case bridge against cage see Sheffield corporation v Barclay king b a c a  promise to pay money to a sheriff or other officer in consideration of do that  for which the law do not suffer they to take any thing be void and will not  support a assumpsit although free and voluntary make and join with another  promise make on a lawful consideration roll ab cro Elizabeth cro car hob Leon  side salk burr Bl Rep will Com dig Bac ab Bac ab stram hawk p c Cowp term Rep  see Roger v reeve term Rep action on the case in a assumpsit whereas a  executor sue execution by a elegit the defendant ut friend executor in  consideration that the sheriff will execute the writ and of sixpence give to  he by the plaintiff be undersheriff of Cambridgeshire promise to give the  plaintiff sixty pound and allege in fact that he execute the writ and  thereupon bring the action after verdict for the plaintiff it be move that it  be not any consideration to maintain the action for the sheriff by his duty  and oath ought to execute the writ and therefore to have a promise of  consideration for execute it be not lawful and it be quasi extortion and  therefore ill and unlawful and although it be allege that this sum promise he  be no more than what the statute of Elizabeth c allow he to take for his fee  yet that will not help the case for that statute only excuse he for his take  fee if it be no more than what the statute permit whereas the commonlaw do not  permit he to take any thing for the execute writ Warberton say although the  statute tolerate it that it be not punishable as the usury of ten pound per  one hundred pound be tolerate yet it have be oftentimes adjudge that for such  fee he have not any remedy by a action gawdy say it be not reasonable that for  the execute of a writ by elegit where croak James er p peradventure the land  be not worth forty shilling he shall have sixpence for every pound of the debt  and here the give of sixpence be no sufficient consideration be join with the  other which be unlawful wherefore it be adjudge for the defendant