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Advowsons Act 1708

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 1 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1708 c. 18
Year1708
Anno Regin A N N , Regin septimo. An Act to preserve the Rights of Patrons to Advowsons.

(7 Ann.) C A P. XVIII.

'F O R A S M U C H as the Pleading in aQuare Impedit is found very difficult, whereby many Patronsare either defeated of their Rights of Presentation, or put to great Charge and Trouble to recover their Right, which is occasioned by the Law as it now is:' For Remedy whereof, be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That no Usurpation upon any Avoidance in any Church, Vicaridge, or other Ecclesiastical Promotion, shall displace the Estate or Interest of any Person entitled to the Advowson or Patronage thereof, or turn it to a Right, but he or she that would have had a Right, if no Usurpation had been, may present or maintain his or herQuare Impedit upon the next, or any other Avoidance, if disturbed, notwithstanding such Usurpation; and if Coparceners, or Joint Tenants, or Tenants in Common be seized of any Estate of Inheritance in the Advowson of any Church or Vicaridge, or other Ecclesiastical Promotion, and a Partition is or shall be made between them to present by Turns, that thereupon every one shall be taken and adjudged to be seized of his or her separate Part of the Advowson to present in his or her Turn; as if there be two, and they make such Partition, each shall be said to be seized...

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