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Ch. XII.] Inquests of Office. 257 The rights of the Crown to the mesne or intermediate jn-ofits^ of tenements to which it is entitled, are also of a peculiar nature. " If," says Staundford (a), " the King have a title, right or interest to any lands or tenements, his Highness when he seiseth, shall be answered of all the mesne issues and profits from the time when his said title, right or interest accrued ; and whether it be a right of entry or title of entry, it makes no difference in the King's case. As for example, the King enters for a condition broken, he shall be answered of all the issues and profits since the condition broken ; and in that case a common person shall not have the issues and profits but from the time of his entry. Like law is it if the King's tenant alien in mortmain, and the King ente^;s ; but it is otherwise if he enters for mortmain in lands not holden of him, upon a title which accrues to him in default of other lords. The law is the same where the King is entitled to seize, for that the lands are of his foundation and aliened contrary to the statute of West- minster, 2. c. 41. In this case he shall be answered of all the mesne issues accrued from the time of the alienation. And note also, that if the King make any grant which is not suffi- cient in the law, or is deceived in the making of the same, by reason of its being made upon a false suggestion ; in this case if he resumes this grant and annuls it jure regis^ as he may, he shall then be answered of all the mesne issues and profits which were lost by means of the said insufficient grant : but if the King be entitled to any lands nomine districtionis, there he shall not be answered of the profits but from the finding of the title, as in case where the King's tenant in chief aliens without licence, and an office is thereof found, in this case he shall not be answered of the profits from the time of that alienation, but only from the time of the finding of the office, or from the lime of a scire facias returned, where the alienation is of record. And note that where the King is to be answered of the mesne issues and profits perceived and taken of any lands which have come to sundry hands, since the King's title first accrued to the same, there every one of those who have severally so per- ceived and taken the profits, shall answer for his own time, and not one for all." By the statute de escheatoribus, 29 Edw. 1. if the escheator, by (a) Prarog. Regis, <■. 27, fol. 84, b. s writ