Our Legal Heritage by S. A. Reilly
page 271 of 410 (66%)
page 271 of 410 (66%)
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Justices of Assize, sheriffs, and Justices of the Peace and mayors shall have power to inquire of all vagabonds and compel them to find surety of their good bearing or be imprisoned. Treason was tried in Parliament, by bill of "attainder". It was often used for political purposes. Most attaints were reversed as a term of peace made between factions. A reversioner shall be received in court to defend his right when a tenant for a term of life, tenant in dower, or by the Law of England, or in Tail after Possibility of Issue extinct are sued in court for the land, so as to prevent collusion by the demandants. A person in debt may not avoid his creditors by giving his tenements or chattels to his friends in collusion to have the profits at their will. Where there was a garnishment given touching a plea of land, a writ of deceit is also maintainable. Actions of debt will be heard only in the county where the contract was made. The action of debt includes enforcement of contracts executed or under seal, e.g. rent due on a lease, hire of an archer, contract of sale or repair of an item. Thus there is a growing connection between the actions of debt and contract. Executors have an action for trespass to their testators' goods and chattels in like manner as did the testator when alive. |
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