_Note_, If any of your defendants live within a liberty where the sheriff
may not enter, you must get the sheriff to direct his warrant on your
writ to the bailiff of such liberty, who may execute it; but if the
bailiff of such liberty do not execute it, then you must at the return of
your writ, get the sheriff to return a _mandavi ballivo_ thereon, and
thereupon you make out a writ called a _non omittas_, directed to the
sheriff, and upon that writ the sheriffs officers may, upon the sheriffs
warrant made out thereon, enter and execute the warrant within such
liberty. _1 Instructor Clericalis._ 44.
And _Note_, The usual practice in such case is if the defendant dwells in
the country, to send down a _non omittas_ with the _latitat_ for
dispatch. _Ib._
SCAC. E. 1725.
_L. Digby_ v. _Meech_ et al.
Bill to establish plaintiffs right to the manor, &c. of Sherborn
Castleton in the county of Dorset, to Greenwax fines, &c., and also
poundage fees on executions and _Retorna Brevium_, &c. by virtue of a
grant 14 Jac. 1. The bill was brought against three succeeding sheriffs
of the county, and Templeman, who had been the undersheriff for three or
four years, and as to him to have an account of what poundage fees, &c.
he had received within the liberty: the title set forth by plaintiff was,
that King James I. granted to Sir John Digby (after earl of Bristol),
from him they descended to George, from him to John earl of Bristol, _and
on his death vested in plaintiff_.
It was objected at the hearing that here was not a sufficient title set
forth, it not appearing how the premises vested in plaintiff, whether by
descent, settlement, or how.
And _per tot' cur'_ the bill ought to be dismissed for that reason; the
bill being to establish a right, as well as for an account; and upon this
the cause went off, but plaintiff had liberty to amend his bill.
_Hanbury_, 195.
[18] In the Kings Bench the sheriff returned _Mand' ballivo' Libertatis
de D._ and it was said that he hath not such a franchise, and if it be
inrolled in the chancery that A. hath _retorna brevium_, yet if it be
not inrolled in the exchequer, as the statute of _W. 2. c. 39._ and if
the sheriff return other liberty he shall be punished as a disinheritor
of the Crown by such statute, and the justices may send _certiorari_ out
of chancery to the treasurer, that he bring the roll of liberties in his
hand, and shew it to the justices. _11 E. 4. 4._ _Br. Retorne de
briefe._ 98.
This Roll of Liberties is supposed to be lost; at least the clerks of
the _Treasurers Remembrancers office_, on inquiry there, could give no
account of it; any more than the bag-bearer of the _Kings_ could of the
"little booke," mentioned by Powell to be in the _Kings Remembrancers
office_, "intituled, _Liber de Ball. pro Angl._ of all the bailiwicks
throughout England," which he calls "an ancient booke, made _Anno_ 1180."
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