The Common Law eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 446 pages of information about The Common Law.

The Common Law eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 446 pages of information about The Common Law.

391/5 Buskin v.  Edmunds, Cro.  Eliz. 636.

391/6 Harper v.  Bird, T. Jones, 102 (30 Car.  II.).

391/7 Bolles v.  Nyseham, Dyer, 254 b; Porter v.  Swetnam, Style, 406; S.C., ib. 431.

391/8 3 Bl.  Comm. 231, 232.

392/1 Yielding v.  Fay, Cro.  Eliz. 569.

392/2 Pakenham’s Case, Y.B. 42 Ed. III. 3, pl. 14; Prior of Woburn’s Case, 22 Hen.  VI. 46, pl. 36; Williams’s Case, 5 Co.  Rep. 72 b, 73 a; Slipper v.  Mason, Nelson’s Lutwyche, 43, 45 (top).

392/3 F. N. B. 127; Nowel v.  Smith, Cro.  Eliz. 709; Star v.  Rookesby, 1 Salk. 335, 336; Lawrence v.  Jenkins, L.R. 8 Q.B.274.

392/4 Dyer, 24 a, pl. 149; F. N. B. 180 N.

393/1 F. N. B. 128 D, E; Co.  Lit. 96 b.  It is assumed that, when an obligation is spoken of as falling upon the land, it is understood to be only a figure of speech.  Of course rights and obligations are confined to human beings.

393/2 Keilway, 145 b, 146, pl. 15; Sir Henry Nevil’s Case, Plowd. 377, 381; Chudleigh’s Case, 1 Co.  Rep. 119 b, 122 b.

393/3 F. N. B. 180 N.; Co.  Lit. 385 a; Spencer’s Case, 5 Co.  Rep. 16 a, 17 b; Pakenham’s Case, Y.B. 42 Ed. III. 3, pl. 14; Keilway, 145 b, 146, pl. 15; Comyns’s Digest, Covenant (B, 3).

394/1 Holms v.  Seller, 3 Lev. 305; Rowbotham v.  Wilson, 8 H. L. C. 348; Bronson v.  Coffin, 108 Mass. 175, 180.  Cf.  Bro.  Covenant, pl. 2.

394/2 Y.B. 21 Ed. III. 2, pl. 5; F. N. B. 180 N.

394/3 The action is case in the Prior of Woburn’s Case, Y.B. 22 Hen.  VI. 46, pl. 36.  In F. N. B. 128 E, n. (a), it is said that a curia claudenda only lay upon a prescriptive right, and that if the duty to fence was by indenture the plaintiff was put to his writ of covenant.  But see below, pp. 396, 400.

394/4 Y.B. 32 & 33 Ed. I. 430.

395/1 Y.B. 20 Ed. I. 360.

395/2 Y.B. 32 & 33 Ed. I. 516.

395/3 “Quia res cum homine [obviously a misprint for onere] transit ad quemcunque.”  Fol. 382, 382 b.

395/4 Lib.  VI. c. 23, Section 17.

395/5 Pakenham’s Case, Y.B. 42 Ed. III. 3, pl. 14.

395/6 Sugd.  V. & P. (14th ed.), 587; Rawle, Covenants for Title (4th ed.), p. 314.  Cf.  Vyvyan v.  Arthur, 1 B. & C. 410; Sharp v.  Waterhouse, 7 El. & Bl. 816, 823.

396/1 Co.  Lit. 385 a.

396/2 Cf.  Finchden as to rent in Y. B, 45 Ed. III. 11, 12.

396/3 Cf.  Y.B. 50 Ed. III. 12, 13, pl. 2.

397/1 Covenant, pl. 17.

397/2 There is a colon here in both editions of the Year Books, marking the beginning of a new argument.

397/3 Pakenham’s Case, Y.B. 42 Ed. III. 3, pl. 14.

398/1 Bro.  Covenant, pl. 5.  Cf.  Spencer’s Case, 5 Co.  Rep. 16 a, 17 b, 18 a.

398/2 Horne’s Case, Y.B. 2 Hen.  IV. 6, pl. 25.

399/1 “Quod conceditur.”  Cf.  Spencer’s Case, 5 Co.  Rep. 16 a, 18 a.

399/2 It was quite possible that two liabilities should exist side by side.  Bro.  Covenant, pl. 32; Brett v.  Cumberland, Cro.  Jac. 521, 523.

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