Easter Term, 4 Queen Elizabeth

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date01 January 1794
Date01 January 1794
CourtCourt of the King's Bench

English Reports Citation: 73 E.R. 467

King's Bench Division

Easter Term, 4 Queen Elizabeth

easter term, 4 queen elizabeth. The keeper of the great seal, when there is no chancellor, may appoint commissioners to hear and determine piracies under 28. H. 8. c. 15. l.(a) (33) A question was moved for the Lord Keeper of the Great Hoi . 144,146. c iit j_i_ f\ ) aj. , ci ^ t 11 ^-L Jen k. Cent, j, c. S.). S. O. Seal by the Queens Attorney at Serjeants Inn among all the il(;0.53. Judges: Whether a commission of oyer & terminer of piracies committed upon the sea according to the statute of 28. H. 8. c. 15. by which commission divers are condemned of piracy, and have their judgments, and yet stayed of execution, be good and sufficient in (31) Trin. 1. Car. B. R. G-rey v. Ulisses, Rot. 33. [Latch. 122.] divers resolutions concerning forfeitures of copyholds, which see East. 2. Car. B. R. fol. 8, 9. if a copyholder be demanded to do his services, and he agree to do them, bub do not, that this is a forfeiture. If the lord demand his rent of a copyholder, and afterwards appoint a day and place within his manor for payment of it, and he fail, this amounts to a wilful refusal and forfeiture. When the lord demands suit of such a mill, and the tenant refuses it, it is a forfeiture. So if a copyholder erect a mill upon his copyhold, this is a forfeiture. (a) 28. H. 8. c. 15. is altered by 11. & 12. W. 3. c. 7. amended by 18. G. 2. c. 30. and by 32. G. 2. c. 25, g 20. a session of oyer & terminer and gaol delivery for the trial of offences committed upon the high seaa within the jurisdiction of the admiralty of England, shall be holden twice in every year at the Old Bailey. 468 EASTER TERM, 4 QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 DYER, 212 a. law, because the four persons who are named in the commission with the Admiral or his...

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