Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1846. Excerpt: ... Costs. Though a dean and chapter have surrendered (a) all their possessions to the king, yet their corporation continues, and they remain a chapter of the bishop to assist him in spiritual matters, &c., for all their possessions were from the bishop, and a prebendary, though he hath no possession, hath stallum in choro et vocem in capitulo. 3 Co. 75 b. (a) But there cannot be a guardian of a chapel, when the chapel and all the possessions thereof are aliened. 3 Co. 75 a; 10 Co. 32, for there cannot be a guardian of nothing. If lands are given to a corporation, which is (b) afterwards dissolved, the donor shall have the lands again; for the law annexes such a condition in every grant to a body politic. Co. Lit. 13 b; Godb. 311. [Mo. 283, acc. Vide tamen 20 Jac. C. B. Johnson v. Morris, that the lands shall escheat. Hal. MSS., which also cites 21 E. 4, 1, and 21 H. 7, 9. And the case of Johnson v. Norway in Winch. 37, which seems to be the same as that cited by Lord Hale, is against the donor, though it is not mentioned in Winch. that the judges finally decided the point. See also contr. Lord Coke, the case of Southwell v. Wade, in 1 Ho. Abr. 816, A. p. 1, and S. C. in Poph. 91. Co. Lit. 13th ed. 13 b, n. 2.] (6) A debt due to a corporation still regains, though their name is changed by a new charter. 3 Lev. 238. If a corporation bind themselves in a bond, and are afterwards dissolved, they shall not be charged in their natural capacities. Lev. 237, and vide Owen, 73; 2 And. 107. The major part of an integral part of a corporation whose attendance is required at the election of corporate officers being gone, it operates as a dissolution of the whole corporation. Rex v. Morris, 3 East, 213. COSTS. (A) Of the first Introduction of, and giving the Plaintiff Costs de incremento. (B) In wh...
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