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Ecclesiastical Leases Act 1571

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Anno decimo tertio Regin E l i z a b e t h . Fraudulent Deeds made by Spiritual Persons to defeat their Successors of Remedy for Dilapidationsshall be void, &c.

(13 Eliz. 1) C A P. X.

'WH E R E divers and sundry Ecclesiastical Persons of this Realm, being endowed and possessed of ancient Palaces, Mansion-Houses, and other Edifices and Buildings, belonging to their Ecclesiastical Benefices or Livings, have of late Years not only suffered the same for Want of due Reparation partly to run to great Ruin and Decay, and in some Part utterly to fall down to the Ground, converting the Timber, Lead and Stones to their own Benefit and Commodity; (2) but also have made Deeds of Gift, colourable Alienations, and other Conveyances of like Effect, of their Goods and Chattels in their Lives-time, to the Intent and of Purpose, after their Deaths, to defeat and defraud their Successors of such just Actions and Remedies as otherwise they might and should have had for the same against their Executors or Administrators of their Goods, by the Laws Ecclesiastical of this Realm, (3) to the great Defacing of the State Ecclesiastical, and intolerable Charges of their Successors, and evil Precedent and Example for others, if speedy Remedy be not provided:'

S-II How the Successor shall have Remedy where the Predecessor doth make a fraudulent Deed to defeat him for Dilapidations.

II How the Successor shall have Remedy where the Predecessor doth make a fraudulent Deed to defeat him for Dilapidations.

II. Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That if any Archbishop, Bishop, Dean, Archdeacon, Provost, Treasurer, Chaunter, Chancellor, Prebendary, or any other having any Dignity or Office in any Cathedral or Collegiate Church within this Realm; (2) or if any Parson, Vicar, or other Incumbent of any Ecclesiastical Living whereunto do belong any House or Houses, or other Buildings, which by Law or Custom he is bound to keep and maintain in Reparation; (3) do from henceforth make any Deedor Deeds of Gift or Alienation, or other like Conveyances of his moveable Goods or Chattels, to the Intent and Purpose aforesaid; That then the Successor and Successors of him that shall make such Deed or Deedsof Gift or Alienation, shall and may, commence Suit, and have such Remedy in any Court Ecclesiastical of this Realm competent for the Matter...

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