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The case of Grant v Astle, and of Lord Northwick v. Stanway, 3 Bos. & Pul. 346; and also 6 East 56, should be seen as to assessment of fine by the lord; and it seems from those cases he must recover all of the sum he asseses, or make a new assessment.

A separate fine should be assessed for each tenement held by a separate rent.

Should the fine not be paid at the time fixed at the court, the lord should cause a demand of payment to be made, and proceed in assumpsit for its recovery.

The lord will be entitled to a fine on surrender by heir, and should require payment before accepting such surrender.

In Scriven on Copyholds it is expressed as the opinion of the author, that the lord or steward may refuse to accept a surrender from the tenant till payment of the fine.

405. The Recovery of Quit Rents.

This will be effected by distress or action of debt, and the law is fully treated of in Scriven on Copyholds.

406. Heriots.

The learning on this subject will also be found in Scriven's work; and, as it relates more to the law of copyholds than to court-keeping, it is deemed needless to enter into the subject here.

407. Amending Court Rolls.

The cases and points on this head will be found in Scriven's Copyholds, 258, &c.; and in the case of Elston v. Wood, 1 Mylne & Keene, 678.

408. Inspection of Rolls.

An order will be made on the lord to allow usual inspection of court rolls on application of tenant in first instance, on affidavit that tenant has applied for and been refused inspection. See general rule, Moore & Scott, 430; and see Scriven 597, &c.

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409. Abstract of 9 Geo. 1, c. 29, intituled,
An Act to enable Lords of Manors more easily to
recover their fines, and to exempt infants and
femes covert from forfeiture of their copyhold
estates in particular cases.'

Sec. 1, enacts, That where any person or persons, being under the age of 21 years, or feme or femes covert, shall after 24th June, 1723, be entitled by descent or surrender to the use of a last will (see 55 G. 3, c. 192,) to be admitted tenant or tenants of any copyhold messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, within England or Wales, they not having been admitted thereto, and not having paid their fines, every such infant or feme covert in their proper persons, or such feme covert by her attorney, or such infant by his or her guardian or guardians, if he or she shall have any such, or if not, then by his or her attorney or attorneys, (for which purpose such infants and femes covert shall be, and are hereby em powered by writing, under his or her hand and seal respectively, to appoint an attorney or attorneys on his or her behalf,) shall come to, and appear at one of the three next courts which shall be kept, (for the keeping whereof the usual notice shall be given,) for such manor or manors whereof such messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments shall be parcel, and shall there tender and offer themselves to the lord or his steward of such courts to be admitted tenants to all and every the said messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, so surrendered, descended, or come to, or to the use of every such infant or feme covert; to make which appearance, and to take such admittance in behalf of such infant or feme covert, such guardian and attorney shall be, and they are hereby respectively authorized and required; and in default of the appearance of such infants or femes covert in their own persons, or by their guardians or attorneys in that behalf, and of acceptance of such admittance as aforesaid, it shall

and may be lawful to and for the lord or lords of every such manor or manors, or his and their steward or stewards of the courts thereof, after such three several courts have been duly holden for such manor or manors, and proclamations in such several courts been regularly made, to nominate and appoint at any subsequent court or courts to be holden for such manor or manors, any fit person to be guardian or attorney for every such infant or feme covert, for that purpose only, and by such guardian or attorney to admit every such infant or feme covert to all and every the said messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments accordingly, to such estates as such infants or femes covert shall be legally entitled to therein, and upon every such admittance to impose and set such fine and fines as might have been legally imposed and set, if such infant so admitted had been of full age, or if such feme covert had been sole and unmarried. Sec. 2, enacts, that upon every such admittance or admittances of any infant or feme covert as aforesaid, the fine or fines imposed and set thereupon shall and may be demanded by the bailiff or agent of the lord or lords of such manors, by a note in writing signed by the lord of such manor, or by his steward, to be left with such infant or feme covert, or with the guardian of such infant, or husband of such feme covert, or with the tenant or occupier of the messuages, lands or tenements to which such infant or feme covert was admitted, and that if in such case the said fine or fines so imposed and set be not paid or tendered to such lord or lords, or to his or their steward or stewards, within three months after such demand made, that then it shall and may be lawful to and for the lord or lords of such manor or manors where such admittance or admittances are had, to enter into and upon all and every the copyhold messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, to which any such infant or feme covert shall be so admitted, and to hold and enjoy the same, and to receive the rents, issues, and profits thereof, but

without liberty to fell any timber standing thereon, for so long a time only, and until by such rents, issues, and profits such lord or lords shall be fully paid and satisfied such fine and fines, together with all reasonable and necessary costs and charges which such lord or lords shall have been put unto in levying and raising the same, and in obtaining the possession of such copyhold messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, although such infant or feme covert shall happen to die before such fine and fines, and the costs and charges aforesaid shall be raised and collected; of all which rents, issues, and profits so to be received by such lord or lords of such manor or manors, or his or their stewards, bailiffs, or servants upon the occasion aforesaid, such lord or lords of such manor or manors, shall yearly and every year, upon demand to be made by such person or persons who shall be entitled to the surplus of the rents and profits over and above what will pay and satisfy such fine and costs and charges so received as aforesaid, or by such person or persons as shall be then entitled to such copyhold estate, give and render a just and true account, and shall pay the said surplus rents, issues, and profits, if any, to such person and persons as shall be respectively entitled to the same.

Sec. 3 enacts, That as soon as such fine or fines, and the costs, charges, and expences aforesaid, shall be fully paid and satisfied, or if after such seizure of and entry upon such copyhold lands, tenements, and hereditaments, for the purposes aforesaid, such fine or fines, and the costs and charges aforesaid, shall be lawfully tendered and offered to be paid and satisfied to the lord or lords of such manor or manors, that then and in any of the said cases it shall and may be lawful to and for such infant or feme covert, or other person entitled thereto, to enter upon and take possession of and hold the said copyhold premises according to such estate or interest as he or she shall be lawfully entitled to therein; and the lord and lords of such manor or manors shall, and is and are

hereby required in any of the said cases to deliver possession thereof accordingly; and if such lord or lords of such manor, after such fine or fines and the costs and charges aforesaid shall be fully paid and satisfied, or after the same shall have been tendered or offered to be paid as aforesaid, shall refuse to deliver the possession of the said copyhold premises as aforesaid, he or they shall be liable to and shall make satisfaction to the person or persons so kept out of possession for all the damages that he or she shall thereby sustain, and all the costs and charges that he or she shall be put unto for recovery thereof.

Sec. 4, enacts, That where any infant or feme covert shall be admitted to any copyhold messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, if the guardian of such infant, or husband of such feme covert, shall pay to the lord or lords of any manor or manors, the fine or fines legally imposed and set upon such admittance or admittances, and the costs and charges which such lord of such manors shall have been put unto as aforesaid, that then it shall and may be lawful to and for every guardian of such infant, or husband of such feme covert, their executors and administrators, to enter into and to hold and enjoy all and every the said copyhold messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, to which such infant or feme covert shall be so admitted, and the rents, issues, and profits thereof to receive and take to his and their own use, until thereby such guardian of such infant, or husband of such feme covert, their executors and administrators, shall be fully satisfied and paid all and every such sum and sums of money as they shall respectively pay and disburse upon the account aforesaid, notwithstanding the death or deaths of such infants or femes covert skall happen before such sum or sums of money so expended shall or may be so raised and reimbursed.

Sec. 5, enacts, That from and after the aforesaid 24th day of June, 1723, no infant or feme covert shall forfeit any copyhold messuages, lands, tene

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