Note 470 — Book XIII.
John Beames translation
Sit laicum feodum. “A Juris Utrum did lie at the Common Law for a Parson against a Layman, and for a Layman against a Parson: but no Juris Utrum did lie for one Parson against another, before this Act, (Westmr. 2d.) because it was the Right of the Church and no Lay Fee. And the words of the writ at the Common Law were, an sit laicum feodum, &c.” (Vide 2 Inst. 407. and the authorities cited by Lord Coke.)