Lex custumaria, or, A treatise of copy-hold estates in respect of the lord, copy-holder wherein the nature of customs in general, and of particular customs, grants and surrenders, and their constructions and expositions in reference to the thing granted or surrendred, and the uses or limitations of estates are clearly illustrated : admittances, presentments, fines and forfeitures are fully handled, and many quaeries and difficulties by late resolution setled : leases, licences, extinquishments of copy-hold estates, and what statutes extend to copy-hold estates are explained : and also of actions by lord or tenant, and the manner of declaring and pleading, either generally or as to particular customs, with tryal and evidence holder may recieve relief in the Court of Chancery : to which are annexed presidents of conveyances respecting copy-holds, releases, surrenders, grants presentmets, and the like : as also presidents of court rolls, surrenders, admittances, presentments, &c. / by S.C., Barister at Law.

Forms of Pleadings of Lords and Copy-holders in re∣ference to Common.

Per Dom Manerij habere communiam pro tenentibus Custumariis, Hern 117, 124.

Rex Seisitus de Manerio habuit communiam Pasture in bosco pro se & liberis tenent’ & custu∣mar manerij pro omnibus averijs {per} tot’ An∣num, Co. Entr. 656.

Rector Ecclesie seisitus de Manerio Rectorie ha∣buit communiam pro se & tenen custumar Mes∣suaḡ & Terrarum in loco in quo, &c. pro omni∣bus magnis averiis per tot’ Annum, Co. Entr. 574.

Vn seisitus de Manerio habuit communiam pro se & tenen suis in terris tent’ de manerio, quando non seminantur, Co. Entr. 118,

Quer seisitus de manerio habuit communiam pastur pro tenen custumariis Messuaḡ & Terra∣rum in 10 Acres Pasture pro omnibus averiis per tot’ Annum, Co. Entr. 9. 9 Co. 112. Hern 117.

Domini separalium Maneriorum habuer com∣muniam pasture pro tenen custumariis causa vici∣nagij, Co. Entr. 10. vet’ int’ 191. de injur propr & traverse prescript’.

Prior seisitus de manerio habuit communiam pro se & tenementis suis ad voluntatem, in terra, post blada asportata usque reseminationem, & quando facet frisca per tot’ annum, Et in prato post foenu asport’ usque Purit', Rast. Entr. 622. 1 Brownl. 66.

Trans̄ bar' per prescription de communia in clauso parcel Manerij.

Repl protestando quod clausum non est parcel Manerij, pro placito de injur propria, & travers prescription, 3 Browl. 418.

Iustificat’ in Trans̄ pro common per Custome infra Manerium pro defectu sufficien fensur Def. existen. Lessee p̄ ans d'un Widdw que tenuit terras per Custome quamdiu casta & innupta vi∣veret, Tomps. 331.

Trans. Iustificat’ pro common & prescribe in in Dom Manerij, Tomps. 371, 379, 392, 418.

Pled que customarij Tenants debent habere so∣lam & separalem pasturam cum liberis tenentibus pro omnibus averiis (barbits except.) Levant & Couchant, 1 Sanders 347. 2 Sanders 321.

Pled que custumary Tenants usi sunt habere separalem pasturam come appurtenant Tene∣mentis suis, 2 Sanders 351.

Per Lessee del Copyholder, de Turbis fossis in communia pasture, Hern 80. Simile pro, Hern 116.

Bar in Repleḡ, That he is Copyholder of another Manor of Copy-hold, called P. and pre∣scribes for Common in loco quo, &c. omni tempo∣re Anni pro omnibus averiis communicalibus Le∣vant & Couchant, sur le Cohy-hold appell. P. & que posuit averia sua utendo communia, Repl per Traverse que barbits la fuer Levant & Couchant, &c. Demur special, the Traverse not being good, Winch Entr. p. 970. By four Judges the Tra∣verse was good; its an essential part of the Plea, and the Avowant hath election to Traverse any, part of the Plea which goes to the end of the Action or Justification.

Pled Custome aver common in loco in quo, &c. Repl de son Tort Demesne & traverse que les avers fuer Levant & Couchant sur le Copy-hold Tempore quo, &c. Rej. & issue sur le Traverse, Winch. 1068. ad 1071.

Def. in Trespas plead severally pro def•••• suf∣ficien' fensur & monstre lour Title al Copy-hold Estates, Tomps. 410.

Iustificat’ p̄ Common per Custome per un Copyholder, Toms. 410.

Custome pleaded, quod tenen custumarii habe∣ant communiam pasture per tot’ Annum in terris parcel Manerij, Hern 81.

Simile in terris non allegat’ fore parcel Mane∣rij, Hern 708.

Simile pro averiis vocat’ Horse-Beasts, Neat-Beasts, Levant, &c. per totum Annum, Coke Etr. 10.

Simile pro bobus levan a festo ad festum in pastura, 3 Br. 61.

Simile in 7 acris terre post blada messa & asportat’ ex eisdem & resid camporum usque An∣nunciac̄ nisi interim seminat’, 3 Br. 96.