case meacock and his wife against farmer a declaration in trespass by husband  and wife for a battery on the wife and for then and there take the husband  good ad damnum Self be bad trespass by husband and wife for a battery of the  wife and take the good of the husband then and there ad damnum Self general  verdict thirty pound damage move in arrest of judgement that they can not join  because the tort concern the good can not survive and therefore ought she not  to be join I do e contra endeavour to answer the exception notwithstanding the  authority against I in the register be express as word can make a case notam  that one may have a joint action for good take but of battery or such personal  trespass the action ought to be sole unless in the case of husband and wife  and if the husband and wife do bring a writ of trespass for a battery and for  good take the writ shall be of the good of the husband for the wife can have  no property in the good during the coverture videlicet si a et b wife he c  pone c quare c in Self b at c insultum fecit c et good et catalla the same a  ibidem invent ad valentian c to take in hand et to carry away et alian  irregular c ad grave damnum Self a et b these be the word of the book and the  writ and by this be our declaration draw the court seem to wonder at my  pretence of justify the declaration till I read the word of the register by  which Mr dod have make his narration but however they be all of opinion accord  to the constant tenor of the more modern authority shower KB another case I  cite which be as strong Inst a man die seize of land in right of his wife or  joint with his wife and his good be take away in a assize bring by the husband  and wife he and his wife shall recover seize of the land and he alone upon  that original bring by he and his wife shall have damage which be worthy of  observation and there he cite Henry which be accord judgement be arrest shower  KB er p shower KB easter term the four of William and mary in the king bench  sir John holt Knt chief justice sir William dolben Knt sir William Gregory Knt  sir Giles eyres Knt justice sir George Treby Knt attorney general sir John  summer Knt solicitor general