Avowries Act 1529
(21 Hen. 8) C A P. XIX.
'WHERE as well the Noblemen of this Realm, as divers other Persons, by Fines, Recoveries, Grants, and secret Feoffments, and Leases made by their Tenants to Persons unknown, of the Landsand Tenements holden of them, have been put from the Knowledge of their Tenants, upon whom they should by Order of the Law make their Avowries for their Rents, Customs, and Services, to their great Losses and Hindrances:'
II Moor 883.
II. Be it therefore enacted, established, and ordained by Authority of this present Parliament, That wheresoever any Manner Lands, Tenements, and other Hereditaments be holden of any Manner Personor Persons, by Rents, Customs, or Services, that if the Lord, of whom any such Manner Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments be so holden, distrain upon the same Manors, Lands, or Tenements, for any such Rents, Customs, or Services, and Replevin thereof be sued, that the Lord of whom the same Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments be so holden, may avow, or his Bailiff or Servant make Conisance, or justify, for taking of the said Distresses upon the same Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments so holden, as in Lands or Tenements within his Fee or Seigniory, (2)alledging in the said Avowry, Conisance, and Justification, the same Manors, Lands, and Tenements to be holden of him, without naming of any Person certain to be Tenant of the same, and without making any Avowry, Justification, or Conisance upon any Person certain; (3)and likewise the Lord, Baily, or Servant to make Avowry, Justification, or Conisance in like Manner and Form upon every Writ sued of second Deliverance.
III Co. Lit. 268. b. 312. a.
III. And also be it enacted by the said Authority, That every Avowant, and every other Person or Persons that make any such Avowry, Justification, or Conisance, as Baily or Servant to any Person or Persons in any Replegiare, or second Deliverance, for Rents, Customs, Services, or for Damage fesant, or other Rentor Rents, upon any Distress taken in any Lands or Tenements, if the same Avowry, Conisance, or Justification be found for them, or the Plaintiffs in the same be nonsuit, or otherwise barred, that then they shall recover their Damages and Costs...
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