A Digest OF THE LAWS OF ENGLAND. BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR JOHN COMYNS, Knight, LATE LORD CHIEF BARON of his majesty's court of exchequer. The Fifth Edition, Corrected, (WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS TO THE TEXT) AND CONTINUED FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITION TO THE PRESENT TIME; TO WHICH IS ADDED, A DIGEST OF THE CASES AT NISI PRIUS, BY ANTHONY HAMMOND, Esq. OF THE INNER TEMPLE. VOL. V. LIBERTIES- -PLEA, AND DIGEST OF NISI PRIUS CASES. LONDON: PRINTED BY A. STRAHAN, LAW-PRINTER TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY; FOR JOSEPH BUTTERWORTH AND SON; LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, Α DIGEST OF THE LAWS OF ENGLAND. LIBERTIES. (A) The several species of them. p. 1. (B) How granted. p. 1. (C) How lost. (C 1.) By nonuser. When it shall be a forfeiture. p. 2. (C 2.) When not. p. 2. (A) The several species of them. HOW liberties may be claimed, vide Franchises, (A 1, 2.) All liberties and franchises are derived from the king, vide Prerogative, (D 30, &c.) As to the counties palatine, cinque ports, and corporations, vide Franchises, (D 1, &c. E 1, &c. - F 1, &c.) As to liberty to have conusance, or to hold pleas, vide Courts, (P 1, &c.) To have courts, vide County, (C 1, &c.) Courts. - Leet: As to liberty to make justices, or officers, vide Justices. Peace. Officer. Prerogative, (D 29. 37.) Hundred (B). Justices of As to the liberty of a chase, forest, park, warren, &c. vide Chase. (B) how granted. If the king grants a liberty to another, he may make the grant by words expressly denoting what liberty is intended. Or, the king may grant by general words, which relate and have reference to some specialty; as, if the king grants to a town, that they shall have justices, who shall have such authority and power as any other justices in the county have, it will be good; for the specialty, to which the general words refer, is well known. 20 H. 7. 6 b. 7 a. VOL. V. B If |