The Mirrour of Justices Written Originally in the Old French, Long Before the Conquest; And Many Things Added

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...and he may answer and say, that he is not in by disseisin, but is in by D. who enfeoffed him who is not named in the writ; and it may be that D. entred by E. and so there may be many, according to divers feoffments betwixt the first disseisor and the tenant, in which cases no voucher to warranty holdeth place for a personal trespass, and therefore every one is well to look not to make a contract of a vicious thing, and that he take caution, and such surety in the contract that he may have a recourse to recover if he lose the thing; and therefore the lords used to keep their manors that none could enter by intrusion, disseisin, or by other vicious bargains, nor otherwise unless the bargains were entered in their full courts, whereby the lords could not have received their enemies into their manors, nor have taken their homage against their wills, nor any used to enter before they have found sureties to restore to the purchaser or his heirs the value of the thing, if by rightful judgment it belonged to him after his thing lost for the offence of alienation, or for his power of this warranty. To the principal disseisor it belongeth to have a regard, if the plaintiff put more into his plaint, that he answer not but to that which he may avow; he may say, that there is variance betwixt the original and the commission; or that the writ is vicious, as it is in misprision of names, or sur-names. Of names, as Renand for Harrand, Margery for Margaret, and such like; or he may say the writ is faulty for want of sur-names, or if the names of dignity be omitted; as if a bishop, abbot, prior or other, be disseised of any thing in the right of his dignity, and he makes his plaint simply of a trespass done only to his person, and not to his church or dignity in this manner;...