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.

L.

Law.

• LEX Idumaea, quid, C. 264.
• Lex mercatoria, is a publick Law, and the Judges take notice so of it, C. 264.
• Lex non praecipit inutilia; If it appear the Plain∣tiff cannot have the thing demanded, the Writ shall abate, A. 330, 331.

Leases.

• Power to make Leases by Stat. not pursued, C. 72.
• Made be vertue of a power reserved to make Leases for 21 years, shall not be to commence post ••xpirationem, &c. A. 35.
• Of Sheep and a Farm, A. 42.
• What kind of property the Lessee hath in the Trees, A. 49.
• Without Impeachment of Wast, how construed, Ibid.
• Excepting Woods, Timber-Trees, &c. if the Soil it self is excepted, A. 116, 117, 247.
• Where a Licence to occupy amounts to, and shall be pleaded, as a Lease, A. 129.
• Covenant that the Covenantee shall enjoy, &c. is a good Lease; Contra, that a Stranger shall, &c. A. 136.
• For years, may commence in futuro, A. 171.
• Upon a Lease for years in remainder there must be Attornment, Ibid.
• What words amount to a Lease, A. 178.
• By Baron and Feme, not good without Deed, A. 204.
• For years, if the Lessee so long live; and if he die within the Term, the remainder to J. S. The re∣mainder is void, A. 218. C. 154.
• Where an uncertain commencement may be as∣certained by the entry or election of the Lessee, A. 227. B. 1.
• Must have an end and beginning certain, A. 245. C. 86.
• Lease for life cannot commence in futuro, unless by way of remainder, A. 275, 276.
• None can take by it but those who are party to the Deed, A. 287, 288.
• What are void, what only voidable, A. 307.
• One Man exposuit ad culturam his Land to two, the two have no Estate, A. 315.
• To commence after a former, if the former were void ab initio or since, the first shall begin presently, B. 11.
• What is a Lease for years, or at will, B. 78.
• By a several Habendum to commence after the expiration of several former Leases, whether the new Lease begin till all the other be expired, B. 106.
• Lease for so many years as J. S. shall name, is good, if he name in the life of both parties, C. 86.
• Lease out of a Lease, for so many years as shall be to come at the Lessors death, Ibid.
• Lease of Lands by Lessee for years, worth 8 l. per annum, until the Lessee levy 100 l. what interest is left in the Lessee, C. 157.
• Lease for 60 years, and if the Lessee die within the Term that then his Executors shall have until the end of the Term, C. 196, 197.

Leet.

• Who is Judge there, and what things are inci∣dent to a Leet, A. 217, 218.
• When to be holden by the Common Law, and by the Statute, B. 74.

Legacy.

• What is a good assent by an Executor to a Legacy, A. 129, 130. C. 6.
• Not payable without demand, A. 17.
• Where, and what election shall make one who is Executor and Legatee, to be in by the Devise or as Executor, A. 216.
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• Payable to an Infant at his full age, his Executor may sue for it before the time of his age, A. 278.
• What Devise is a Legacy, what not, B. 119, 120.

Lieu and County.

• Where Plea shall be ill (after Verdict) for want of alledging a place, B. 22, 76, 77, 146, 147. C. 10.
• Where necessary in an Indictment, B. 183.
• No place necessary where a Feoffment or Lease for life was made, B. 31, 32.
• Where the taking of the profits of Lands is al∣ledged, it must be said to be done at the Vill where the Lands lie, N. 238.

Limitation of Estates.

• To A. and B. his Wife for years, if they or any of their Child or Children live so long, A. 74.
• What words make a Condition, what a Limita∣tion, A. 167, 168, 244, 245, 298, 299. B. 38, 114.
• To the Feoffor for life, and after his death to his Executors for 20 years, in whom the Term is vested, B. 5, 6. C. 21, 22.
• To A. for life, and if A. die within 20 years, to his Executors for so many years, B. 6, 7. C. 21, 22.
• One having Issue a Son and a Daughter by se∣veral venters, Devised to his Son and the Heirs of the Body of the Father, how adjudged, B. 24, 25, 26.
• Mannor of O. in S. use limited of all Lands in O, yet the Mannor passeth not, B. 47.
• The moiety of Lands to his Wife for years, and his eldest Daughter to enter into the other moiety, and the Daughter married and died without Issue, having another Sister, C. 25, 26.
• To J.S. and his Issue imposterum procreand. the present Issue take nothing, C. 87.
• Lands given to A. for the Life of C. and B. the death of either determines the Estate, C. 103.
• Grant to two habend, moiety to one, and moiety to the other, good; But grant of two Acres habend. to two, habend. one to one, and the other to the other, is void, C. 126.

Limitation of Time.

• If a Corporation must alledge Seisin within the time limited by the Statute in real Actions, A. 153.

Livery of Seisin.

• Made before enrolment, shall vest the Estate by Livery, and prevent the operation of Inrolment, A. 6. C. 125.
• By Letter of Attorny cannot be made by parcels, unless so limited, A. 34.
• What is a good Livery, what not, A. 207.
• Where the particular Tenant and he in remain∣der joyn in a Livery, how adjudged, A. 262.
• How it must be made by Attorny of Land in several Counties, or of a Mannor, A. 306, 307, 308.
• Made to three where the Feoffment was to four, is good in some cases. B. 73.
• Feoffment by Tenant for life; and before Livery made by Letter of Attorny, the Feoffor purchaseth the Fee, and then Livery is made; the Fee passeth, C. 73.
• But that shall not pass other Lands purchased by the Feoffor in the same Vill, where the Feoffment was of all his Lands in D. C. 73.

Livery & ouster le main.

• What Leases or Conveyances an Heir may do be∣fore Livery sued, A. 157.

London.

• Scire facias there ad discutiendum debitum, A. 52.
• Quo Warranto lies against the City, if the Mayor use authority not agreeable to Law; per Gawdy, A 106, 107.
• Upon a Recognizance taken before the Mayor by custom, Debt lies not but in their own Courts, A. 130, 131.
• The custom that a Feme sole Merchant may sue without her Husband, A. 130, 131.
• The Statutes of 32 & 34 H. 8. of Wills, how far they extend to Lands in L. A. 267.
• The Courts at Westminster take notice of their Customs, A. 284.
• It had no Sheriffs in the 13th year of King Edw. the First, Ibid.
• Debt lies in the Common Pleas upon a Recogni∣zance there, Ibid.
• Hustings may be holden every Week, B. 14.
• Upon Indictment at the Sessions, Error lies, B. 107.
• The Custom there, Quod concessit solvere debitum alterius, B. 156.
• Custom that every Surety shall be chargeable pro rata, B. 166, 167.
• If an Action there by Custom be removed to Westm. it shall be remanded, B. 167.
• They ought not to be impleaded in real Actions but in their own Courts, C. 147.
• Their Liberties seised and re-granted by King Richard the Second, and re-granted for 10000 Marks, C. 264.