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Author: Covert, Nicholas.
Title: The scrivener's guide being choice and approved forms of presidents of all sorts of business now in use and practice, in a much better method than any yet printed, being useful for all gentlemen, but chiefly for those who practice the law, viz. assignments, articles of agreement, acquittances, bargains and sale, bills, conditions, copartnerships, covenants, deeds, defeazances, grants, joyntures, indentures, letters of attorny, licenses, obligations, provisoes, presidents for parish business, releases, revocations, wills, warrants of attorny, &c. / by Nicholas Cobert ...
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Print source: The scrivener's guide being choice and approved forms of presidents of all sorts of business now in use and practice, in a much better method than any yet printed, being useful for all gentlemen, but chiefly for those who practice the law, viz. assignments, articles of agreement, acquittances, bargains and sale, bills, conditions, copartnerships, covenants, deeds, defeazances, grants, joyntures, indentures, letters of attorny, licenses, obligations, provisoes, presidents for parish business, releases, revocations, wills, warrants of attorny, &c. / by Nicholas Cobert ...
Covert, Nicholas., Bohun, William.
London: Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins ... for Charles Harper ..., 1700.
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Forms (Law) -- England.
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TO THE READER.
THE TABLE.
BOOKS Printed for, and Sold by Charles Harper at the Flower-de-Luce over-against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street.
Law-Books.
Divinity and Miscellanies.
School-Books.
THE Scrivener's Guide.
Articles upon purchase of Lands in Fee simple.
Articles for dividing the Rent and avoiding Survivor∣ship, between Jointenants of Lease-Lands.
Articles for building a new House, and taking down the old one there.
Articles between a Merchant and his Apprentice's Father, &c.
Articles of Agreement between a Country Trader, and a London Factor.
Articles of Agreement between Creditors, and the Widow of a Debtor, concerning Administration and paying Debts.
Articles of Agreement on a Marriage, concerning Settlement of Lands.
Articles for securing 1000 l. and paying Interest to two Persons, until Lands can be purchased to the same uses.
Covenants about assigning a Stock in the East-India Company.
Such Necessary Articles of Agreement between four Joint-Executors, as ought to be made between them for the better Execution of the Will.
Covenants between a Mortgagee and a Purchaser of the Redemption, That the Mortgagee shall assign upon payment of the Mortgage Mony.
A Declaration of a Trust upon admitting two Lives into a Copyhold, with necessary Covenants.
Articles for purchasing of a Messuage, with a Cove∣nant, That the Grantor shall pay the Charge which the Grantee shall expend in ejecting the Tenant in possession.
Agreement of the Tenants of a Mannor about plough∣ing a Common Field.
Indenture of Covenants upon a Contract for Purchase of a Copyhold, where part of the Purchase mony is paid, and the Purchaser is to be at liberty to proceed in the Purchase or not.
Covenants upon purchasing the equity of Redemption of Copyhold-lands Mortgaged.
Covenants for saving harmless a Bishop, in refusing to admit an unfit person to a Vicaridge.
Articles for dividing some Corn between two Partners in Husbandry.
Articles between Joynt-Tenants for cutting Corn and dividing it in the Field.
Covenants for delivery of Wheat sold by two Bushels Weekly.
Covenants for Repairing the Steeple of a Cathe∣dral Church.
An Agreement of Copartnership between two Salesmen with necessary Covenants.
A Certificate into the Exchequer, where neither the person nor any distress can be found for levy∣ing the Tax on his Office, according to the Act of 4 s. per Pound, 4 W. & M.
A General Release.
A Release of Errors in a Judgment.
A general Release of Errors.
A Release of Title to Lands.
A Release of an Annuity
An Acquittance and Release of an Extent by an Administratrix.
A Release to a Sheriff, for discharging a Rescue.
The like in a better form.
Mutual General Releases by Indenture.
A short Release of the Equity of Redemption in a Term for years, mortgaged.
A Letter of Attorney or Proxy, appointing a Proctor in an Ecclesiastical Court to procure a Guardian to be appointed for an Infant, to sue an Adminstrator there for a Dividend.
A Letter of Attorney to surrender Copyhold-lands to the use of a Will.
A Letter of Attorney to enter on Land, and to sue for the recovery thereof, or compound.
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sample
A Letter of Attorney to appoint a Steward and Bailiff of a Mannor to keep Courts.
A Letter of Attorney to take possession of Land new∣ly purchased.
A Letter of Attorney from two Executors of a Bond sued to a Judgment.
A Letter of Attorney or Assignment of a man's whole Estate, in consideration of several Debts and In∣gagements.
A Letter of Attorney to receive Monie which is not yet become due upon a Bond.
A General Letter of Attorney.
A Letter of Attorny to enter on Land and deliver a Lease.
A Letter of Attorney to take Possession of a Messuage, extended by the Sheriff upon a Statute.
A General Letter of Attorney to receive Debts.
A Revocation of a Letter of Attorney.
A Letter of Attorney of several Sums of Monie due from one persons.
A Letter of Attorney to Sue an Action of Covenant.
A Letter of Attorney to demand Rent, and on default of payment to re-enter according to a Proviso for such re-entry contained in the Lease.
The like Letter of Attorny from a Corporation.
The like Letter of Attorney, where two several Rents are reserved on the Lease.
A fit Indorsment to be made on such Letter of At∣torney, for a Memorial of the Execution thereof.
A Letter of Attorney to take Admittance to Copyhold Lands, and after Admittance to surrender.
A Letter of Attorney to traverse an Indictment, and enter into Recognizance to Prosecute.
A Letter of Attorney for appearance before a Judge, and submitting to an Indictment for a forceable Entry.
An Obligation from One to One for payment of Mony.
An Obligation from Two to One, for payment of Mony on Demand.
An Obligation from One to Two, with Condition for payment of Mony at two several days.
samples
A Condition to save harmless from a Bond, for payment of Monie.
A Condition to perform Covenants.
The Condition of a Bail Bond to the Sheriff, upon a Capias out of the Common-Pleas.
A Condition to perform an Award of Arbitrators.
A Condition to find one Diet by the Year.
A Condition to save harmless for paying Rent, where the Title is in question.
A Condition to save harmless the Bail in an Inferiour Court.
A Condition to leave a Wife worth a Hundred Pounds.
A Condition to pay Mony at day of Marriage, or Death.
A Condition to deliver Hay and Oats.
A Condition to justifie all Actions commenced by virtue of a Letter of Attorney.
A Condition for a hired Servant's Truth.
A Condition to pay Rent.
A Condition to pay Mony during Life, for Mainte∣nance.
A Condition to re-deliver a Bond, or the Mony due thereon.
A Condition to gather Rents, and give an Account thereof.
A Condition for a Wife to make a Will.
A Condition to save harmless for being bound for Appearance.
A Condition to save harmless for being bound in a Sheriff's Bond.
Another Condition to save harmless for being bound in a Sheriffs Bond.
A Condition not to become Surety without License.
A Condition not to sell his interest in a Shop before J. F. has refused to buy it.
A Condition to leave two parts in three of Land and Goods to a Wife.
A Condition that the Husband shall not sell a House and Goods nor any part thereof, (whereof the Wife was seised before Marriage,) during the Coverture, and to leave the same discharged of Incumbrances, if the Wife-survive.
A Condition to make one Free.
A Condition to become Bound with another to the Obligee, who has passed his word for the Debt of the Obligor.
A Condition that a Father having received a Legacy given to a Child, shall save the Executor harmless.
A Condition to pay back part of a Legacy, if any Debt of the Testator shall appear after to be unpaid.
A Condition to make satisfaction if any mistake be found in an Account made up.
A Condition to save harmless one Bail for a Defendant in the Common-Pleas, and for the Defendants pay∣ing the Condemnation Mony, or rendring himself to Prison, if Judgment be against him.
A Condition for saving a Bail harmless, without a Clause of the Defendants rendring himself to Prison.
A Condition to save the Bail harmless, and pay the Charges which he shall expend in defence of the Suit.
A Condition to save harmless for being Bail in an in∣ferior Court.
A Condition to save harmless the Bail for the Defen∣dant in an inferior Court.
A Condition for saving harmless the Plaintiffs Bail, to prosecute in an inferior Court.
Consideration for saving harmless a Surety for a Par∣son in the First-Fruits Office.
A Condition to pay a further sum, for a Fine upon renewing a Lease for Lives, in case one of the Lives in the former Lease be not now living, as is af∣firmed.
A Condition to give account and render the Stock deli∣vered to one who is to carry on a Trade at half profit.
A Condition to pay proportionable shares of the charges of a Suit concerning a Common.
A Parson presented to a Living, gives Bond to resign upon request.
A Condition to procure an Infant to convey Lands when he comes of Age.
A Condition to surrender Copyhold-Lands, whereunto the Obligor is admitted in Trust for the Obligee.
A Condition for payment of Rent, and performance of other Agreements on a Lease Parol.
Condition that the Obligor shall convey all his Estate unto the Obligee.
A Condition to pay forty shillings more for a Fine, on admittance to a Copyhold, if the Lord have not an∣other Fine for admittance in the same Lands within threee years.
A Condition to stand to an Award of all differences, except certain special matters.
Bond of Marriage, with Condition to permit the Wife to dispose of 50 l. and the Obligor to pay the rest of her Estate to her two Children at full Age,
A Condition, That the Obligor shall never sue out Execu∣tion upon any Statute or Judgment against the Ob∣ligee.
A Condition upon an Adventure of Bottom-ree.
A Bond with Condition to observe the Orders of an House of Chancery.
A Bond with Condition That the Author of a Book shall take (of the Bookseller, undertaking to print it) a certain number at a price.
A Bargain and Sale of a Term for years, taken in Exe∣cution upon a Fieri facias.
A Bargain and Sale, or Assignment of Lands Extend∣ed upon a Recognizance.
A Grant of a Rent reserved by Lease.
A Grant of a Rent Charge.
A Grant of a Reversion.
An Assignment of Dower.
An Assignment of several Bonds to a Trustee for a Widow, with consent of her intended Husband, that the Mony be at her dispose after Marriage.
A Grant of the moiety of an Annuity during Life.
A Grant of a Stewardship of a Mannor during Pleasure.
A Grant of the next Avoidance of a Rectory.
A Grant of the next Avoydance of a Vicaridge, with necessary Covenants.
An Assignment made by a Vicar, of all Mony owing to him for Tithes.
An Assignment of a Judgment.
A Letter of Attorney to receive Monies due from se∣veral Persons.
A Memorial of Submission to an Arbritation according to the new Statute.
An Assignment by a Mortgagee of a Term for Years.
An Assignment of a Bond
An Assignment of an Apprentice.
An Assignment of a Lease.
An Assignment of an Annuity.
An Assignment of certain Debts by an Administratrix to Creditors.
An Assignment of a Statute be an Administrator to two Creditors.
A Penal Bill for payment of Mony.
An Acquittance for part of Purchase Mony.
A Warrant to Summon a Copyhold Court, of the Man∣nor of N.
A Bill of Credit.
A Clause in a Will to enable the Executors to Sell Lands.
A Form of an Award.
A Bargain and Seal of all Goods and Chattels real and personal, to save harmless from all Bonds.
A Deed of Free Gift of all Goods and Chattels.
A Deed to revoke uses in a Settlement, according to a power reserved.
A Bargain and Sale of Housholdstuff.
A Declaration by a Wife concerning the disposing of a Sum of Mony, according to a power reserved before Marriage.
A Bargain and Sale of Under-wood.
A Devise of Lands for Life with a Remainder in Tail, And also a Bequest of a Term for years, with a Trust to assign to an Infant.
A Protection by a Member of Parliament.
A Revocation of a Protection.
A short single Bill for payment of Mony.
Joynture before Marriage, and Settlement of several parcels to several uses, with provision for Daughters and younger Sons, and that the Tenants for Life may make Leases for 21 years at rack Rent.
A Licence to let Lands tho' prohibited by Lease.
A License to Hawk, Hunt and Fish.
A Letter of License from Creditors to a Debtor.
An Agreement or Letter of Composition for Debts.
A Letter of License from Creditors to an Admini∣stratrix, and Conposition made.
A License to come into, and abide six Months in England.
A Licence for a Petty-Chapman.
A License or Pass for a Poor Man to go to his Friends.
A License to Travel by Water on the Lord's Day.
A License to Travel on the Lord's Day.
A License for a Badger of Corn.
A Deed of Exchange between a Vicar and another, for Land of the Vicaridge Glebe.
A Defeazance of a Statute Staple.
A Defeazance on a Judgment.
A Defeazance on Lands forfeited.
An Indenture of Partition of Lands between Tenants in Common, who have several Interests in divers respects.
Covenants for levying Fines and Recoveries, &c.
A Covenant by Husband and Wife, to levy a Fine.
A Covenant to levy a Fine more brief.
A Covenant to levy a Fine by several persons, having separate Interests.
A Covenant to levy a Fine in a Court of Ancient Demesne.
A Covenant to levy a Fine, with a render of an E∣state for years.
A Covenant to levy a Fine, with a render of Rent.
A Covenant to levy a Fine sur concessit for years.
A Covenant to levy a Fine, and suffer a Recovery with double Voucher.
A Covenant to suffer a Recovery with double Voucher, the Tenant to the Precipe being already made by Deed.
A Bargain a Sale to make a Tenant to the Praecipe.
A Covenant to suffer a Recovery with a Recital of the Bargain and Sale, whereby a Tenant to the Praecipe was made.
A Covenant to suffer a Recovery with double Voucher, by several Writs, of Lands in several Counties.
A Covenant to suffer a Recovery with single Voucher.
Another more brief with single Voucher.
A Covenant that Husband and Wife being Tenants for Life of the Wife, and he in Reversion shall suffer a Recovery.
A Covenant to make a Tenant to the Praecipe, and suffer a Recovery with double Voucher in London.
To suffer a Recovery in a Court Baron.
A Covenant to make Assurance of Lands.
A Covenant for the Attornment of Tenants.
A Covenant to produce Writings, for defence of the Title to the Lands sold.
A Covenant to pay back Purchase-Mony of the Lands sold, or any part thereof evicted within ten years.
A Covenant to pay back the Purchase-Mony at the end of two years, if the Purchaser dislike; and if he likes, then to pay a further Sum of Mony.
A Covenant not to claim Dower with a Release thereof.
The form of a Covenant of two Persons severally.
A Covenant by one, and two Husbands and their Wives.
sample provisoes
proviso
A Proviso that the Estate shall he void in default of payment of the Purchase-mony at the days limited.
A Proviso that an Estate shall be void in discharge of a Surety.
A Proviso to make void the use limited to the Wife, if she go about depart with her Estate.
A Proviso for preserving the Estate to Children, en ventre sa mere.
A Proviso that the Husband being Tenant for life, may make a Jointure to any other Wife, if the pre∣sent should die.
A Proviso for a Tenant for life to make a Jointure, if he should marry.
Another to settle a Rent for a Jointure.
A Proviso for R. C. being Tenant for Life, and for his Issue to make Leases and Jointures by Deed or Will.
A Proviso, That R. C. shall make Leases for as long, and for what Rents he please.
A Proviso, that an Estate limited to Daughters shall cease on payment of their Portions by the Heirs.
Proviso, that an Estate for years limited to the Trustees shall be void after Portions paid.
A Proviso, that if other Lands be conveyed in lieu of those limited, then the use in them to be to another.
A Proviso to make void an Estate, if the Son Marry without the Fathers consent.
A Proviso to revoke and limit new Uses.
Another, where the Uses were raised by a Covenant to stand seized.
An Exception of Leases in a Proviso to revoke.
A Revocation of Uses in a Feoffment and a Limita∣tion in Fee.
A Revocation of Uses, with the recital of the Proviso, and a Limitation of new Uses, viz. To R. C. for Life, and then to his Daughter and her Issue, and in default of Issue to his right Heirs in Fee.
A Jointure with all Covenants usual therein.
A Warrant for the Overseers of the Poor to name other fit Persons.
A Warrant for making new Overseers of the Poor. 43 E. 2.
A Warrant to make Overseers of the Poor, impowring them and the Church-wardens to Collect and Distrain for the Poors Tax. 43 E. 2.
A Confirmation of the Poors Tax. 43 E. 2.
A Warrant to levy the Arrears (due to the Parish by) the former Overseers Account.
A Warrant to distrain for the Poors Tax.
A Mittimus where no Distress can be had.
Upon the Statute of 14 Car. 2. cap. 12. A Warrant to remove out of the Parish, one lately come thither, and likely to be chargeable.
A Warrant to send a Wife and Child to her Husband.
A Warrant for apprehending one for returning to the Parish from which he was removed.
A Warrant to pay Arrears, and continue weekly Relief to the Poor.
A Bond and Condition to the Churchwardens and Over∣seers of the Poor, to save a Parish harmless upon in∣habiting there.
A Release to one that paid 20 l. to be freed from keep∣ing a Bastard Child.
An Indenture of an Apprentice put out by the Parish.
A Certificate of a Man's Honesty.
The Examination of a Person Robbed on the High-way.
The Examination of a Person Robbed by three Men, one of whom he knew.
A Warrant for a Hue and Cry after a Felen.
A Warrant to Search for one who hath Stollen a Gelding.
An Indenture of a Copartnership between four, for Af∣fairs Domestick and Foreign.
An Indenture on Separation of Copartners.
An Indenture where two Apprentices having taken their Master's Shop, covenant with his Executors to gather in his Debts.
A short Bargain and Sale of Coppice-Woods, where the price is partly paid in hand, and the residue to be paid after.
A Bargain and Sale of Trees and Coppice-Woods, with Covenant to be saved harmless from Tithes, and o∣ther special Covenants.
A Lease for years of Tythes.
A Bargain and Sale of Goods distrained for Rent.
Scriptum admissionis Capellani Proceris.
A Settlement by Lease and Release, on consideration of a Marriage intended of Lands, (which the Hus∣band hath in Reversion after a Tenant for Life) to the Wife for her Joynture, with an Entail to the Issue between them.
everal forms of expressing the Considerations of a Con∣veyance, or Setling Estates.
For the Consideration of Mony, part paid, and part secured.
For the Consideration of barring an Estate Tail.
For the Consideration of Love and Affection, and pre∣ferment of Children.
For the consideration of want of Issue and continuance of the Estate in the name.
In Consideration of a Marriage, and of the Marriage Portion.
In Consideration of a Marriage and former Agree∣ments.
In Consideration of being in Debt.
Forms of introducing the Uses on Fines and Recove∣ries, &c.
The Introduction of the Uses on a Fine to be levied.
The Introduction of the Uses on a Fine levied.
The Introduction of the Uses on a Recovery, to be had, with double Voucher.
The Introduction of the uses on a Recovery with double Voucher suffered.
The Introduction of the Uses of a Recovery, with sin∣gle Voucher to be had.
The Introduction of the Uses on a Recovery, with single Voucher already had.
The Introduction of the Uses on a Feoffment.
A Bargain and Sale for six Months, to ground a Re∣lease of the Reversion.
The Release and Grant of the Reversion, and the In∣troduction of the Uses.
Limitations of Estates for Life.
To the use of the Husband for life, and after to the Wife for a Jointure.
A Limitation of an Estate for Years, determinable up∣on a Life.
Limitations in Tail to the Brothers of the Feoffor.
A Limitation of a use in Fee determinable upon a Mar∣riage.
A Limitation of uses, and direction for disposing of the Profits during the Heirs Minority.
A Limitation after an Estate for Life determined, to the use of the Feoffee for sixteen years, for assuring the payment of Portions to younger Children.
A Limitation of an use, to such Persons to whom Cestuy que use for Life shall demise the Premisses.
How to dispose of Portions, if the Daughters die.
For Maintenance till Portions shall be paid.
A Revocation of a Suit.
A discharge to an Apprentice.
A Warrant to acknowledge Satisfaction on a Judg∣ment.
An greement of Creditors to take their Debts at four pay∣ments, abating Interest.
A Mortgage of Lands for years, partly for Mony lent and partly for security of the Mortgagees being Sureties for other Debts of Mortgagor.
H. and his Wife seized of Land, by Lease and Release and Recovery with single Voucher, convey part to J. S. and other part to T. S.
Two Joint-tenants in Fee, that they may be Tenants in Common, make a Feoffment by Lease and Release of one Moiety to the use of the one, and of the other Moie∣ty to the use of the other.
A Bargain and Sale of House and Land.
A Grant of an Annuity or Rent for years.
A Conveyance of Land to use of a Mans Heirs, the Pro∣fits during their Minority to pay Debts.
J. F. being seized in Fee, Convenants to levy a Fine to the use of himself for Life, and his Wife for Life, with Entail to his first, second or third Son, and in default of Issue Male, to his right Heirs.
A Declaration of the Uses of a Recovery and Fine al∣ready past, viz. To the use of J. F. and of R. F. his Wife for Life, in lieu of a Jointure, and to the use of a Trustee for ten years, to pay Debts and Legacies, and afterward to the use of the Right Heirs of J. F. in Fee.
J. F. being a Tenant in Fee and by Curtesie of Lands, &c. the Reversion of part thereof to P. F. his Son. J. F. and P. covenant to levy a Fine and Recovery to the use of himself and Son for Life, with divers Li∣mitations in Tail, and power in P. F. to make Leases for Portions for his Daughters, and also 1500 l. to be paid to S. F. the second Son of J. F. &c.
A way to preserve Contingent Uses in case the particular Estate determine before they come in esse.
A Conveyance or Settlement, whereby a man Settles an Estate on himself, and divers Estates for Life, and in Tail by Covenant to stand seized.
sample documents
Livery of Seizin by Feoffor to Feoffee.
Livery made by Attorney named in the Deed.
Another.
Another when the Letter of Attorney is in a several Deed.
Attorments.
attornment
Another.
Another
An Attornment by a Collateral Deed.
Livery and Attornment together.
An Assignment of several Leases to two Assignees made Tenants in Common, and not Joint-Tenants.
A Lease of a Messuage, Mill, Lands, Meadows, Pa∣stures, Tythes, and other things, with several Excep∣tions, Habendums, Reservations of Rent, Provisoes and Covenants, whereby may be made a several Lease of any of those things, with such Exceptions, Habendums, Reservations of Rent, Provisoes and Covenants, as the case requireth.
Covenants to convey Land in Consideration of 5 s. in hand, and residue to be be paid at a day to come, without ob∣liging the Buyer to pay, so that if he fails in payment, he may not pretend to have any Equity afterwards.