Dowress, etc. Act 1495
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1495 c. 20 |
| Year | 1495 |
(11 Hen. 7) C A P. XX.
FOR certain reasonable Considerations be it ordained, enacted, and established by the King our Sovereign Lord, and by the Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same, That if any Woman which hath had, or hereafter shall have, any Estate in Dower, or for Term of Life, or in Tail, jointly with her Husband, or only to her self, or to her Use, in any Manors, Lands, Tenements, or other Hereditaments of the Inheritance or Purchase of her Husband, or given to the said Husband and Wife in Tail, or for Term of Life, by any of the Ancestors of the said Husband, or by any other Person seised to the Use of the said Husband, or of his Ancestors, and have or shall hereafter, being sole, or with any other after taken Husband, discontinued or discontinue, aliened, released, or confirmed, aliene, release, or confirm with Warranty, or by Covin suffered or suffer any Recovery of the same against them, or any of them, or any other seised to their Use, or to the Useof either of them, after the Form aforesaid, that all such Recoveries, Discontinuances, Alienations, Releases, Confirmations, and Warranties so had and made, and from henceforth to be had and made, be utterly void ant of none Effect: (2) And that it shall be lawful to every Person and Persons, to whom the Interest, Title, or Inheritance, after the Decease of the said Women, of the said Manors, Lands, and Tenements, or other Hereditaments, being discontinued, aliened, and suffered to be recovered, after the First Day ofDecember next coming, in the Form aforesaid, should appertain, to enter into all and every of the Premisses, and peaceably to possess and enjoy the same, in such Manner and Form as he or they should have done, if no such Discontinuance, Warranty, nor Recovery had been had not made. (3) And over this be it ordained and enacted by the said Authority, That if any of the said Husbands and Women, or any other seised, or that shall be seised, to the Use of them of the Estate afore specified, after the said First Day ofDecember , do make or cause to be made, or suffer any such Discontinuance, Alienations, Warranties, or Recoveriesin Form aforesaid, that then it shall be lawful to the Person or Persons to whom the said Manors, Lands, or...
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