The Reading of the Famous and Learned Robert Callis, Esq., Upon the Statute of Sewers; 23 Hen. VIII. C. 5., as It Was Delivered by Him at Gray's Inn, - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ... perform the same jointly; and no one of them is a discharge for the other, because they shall be in consimili casu." So by this which hath been said touching these matters, the Commissioners may see and behold how carefully and understanding the laws of this realm have endeavoured to do equal justice; and my desire is, that they would as carefully put them in execution. A Township assessed. It hath been held for a great question whether a township or hundred in general might be assessed and taxed to the Sewers, without imposing the same on Case of the particular persons? And Sir Edward Coke, in the isle of Ely. case Qf tne Isje 0f gjy;g 0f opinion directly, that a tax, rate, or a sess, could not, nay might not, be set or imposed upon a town, or upon the inhabitants of a town; for, saith he, " The taxation, sessment, or charge, ought to have these qualities:--It ought to be according to the quantity of their lands by number of acres and perches, or by the tenure of profit of fishing and common of pasture, which if it should be laid upon a town it would hold none of those proportions." And his opinion is not alone in this very point; for in the Roraney ancient charter of Romney Marsh, page 50. it is said, Marsh case. Quod unusquisque proportione, ac periculo incumbentiumaquk contribuat. And page 12. and 39. of the same charter, the taxation is expressed to be by acres, perches, and carucates; and our statute in express words is, " and all those persons and every of them to tax and assess, charge, distrain, and punish, as well within the limits, leets, and bounds of old time accustomed, or otherwise, or elsewhere within this realm of England, after the quantities of their lands, 123 tenements and rents, and by the number of acres and...

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