CHAP. XXXVIII.
In this species of Recognition no Essoin is permitted.[485]
For, on the first day, and that whether the party committing the Disseisin should appear or not, the Recognition shall proceed,[486] because it spares no person, neither one of full age, nor a Minor, nor will await even a Warrantor. But, if a party should acknowledge such Disseisin in Court, naming, at the same time, a Warrantor, the Recognition shall thereby cease, and the person who has so acknowledged shall be amerced to the King.
The Warrantor shall be afterwards summoned,[487] and the Plea proceed between him and the person who has, on this occasion, nominated him as Warrantor.
Yet, should it be observed, that the unsuccessful party, whether the Appellor or the appealed,[488] shall in every instance be amerced to the King, on account of the violent Disseisin. In addition, if the Appellor should not keep his day, then, also, his Pledges are to be amerced to the King. The same Rule prevails, with respect to the person of the other party, should he absent himself at the appointed day. The Penalty inflicted by this Constitution is merely an Amercement to the King.
But, in this Recognition, the party who has proved the Novel Disseisin, may obtain, that the Sheriff should be directed to deliver him the Chattels and the Fruits, which have, by the authority of the King’s Writ, or that of his Justices, been in the mean time seised.[489] In no other Recognition does the Judgment of the Court usually make any mention concerning the Chattels or Fruits; and, unless the Sheriff has taken steps to satisfy him out of the Chattels or Fruits, then, the party who complains of it, shall obtain the following Writ——