343 PART II. CLASS V. MORTMAIN AND CHARITABLE USES. No. 1. 9 Henry II. (MAGNA CHARTA,) c. 36.-No Land shall be given in Mortmain. IT is not lawful from hence. 911 III. c. 36. forth to any to give his Lands to any Religious House, and to take the same Land again to hold ' of the same House. Nor shall Fitz. Mortm. 1, 3. terram suam domui religiose jta quod illam resumat de eadem domo tenendam. Nec liceat alicui domui religiose terram alicujus sic accipere quod tradat illam illi ait be lawful to any House of Re- Wood's Inst. Si quo eam recepit tenendam. Bro. Mortm.36. 2 Inst. 74. Enforced and ligion to take the Lands of any, 301. and to lease the same to him of whom he received it. If any 'from henceforth give his Lands to any Religious House, and amended by thereupon be convict, the Gift 7 Ed. 1, st. 2. shall be utterly void, and the 13 Ed. 1, st. 1, 'Land shall accrue to the Lord of c. $2. 'the Fee.' No. 2. 7 Edward I. Stat. 2. c. 1.-Who shall take the Forfeiture of Lands given in Mortmain. Ex Rot. in Turr. Lond. m. 47. R EX Justic' suis de Banco salutem. Cum dudum provisum fuisset quod viri religiosi feoda aliquorum non ingrederentur sine licentia & voluntate capitalium dominorum de quibus feoda illa immediate tenentur & viri re This Bench greeting, where HE King to the Justices of 7 Ed. I. st., c.1. " of late it was provided, That 9 H 3, stat. 1, "Religious Men should not enter c. 36. 1 Roll. "into the Fees of any without 154, 157, 457. "Licence and Will of the chief 2 Roll. 170. "Lord, of whom such Fees be 9 H. 3, stat. 1 "holden immediately; and not- & 2, c. 36. ligiosi postmodum nichilominus "withstanding such Religious 8 H. 4, 15. tam feoda sua propria quam alio- "Men have entered as well into 41 Ed. 3, 16, 21. rum hactenus ingressi sint ea sibi" their own Fees, as into the Fees 47 Ed. 3, 11. Bro. Mortmain, appropriando & emendo & ali- "of other Men, approprying and 15, 16, 18, 20. quando ex dono aliorum recipien-"buying them, and sometime re- 24, 27, 31, 38. do per quod servicia que ex hujus "ceiving them of the Gift of 39, 41, 43. "others, whereby the Services 50 Ed. 3, 29. No 2. No Land shall be alieued in Mortmain upon Pain of the Forfeiture thereof. 2 Bulstr. 187. 3 Bulstr. 45. "that are due of such Fees, and 7 Ed. 1. st. 2, e 1. “ which at the Beginning were provided for Defence of the Fitz.Mortmain, Realin, are wrongfully with13 Co. Lit. 2. b. " drawn, and the chief Lords do 15 Ed. 4, 13. "leese their Eschetes of the Fitz. Forme- 66 same:" We therefore to the don, 57. Profit of our Realm, intending Fitz. Quare, to provide convenient Remedy, imp 163. by the Advice of our Prelates, Earls, and other liege Men of our Kingdom, being of our Council, have provided, made, and ordained, That no Person, Religious or other, whatsoever he be that will, buy or sell any Lands or Tenements, or under the Colour of Gift or Lease, or that will receive by Reason of any other Title, whatsoever it be, Lands or Tenements, or by any other Craft or Engine will presume to appropre to himself, under Pain of Forfeiture of the same, whereby such Lands or Tenements may any wise come ⚫ into Mortmain. We have pro'vided also, That if any Person, Religious or other, do presume either by Craft or Engine to offend against this Statute, it shall be lawful to us and other chief 'Lords of the Fee immediate, to enter into the Land so aliened, ' within a Year from the Time of the Alienation, and to hold it in Fee as an Inheritance. And if the chief Lord immediate be negligent, and will not enter into such Fee within the Year, then it shall be lawful to the next chief Lord immediate of the 'same Fee to enter into the same Land within half a Year next 'following, and to hold it as be'fore is said; and so every Lord immediate may enter into such Land, if the next Lord be negli gent in entering into the same Fee, as is aforesaid. And if all the chief Lords of such Fees, being of full Age, within the four Seas, and out of Prison, be negligent or slack in this Behalf, for one whole Year, we, immediately after the Year accom, plished, from the Time that such Purchases, Gifts, or Appropria. tions hap to be made, shall take Who shall the Benefit of the Forfeilure. 6 modi feodis debentur & que ad defensionem regni ab initio provisa fuerunt indebite subtrahuntur & domini capitales escaetas suas inde amittunt. Nos super hoc pro utilitate regni congruum remedium provideri volentes de consilio Prelatorum Comitum & aliorum fidelium regni nostri de consilio nostro existentium providimus statuimus & ordinavimus quod nullus religiosus aut alius quicumque terras aut tenementa aliqua emere vel vendere aut sub colore donationis aut termini vel alterius tituli cujuscumque ab aliquo recipere aut alio quovis modo arte vel ingenio sibi appropriare presumat sub forisfactura eorumdem per quod ad manum mortuam terre & tenementa hujusmodi deveniant quoquo modo. Providimus etiam quod si quis religiosus aut alius contra presens statutom aliquo modo arte vel ingenio venire presumpserit liceat nobis & aliis immediatis capitalibus dominis feodi taliter alienati illud infra annum a tempore alienationis hujusmodi ingredi & tenere in feodo & hereditate. Et si capital' dominus immediatus negligens fuerit & feod' hujusmodi ingredi noluerit infra annum tunc liceat proximo capitali domino mediato feodi illius infra dimidium annum sequentem feodum illud ingredi & tenere sicut predictum est & sic quilibet dominus mediatus faciat si propinquior dominus in ingrediendo hujusmodi feod' negligens fuerit ut predictum est. Et si omnes hujusmodi capitales domini hujusmodi feodi qui plene fuerint etatis & infra quatuor maria & extra prisonam per unum annum negligentes vel remissi fuerint in hac parte nos statim post annum completum a tempore quo hujusmodi emptiones donationes aut alias appropriationes fieri contigerit terras & tenementa hujusmodi capiemus in manum nostram & alios inde feoffabimus per cerța servicia nobis inde ad defensionem regni nostri facienda salvis capitalibus dominis feodorum illorum wardis escaetis & aliis ad ipsos pertinentibus ac serviciis inde debitis & consuetis. Et ideo vobis mandamus quod statutum predictum coram vobis legi & decetero firmiter teneri & observari faciatis. T. R. apud West' xv. die Novembr' anno &c. septimo. No. 2. such Lands and Tenements into our Hand, and shall infeoff other 7 Ed. I. st. 2, c. l. 'therein by certain Services to be done to us for the Defence of our Realm; saving to the chief Lords of the same Fees their • Wards and Eschetes, and other Services thereunto due and accustomed. And therefore we ' command you, that ye cause the Enforced and foresaid Statute to be read before amended by you, and from henceforth to be 13 Ed. 1, st. 1, kept firmly and observed. Wit- c. 32. ness Myself at Westminster the 18 Ed. 3, st. 3, 34 Ed. 1,.st. 8. No. 3. 13 Edward I. st. 1, c. 32.-Mortmain by Recovery of Land by Default. CUM WHEN Religious Men and 13 Ed. I. st. 1, 7 Ed. 1, stat. 2. 2 Inst. 428. UM viri religiosi & alie persone ecclesiastice implacitent other Ecclesiastical Per- c. 32. aliquem & implacitatus fecerit sons do implead any, and the defaltam ob quam tenementum "Party impleaded maketh Deamittere debeat quia Justitiarii "fault, whereby he ought to leese hucusque timuerunt quod si im- "the Land, forasmuch as the placitatus fecerit defaliam per col- "Justices have thought hitherto, lusionem ut cum petens occasione "that if the Party impleaded statuti per titulum doni aut alterius "make Default by Collusion, that alienationis seisinam de tenemento "where the Demandant, by Occonsequi non posset per illam de- "casion of the Statute, could not faltam consequeretur & fieret fraus "obtain Seisin of the Land by statuto ordinatum est per Doni- "Title of Gift, or other Alienanum Regem & concessum quod "tion, he shall now by Reason of in hoc casu postquam defalta facta "the Default, and so the Statute fuerit inquiratur per patriam utrum "is defrauded;" it is ordained Fitz. Col. 1, 2, petens habeat jus in sua petitione by our Lord the King, and 4,5,6,7,9,10, aut non. Et si compertum fuerit 'granted, That in this Case, after 11, 22, 24, 25, quod petens jus habet in sua peti-the Default made, it shall be in- 26, 27, 31, 40, tione procedatur ad judicium pro quired by the Country, whether 42, 46. petente & recuperet seisinam suam the Demandant had Right in the 10 H. 7, 1. 3. Et si jus non habuerit incurratur Thing demanded, or no. And tenementum proximo domino feo-if it be found that the Demanddi si illud petat infra annum a ant had Right in his Demand, tempore inquisitionis capte Et si the Judgment shall pass with infra annum non petat superiorihim, and he shall recover Seisin; domino incurratur si petat infra and if he hath no Right, the dimidium annum post illum an- Land shall accrue to the next num Et sic habeat quilibet domi-Lord of the Fee, if he demand it ⚫ within a Year from the Time of the Inquest taken; and if he do 'not demand it within the Year, ⚫ it shall accrue to the next Lord · above, if he do demand it within • half a Year after the same Year ; 11 Ed. 3, st. 3, c. 3. No. 3. 13 Ed. I. st. 1, c. 32. may challenge the Jurors. ' and so every Lord after the next Lord shall have the Space of half a Year to demand it suc*cessively, until it come to the King, to whom at Length, * through Default of other Lords, the Land shall accrue. And to Every chief Lord challenge the Jurors of the Inquest, every of the chief Lords of the Fees shall be admitted, and likewise for the King, they that 'will shall challenge; and after the Judgement given, the Land 'shall remain clear in the King's Hands, until it be dereigned by 'the Demandant, or some other chief Lord, and the Sheriff shall be charged to answer therefore 9 H. 3, stat. 3, at the Exchequer.' c. 36. nus post proximum dominum spacium dimidii anni ad petendum successive quousque perveniatur ad Regem cui ad ultimum pro defectu aliorum dominorum tenementum incurratur. Et ad calumpniandum juratores inquisitionis admittantur quicumque capitales domini feodorum & similiter pro Rege qui calumpniare voluerit & remaneat terra postquam judicium clarum fuerit in manu Domini Regis quousque tenementum per petentein vel aliquem capitalem dominum disrationetur & oneretur vicecomes ad respondendum inde ad Scaccarium. 13 Ed. I st. 1. c. 39. 2 Inst, 431. No. 4. 13 Edward I. st. 1, c. 33.-Lands where Crosses be set, shall be forfeited as Lands aliened in Mortmain. 34 Ed. I. st. 3. 9 H. 3, st. 1, st. 1, c. 32. No. 5. 34 Edward I. st. 3.-That Lands shall not be aliened in Mortmain, where there be Mesnes, without their Consent. Του Dacienda super inquisitioni E concessione Domini Regis OUCHING the King's Grant to be made upon Inquests returned into the Chan- bus returnatis in Cancellatia de cery for Lands to be aliened into terris ad manum mortuam ponenMortmain, the King command-dis Rex precipit quod nihil fiat eth that Nothing shall be done ubi medii sunt nisi religiosi osten(where there be any Lords mean) dant eorum assensum Domini 'except the Religious Persons can Regi per literas patentas eorun'shew to our Lord the King their Assent under their Patents sealed 'with their Seals; and that Nothing shall pass in Case where the Donor reserveth Nothing to ⚫ himself. And likewise where Inquisitions be made and re⚫ turned without Warrant, that is dem mediorum sigillis signatas Et gulis secundum novam formam per ipsum Regem adjectis, &c. turned with the Inquest, and ⚫ likewise unless the Writ Original 'make Mention of every Thing, Vaccording to the new Ordinance 'devised by the King.' (1) (1) See 7 & 8 W. III. c. 37, post No. 10. No. 5. 34 Ed. I. st. 3. No. 6. 18 Edward III. st 3, c. 3.-Prelates impeached for purchasing Lands in Mortmain. ITE TEM qe si Prelatz clers beneficez ou gentz de religion qouut purchacez terres & les ount mys a mort meyn soient empeschez ou c. 3. <TTEM, If Prelates, Clerks be- 18 Ed. II. st. 3, aresonez sur ceo devant noz Jus-main, be impeached upon the tices & ils monstront noz chartres same before our Justices, and 'nient Fine for the same'; and 7 Ed. 1, st. 2. the Accord comprised in this 1 Ed. 3, st. 2, • Parliament.' 12. No. 7. 15 Richard II. c. 5.-Assurance of Lands to certain Places, Persons, and Uses, shall be adjudged Mortmain. |