Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the Third: Year XX (1st part)

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in Westminster Hall by a woman
Immediate attachment of the offender and her hus-
band by Bill, without Writ

Contempt a Justice of the King's Bench insulted

xliii

Dilatory exception to the Bill: issue whether the
woman was sole, as having been divorced,

A jury de circumstantibus was prayed, and refused

only because the issue was not within their cog-

nisance

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xlv

Bishop's certificate that the woman was not divorced

The woman confesses the trespass, and is committed

to the custody of the Marshal, but is let out on

mainprise

xlv

The Court would not punish for contempt until

legally informed of the fact

xlvi

It could, nevertheless, proceed more expeditiously

than in an ordinary action -

xlvi

Grant of a rent of 24s. at a rent of 1d. for grantec's

-

life

Feoffment in fee of the 24s. of rent by tenant for

life

The reversioner seizes or enters upon the rent

Rent treated in the same manner as a corporeal

hereditament

xlvii

Interpretation of Statutes: the Act 14 Edward III.

Stat. 4. c. 2 -

xlix

It was not retrospective

1

The Act 14 Edward III. c. 17, not intended to super-

sede existing remedies

li

Conveyance by matter of record

lii

Apparent evasion of the law of Mortmain

liii

Corodies in the King's gift: their nature and
number

The King's claim successfully resisted where the

House was not of royal foundation

If there be several admissions to a corody, on the
King's request alone, where he has no right, he
does not thereby acquire a right

Excommunication: the canon law as to Absolution -

Coercion of a clerk by a Bishop in pleading-

Observance of Sunday: distresses on that day

Deeds executed by Heads of Religious Houses on

Sunday

Sir Edward Coke's statement of the Common Law

as to Sunday

The holding of fairs and markets on Sunday first

restrained by Statute in the reign of Henry VI. -

The Calendar: mistakes in fixing a date by the day

of the week -

Errors both in reports and in record

Counsel must have made mistakes in pleading

False Latin: parties sufferers through the errors of

Money entrusted to traders for the profit of the

persons from whom they received it

lxviii

THE CHANCELLORS, JUSTICES OF THE TWO BENCHES, TREA-

SURER, AND BARONS OF THE EXCHEQUER, DURING THE

PERIOD OF THE REPORTS

INTRODUCTION.

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