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Feoffments to Uses Act 1483

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 2 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1483 c. 1
Year1483
Anno primo RICHARDI III. Statutes made at Westminster in the First Year of the Reign of KingRichard III. and in the Year of our Lord 1483 All Acts made by or againstCestuy que use shall be good against him, his Heirs, and Feoffees in Trust. The several Inconveniencies of secret Feoffments. The Estate of Tenant in Tail saved.

(1 Ric. 3) C A P. I.

'FIrst, Because that by secret and unknown Feoffments, great Unsurety, Trouble, Costs, and grievous Vexations do daily grow betwixt the King's Subjects, insomuch that no Man that buyeth Lands, Tenements, Rents, Services, or other Hereditaments, nor Women which have Jointures or Dowers in any Lands, Tenements, or other Hereditaments, nor the last Will of Men to be performed, nor Leases for Term of Life or of Years, nor Annuities granted to any Person or Persons for the ir Services for Term of their Lives or otherwise, be in perfect Surety, nor without great Trouble and Doubt of the same, by reason of such privie and unknown Feoffments:' For the Remedy whereof it is ordained, established, and enacted, by the Advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same, That every Estate, Feoffment, Gift, Release, Grant, Leases, and Confirmations of Lands, Tenements, Rents, Services, or other Hereditaments, made or had, or hereafter to be made or had by any Person or Persons being of full Age, of whole Memory, at large and in dures, to any Person or Persons, and all Recoveries and Executions had or made, shall be good and effectual to him to whom it is so made, had or given, and to all other to his Use, against the Seller, Feoffor, Donor, or Granter...

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