case wafer against MOCATO if a lessee for year covenant not to alien without  licence of the lessor under penalty of forfeit the lease and he afterward  alien without licence equity will not relieve he S c Eq ab there be a  agreement between the plaintiff and the defendant that the plaintiff in  consideration of thirteen hundred pound to be pay to he by the defendant shall  assign a term of year which he have in certain house in London which be lease  to he by the city with a covenant that the lessee shall not alien or assign  the term without leave of the city under the penalty of forfeit the say term  but the plaintiff have not yet get any licence from the city the defendant  will not take any assignment of this term for year until such licence shall be  procure but make over one hundred and fifty pound SouthSea stock to the  plaintiff as a security to perform the agreement on his part afterward and  before any licence be procure the plaintiff assign all his interest in this  term to the defendant who prevail with the plaintiff that the consideration  mention in the assignment shall be six hundred pound and no more which be do  because the true value may be conceal from the city fear that when the  defendant shall renew the term the city may raise the fine and the rend in  proportion modern report er p modern report now it be plain that the plaintiff  can have no remedy at law to recover any more than six hundred pound that be  the consideration mention in the assignment and probable not that neither  because have assign the term without licence from the city it be a forfeiture  thereof and by that mean and by colour of a entry and eviction by the city the  plaintiff will be bar of his demand therefore this bill be bring to have the  thirteen hundred pound accord to the agreement for the assignment of this term  for year and to be relieve upon the whole matter set forth as aforesaid the  defendant by his answer insist that he be to pay but one hundred and fifty  pound SouthSea stock for the aforesaid assignment and that the house be of  little value and that the plaintiff have forfeit this term by make a  assignment thereof without licence and therefore the assignment be void the  court where a man make a lease for life or for year upon a condition of  reentry for a forfeiture or that the lease shall be void if the lessee assign  or alien it without licence and afterward the lessee assign it without licence  this be a forfeiture and such a forfeiture against which this court can  relieve because it be unknown what shall be the measure of the damage for this  court never relieve but in such case where it can give some compensation a  Chan case vern vern a in damage and where there be some rule to be the measure  of such damage to avoid be arbitrary b hack v Leonard ante Wallis v Grimes  Chan case Popham v Bamfield vern S c vern Grimston v Lord Bruce salk S c vern  Dorrington v Jackson vern b