Fines Act 1488
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
(4 Hen. 7) C A P. XXIV.
'ITEM, Where it was ordained in the Time of King Edward the First, by the Statutede Finibus , that Notes and Fines to be levied in the King's Court afore his Justices should be openly and solemnly read, and that Pleas in the mean Time should cease, and this to be done by Two Daysin the Week, after the Discretion of the Justices, as in the said Statute more plainly appeareth:' The King our Sovereign Lord considereth, That Fines ought to be of the greatest Strength to avoid Strifes and Debates, and to be a final End and Conclusion; and of such Effect were taken afore a Statute made of Nonclaim, and now is used to the contrary, to the universal Trouble of the King's Subjects, will therefore it be ordained, by the Advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in the said Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That after the ingrossing of every Fine to be levied after the Feast ofEaster , that shall be in the Year of our Lord M.CCCC.XC. in the King's Court, afore his Justices of the Common Place, of any Lands, Tenements, or any other Hereditaments, the same Fine be openly and solemnly read and proclaimed in the same Court the same Term, and in Three Termsthen next following the same Ingrossing in the same Court, at Four several Days in every Term; and in the same Time that it is so read and proclaimed, all Pleas to cease. (3) And the said Proclamations so had and made, the said Fine to be a final End, and conclude as well Privies as Strangers to the same, except WomenCovert (other than been Parties to the said Fine) and every Person then being within Age ofxxi. Years, in Prison, or out of this Realm, or not of whole Mind at the Time of the said Fine levied, not Parties to such Fine; (4)and saving to every Person or Persons, and to their Heirs, other than the Parties in the said Fine, such Right, Title, Claim, and Interest, as they have to or in the said Lands, Tenements, or other Hereditaments, the Time of such Fine ingrossed; so that they pursue their Title, Claim, or Interest, by Way of Action, or lawful Entry, within Five Years next after the said Proclamations had and made: (5) And also saving to all other Persons such Action, Right, Title, Claim, and Interest in or to the said Lands, Tenements...
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