No. 1. 18 Edw 1, st. 4. What Person shall 1 R. 3 c. 7. out a Writ original, and that must be at the least before Four Justices in the Bench, or in Eyre, and not elsewhere, and in • Presence of the Parties named in the Writ, which must be of full Age, of good Memory, and out ' of Prison And if a Woman Covert be one of the Parties, then she must be first examined by Four of the said Justices; and if she doth not assent thereunto, the Fine shall not be levied And the Cause wherefore such Solemnity ought to be done in a Fine, is, because a Fine is so high a Bar, of so great Force, and of so strong Nature in itself, that it concludeth not only such as be Parties and Privies thereto, and their Heirs, but all other People of the World, being of full Age, out of Prison, of good Memory, and within the Four Seas, the Day of the Fine levied, if they make not their Claim of their Action within a Year and original & ceo a tote le meins devant quatre Justices en Baunk ou en Eire & nounpas aillours et en presence des parties nomez en le brief qe sont de pleine age & de bone memorie et hors du prisone. Et si femme covert de Baroun soit une des parties donqe covient qele soit primerement confesse des quatre Justices avantditz Et si ele ne sent la Fine ne se lavera mye. Et la cause pur quoi tiele solempnite doit estre faite en cele fine qe fine est si haute bare & de si graunt force & de si puissaunt nature en soi qel forclos nemye soulement ceux qi sount parties & prives a la fine & lour heirs mes touz auters gentz du monde qe sount de plein age hors du prisone de bone memorie & dedeinz les quaters meers le jour de la fine leve sils ne mettrount lour Claim de lour accion sur la pie dedeinz lan & le jour. 27 Edw. I. st. 1, c. 1. 2 Inst. 121. No. 2. 27 Fdward I. st. 1, c. 1, (De Finibus levatis.)-No Exception to a Fine that the Demandant was seised. Fines shall be openly read. 66 ORASMUCH le UIA fines in Curia nostra FORA "and do make an End all Mat- imponere & imponunt & ideo fines vocantur maxime cum post duellum & magnam assisam in suo casu ultimum locum & finalem teneant & perpetuum. Jamque per aliquod tempus preteritum tam tempore clare memorie domini HENRICI regis patris nostri quam Dostro partes eorundem finium & earum partium heredes contra leges & consuetudines regni antiquitus usitatas super hujusmodi finibos evacuandis & adnullandis admittebantur proponentes quod ante finem levatum & tempore levationis ejusdem & postea pelentes sea querentes aut eorum No. 2. c. 1. 3 Co. 88. antecessores de tenementis in fini- "their Ancestors, were alway bus contentis aut de aliqna parte "seised of the Lands contained in 27 Edw. I. st. 1; eorum semper fuerunt seisiti & sic "the Fine, or of some Parcel finis hujusmodi rite levati per ju- "thereof; and so Fines lawfully ratores patrie falso subornatos & "levied were many Times unjustmaliciose procuratos multotiens "ly defeated and adnulled by Juevacuabantur & aduullabantur "rors of the Country falsly and minus juste volentes super pre"maliciously procured;" No Exception to a we Fine, that the Demissis remedium adhibere in par- therefore, intending to provide a mandant was alliamento nostro apud Westm'' Remedy in the Premisses, in our ways seised. statuimus quod dicte exceptiones Parliament at Westminster have Rast. 349, &c. seu responsiones vel inquisitiones ' ordained, that such Exceptions, Fitz. Replic. patrie super hujusmodi exceptioni-Answers, or Inquisitions of the 62, 63, 66. bus seu responsionibus nullo modo contra hujusmodi recognitiones in no wise be admitted contrary & fines decetero admittantur. Et to such Recognisances or Fines. volumus quod statutum istud tam And further we will, That this locum habeat ad fines prius levatos 'Statute shall as well extend unto openly read, and theu all Pleas shall quam imposterum levandos. E • Fines heretofore levied, as to cease. videant Justitiarii quod note & them that shall be levied here- 18 Ed 1, st. 4, fines in Curia imposterum levandi after. And let the Justices see of Fines. publice & solempniter legantur & that such Notes and Fines, as quod placita interim cessent omni-hereafter shall be levied in our no & hoc fiat per duos dies in sep-Court, he read openly and sotimana secundum discretionem lemnly, and that in the mean Justiciar'. Country, shall from henceforth 42 Ed. 3, f. 19. Time all Pleas shall cease; and this must be at two certain Days in the Week, according to the 'Discretion of the Justices.' Fines shall oe No. 3. 15 Edward II. (Statutum de Carleol. de Finibus.)-The Conusor of a Fine shali come personally before the Justices. Where a Commission shall be awared to take a Fine. Who may admit Attorneys. EX Justiciariis suis de Banco HE King unto the Justices 15 Ed II. Cotton MS. Claudius, D. 2. Tof his Bench Greeting. Ed. 1, stat. 4, Rsalutems. Cum nuper ordi naverimus quod Fines in Curia nostra levandi rite leventur quos nolumus in aliqua sui parte con Writing firmly to be observed: • Whereas of late we have ordain'ed that all such Fines as are to be levied in our Court be lawfully levied, which we will in no fringi infirmari seu de toto posse ' wise to be infringed or to be adadnullari voluntatem nostram sub-nulled of their whole Power, we scriptam vobis mittimus observan-have sent unto you our Mind in dam videlicet quod tam partes querentes quam tenentes & defendentes qui jus vel tenementa sua aliis cognoscere vel reddere debeant in placitis Warrantie carte conventionis vel aliis de quibus sint levandi coram quibus antequam Fines illi leventur personaliter veniant ut that is to wit, That as well the discerned. • Parties Demandant or Plaintiff, The Conusor of No. 3. 15 Edw. II. such Fines do pass, the Parties shall appear personally, so that their Age, Idiocy, or any other Default, (if any be) may be judged and discerned by you. Provided notwithstanding, That if any Person be by Age or Im'potence decrepit, or by Casualty so oppressed and with-holden, that by no Mean he is able to 'come before you in our Court, then in such Case we will that two or one of you, bv Assent of the Residue of the Bench, shall go unto the Party so diseased, ⚫ and shall receive his Cognisance upon that Plea and Form of Plea that he hath in our Court, 'whereupon the same Fine ought A Commission to be levied. And if there go but one, he shall take with him an Abbot, a Prior, or a Knight, a Man of good Fame and Credit, and shall certify you thereof by the Record; so that all Things incident to the saine Fine being examined by him or them, the ⚫ same Fines according to our for'mer Ordinance may be lawfully Who may allow ' levied. And we will not that Attorneys in every any of our Barons of the ExcheCourt. Rast. 96. to take a Fine. The Lord Chan cellor and Chief Justices may ad. mit Attorneys. quer, or our Justices, shall admit any Attorneys, but only in Pleas that pass afore them in the Benches and in Places where they be assigned by us. And the same Power of admitting Attorneys we prohibit and deny to the Clerks and Servants of the ' said Barons and Justices; and do ordain, That if any Attorneys be admitted hereafter by any of the Persons aforesaid, their Ad⚫ mission shall be of none Effect. Reserved alway to the Chancellor for the Time being his Authority in admitting Attorneys, according to whose Discretion they shall ◄ be adinitted; and to our Chief Justices, as heretofore hath been observed in the Admission of Attorneys. We will also that this our Ordinance shall take • Effect and begin at the Ulas of the Trinity next ensuing. Given 'at our Parliament at Carlisle, the Fifteenth Yea. of our Reign.' earum partium etas fatuitas sen quicunque alii defectus si qui fuerint per vos adjudicari poterunt & decerni proviso tamen quod si quis senio an etate decrepita aut debilitate casualiter superveniente sic fuerit detentus & oppressus quod coram vobis ad Curiam nostram aliqualiter non possit accedere la tali casu Volumus quod duo vel unus vestrum de assensu vestro de Banco talem sic oppressum adeant vel adeat & suam recognitionem super placito & forma placiti quod habetur in Curia nostra de quo finis in eadem Curia levari debet assumpto secum si Unus adeat uno Abbate Priore vel Milite uno fide digno et bone fame recipiant vel recipiat & inde vos per Recordum suum reddant vel reddat certiores ut per ipsos vel ipsum omnibus que ad finem levandam pertinent examinatis fines illi ut predictam est rite leventur. Nolumus etiam quod aliquis Baronum nostrorum Scaccarii nostri seu Justiciariorum nostrorum aliquos capiant Attornatos nisi tantum in placitis que coram eis & sociis suis in locis & placeis ubi per nos assignantur & eandem de Attornato recipiendo Potestatem clericis & Ministris predictorum Baronum & Justiciariorum denegamus ordinantes quod si aliqui attornati per aliquem predictorum aliquo modo admittantur pro non admissis habeantur & teneantur l'otestate tamen Cancellarii nostri qui pro tempore fuerit cui juxta discretionem suam expedire viderit admittendi et etiam Capitalis Justiciarii nostri ut hactenus in Attornatis recipiendis semper observata. Volumus etiam quod hec donacio nostra in Octabis sancte Trinitatis proxime faturis incipiat observari. T. me ipso apud Karliolum vij die Aprilis Anno Regni nostri vicesimo quinto. No. 4. 34 Edward III. c. 16.-Non-claim of Fines shall hereafter beno Bar. TEM it is accorded, That the Plea of Non-claim of Fines. TEM est acorde qe plee de 34 Ed III. c. (6. which from henceforth be to be 'levied, shall not be taken nor 'holden for any Bar in Time to 'come.' Noun claym des fins qe sont desore a lever ne soit pris ne tenuz Co. Lit. 262, a. pur barre en temps avenir. No. 5. 5 Henry IV. c. 14.-Inrolling of Writs in the common Place whereupon Fines be levied. IT " 66 ITEM, Whereas many Feet 5 Hen. IV. c. 14 "nements within the Realm of 66 Treasury, and the Notes of such "Fines remaining in the common "Bench, have been before this "Time imbesilled, and other Feet "and Notes of Fines falsly coun"terfeit and set in their Places, by "Deceit and Falshood of some, whereby many People of the "Realm have been greatly enda"maged before this Time, and may be disherited in the Time to come;" it is ordained and 'established, That all the Writs TEM pur ce qe pluseurs pies des fins des terres & tenemeniz deinz la Roialme d Engleterre demurrantz en le tresore nostre Seignur le Roi & les notes de tielx fyns demurrantz en le commune Bank aient este devant ces heures embesillez & autres pies & notes de fyns fauxement contreovez & mys en lour lieux par deceit & commettement daucuns par ont pleusours des gentz de Roialme ont este grandement endamages avant ces heures & purront estre disheritez en temps advenir ordeignez est & establez qe toutz les briefs de covenant & toutz autres briefs sur queux fyns serront levez en temps avenir ovesqe les briefs de dedimus potestatem si aucuns y soient ove toutz les conusances & notes dicelles avant ce qils soient treihez hors de commune bank par le cirograffer soient enrollez en un rolle destre de recorde pur toutzmon Bench by the Cyrographer, jours a demurrer en la saufe garde du chief clerk du commune Back & de sez successours soubz launcien fee de vingt & deux deniers accostume a paiers au chief clerk pur lentree daccorde de chescun fyn sanz plus outre paier au fyn of Covenant, and all other Writs ' whereupon Fines shall be levied ' in Time to come, with the Writs of Dedimus potestatem, if any be, with all Knowledges and 'Notes of the same, before that 'they be drawn out of the com shall be inrolled in a Roll, to qe si les notes en la garde de ciro-Clerk, for the entering of the Concord of every Fine, without 5 Co. 39. No. 5. 5 Hlen. IV. c. 14. have Execution thereof, as he should have if the Fines were "not imbesilled; and that all the • Writs of Covenant, and all o her Writs whereupon Fines have been levied in Times past, shall ، be also of Record. And more over, all the Fines that were now ⚫late imbesilled in the Treasury of our Lord the King by Persons ⚫ unknown, if the Notes and the same Writs of Covenant of such • Fines imbesilled remaining in the Custody of the Cyrographer may be found, that then to the Party shewing Part of the Fines imbe• silled, such Notes and Writs of • Covenant shall remain of Record as far forth as the same Fines ⚫ should have been, if no imbesilling thereof had been made.' pur ent avoir execution come il averoit si les fynes ne fuessent point embesillez & qe toutz les briefs de covenantz & toutz autres briefs sur queux fvns ont este levez du temps passe soient auxi de record & enoutre de toutz les fyns queux sont ore tarde embesilez en le tresorie nostre Seignur le Roi par gentz disconuz qe les notes & briefs de covenantz des ditz fyns embesilez demurantz en le garde de cirographer si purront estre trovez qe a la partie monstrant partie des ditz fyns embesilez tielx notes & briefs de covenant demoergent de recorde si avant come mesmes ceux fyns eussent este si nul embisilement diceux neust este faite. 1 R. III. c. 7. 18 Ed. 1, st. 4, Modus levandi Fines, altered by 31 El. c. 2. the Fine shall be No. 6. 1 Richard III. c. 7.-Who shall be bound by a Fine levied before the Justices of the Common Pleas : And Procla mations made thereof.* ITEM, Whereas it is ordained, established, and enacted in a Par liament holden in the Time of the Reign of King EDWARD the First, by the Statute De Finibus, that Notes, and Fines levied in the King's Court before his Justices, should be openly and solemnly read, and that the Pleas in the mean Time should cease, and this to be done Two Days in the Week after the Discretion of the Justices, as in the same Statute more plainly appeareth: Our said Sovereign Lord the King, considering that Fines ought to be of the greatest Strength to avoid Strifes and Debates, and be a final End and Conclusion, that it be willed and ordained, by the Advice and Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present ParA Transcript of liament assembled, and by Authority of the same, That after the insent to the lus grossing of every Fine, to be levied after the Feast of Easter next tices of Assize of coming in the King's Court before the Justices of the Common Place, the County where of any Lands, Tenements, or other Hereditaments, the same Fine to be proclaimed shall be openly and solemnly read and proclaimed in the same Court the same Term, and in Three Terms of the Year next following the same ingrossing in the same Court, at Four several Days in every Term, and in the same Time that it is so read and proclaimed, all Pleas shall cease, and moreover a Transcript of the same Fine shall be sent by the said Justices of the Common Place to the Justices of Assises of the County where the said Lands and Tenements be; they to cause the said Fine to be read and proclaimed openly and solemnly in every their Sessions of Assises, to be holden the same Year, if Assises do then hold, and all the Pleas in the mean Time to cease. the Land lieth, there. * All the Clauses in this Act being copied almost verbatim with some Additions in the Starute next inserted, (4 Henry VII.) the Statute of Richard is now become useless and obsolete. 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