The third part of the reports of severall excellent cases of law, argued and adjudged in the courts of law at Westminster in the time of the late Queen Elizabeth, from the first, to the five and thirtieth year of her reign collected by a learned professor of the law, William Leonard ... ; with alphabetical tables of the names of the cases, and of the matters contained in the book.
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The third part of the reports of severall excellent cases of law, argued and adjudged in the courts of law at Westminster in the time of the late Queen Elizabeth, from the first, to the five and thirtieth year of her reign collected by a learned professor of the law, William Leonard ... ; with alphabetical tables of the names of the cases, and of the matters contained in the book.
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Leonard, William.
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London :: Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins ... for Henry Twyford, Thomas Basset, William Rawlins and John Place,
1686.
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Law -- England -- Cases.
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"The third part of the reports of severall excellent cases of law, argued and adjudged in the courts of law at Westminster in the time of the late Queen Elizabeth, from the first, to the five and thirtieth year of her reign collected by a learned professor of the law, William Leonard ... ; with alphabetical tables of the names of the cases, and of the matters contained in the book." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47718.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2024.
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CCCVII. Bennington and Bennington's Case. Trin. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench.
BEnnington brought an Action of Trespass against Bennington, for breaking of his Close, &c. The Defendant pleaded, That long time before the Trespass supposed, That it was the Free∣hold of one Joan Bennington, and that he as her servant, and by her Commandment entred; upon which they were at Issue. And it was found, That for two parts of the Land where, &c. in three parts to be divided, it was the Freehold of the Plaintiff; and for the other part, that it was the Freehold of the Defendant: and by the clear Opinion of the whole Court, The Plaintiff could not have Iudgment, for now it appeareth, That the Plaintiff and Defendant are Tenants in Common, betwixt whom an Action of Trespass doth not lie; and although this Tenancy in Common
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be not pleaded, but found by Verdict; yet it was the Opinion of the Court, That it is all one.
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