then he shall deliver the same escrol as her deed to the Grantee. The woman marries & before Easter during the coverture the Grantee goes to Rome & returns & the stranger delivers the escrol as the deed of the woman. The Grant is good.
Per.Sci.36 In grants if there be sufft shewn to asscertain the grantor & grantee the grants will be good
Dyer 279
Co.L.3
Cr.Ja.558
It seems that a mistake of the Christian name will vitiate the grant. Secus of the surname
Co.L.214 Regularly by the common law a possibility. Right of entry, thing in action, cause of suit, or title for a condition broken cannot be granted or assignd over.
Per.Sci.65 A man cannot grant or charge that which he hath not.
4.Co.66
Ray.144
[ ] Ch.Ca.8-11
If there be a devise of a term to A for life remr to B cannot grant over his interest.
Co.L.46 If a lease be made to Baron & feme for their lives remr to the /Exrs of the/ survivor of them, the Husbd cant grant it.
Hob.132 A man may grant that which he hath potentially
Co.L.54 If A makes a lease of lands to B for life remr to his Exrs for years, the term vests in B so that he can grant it over

Grants

Per.Sci.99 A personal trust which one Man reposes in another cannot be assign'd over
Co.L.169 Incorporeal inheritance which lie in grant cannot pass from one to another witht XX Deed.
Moor 831. pl.13 If a man by indenture demises to J.S.the manor of D & bargains & sells to him all the woods & trees &c. on the sd manor to be filled & carried away at pleasure, Habendum the sd Manor for life, this is an absolute sale of the woods & trees.
Moor 496 If a feoffmt be made of a manor in lease for years & livery/is made witht ouster of the lessee by which the feoffmt is void, yet if the lessee attorns this shall be good as a grant of the riversion
2.Co.35 When the words of a grant allow a double way of taking it the grantee shall judge which way is most beneficial
Hob.229 A slight mistake or error in the /description of the/thing to be pass'd will not vitiate the grant.
2.Mod.3 But where the thing is not granted by an express name there if a falsity is in the description of that thing the grant is void.
Co.86
2.Co.36
If a man grant twenty acres parcel of his manor witht any other description of them yet the grant is not void for an acre is a

Grants

Noy.29 thing certain & the situation may be reducd to a certainty by the election of the Grantee.
Co.L.6 No Person not nam'd in the premises of the deed can take any thing by the deed tho' he be afterwards namd in the habendum.
Hob.313
Cr.Ja.564
But a man not nam'd in the premises may take an estate in remr by limitation in the habendum.

The Habendum cannot pass any thing which is not espressly mention'd as contain'd by implication in the premises of the deed.

Salk.346 Where the Habendum is repugnant to the premises tis void.
Co.L.146 Grants are to be construed according to the intention of the parties & if there aupears any doubt or repugnancy in the words such construction is to be made as is most strong agt the grantor
6.Co.87 Where a proviso destroys the grant tis void
Br.tit.lease. 13.22 If one makes a lease for ten years at the will of the lessor tis a good lease for ten years certain
Co.L.183 Tis a genl rule that where it is impossible the grant shoud take effect according to the letter The law will make such constructions

Grants

the gift by possibility may take effect.
Sid.211
Lev.131
[ ] 736
It was found by special verdict that A was seised of a mill in fee & that he built a kiln at the end of the close wherein the mill stood & then granted the Mill with its appurtenances & if the kiln pass'd was the question. The Ct held that if it had been found that the kiln was necessary to the Mill, or that it was built for the use of the Mill, it wou'd have pass'd by a grant of the mill.
1.Salk. 346 It is holden by C.J.Holt that if a termor grants the land the grantee is but tent at will.

If a man grant a thing to be taken yearly & the grantee neglects to take it for one year he cannot take doublt the next. Secus if the grantor be to render the thing

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Guardian

Co.L.87 By the common law if Tent in socage die his heir being under fourteen, the next of blood to the heir to whom the inheritance cannot descend shall be guardian of his body & land till his age of fourteen
Co.L.84 A guardian by nature is the Father or Mother
Co.L.88 Guardian by nurture hath only the care of the person & education of the infant & hath nothing to do with his lands merely in virtue of his office.
Vaugh.179 On the 12th of Ch.2.Ch.24, similar to which is the 22.G.2.Ch.25. the following determinations have been made. That a testamentary Guardian or one form'd according to this Stat. comes in loco parentis & is the same in Office & interest with a Guardian in socage
Vaugh178 A person under age disposing of his child such disposition draws after it the land.
Vaugh.184-5 If a man devise t he custody of his son & heir apparent & mentions no time, this is a good devise XX if the heir be under fourteen at the death of the father, but if above

Guardian

fourteen tis void for uncertainty.
Vaugh.185-6 That this testamentary Guardian hath the custody of all lands & goods any way acquird or purchas'd by the infant
22.G.2. ch.22 p.156
[ ]
Genl Cts & Cty Cts have power to take cognizance of all matters concerning Orphans & their estates To appoint Guardians where necessary & take security XXXXX for orphans Estates. Guardian to exhibit at the next ct after his appointmt on oath an acct of his orphans estates & an acct of his profits & once a year which is to be enter'd by the Clerk in a book. Guardian wasting &c orphans estate, neglecting his education &c or likely to become insolvent Cts to make orders for securing the estate &c or to anpoint another Guardian. Their Accts to be examind &c in Augt. their mismanagement &c. to be enquird into at any time.
Cr.Ja.55
Cr.El.678, 734
If a Guardian in socage makes a lease for years to continue beyond the time of his guardianship such lease seems not to be absolutely void by the Infts coming of age but only voidable.

Guardian

Blow. 293 If a woman who is guardian in socage to her son marries again & her husbd & she join in a lease of the infts lands the lease upon the death of the husband becomes void.
2.Rol.Abr. 256
2.B.Ab.68
A Guardian or prochein Amy may make partition in behalf of the inft & it shall bind the inft if equal
[ ].79
Mod.259
Vent.72
Ray.311
[ ] pr.229
[ ].4
If a Guardian puts in an answer /for an inft/to a bill in Chancery on oath such answer shall not conclude the inft or be read in evidence agt him for the effect of infts answer is only to make proper parties so as to take depositions & examine witnesses.
Str.506
Abr.Eq.261
A Guardian witht any direction may pay the interest of any real /incumbrances/(struck through)estate(struck through) & the principal of a Mortgage
Ver.436
2,Ch.Ca.197
He may pay off a judgmt with the profits of the infts estate.
2. Ver. 606 A Guardian not compeliable to apply the profits of the estate of the inft heir to nay off the bond debts.
Ver.403, 435
[ ]2.Ver.193
Tis not in the power of the Guardian witht the direction of the court to turn the personal into real estate

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Heir & Ancestor

Vent.311
Ray.330
2.Lev.232
A person may take by purchase or descriptio personae by the name of heir even in the life time of the ancestor for Heirs males now living in a will are a full description of the person who is then heir apparent to the person nam'd & is known by the devisor to be so.
2.Ver.215
Abr.Eq.265
If the ancestor agrees to convey lands & receives part of the purchase money but dies before conveyance, heir will be decreed to convey
See 1.Ver.16 If a father conveys to a younger son by a defective conveyance & dies the heir at la will in two cases be oblig'd to make it good 1st. Where there is a covt for farther assurance binding the heir. 2d. Where there is a provision made by the father in his life-time for the heir or when he hath such provision by descent from his father

The heir at law is bound by a decree obtaind agt the Ancestor which may be carried into execution two ways. 1st. If the decree is enrolled the party may sue out a subpoena scire facias agt the heir to shew cause agt the decree. 2d. The Plf may bring his bill of revivor to

Heir & Ancestor

carry the decree into execution
Co.L.233
8.Co.44
As the heir at law is the only person who can take advantage of conditions &c annex'd to the real estate, so shall he be bound by all such conditions &c which run with the land.
10.Co.41
Vent.199
Cr.El.833
2.Ver.519
Where a condition is annex'd to the estate given to the heir & which goes in abridgement & restraint thereof the same shall in some cases be construed a limitation
8.Co
Frances's case
2.Ch.re.26
But wherever the ancestor makes a conveyance or disposition on condn wh goes in restraint & abridgemt of the estate of the heir he must have notice of it.
Co.L.164 The heir may bring any real action or action droitural in right of his ancestor but no personal action
Dyer 90
1.Leon.261
Also if an erroneous judgemt be given agt the ancestor by which he loseth the lan the heir may bring a/writ of error
3.Co.12
Cr.Ja.450
Abr.Eq.44
When the ancestor binds himself & his Heirs in an obligation the Obligee may sue the heir or Exr & may have execution of the land descended to the heir.

Heir & Ancestor

Dyer.81
2. Inst.19
Co.L.102
But the body of the heir is protected.

Also the heir must be expressly nam’d.

By the common law if the heir before the action brought agt him had alien'd the assets the obligee was witht any remedy, but if he only alien'd hanging the writ the lands he had by descent at the time of the original purchase had been liable

[ ] 355.pl.2
[ ].126
Lev.286
Ver.180
3.Co.36
If the heir be sued upon a bond or covenant it must be alleged that he is bound, but it need not be shewn how he is heir. But where the heir sues he must shew his pedigree & consent Haeres. The action agt the heir on the bond of his ancestor must be in the debit & detinet.
5.Co.35
Dyer. 81.pl. 62
Cr.Ch.256
Car.93
Plow.440
Sal.354
Ld.Ray.753
Tho' the Heir at law is bound by the obligation of his ancestor in which he is expressly nam'd no further than he hath assets by descent yet by false pleading he make himself liable de bonis propriis. As where he pleads riens per discent,(unless it be in a scire faciae on a judge ment) or where he confesses the action but does not set forth the assets in certainty or where judgemt goes agt him by default non sum informatus, nihil dicit &c. or where he

Heir & Ancestor

pleads in bar that J.S. was jointly & severally bound with his Ancestor which is found agt him the judgemt is genl & it is said that in these cases the Ct cannot give a special judgemt witht the assent of the Plf though certain lands by descent are found by the jury.
3.Leon.67 Where the heir is bound in an the obligation of his Ancestor but has no assets by descent a promise to the obligee that if he will not sue him he will pay the money shall not charge the heir
2. Sand 136
Vent.159
Lev.165
So in an assumpsit agt an heir upon such promise it must be expressly shewn that the heir was bound otherwise it shall not be intended tho' after a verdict.
Sid.31
[ ] Co.56
But in such a case where the Plf declar'd that the deft in consideration the Plf woud deliver the bond to him & discharge the debt promis’d &c. it was held a good declaration & that it shoud be intended he was liable
Br. tit. Assets. Wherever the ancestor binds himself & his Heirs all his lands in freehold & which descend in fee simple are assets by descent
Sal. 354. pl. 1 A reversion after a lease for years made

Heir & Ancestor

Car.129
2.Ver.134
by the Ancestor is present assets tho' the Plf cannot have benefit of the reversion till the lease be determin'd & the judgemt is of Assets quando acciderint
4.Ch.Ca.148
[ ] in.Ch.39
An equity of a redemption of an inheritance is assets
6.Co.58 A right witht any estate in possession reversion or remainder is not assets till it be recover'd & reduc'd into possession
22.G.2.ch. 81 p.196
Abr.Eq.149
On the Stat. made in the 3d year of W.& M. entitled an act for the relief of creditors agt fraudulent devises & which is adopted by an act of Assembly made the 22.G.2.ch.8. it has been determin'd that any settlemt or disposition which a man makes in his life time of lands whether it be voluntary or other wise shall be good agt bond creditors.
2.Ch.Ca.175
Ver.400
Dyer.344
It seems that neither the Exr or Admr of the heir are liable. But see 2.Ver.62 where it is said that if the heir aliens the land to prevent the creditors of satisfaction of their debts equity will follow the money into the hands of the heir or his Exr.

Heir & Ancestor

Liv.30 If there be judgemt in debt agt two & one dies a scire facias lies agt the other alone

Highways

Hue & Cry

Idiots & Lunatics

Hale. Hale. hist. P.C.30
4.Co.125
The King is entitled to the receipt of the rents & profits of an idiots estate during his life witht accounting for them, he must account for the profits &c. of a lunatics estate
Hale. His. P.C.33 Every person of the age of discretion is in law presum'd to be of sound mind & memory unless the contrary appear
9.Co.31 The trial of idiocy &c. in civil cases is by writ or commission to the sheriff or escheator or particular commissioners both by their own inspection & by inquisition to enquire & return their inquisition into the chancerys & thereupon a grant or commitment of the party & his estate ensues, & a special writ may afterwards issue to bring the party before the chancellor to be inspected.
Hale.Hist P.C.35-36 If a man in a phrensy happen, by some oversight or by means of his Gaoler to plead to his indictmt & is put upon his trial the Judge in his discretion may discharge the Jury of him & remit him to Gaol or, if there be no color of


Idiots & Lunatics

evidence agt him may proceed to try him & enlarge him
Ver.262 The Committees of a Lunatick cannot make leases or any ways incumber the lunaticks estate witht a special order from the ct of chancery
Co.L.2
2.Vent.203
A person non compos may purchase & if after the recovery of their memory they agree think it cannot be avoided, but if they die in their lunacy or after the recovery of their memory witht agreemt to the purchase then Heir may avoid it.
[ ] 365 A Lunatick shall be tent by the curtesy & shall have Dower
Lit. sec. 405
Co.L.247
If a person non compos be disseis'd & a discent cast, this it is said takes away his entry but not the entry of his heir.
Hale. His. P.C.30 In criminal cases the insanity of the person is left both to the Judge & Jury. My Lord Hale saith that the best rule to be guided by in such matters is if the person hath ordinarily as great understanding as ordinarily a child of fourteen years hath such person may be guilty of treason or felony

Idiots & Lunatics

6.Co.124
Co.L.247
Acts solemnly acknowledged by an Idiot in a Ct of record are not voidable
4.Co.123
Ld. Ray. 313
2. Sal. 127.pl.2
The feoffmt of an idiot or non compos is not void but voidable, but it cannot be avoided by himself. But the King may by writ de idiota inquirendo avoid such alienation or office found, and after such office if the commission of tennacy be discharg'd the lunatick is restord to his lands. Also the heir may avoid such alienation. Secus of the remainder man or reversioner
4.Co.124
3.Lev.284
But the release surrender, letter of Attorney to give livery, warranty, or any other deed or writing obligatory, tho' they regularly at law bind the non compos are mere nullities with respect to others.
Abr.Eq.279 The contracts of idiots & Lunaticks, after office found & the party legally committed, are void. The suit for restoration must be by committee
Godolph. 26
4.Co.126
Ver.105
If a person of sound memory makes a will & after becomes non compos, this is no revocation of the will, yet a bill will not lie in the life of the non compos to establish the testimony of the Witness.

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Indictments

PaCe6 Hist2.
H.P.C.20
An indictmt is a brief narrative of an offence committed by any person which the publick good requires shou'd be punish’d.
2.Hal.His.
P.C.171
If a Stat. prohibit any act to be done & gives a recovery by action of debt &c. & mentions not indictmt yet the person may be indicted on the probabitory clause.
Secus if the act be not prohibitory.
2.Hal.His.
P.C.ch.20
If a person indicted of treason or felony confessed the fact & accuses another by which he becomes an approver, the parties accus'd may be tried on his appeal witht other indictmt or presentment.
2.Haw P.C.211 If a civil action in the Kings bench de muliere abducta cum bonis viri, upon not guilty pleaded the deft be convicted, he may be put to answer the felony witht further accusation
210
Sid.23
It seems to be generally agreed that a grand jury must find either billa vera or ignoramus for the whole.
Cr.El.147
2.Haw. P.C.225
It is laid down as a good genl rule that in indictments the special manner of the whole fact ought to be set forth with such certainty that it may Judicially appear to the ct the indictors have not given on insufficient [premisses?]

Indictments

Haw. P. C.224 Hence it hath been held that no circumlocution whatsoever will supply the place of those words of the act which the law hath appropriated for the description of the offence, as felonies in an indictmt for any felony whatever &c.
225 It hath been holden that an indictmt for a felonious breach of prison witht shewing the cause of the imprisonmt is not good.
228 If one material part of an indictmt be repugnant to another or if the fact as laid be impossible or absurd the indictmt is void
3.Hal. Hist.

P.C.175

The name & addition of the party indicted ought regularly to be inserted & inserted truly in every indictmt. But if the party answer to the name on the arraignmt or plead not guilty to the indictmt he is concluded.
2.Hawk. P.C.231 The deft & all other persons nam'd in the indictment must be describd with convenient certainty
238 An indictmt which doth not with sufft certainty set forth the thing wherein the offence was committed is insufft, as where one is indicted for having forg'd a lease of certain lands witht

Indictments

235 naming any one certain parcel.

No indictmt whatever can be good witht precisely shewing a certain year & day of the material facts alledged in it.

2.Hal His. P.C.179 But it is not necessary to prove the crime to have been committed on the very day laid in the indictmt
2.Hawk. P.C.245
Cr.El.236
[ ] Co.48
There is no necessity for any indictmt or information on a public stat. to recite the Stat. But if a prosecutor take upon him to recite the Stat. & materially vary from it & conclude contra formam statuti praedictus he vitiates the indictmt
2.Haw.P.C. 246 A misrecital of the place or day on which a Parliament was holden vitiates the indictment.
247 A variance no way altering the sense does no hurt Neither is the misrecital of the preamble of the Stat. material
249 It is a genl rule that unless the Stat. be recited neither the words contraforms in Statute, nor any [persprasis?] intendmt or conclusion will make good an indictmt which does not bring the offence nor then all the material

Indictment

words of the Statute, as if an indictmt for rape omit the word rapuit, or an indictmt of perjury on 5th of El.Ch. 9. omit the words voluntarie & corrupte
249 Neither is it always sufft to pursue the words of the Stat. unless in so doing you fully, directly & expressly alledge the matter where in the offence consists.
250 If the Stat. relate only to such & such persons particularly describ'd by it the indictmt must bring the deft within all such descriptions unless they carry with them the bare denial of a matter, the affirmation whereof will be a proper natural plea for the deft.
250 A conviction on a penal Stat. ought expressly to shew that the deft is not within any of its provisions.
251 A conviction on a penal Stat. ought expressly to shew that the deft is not within any of its provisions.An indictmt grounded on a stat. & concluding contra formum statute may be maintain’d as an indictmt at common law. The contrary was formerly held.

Indictment

251 It seems to be agreed that a judgemt on a Stat. shall never be given on an indictmt which doth not conclude contra formam statuti.

Infancy & Age

Dyer 143
Ray . 84
[ ] 162
If one under the age of 21 years makes his will & devises his lands & after attains the age of 21 years & dies witht any republication thereof this devise is void.
2.Mod.315
Ven.255
[ ] 316
[ ]. 35
An inft male at fourteen & female at twelve may dispose of their personal estate, at eighteen of their Negroes & at 21 of their lands.
Co.L.35 The age of consent to marriage in an inft male is fourteen in a female twelve
5.Co.29 An inft at the age of 17 may be an Exr
Co.L.247 The age of fourteen is the common standard at which both males & females are by our law obnoxious to capital punishments.
Hal.His. P.C.26
27
28-29
If the party be above twelve though under fourteen & appears to be dole capax he may be convicted if an inft be above seven & under twelve he is prima facie to be adjudged not guilty; but yet if it appear by strong & pregnant circumstances that he was dole capax, Judgemt of death may be given agt him for malitia supplet aetatem[ ]

Infancy & Age

God.or.leg.1 102
2.Ver.110
A child in ventre sa mare may be appointed Exr or may take a legacy & if there be two or more at a birth they shall be joint Exrs or joint legatees
Co. L. 244 If there be bastard eigne & mulier puisne the bastard enters & dies siesed leaving issue in ventre a mere, the mulier enters & then a son is born he cannot enter on the mulier.
Br.dev.32
Cr.El.423
Sid.153
liv.135
Ray.163
It has been a matter of much controversy whether a devise of lands to an inft in ventre sa mere is good, but all the books agree that a devise to an inft when he shall be born or when God shall give him birth is good /as an Exrs devise/& that the free hold shall descend in the mean time to the heir at law
Lev.142
Sid.321
Cr.Ja.59
It is laid down as a rule in some books that where it is alledged upon the pleadings that the party was & still is under age, it shall be tried by inspection of the Ct. but where the inft is of full age at the time of the plea it shall be tried per pais
2.Buls. 69 If an inft take a lease for years rendering rent if he enter upon the land he shall be charged with an action of debt during his minority.

Infancy & Age

Ver.386 An inft is not to be barred by the laches of his trustees, nor to be barred of a trust-estate during his infancy.
[ ] sec 402 The entry of an inft is not taken away by a descent cast
Co.L.245 But if a man seised of lands in fee die, his wife privement ensient & a stranger abates & dies seised & after the son is born he shall be bound by the descent.
2.Inst.303 If an inft be tent by the curtesy or lessee for life or years he shall answer for waste.
2.Inst.233
8.Co.44
Vent.200
An inft is bound by all conditions charges & penalties in an original conveyance whether he comes in by descent or by purchase
2.ver.343, 560 Bound in eqy as well as law
Co.L.246 If a man make a feoffment in fee to another reserving rent & if he pay not the rent with in a month that he shall double the rent, the feoffee dieth his heir within age payeth not the rent he shall forfeit nothing. because the inft is provided for by the statute
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Infancy & Age

Broke disseisin 19 Two infts Jt Tents one releases to the other by which the other holds the whole this seems a disscisin, But if livery had been made it woud have been no disseisin but it woud have been void
Co.L.172
Cr.Ja.500
An inft may bind himself to pay for his necessary meat, drink, apparel necessary physick & such other necessaries & likewise for his good teaching & instruction but it must appear that the things were really necessary & of reasonable prices & suitable to the infts degree & estate which regularly must be left to the Jury who need not find particularly wht the necessaries were nor of what price each thing was
Val.386 pl.2, 279.pl.4 An inft not liable for money which he borrows to lay out for necessaries
Cr.Ch.502 Those contracts from which an inft can receive no benefit or semblance of benefit are absolutely void. Sed quaere
Br.sci. 12-19 There is a diversity between the actual delivery of the thing contracted for & a bare agree-

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Sid.129
Lev.169
ment to deliver it, the first is voidable, the last absolutely void.
Ver.132
2.Ver.224
If one deliver goods to an inft on a contract knowing him to be an inft he shall not be chargeable in trover & conversion or any other action for them, secus if he take goods under pretence that he is of full age.
2.Mod.248
[ ].446
Vent.51
If an inft of the age of discretion commit any fraud by affirming himself to be of full age or by combination with his Guardian enter into any contracts with an intent afterwards to Elude them a ct of eqy will decree it good agt him according to the circumstances of the fraud.
[ ].Co.42
2. Inst.483
Infancy is a personal privilege of which only the inft himself can take advantage
Lev.144
Sal.279.pl.4
None but the inft himself or his representatives privies in blood can avoid a conveyance made by the inft during his nonage In assumpsit agt an inft he may give infancy in evidence & need not plead it.
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Vent.213
If lands be sold to an inft & he contr [ ] possession after he comes of age

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It is a tacit consent to the agreement.
2.Ver. 224 Where an inft deseis'd lands subject to trust for paymt of younger childrens portions might not be sold & offer'd by his answer to settle other lands for raising the portions, it was held that he shoud be bound by the offer made by him in his answer if the other side were thereby delay'd & if the inft did not immediately after his coming of age apply to the Ct in order to retract his offer & amend his answer.
4.Leon.4 An inft made a lease for years & at full age said to the Lessee “God give you joy of it.” held an affirmation of the lease.
3.Leon.164
Comb. 381
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The deft under age borrow'd money of the Plf & at full age promis'd to pay him. bound by the promise
Abr.of Eq.282 Decreed in Ch. that if an inft borrows a sum of money for which he gives his bond & devises his personal estate (being of sufft capacity) for the paymt of his debts particularly those he had set his hand to this bond debt shall be paid.

Infancy & Age

Cr.Ja. 464 If Judgemt be given agt an inft by default after the default he shall have a writ of error & reverse the judgemt for his nonage, but if an inft after appearance make default judgemt shall be given agt him.
Hal.Hist. P.C.20
Co.L.359
Cr.Ja.274
An inft shall be privileg'd from fine & imprisonment in those cases where a person of full age shall be thus punish’d.
Co.L.127
[ ].Co.61
An inft being Plf or demandant shall not be amerced

If an inft by his Guardian or prochein ami bring an ejectmt & after the Guardian &c. becomes insolvent the inft shall be amerced

[ ] Ver. 342 No decree shall be made agt an inft witht giving him a day to shew cause agt it when he comes of age
Palm.215 An inft must appear by prochein Amy or Guardian but he must defend by Guardian
[ ] 369 If an inft be sued the Plf must move to have a proper Guardian assign'd him
Vent. [ ] In an action agt Baron & Feme the Feme being within age she ought to appear by Guardian

Infancy & Age

Cr.Ja.420 Debt brought agt an inft Exr he cannot appear by attorney but by Guardian
441 But if an inft Exr brings an action by Attorney & hath judgemt to recover this is not erroneous
Cr.El. 278
Vent.102
see Lev.181
If an inft & man of full age be Exrs they may bring an action as Exrs & the inft may sue by Attorney
Car.256 The Plf being an inft had sued by his Guardian but the entry on the roll was T.S. by his Guardian omitting “admitted especially by the ct for this purpose, the entry sufft
Abr.Eq. 72
260
An inft cannot bring a bill in Chy but by his prochein amy. And it is said that a Guardian cannot otherwise be appointed than by bringing the inft into ct or his praying a commission to have a Guardian assign'd him

Where a bill is brought agt an inft & he reglects to appear to have a Guardian assignd him, it is a motion of cause (he being in contempt to an attachmt) to pray for a messenger to bring him into Court

In all cases where a naked right in fee

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6.Co.3
Dyer.133
Cr.Ja.469
descends from any ancestor to an inft there in every action ancestral the parol shall demur Secus in real actions brought by an inft on his own possession
2.Inst.89 If an action of debt on the obligation of the Ancestor be brought agt the heir the parol shall demur & so in all cases where the fee may be charg’d.
[ ].Co.85 In a writ of mesne the parol shall not demur for the non age of the demandant
6.Co.3
Dyer.137
Where a naked right descends of lands of wh the ancestor was once in possession there in an action ancestorel brought by the inft the parol shall demur witht plea secus where the ancestor died seised or where the action is brought of the seisin or possession of the inft In Detinue agt an Exr for a delivery to the Testator the parol shall not demur for the non age of the Exr.
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If an inft be in by purchase he shall not have his age
If an inft hath an estate in possession by purchase sufft to answer the action than he

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Co.L.338 hath the residue of the estate by descent yet he shall not have his age. Thus if Lessee for life surrenders to an inft who hath the reversion he shall not have his age

If an inft be vouched & bound to warranty by the deed of his ancestor the parol shall demur for the non age of the inft

45.Ed.3.23 If two are vouch'd if the parol demurs for the non age of one it shall for the other also
6.Co.5 The Ct ex officio ought to grant that the parol shall demur though the tent will answer.
2.Inst.258 Where age is granted or the parol demurs the writ Does not abate but the plea is put witht [ ] until full age

Informations

Haw.P.C. 260
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An information may be defin'd an accusation agt a person for some criminal which from its enormity or dangerour tendency the publick good requires shou’d be restraind & punishd.
Hal. His. P.C.ch. 28 In crimes not capital the proceeding may be by information
Lev.125
Sid.174
For a conspiracy alone witht any prosecution information lies.
Carth. 226 In every information a single offence ought to be laid & ascertain’d.
2.Hawk P.C.262 An information is not to be admitted to be filed (except those exhibited in the name of his Majesties attorney Genl) witht first making a rule on the persons complain'd of to shew cause to the contrary, which rule is never granted but on motion made in open Ct & grounded upon affidavit of some misdemeanor which doth either from its enormity or dangerous tendency seem proper for the most publick prosecution. Sometimes upon special circumstances a Ct will grant it agt those who cannot be personally servd

Informations

with such rule as if they purposely absent themselves

But if he shew good cause to the contrary the ct will not grant the information witht some particular circumstances the judgemt whereof lies in discretion

Injunction

Moor 920 pl. 1108 Injunction is a prohibitory writ restraining a person from doing a thing which appears to be agt eqy & conscience

An injunction to stay restitution upon an indictmt of forcible entry. The most usual injunction is to stay proceedings at law on some equitable circumstances of which the party cannot have the benefit at law in each case the Plf in equ may move for an injunction either upon an attachmt or praying a dedimus, or praying a further time to answer, but this injunction only stays execution touching the matters in question & there is always a clause giving liberty to call for a plea to proceed to trial, for want of it, to obtain judgmt but exn is stay’d till answer or further order

2.Ver.330
Vel.161
[ ].14
[ ].Ch.454
If a man be tent for life witht impeachmt of waste with remr to his first &c son in tail yet if he shd pull down the house or any part of the buildings thereunto belonging eqy would enjoin him
[ ].Ca 66 An injunction granted to stay trial at law is never granted but upon notice, as where one files

Injunction

his bill & it appears to the Ct that the Plf eqy must rise out of the defts answer
Ver.156 An injunction for quieting the possession is only grantable where the Plf has been in possession three years before the bill exhibited on a title yet undetermind, or in case the clause hath been heard & judgemt pass’d on its merits by the Ct
Ver.22 There is an injunction to prevent multiplicity of suits
2. [Kell?] 17 injunction intended to stay proceedings agt Bail

It hath been of late practis'd to commit the party on affidavit of a breach of an injunction & personal notice given to him

Injunction

Inns & Innkeeper

22.G.2.Ch.
24.p.241
Any person retailing liquors witht license to forfeit ten pounds
Palm.374
2.Roll.
Rep.345
A person who makes it his business to entertain travellers & passengers is a common

innkeeper.

Cr. Ch. 549 An Innkeeper cannot be a bankrupt
Co.L.47 The horse & goods of a Guest cannot be distrained
Ray.231 If a man keeps an inn & a person who lives just by him designing to get away his customers tells a person who enquires for such inn that no one lives there this is actionable

If an innkeeper refuses to take a traveller as a Guest into his house unless house be full or if he refuse to furnish him with victuals on being tenderd a reasonable price for the same an action lies agt him|-

Sal.18 He who takes upon himself a public employmt must serve the public as far as his employment goes, therefor the Inkeener must answer for the neglects of those he keeps under him though he shoud expressly caution agt it

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[ ]. Co. 32
[ ]. 96
If a man desires his horse to be put to grass & the horse is stole the innkeeper is not liable. secus if the man does not direct his horse to be put to grass, or if he be lost by the voluntary & wilful negligence of the innkeeper
22.G.2.ch
[ ].p.241
Ordinary keeper selling at higher rates than allowd to pay 10/ to the informer which is recoverable before any justice of peace.
[ ].6.53
Roll.abr.95
Dyer.266
If an Innkeeper or his sert sell corrupt wine or victuals an action lies agt the Master.
8 Co.32
Br.ac.on the case.41
Innkeepers are chargeable for the goods of guests stolen or lost out of their inns & of this duty they cannot discharge themselves by sickness absence &c.
8.Co.33. If the host delivers the key of the chambers where the goods are to the guest & he leaves the door open & the goods are stolen yet an action lies agt the host. secus if he be robb'd by one who was with him or who desires to be lodged with him It seems the host is answerable if the guest does not acquaint him with what goods he has.
Moor 158 pl.299 Secus if the host ask him & he deny that he hath any or says that he has less than he has in reality. Said by Anderson, but Windham & [ ] contra

Inns & Innkeeper

2. Brom. 214
8.Co.32
If an host invites one to stay all night yet if he be afterwards robb’d the host shall not be chargd for he was no traveller
Cr.Ja.188
Moor 877
Hay 126
Sal.388 pl.2
If a man comes to an inn with a hamper in which he has sevl goods & leave it with the innkeeper he shall not be chargeable if the goods are stolen unless the man returns that night. Secus if it be any thing which the host hath benefit by keeping
Cr.Ja.224 If a mans servt travelling on his masters business comes to an inn where the horse is stolen the master shall have an action
Cr.Ch.27
Sal.388.nl.2
The Innkeeper may retain the person of the guest who eats or the horse which eats till paymt.
Moor 877 An innkeeper who detains a horse for his meat cannot use him.

Joint Tenants & Tenants in Common

[ ] Co.27
Co. L.30
Co.L.9 200
The wife of a Joint tent cannot be endow’d If there be two joint tents & one releaseth to the other this passeth a fee with t the word heirs. Tents in common cannot release to each
[ ] H.6.51 One joint tent cannot surrender to the other
Sal.392 pl.4 One Tent in common cannot deseise the other otherwise than by an actual disseisin
ColL.190 A Layman & a Bishop may be joint tents of a lease for years & of a personal thing
[ ] sec.291 If an estate be made to husband & wife & a third person the husband & wife shall take

but one moiety.

Co.L.187 If Lands be given to husband & wife & their heirs the husband cannot during the life of the wife dispose of any part of it. Secus if it be given to a man & a woman before marriage.
Co.L.188
[ ] 101
Dyer 340
If a man make a feoffmt to the use of himself & such wife as he shall afterwards marry they are joint tenants
2.Ver.683 It has been ruld in chy that where the husbd binds out money in the names of himself & wife, upon Mortgages & bonds & dies that the wife is entieled to the money.
Co.L.351 If baron & feme be joint tenants of a lease or other personal thing he may grant though

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He cannot devise it.
10.Co.5
Cr.El.341
Co.L.46
If a lease be made to Baron & feme for their lives remainder to the survivor & or to the Exrs of the survivor & the baron grants the term & dies this will not bar the wife surviving because she had but a possibility & no interest.
Co.L.55 Baron & feme joint tents for life, baron sows the land & dies, his Exrs shall have the emblements
Carth.170 The survivor alone of two joint Merchants may bring trover for goods lost.
Str.217 If two take a lease jointly of a farm the stock though occupied jointly shall not survive
Cr.El.431
2. Sid. 53
3.Lev.127
If a man hath issue only two daughters & devises land to them & their heirs they are joint tenants
Co.L.189
Lit sec.309
If there be three joint tents & one of them aliens his part the other two are joint tents of their parts & hold them in common with the alience, &c.
Co. L.190 If lands be given to two habendum the one moiety to one & his heirs the other moiety to the other & his heirs this is a tenancy in common
2. Vent. 365 The words equally divided or equally to be divided do not create a tenancy in common indeed such estate in conveyance can only be

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created by limiting the estate to them to take expressly as tents in common, or by limiting a part to one & a part to another
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Moor 550
Cr.Ja.448
In a will the intention of the testator is to govern therefore a devise to two equally & their heirs has been held a tenancy in common.
Holt. 410
Abr.Eq.292
[ ]332
A mortgage devisd to two daughters being held in common if they purchase the eqy of redemption that shall be held in common likewise
[ ].16 If £500 a piece is devised to two legatees who take a Mortgage jointly to them both for securing the paymt of their legacies & interest one of them dies, the other shall have nothing by survivorship
Abr.Eq. 192
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Phillips
One devisd £100 to five equally to be devided between them & the survivors & survivor of them & if A (one of the five) died before marriage, her share to go over to another person, held a tenancy in common
Ver.33 In eqy where two or more purchase lands & it appears in the deed itself that the proportions of money paid are not equal, however the legal estate may survive, the survivor shall be considered but as a trustee for the others, in proportion to the money paid

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So if one lays out a considerable sum of money in repairs or improvements.
Abr.Eq.290 Five persons purchasd lands & after enterd into articles (in order to improve & cultivate the lands) whereby they agreed to be equally concern'd as to profit & loss & to advance each of them such a sum to be laid out in the manurance &c of the land, It was held that they were tents in common as to the benificial interest or right in those lands For it may happen that some may have paid their share of the money & others nothing.
5.Co.9 If an estate is limited to Husband & wife during their joint lives it determines with the death of either of them
Lit.Sec.283
Co.L.25
If lands be given to two men & the heirs of their bodies they have a joint estate for life & sevl inheritances. Secus if given to a man & a woman
Co.L.168
Br.Lit.Grants 154
Joint tents & tents in common may according to the interest they have join or sever in making leases
Co.L.47
Vent.161
But if there be two Joint tents &c & they make a lease by parol or deed both reserving rent to one only yet it shall enure to both

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Secus if it be by deed indented.
Roll.Abr. 877
[ ].202
If two tents in common of lands join in a lease for years by indenture of their sevl lands this shall be the lease of each for his part & the cross confirmation of each for the part of the other
Sal.285 pl.17
Ld.Ray.741
Bridg. 129
The possession of one joint tent is the possession of the other so far as to prevent the Stat. of limitations. So if they be disseis’d & one enters this is the entry of both
[ ] sec. 306
Co.L.194
If these be two joint tents by disseisin &c & the disseisee &c release to one of them it shall enure to his advantage only. Secus if the disseisors enfeoff two persons
[ ] sec.207
Co.L.49
3.Vent.202
[ ] Co. 95
If a feoffment be made to A & B by deed & livery be made to one in the name of both it shall enure to both. Secus if the feoffmt be witht deed.
Dalr.44 pl.33 If two joint tents make a feoffmt on condn that if they paid such a sum before such a day they might reenter, before the day one of them releases this condn to the feoffer it shall not bind his companion

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1. Inst. 302 Two joint tents for years or for life one of them does waste, this is the waste of both as to the place wasted, but treble damages shall be recover’d agt him who did the waste only
Co.L.18 A naked trust or authority cannot survive but a trust coupled with an interest shall survive.
191 If a lease be made for A & B for their lives & the life of the longest liver & they make partition & A dies, the lessor shall enter into his part
2.Roll. Abr.86 Two joint tents sow their corn & one dies the corn shall go to the survivor. secus where husbd & wife are joint tents.
Perk. Sec.523 One of two tents in common sows the land then his Exrs shall have the corn
Co.L.181 The right of survivorship takes place immediately on the death of the joint tent whither it be a natural or civil death
188 There shall be no right of survivorship unless the thing be in jointure at the instant of the death of him who first dieth
185 Two femes joint tents of a lease for years one of them takes husbd & dies yet the term shall survive. secus of personal goods

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Co. L.186 Although joint tents are seisd per [ & ] yet to sevl purposes each of them hath but a right to a moiety, as to enfeoff give or demise, forfeit release by default in a praecipe.

If two joint tents make a feoffmt in fee with condn & on the breach thereof one of them shall enter into the whole yet he shall enter into but a moiety

2. Ver.23 An agreemt to alien does not sever the joint tenancy
[ ].193 The conveyance from one joint tent to another is by release. Tents in common must convey by feoffmt &c.
Vent.78
[ ].452
Leon.167
If the jury find that one joint tent did grant or convey to another this amount to a release one joint tent of a rent cannot release the arrearages to another.
Co.L.167 A partition between joint tents of a preehold must be by deed . Secus of tents in common
168 Regularly every disposition by one joint tent to bind his companion must be an immediate disposition.
185
Br.titl Grants
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But if one, of two joint tents in fee lets his moiety to J.S. for years to begin after his death this is good

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Lit. sec.281
Cr. Ja.101
If one of two joint tents devises his part & survive the other joint tent the devise is good for the whole
Cr.Ja.91
Co.L.184
Co.96
If one of two joint tents for life makes a lease for years to commence immediately or after his death for his moiety, it shall be good & binding agt the survivor, but if rent be [ ] ’tis determin’d & gone by the death of the lessor.
Sal.158 In Eqy if three persons are jointly possess’d of a term for years & one of them mortgages his third part the joint tenancy is wholly sever’d
Co.L.188 If there be two Joint tents of a rent & one of them disseises the tent of the land this severs the joint tenancy for a time
Cr.El.33 If one of two joint tents grants a parcel of the term to a stranger by this the jointure of all is severd
Lit. sec.286
Co.L.184
Regularly all grants or charges on the land by one joint tent fall of with his life
2.And.202
2.Co.60
Cr.El. 750
Two joint tents for life the reversion descends or is granted to one of them this severs the jointure
Cr.El. 65 If a writ of partition be brought by one joint tent agt sevl & there happens to

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error & one of the defts releases all errors to the Plf this shall not bar the others
Dalison 59. If after the awarding of the judicial writ & before the return of it the deft dies yet the partition is good
F.N.B.62 The process in the writ is summons attachment & distress infinite
Co. L.18O Joint tents must jointly implead & be impleaded with others.
197
Lit.sec.314
Lit.sec.315
Tents in common where the thing is entire must likewise join in an action as for a horse &c.
Co.L.198 So in actions personal as in trespass for breaking open a house &c.
185
Carth.289
Tents in common may join or sever in debt or covenant for rent, but if they sever the demand must be de una medietate of the whole
Cr. Ja.19 If two joint tents bring trespass & pending the action one of them dies the writ shall abate. Secus if brought agt them.
Co.L.188 If one joint tent be summond & sever'd & dies the writ abates because the survivor [goes?] for the whole

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Co.L.197 Secus in personal & mix’d actions where there is summons & severance & yet after such summons & severance the plf goes on for the whole

Jointure

Co.L.36
4.Co.2
2.Bl.137
A jointure is a competent lively hood of freehold for the wife of lands &c to take effect presently [the] possession as profit after the death of the husband for the life of the wife at least
4.Co.23 The estate must take effect immediately after the death of the husbd therefore if an estate be made to A for life or to the use of A for life remr to the wife this is no good jointure tho A dies living the husbd
Co.L.36 It must be for the term of the wifes life or a greater estate, therefore if an estate be made for the lives of many others or for any term of years tis no good jointure
4.Co.23
Sed vide—
Moor 31.pl.10
If an estate be limited to the wife upon condition, as durante viduitate, her acceptance of such conditional jointure makes it good
Co.L.36
Br.Ab,224
It must be made to herself & not to others in trust for her. But this rule has some times been dispens’d with in a Ct of eqy.
Co.L.36 It must be in satisfaction of her whole Dower & so express’d.
[ ].Abr.824 Of this quaere for it is not requird either within

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Owen 33 the words or intent of the Stat. And therefore where an assurance was made to a woman to the intent it shoud be for her jointure but it was not so express'd in the deed, the opinion of the Ct was that it might be aver’d & that such avermt was not traversable
Cr.Ja.490 If a wife has an old right before coverture & afterwards takes a jointure of the same lands she shall be remitted
2.Ch.Ca. 162 If a feme covert joins with her husband in levying a fine to raise a sum of money by way of
Ver.41
2.Vent.343
Mortgage this shall bind her, yet in this case she doth not absolutely part with her estate for life but there results a trust to the wife to redeem, & the money shall be paid out of the personal estate of the husband
Do
Ver.427, 207
If a man before marriage articles to settle a jointure on his intended wife, & the marriage is consummated & the husband dies before any settlemt made; eqy will decree an execution of the articles

If there be a jointress & a covt that her jointure shall be of such a year by value

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Abr.Eq. 221 & it falls short, she may commit waste so far as to make up the defect of the jointure
2.Ver. 707
Ver.479
If a bill is brought by the heir at law or any other person agt the jointress whereby the party woud avoid a jointure under pretence that his Ancestor was only tent for life &c & he seeks for a discovery of deeds whereby he woud avoid the title of the jointress he shall never have such discovery unless he will submit by his bill to confirm her

title. So if jointress prays such discovery agt an heir at law if the heir submitts by answer to confirm the jointress title she shall have no such discovery.

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Leases & Terms for Years

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[ ] Co.16
Dyer.56
Br. tit.
[ ]
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Bul.7
Lit. sec. 71
Co.L.57
Not only lands & houses have been let for years but also goods & chattels. If one lease for years a stock of live cattle such lease is good & the lessee hath only the use & profits of them during the term, but yet the lessor hath not any reversion in them to grant over to another till the lessee hath redeliver’d them to him. If any of them die during the term the lessee need not replace them & all the young ones belong absolutely to the lessee. The lessee cannot kill, sell &c. the old ones witht being subject to an action of trespass. In case of a lease of a house together with goods it is usual to have a schedule thereof & affix it to the lease & to have a covt from the Lessee to redeliver them at the end of the term. Witht such covt the lessor woud have no other remedy but trover or detinue for them after the end of the term.
Hard.46
2.Lev.245
A ministerial tho' not a judicial office may be granted for years
Moor 105
2 Lit. sec. 547.
Some opinions are that all leases made by

Co.L.45. Lev.6. Bos.tit.leases. [50?]

Leases & Terms for Years

Lit.sec.259
Will. rep. 389
3. Co.119
Cr.El.127
Infants are absolutely void unless rent be reserv’d. Others seem to be of opinion that they are only voidable
Cr.Ja.332
Co.L.45
P.C.137
Husbd may make a lease for lands held in right of the wife & such lease is good during the life of the husbd & after if the wife do not disagree to it.
Cr. Ja. 563 So if wife join in such lease for years by indenture unless made pursuant to 32.H.8. she is after her Husbds death at liberty to affirm it by acceptance of rent or to avoid it by bringing action of trespass. She may plead non dimuit.
Yel. 1
Cr.Ch.155
Cr. Ja. 617
2.Bul. 13
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If the wifes part in such lease were merely void then the Lessee ought in his declaration on such lease to leave out the wife; as where Husbd & wife sealed a lease for years of the wifes lands & at the same time executed a letter of attorney to a third person to deliver such lease as thir deed to the lessee.
Cr. El. 656 A parol lease of the wifes lands tho' by Husbd & wife determines absolutely by the death of the Husbd.

Leases & Terms for Years

Cr.El.287
Co.155
Husbd & wife joint tents for /50/ years if they or either of them so long live the Husbd by indenture lets the lands for fifty years to commence immediately after his decease. This shall bind the wife. Secus if he had granted the term to commense after his death
Br. tit.
[ ]vo/w/ry.123
Va/u/gh 46
a Husbd seis'd of land in right of his wife makes a lease for years reserving rent , his wife dies witht issue, yet he may avow for the rent till the heir hath made actual entry.
Cr. Ja. 22 The Stat. 32.H.8.Ch.28. has made an alteration in the common law & enabled all Husbds seised of lands in right of their wives to make leases for twenty one years or three lives, observing the directions therein given

That all leases to be made by any person or persons having any estate of inheritance in fee simple or fee tail in right of their wives or jointly with their wives, of an estate of inheritance made before the coverture or after shall be good provided that the wife be made party to every such lease to be made by her husband of any manors &c. being the inheritance if the wife

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And that every such lease be made by indenture in the name of the husband & wife & she to seal the same & that the rent be reserv’d to Husband & wife & to the heirs of the wife according to her estate of inheritance therein
Br.tit.
acceptance 14
Cr.Ch.398
Co.147
10.Co.49
Co.L.47
6.Co.15
Co.L.300
Leases for years made by tent in dower or curtesy can endure no longer than the life of the Lessor. So of leases made by tent for life unless confirm’d by him in remr or reversion or unless the remr man &c join with tent for life in an assignmt of the term witht mentioning the life estate. Nor can the acceptance of rent by him in reversion make good the lease. Neither will it be good if tent for life purchases the reversion
[ ] 650 If a disseisor makes a lease for years & the disseisee confirms it & after reenters yet he shall not avoid the lease or rent.
Co.L.48
Cr.El.483
[ ] Co.55
If one be disseis’d of lands & while he is out of possession intends to make a lease for years the way is to prepare a deed of lease & after he hath sign’d & seal’d it, before any actual

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delivery thereof as his deed, to deliver it as his escrow to a third person to be deliver’d as his deed after entry & actual possession taken in his name, or after signing & sealing before actual delivery he may make a letter of attorney to a third person to enter upon the land in his name & after such entry to deliver it, as his deed to the lessee.
6.Co.63
5.Co.29
Princes
case
Admr derrante minoritate may grant leases for years which will be good till the Exr attains the age of seventeen
B.2.tit
leases.37
Cr.Ja.99
A bailiff of a manor cannot by virtue of his office make leases for years.
2. Ch. Ca. 202 But if the bailiff of a manor bath a special power to make leases for years as they ought to be made in the name of their master so they ought to be made in writing that the authority may appear to be pursued
Lit. sec.123
Co.L. 88
Vaugh.18
A Guardian in socage make leases for years in his own name and is accountable to the inft when he comes of the age of fourteen or at

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any time after, so of Guardian by testament.
Cr.Ja.55 If such guardian makes a lease for years to continue longer than his interest in the lands tis not absolutely void but voidable only
Plow.293 If a woman who is guardian in socage marries again & such husbd makes a lease for years of the infts lands, this lease upon the death of the husband becomes void.
9.Co.76
Cr.El.115
Dyer.132
If one hath power by letter of Attorney generally to make leases for years /or ought to make them/in the name & stile of his master & not in his own name.

But in the conclusion of such lease it is proper to say In witness whereof A.B. of such a place &c. in pursuance of a letter of Attorney hereunto annex’d, bearing date such a day. Or if the letter of Attorney be genl & concern more lands than those compris’d in the present lease then to say In pursuance of a letter of Attorney bearing date such a day, hereunto annex’d, a true copy whereof is hereunto annexed hath put the hand & seal of the master & so write the masters name

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Vaugh. 28
8.Co.70
2.Str.992
Where leases for years are made pursuant to powers in private conveyances or settlemts those powers must be strictly pursued or the lease is void.
Co.134
8.Co.71
If a feoffmt in fee be made to the use of A for life remr to B in tail with power to A to make leases reserving the accustomable rent payable to all those who shall have the reversion or remr. If A makes leases accordingly these leases derive their essence out of the feoffmt & after they are made do in point of time precede all the other estate limited by that feoffmt.
Pope 81
Co.176
Cr. Ja.180
Ray.247
But these leases can only be made by virtue of such powers executed by transmutation of possession, therefore if one bargains & sells lands to another by indenture enrolld for the life of the bargainee with power for the bargainee to make leases for three lives or twenty one years yet this is of

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effect to give him such power.
Lev.167
Sid.260
Ray.132
Reb.778, 910
Ch.Ca.17
Where tent in possession makes a settlemt with power to make leases generally there he can only make leases in possession But where he that makes the settlement had only a reversion at the time there he may make leases out of that reversion
Leon 147 Devise for life with power to make leases generally, before the expiration of his first lease may make a second to commence presently which shall be good as a concurrent lease
9.Co.76 Tent for life with power to make leases for three lives &c cannot make them by Attorney
Ch.Ca.10 sec
Abr.Eq.
[ ]
One who has power to make a lease for ten makes it for twenty years this in Eqy is good for the ten years
[ ] Whatever words are sufft to explain the intent of the parties that the one shall devest himself of the possession & the other come into it for such a determinate period of time, whether they run in form of a licence, covt or agree-

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3. Buls. 252
Sid.428
-mt are of themselves sufft to create a lease for years. And on the contrary if the most proper & authentic form of words are us’d yet if on the whole deed there appears no intent to pass a lease, but that they are only preparatory & relative to a future lease to be made, the law will rather do violence to the words than break through the intent of the parties. So if one only license another to enjoy such a house or land for such a time this amounts to a present & certain lease for the time.
Leon.136
Cr.El.1.173
Cr.Ja.42
3 Buls. 252
Cr.Ch.207
Cr.El.223
So if A by articles covenants with B that he shall have or enjoy such lands for such a time this is a good lease. Secus if the Covt had been with B that C a third person or that the Exrs of B might enjoy the lands. In the first case tho’ there be covts in the same articles that A shall hereafter make a good & perfect lease as counsel shall advise, yet that will not destroy the operation of the first words, such covt being only in majorem cautitam, that the lessee might require further assurance, if he found it necessary

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[ ] One made his will in this manner; I have made a lease to J.S. for twenty one years paying but 20/ rent. Held a good lease or devise
Moor pl.31
Cr.El. 33.306
One said to another you shall have a lease of my lands in D for 21 years paying 10 rent, make a lease in writing & I will seal it. Held good.
Nay 128 Articles were drawn between A & B in this manner A doth demise such a close to B to have it for 40 years, & a rent reserv'd with clause of distress &c. In witness whereof &c. And afterwards there was written on the same paper a memorandum that these articles are to be order’d by counsel of both parties according to the due form of law. Not a sufft lease because of the intent of the parties.
Dyer 150
Co.155
Moor 480
2.Mod.31
[ ]. rep 16.
Gil. Eq. re.108
[ ]
The sd A is contented to demise such lands &c to the sd B from Michaelmass next for 6 years, & after these words the rent reserv'd is 100 per Annum a rentry for nonpaymt of the rent, a covt for reparations & a covt to do such other thing these articles are sealed & deliverd by the parties, yet they do not amount to a lease, but were [stated wrong?] in Cr.Ja.172

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only preparatory covts or instructions for a lease & never were intended to have the force or effect of a lease themselves. Besides that, the word “contented” imports only an approbation of something to be done after
Mod.180
Sid.461
Vent.84
Where the lease is to begin from the date if the date is impossible, it shall take effect from the delivery, but if the date be possible & uncertain it shall be totally void.
Dyer 261 A leas’d lands to B for 40 years if he shou’d so long live & after to C pass for 21 years from the end of the term of B to commence & be accounted from the date of these presents. The lease to C shall begin from the end of the term of B & the last words are so construed as to give an interest as a future interest presently.
Plow.198
Co.L.45
Co.154
2. Bl.
The word term comprehends as well the estate & interest of the lessee in the lands as the time for which it is demisd. Secus of the word time If a reciting that B hath a lease for years of such lands demises the same lands to C for

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Dyer.116 pl.70
Br. titles. .sec. 62
Plow.148
Cr.Ch.395
Co.L.46
Lev.77
Vaugh.73
Lev.234
Sid.460
2.Hub. 322
Years to begin after the end of the Sd lease to B. where B hath not any lease the lease to C shall begin presently, for in judgemt of law a void limitation & no limitation is all one. So if he recites a lease which in construction of law appears after to be void or misrecites a good lease in a point material, Hab. from the end of the sd lease this new lease shall begin presently.
Vaugh. 73
Dyer 93 pl.28
4 Co.74
Cr.El.603
Tho' when the first lease is good in law & only misrecited in a point material the new lease shall only commence in enumeration of years & not in interest till the determination of the first lease. So there a jury find an indenture of lease, whereby it is recited that the lessor made such former lease of such date & under such rent witht finding the former lease in fact but only by way of recital in the deed, such second shall be adjudged to begin presently tho’ in the deed it is limited to begin after the first lease so recited. Because the jury do not actually find the first lease but only a recital of it in another deed which recital may be

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false for aught appears to the court.
2.Bur. rep. 190 A lease may commence one day in point of computation & another day in point of interest & such a lease"Hab. from a day past for 50 years then ll next ensuing, the sd term to commence from & after the determination for erecting lease of the same premises 11 shall not be esteem'd uncertain in its commencemt.
Co.L.45
Co.155
Bl.
If one makes a lease for years for so many years as J.S. shall name this is good provided J.S, names the yea rs in the life of the lessor.
Co.L.45
Bl.
If a man makes a lease for so many years as he shall live tis for uncertainty void from the beginning.
Vent.13? Scriptum obligaborium in pleadings may be intended an indenture
6.Co.35 If a woman be enceinte of a son & a lease is made till such issue in ventre sa mere shall come to full age this is a lease at will only
Do A lease for years witht saying how many good for two years

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Br. tit. leases.13 A lease for ten years at the will of the Lessor good for ten years certain
5.Buls.158
Dyer 24[. ]
[. ]
A parson made a lease of his rectory for three years & so from three years to three years during his life and so from three years to three

years during his life, held a good lease for 12 years

Plow.273
co.L.45
6.Co.35
Cr.Ja.308
Bulst.215
If a man makes a lease for a year & so from year to year cqua indica ambabus partibus placierit?l this is an estate for two years certain at least & at most after three years tis but an estate at will
3.Co.66
3.Bulst.131
If a lease is made /for 40 yeara/ to A & B if they live so long the death of either of them will determine the lease
Cr. El. 643 A lease was made for 21 years if the lessee so long liv'd & continued in the lessors service, the lessor dies the lease is not deter mind because it is the act of God that he coud serve no longer.
Dyer 67
[ ]l8
Co.L.219
A lease is made to two for years with a proviso that if the lessees die within the term the term shall cease , one aliens & dies, the assignee shall have his part during the term or the life of the survivor.

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Plow.421
Cr.El. 160
Co.155
3.Leon 17
4.Do.23
5.Co.113
If one makes a lease to A for ten years & the same day makes another lease to B by parol for ten years the last lease is absolutely void, but if it had been made for twenty years it woud have been good as a future interess.termini to talce effect when the first lease had by efflux of time expird. If such second lease had been made by deed poll it woud enact as a grant of the reversion & draw after it the rents & services of the first lessee if he woud attorn. If such second lease had been made by indenture it woud have been good as a present lease. But in all the cases beforementiond such lease by indenture or deed poll if made by way of bargain & sale for years then it shoud seem, it woud pass aw a reversionary interest presently witht any attornment by force of the Stat. of uses.
Co.L.47
4 Co.53
If a lease be made by indenture & the lessor have nothing in the lands at the time this

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shall operate mutually as an estoppel. But if the lessor bad any interest in the

lands he may confess & avoid

Cr.El.37 700
Co.L.352
It is generally said that an estoppel ought to be mutual therefor a lease by feme covert &c binds neither party as an estoppel
Cr.El.15
5.Co.124
Cr. El. 125
Cr.Ja. 60
If a man makes a lease for years to commence after the death of a tent for life, & after the death of tent for life before the entry of Lessee for years a stranger enters still may the Lessee for years transfer his right of entry to another secus if he had enterd & was disseis'd.
Cr.El.169 The Lessee must enter when his lease comes into possession & if he enters before this is a disseisin.
Co.L,52
Cr.Ja.117
If Lessee for years has a letter of attorney to make livery of the freehold this shall not merge his term

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7.co.48 If the Lessor infeoff's his Lessee for years to several uses the interest of the Lessee is saved by 27 of H.8.of uses.
C.L.339
Plow.

418

My Lord Coke lays it down that a man cannot have a term for years in his own right & freehold in auter droit, tho' one may have a term for years in auter droit & a freehold in his own right
Cr.J.275
Bulst 118
But this rule admits of divers excentions: for where the Husband possess'd of a term for years took a wife & after the inheritance descends to the wife his term is not thereby merged because the descent was an act of law which the Husband coud not prevent.
Cr.El. 156 Any form of words whereby the intent & agreement of the parties may appear is sufficient to work a surrender.
Cr.El.179, 302
Co.L.308
2.Vent.326
Co.L.173.
Per.sec.584
Doubtful whether a lease for years may be surrender'd to one who has a term in remainder

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Br.tit.leases. 14
5.Co.11
Cr.El.521
A surrender in law of leases in possession is wrought by acceptance of a new lease from the reversioner

either to begin presently or at any distance of time during the continuance of the first lease.

Cr.El.873
Hutton 104
If such second lease be void for any defect in the making or execution of it yet it is a surrender of the first lease secus if it were void for want of power in the Lessor to make it.
C.L.338
5.Co.11
Cr.El. 522
Leases in futuro can only be surrender'd in law, for a surrender of them in fact is not good.

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Legacies

2.Leon. 119 If a man covenants with J.S. to pay him £20 & after devises him £20 in discharge of the covt this is not a legacy but a debt, but if he coven/an/ts with J.S. to pay A,B & C £20 a piece & devises them £20

a piece in discharge of the covenant this is a Legacy & they being strangers to the covenant may sue as Legatees

Godolph. 281
2.Ver.467
Any words which manifest the intention of the testator to be to create or give a legacy will be suffient for that purpose as where a man gives £100 besides a cloak: this is a good bequest of the cloak Or if a man say out of the £100 which I gave to A I give B £50 this is a good bequest of the £50 because only a false demonstration in an immaterial circumstance, but A takes nothing. If there be a devise of a personal thing to A for life

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2.ver. 467 directing him at his death to give it to B this amounts to a devise of the [ ] of A only to A for life remr to B.
2.ver. 181 A devises his land to Bin fee paying £400 £200 of which to be at the disposal of his wife by her last will & testament. These words vest an absolute interest in the wife & if she dies intestate her Administrator shall have the £200
2.Ver. 513
do
Ver.355
2.ver. 421
If a man gives legacies to his children to be paid at 21 & if ei§her of them die before 21 his wife whom he makes sole Excutrix to dispose of such legacy to two or more of his children as she shoud think fit. The wife may appoint such legacy to one of the other children & it will be good. -- But if an Exr has a genl power to distribute a sum of money among children & makes an unreasonable distribution it

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will be controul'd in equity.
2.Ver. 153 If one devises £400 a piece to two of his sisters & to his third as much as his Exr shall think fir, the third shall have £400 also if the estate will hold out.
Dyer 177
C.L.112
Prec.in Ch.470
the contra
2. Ver. 105
It seems agreed that if a man devises legacies to all his children & grandchildren that this extends only to those who were in esse at the time the will was made, unless there are future words in the will as To all his children or grandchildren which shou'd be living at his death.
2.Ver.405 If one devise the surplus of his personal estate to the children of A & B & neither of them have a child at the time of making the will or at the death of the testator, the devise shall be executory & the children of each born after shall take per cauita

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2. Ver. 106 Where there is no child to take Grandchildren may take by the name of children
3.Ch.rep.1. Where lands are devis'd to younger children a son tho' a younger child by birth if he is heir to a considerable inheritance shall not take by the devise
Ver.35 A man by will devis'd all his goods in such a house to G for life remr to the heirs of J.S. He who was heir of J.S. at the time of his death shall have them.
2.ver.381 A gave legacies of £15 a piece to each of his relations of his father's & mother's side the Ct woud not restrain the devise to those who were within the Statute of distributions.
Prec.in Chy.401 Yet the contrary is the genl rule
Swin.428
Sal.237 pl.16

A devise of all a mans personal estate passes whatever he dies possessd of

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2.ver. 688 If a man devises to his wife all his personal estate at a place call'd Wall his personal estate which is there at the time of his death passes.
Abr.Eq. 201 But where a man devises all his goods chattels , household stuff , furniture & other things at W ready money passes not for the words other things can only intend things of the like nature with those enumerated
Swin. 524 If the testator being constraind by necessity, as for the payment of his debts, supplying himself or his family with food &c. alienate the thing bequeath'd this is no ademption of the legacy & therefor

is the Exr bound to redeem the same or to pay the just value to the legatary.

If a legary be given to one person & after the same thing in the same will or in a codicil is given to another this

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Swin. 528, 529 is no ademption of the legacy given to the first person unless it appeard to be the testator's intention, but they shall divide the legacy between them
Ray.335 If A give to B £500 due to him from C as by bond appears, & after receive the money this is no ademption of the legacy
Abr.Eq. 302. n 2.
Ver.681
Abr.Eq.302.
A distinction has been taken between a voluntary & a compulsory payment but this distinction is now overruled.
Swin. 530 If A give to B 100 & in the same will another £ 700 witht taking notice of the first the second disposition is understood to be but a repetition of the first.
2. Ver.115
Pree.ch. 206
3 Ver.95
If A by will devises 200 to his daughter & afterwards on her marriage gives her more than that sum this shall be an extinguishment of the legacy

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Abr.Eq.203
Sal.155 pl.5

2.Ver.177
Prec.Ch.240
Sa.1.508
Prec.Ch.295
2.Ver.478
Trin. 1729
Crompton
ver.Sale

It has been establishd as law that where ever a Person gives a legacy as great or greater than the debt he owes the Legatee, such legacy shall be a satisfaction of the debt. But if the legacy be less than the sum due, payable on a contingency or future day, on these & the like circumstances it will be construed an additional bounty & not a satisfaction. And in all these cases the intention of the party ought to be the rule
Abr.Eq. 296 If the legatee dies in the life time of the testator the legacy is lapsed.
Do
2.Ver.496
Prec. Ch. 200
Where a person in the execution of a trust nominates those who are to receive a legacy given in a former will survives the nominees yet is not the legacy lapsed.
2. Ver. 116 A difference taken where there is a devise of money & quaere

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Abr.eq. 243
Prec.Ch. 470-1
2.Ver.207
Ver.425
Abr.eq.298
Where the legatee dies in the life time of the testator & there is a limitation over the limitation is good.
Dyer 59
Swin. 311
Off.Exr.347
2 Vent.342
If a legacy be devis 1d to one generally to be paid or payable at the age of 21 this is a vested legacy & tho he dies before he attains that age yet shall it go to his Exr
2 Ch.Ca.155
2 Sal.415 pl.2
Ver.462
Pr.Ch.21
Ab.eq.294
Bus.rep.227
Atk.rec.504
But if a legacy be devis'd one at 21 so as the legacy time be annex'd to the legacy itself & the legatee dies before he attainsthat age the legacy is lapsed
Pasch. 7
Annae
Strick ver
Hudson canc.
But if legacies are given to children and if any of them die their legacies to survive there shall be no survivorship after 21 or marriage tho' the words be general.
2.Ver.673 But if the time be annex'd to the legacy if interest be devised in the mean time tis a vested legacy & shall not lapse

If a legacy be given on condition not to

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2.Ver.

91

dispute a will & the legatee commences a writ whereby he disputes the validity of the will yet it is no forfeiture of the legacy provided there was probabiles causa litigandi
Swin. 266 All conditions in restraint of Marriage are to be considerd strictly
G.O.L.45
Swin 266
Ver.20
Str.214
A devise upon condition not to marry or not to marry a person of such a profession or calling is void unless it be in the

case of a husband devising to his wife, whether there be a limitation over or not

2 Ch.ca.22
Vent.199
Ver.20
Atk.rep.502
Prec. ch. 565
A condition which retrains marriage as to time place or person is good.

The prevailing distinction in the Cts of eqy is between such conditions as bind the legatee & such as are in terrorem only. If a legacy be given to a person on condition that he or she marry with the consent of A this is in terrorum only but if there be a limitation over this is binding.

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Ch.58
2 Ver. 573
If the person who is to give or refuse his assent derives an advantage from it the condition is in terrorem
Vent.199
Ch.138
Gil.eq rep.26
Wil.rep 284
Cr. 583
Ver.580
Where there is a limitation over if the parties who were to assent to the marriage declare their dissent but afterwards assent thereto this subsequent assent cannot devest the estate which dissent had vested in the person to whom it was limited.
2 Ch.Ca 25
Ver.31
2 Salk 416.pl.3
Where a tacit consent is sufficient A specific legatee is not to abate in proportion , in case of a deficiency of assets as pecuniary legatees must do, Cr.El. 467
Abr.eq.298 If a man devise his personal estate at W. this is a specific legacy
2 Ver.688
Prec. Ch. 392, 393
But if a man devises his personal estate at A & his personal estate at B & then devises a legacy to be paid out of his personal estate & has no other but at A & B, the legacy must be paid out of his specific legacies.
Do If a specific legacy be seised in execution the legatee shall have recompence in

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equity agt the Exrs or residuary legatee
Ver.31 If a man devise sevl legacies as 100£ to one and £50 to another tho' he directs the £100 legacy to be paid in the first place yet if the other legacies fall short the legatee of the £100 must make a proportionable abatement.
2.Ver.434 So if a legacy be given to Exrs for care & pains
Ver.94
2.Vent.358
2.ver.205
Ch.Ca.136
Creditors may compel legatees in eqy to refund. And a creditor may follow the assets in eqy into whose hands soever they come. Also one legatee may compel another to refund
Palm. 409 If there be a residuary legatee & the Exr omits part of the testators effects out of the inventory or undervalues those which he puts in the residuary legatee may file a bill of discovery against him before he has paid the testators debts
Abr.Eq. Equity will not in favor of the residuary legatee compel the Exr to plead the Stat. of limitations.

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Pr.Ch. 228
2.Ver.21
An Exr in the payment of a legacy shoud be careful that he takes a proper receipt
Ch.Ca. 245
Abr.eq. 300
Witht a decree or order of ll a ct of eqy a legacy cannot be paid to the father or other relation of an infant
2.Ver.261 If a legacy be given to a feme covert it must be paid to her husband tho' she lives separate from him, & tho they be divorced a mensa et thoro
2.Ver. 659 But a person wy by deed or will give any thing in trust for the seperate use of a feme covert & this shall be out of the power of her husband
G.O.L.272
2. Sal. 415. pl. 2
It is a rule in chy that Exrs have a years time to pay legacies.
2.Ver.31 299, 300
Abr. eq. 299
If a legatee dies before the legacy becomes payable his Admr &c must wait till the legacy woud have been payable to his testator.
2. Sal.415, pl.2
Ver.251
If a legacy be devis 1d generally it is regularly to carry interest from the first year after the death of the testator

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unless the legatee is of full age & neglects to demand it.
A legatee cannot take his legacy witht the Exrs assent.

If one is himself both Exr & devisee & he enters witht demonstration of election he shall be in as Exr.

An Exr may assent before probate of the will

 

 

Charles Marshall
Charles Marshall, esquire
Thomas Marshall
Colo Thomas Marshall
Colo Thomas Marshall
Kentucky District
Colo Thomas Kentucky District




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Money paid for my house


October 88 Paid Mr. B. Lewis £ 80
Novr 88 Paid Mr. Sydnor (specie) 6.17.4
Jany 4th 89 Paid for plank 3. 9
Paid Keeting & Smith 1.15 . 5
Jany 8th Paid Mr. Lewis 29. 8. 2
Jany 22d Paid Keeting & Smith 10. 5
Paid Mr. Sydnor ( in specie) 16. 0. 8
Paid Mr. Sydnor in warrante 49.19. 4
Paid Mr. Lewis 38. 10. 5
March 14th Paid Mr. Goode 24.
Paid Keeling & Smith 12
Paid do 8. 1. 8
Apl 4th Paid Mr. Goode 16. 2. 1
do Paid Mr. Sydnor (specie) 18
Paid do (int. warrants) 27. 3. 8
May 9th Paid Mr. Lewis (specie) 51
Nails   5. 9
Paid Keating & Smith 1. 3. 7
  16 Paid Mr. Sydnor 25
Paid do (specie) 12. 6. 3 1/2
428 5 4 1/ 2


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June 11th Paid Mr. Duke for Levelling the cellar 0.18. 0
   89 Paid Mr. Goode 6. 1
for nails 6
June 25 Paid Mr. Lewis (specie) £14 14
June 29th Paid Mr. Keating & Smith 12.7
nails £1.9.6—oil & paint £4.5.6 5.10
July 6th Paid Mr. Sydnor thro' Mr. Winston 6
July 20th Paid Mr. Duke altering a window 6
July 20th Paid Mr. Lewis 20
   23d freight for nails 6/ carriage for
      do 2/ 8
   29th Paid Keating & Smith 16. 4. 8
Paid Mr. Lewis 8. 4. 3
Augt Paid Mr. Goode 6
Paid for glue 6
   31st Locks for vault 1
Paid Mr. Lewis 30. . 2 1/2
Sept 1st Paid for 4 douzen pullies 1.16
   8th Paid Mr. Lewis thro' D. Cockran 5
   14th Paid Mr. Duke for the window 7.12
   26th Paid Keating & Smith 4
Oc. 12 Paid for 26 gallons of oil 4.11
Paid for Hinges 1.16
145. 5. 1 1/2


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Oc. 15th
Paid Keating & Smith 8.17.4
Paid for hinges 1. 5
for brads 9
Novr 9th Paid Mr. Goode £14.18 14.8
16th Paid Mr. Lewis in full 39.11. 1/2
Decr.2 Paid Mr. Sydnor 9 .8
4th To Mr. Keating 2. 5. 6
6th Paid Mr. Goode in full 8. 0.11
Glass & nails (to Mr. Morris) 56. 0. 5
22d To Mr. Keating 21. 5
Jany. 90 7th To Mr. Neron for Nails & paint 5. 6. 3
Glue 3 dollars 18
Feb 9th 4d. nails—10000 2
Paid Keating 6
March 7th Paid Keating 5. 0. 9
13 paid do in int. war. 10. 1. 6
26th pd do in do 9.10. 9
May 12 pd do in do 9. 1. 6
15 pd Mr. Booker for 2.5 2. 5
20 nails 1. 1
24th Paid Keating 7. 4
220 8 11 1/2


Limitation of Actions

Cr. Ch. 141 Limitation of personal actions extends not to slander of title.
Sid.95
Sal.206 pl. 5
Cr.Ch. 163
If the words are of themselves actionable the Stat. of limitations is a bar tho' a there be afterwards special damages secus where the words are not actionable but the special damage gives the cause of action
Will. rep. 742
Lev.273
No stat. cannot be pleaded to an action of debt brought agt a sheriff for money levied by him on a Fi. Fa. or to an award under hand & seal tho' the submission be by parol.
Carth.3 Tis a good bar to an action brought against the drawer of a bill of exchange.
Ch.Ca.26
2 Vent.345
A trust is not within these statutes
Ver. 256 A charity or legacy is not barred by length of time
Ch. Ca, 102 Mortgages not within the stat. generally
2. Sal. 424 pl.13
Sal. 421. pl. 4
Str.907
It is said in genl ihat where one brings an action within the time & dies before judgement the time being then expir'd this shall not prevent his Exr but the prosecution must be recent.

Limitation of Actions

2 Ver. 695 If there is no Exr agt whom the Plf may bring his action the stat. is no bar.
Ver.73 If a bill in chy is dismiss'd because the matter is properly cognizable at law the ct willpreserve the Plfs right agt this act.
Sal.420 Suing out a writ saves the stat.
Sal.28
2 Vent.151
If after the debt is barred the debtor acknowleged the debt & promises payment it revives it.
Car. 470
Bur.1099
A conditional promise will revive a debt, so will a bare acknowledgement.
Sal.154 pl.3
2 Ver.141
If a man by will or deed subject his lands to the payment of his debts those barred by the Stat. may be paid
Abr. eq. 305 So of book debts &c where a person advertizes generally that he will pay all persons what he owes them

The Stat. must be pleaded positively In debt for rent on nil debet pleaded

Sal.278 pl. 1 The Stat. of limitation may be given in evidence

Limitation of Actions

Morris £ 6. 12
A.R. 7. 16
G.P. 1. 8
H.B. 4. 10
J.Currie 8. 8
J .Dawson 6. 10
Stras 11. 4
Burwell 3. 10
Currie 16. 16

Mayhem

Money Paid for house
June 2
leads for windows £ 12.11
Nails 1.18
lead for house 1.18. 9
plank 1.10
nails     12
nails     12
shingles 12/     [12]
Paid Keating 9
Paid Mr. Shays for plaistering 33
Cord for windows     12
July paint 1. 3. 6
nails     12
plank 1.12. 6
July 4th Paid Mr. Keating (specie) 10. 0.10
Paid Mr. Keating (warrants) 13.19. 1
plank to Mr. Briton 4.11
drayage plank from Rocket     5
To Mr. Lipscomb for putting in grates &c) 6.12
& cellar door                                           )
Augt paint & nails 16
Hinges 2. 8
Painting roof 1. 4
104.18. 8


Maintenance

Augt Hinges bought in .Alexandria 1.17. 6
Sep paint 10/6 do. 24/ 1.14.6
blacksmith for iron bars 1.16
paid Voss for plaistering &c. 55. 6. 2 3/4
Hinges Glue Skews 19
Pd. Keating 2. 8
paint 18/ do 6 1. 4
Pd Doctor McClurg for grate 5. 5. 2
Nails 9
26 Paid Mr. Keating 16. 1. 4
Oct. Paid do in warrants 18.12. 9
Paid Mr. Allen for painting 3.12
Paper &c 12. 2. 5
iron for porch 7
Nails 1. 4
16. Paid Mr. Burton for )
scantling to porches &c ) 6.12
do £2.8.42) 6.12
Painter £3.12
brick work £3.11 £3 6.11
putting up paper 1. 1
laying marble slabs 1.11. 3
paint 36/ 1.16
nails 1. 2. 6
Three brass locks 3. 4
151. 18. 7. 3/4


Mandamus

27th Glazing windows 1. 4
No. 3d Paid Mr. Keating 7
6 pd Do 6. 0. 8
8th pd Mr. Burton for )
scantling for porches in full) 8.10. 9
brick work 3. 4. 3
iron for porch &c     2. 9
Paid Mr. MpcKim for banisters 2.17 6
paid for latches     12
paint 1. 8
Shingles &c 3. 8
Mr. Keating 29
Grates & Franklin 19. 1. 7
Glass     12
Paid Keating warrants 2.11
Paid dospecie 26.19.2
Paid Do in bonds 30. 7. 3
paint & nails 12.10. 2
iron for cellar windows 2.19. 9
161    10


Master & Servant

Lock 0. 7. 6
Making end windows 3.10


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List of fees recd from Tents Fairfax ads Hite

Stroude John ) £ 4-11- 8
Vanmeter wm. on same land)
Godwin Swift, Wm Dark Jacob Miller )
Phillip Ingle, Robt Lomy, Michael ) 9-17
Ingles, Abraham Neale ) 1- 8
Neale has paid but one Guinea of this)
Abraham Neal (relinquish'd 2-16
James Leith (800 acres of this in name of
Jonah) 7-8
Jeremiah Whitson 1- 8
Ebenezer Leith 1- 8
John Yates 1-8
Edward Snickers Joseph Anderson Cornelius)
Anderson, Jasper Ball, Thomas Shepherd ) 3-12
Francis Stribling John Milton 1-16
Wm Booth , Wm Taylor John Milton 19-4
Launcelot Lea 12-2
Jonathan Adle & Samuel)
Jonathan proprietor) 1- 8
From Fort tract 3- 8
8-12
46-18


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James Odle 1- 8
Genl G. Washington 1- 4
John A Washington 1- 4
John Over all, Abraham Keller)

I enry Netherton )

2-16
Edmund Clair 1-10
Mary Clevinger Exx &c.
Humphry Keys 2-16
MllX Walter Cuninghame 1
John &! Thomas Lindsay)

Albion Throckmorton )

2-16
no fees paid by A.T.
Robert Ball John Grantham Nicholas)

Schul 1 Simeon Hia t )

4-16
Simeon Hiatt, George Cloke John )

Daniel John Rees jr & Adam Livingston)

Wm Leman & John Leman Nicho)

-las & Edward Mercer ) Wm Morgan Vandever J

5
From Denton & Cockn one 2-16
Mr Harrison 3-75
96 4


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Warner Washington ii 1- 8
wr Washington jr 1- 8
87/ From Adle 5- 2
99 From Layman 1- 8
From Spigle (part of Dentons tract) 1- 8
W. Yates 1-16
May 90 La.uncelott Lee 4.10
Leman 2-10
Harrison 2- 8
20- 2
Washington 6 &nbsp
26- 2
36- 4
46-18
109- 4
Au.gt 90 E Leith 2- 8
J. Leith 2. 8
Sep Adel 5
Walter Cunninghame (appeal) 5-12
E. Leith 2.12
w. Hoop 3
No 91 Jeremiah Whitson 4. 4
Leman v Hite 6.18


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1787 Taxes
expenses on negroes 21-
bought a horse 20
torn 7
do 30


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