Wills Case

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date01 January 1792
Date01 January 1792
CourtCourt of the King's Bench

English Reports Citation: 80 E.R. 590

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Wills Case

trin. 7 jacobi regis. wills case. Henry Wills, being seised of the fourth part of the mannor of Wray, alias Wrayland, in the county of Devon, of the yearly value of 24s. holden of the late Queen in soccage in capite, did the 26 of November, 30 of Eliz. enfeoffa Zachary Irish, Christopher Bassil, and others, and their heirs, to the use of himself for life, without impeachment of waste, and after his decease, to the use of Thomas Wills, his second son, and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten, and for default of such issue, to the use of Richard Wills his third son, and of the heirs males of his body lawfully begotten, and for default of such issue to the right heirs of the said Henry for ever; Henry Wills 42 Eliz. died, and William being his son and heir, and then of the age of 40 years, after whose death, the said Thomas Willes entred into the said premisses by vertue of the said conveyance; all this is found by office after the death of the said Henry, upon which office, there is processe gone forth of this Court against the occupiers of the said land for want of livery. Question, whether the said Thomas Willes ought to sue livery of the said lands in the name of his other brother, William Willes, or whether there ought to be any livery or primer seisin at all in this case, during the continuance of the severall estates tail aforesaid, whereof the Lords, the Judges assistants in this Court, having had consideration, and of the first branch of the statute of 32 H. 8. for devising of lands, and the saving therein; and after the common law, before the making of the said LEY, 9. BAILEYS CASE 591 statute, declared their resolution to be, that neither the said William Willes the heir, nor the said Thomas...

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