Fines Act 1540
| Year | 1540 |
(32 Hen. 8) C A P. XXXVI.
'FOrasmuch as in the fourth Year of the Reign of the late King of famous Memory, KingHenry the Seventh, Father of our most dread Sovereign Lord the King that now is, it was, among many good and sundry Statutes and Ordinances then made for the common Wealth, enacted, ordained, and established the Form and Manner how Fines should be levied with Proclamations in the King's Court before his Justices of his Common Place, (2) and that such Fines, with Proclamations so had and made, to the Intent to void all Strife and Debates, should be a final End, and conclude as well Privies as Strangers to the same, certain Persons excepted and saved, as in the same Statute more plainly appeareth; (3)sithen which Time, by Diversity of Interpretations, and expounding of the same Statute, it hath been, and is yet, by some Mannerof Persons doubted and called in Question, whether Fines with Proclamations levied or to be levied before the said Justices, by any Person or Persons having, or claiming to have in any Manors, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments comprised in the same Fine, in Possession, Reversion, Remainder, or in Use, any manner of Estate-tail, should immediately after the said Fine levied, engrossed, and Proclamation made, bind the right Heir and Heirs of such Tenant in Tail, and every other Person and Persons seised or claiming to their Use or Uses; by Occasion whereof divers Debates, Controversies, Suits and Troubles have been begun, moved, and had within this Realm, and mo be like to ensue, if Remedy for the same be not provided;' (4)For the Establishment and Reformation whereof, and for the sure and sincere Interpretation of the said Statute, in avoiding all Dangers, Contentions, Controversies, Ambiguities and Doubts that hereafter may ensurge, grow or happen, (5) our said Sovereign Lord the King, with the Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by Authorityof the same, hath enacted and ordained, That all and singular Fines, as well heretofore levied, as hereafter to be levied before the said Justiceswith Proclamations, according to the said Statute, by any Person or Persons of full Age of one and twenty Years, of any Manors, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, before the Time of the said Fine levied in any wise entailed to the Person or Persons so levying...
To continue reading
Request your trial