Anonymous

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date01 January 1458
Date1958
Year1958
CourtHigh Court of Chancery

English Reports Citation: 21 E.R. 9

HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY

Anonymous

Mews' Dig. tit. Criminal Law, B. Offences Generally, L Felony, 1, Rights of the Crown.

anonymous. Goods of felons granted, which are difficult to prow.-Where certainty wanteth, the common law faileth, but yet help is to be found in Chancery for it; for if the Queen grant to me the goods of A that is attainted of felony, and I know not [16] the certainty of them, yet shall I compel any man to whose possession any of them be come to make inventory of them here (36 Hen. 6. 26 [1457-58]); Cur.). [Mews' Dig. tit. Criminal Law, B. Offences Generally, I. Felony, 1, Eights of the Crown. 1

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