Forcible Entry Act 1429
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
(8 Hen. 6) C A P. IX.
"ITEM, Whereas by the noble King Richard late King ofEngland , after the Conquest the Second, at this Parliament holden at Westminster the Morrow after All-Souls , the fifteenth Year of his Reign, amongst other Things, it was ordained and established, That the Statutes and Ordinances made, and not repealed, of them that make Entries with strong Hand into Lands or Tenements, or other Possessions whatsoever, and them hold with Force, and of them that make Insurrections, Riots, Routs, Ridings, and Assemblies, in Disturbance of the Peace, or of the Common Law, or in Affray of the People, should be holden and fully executed. (2) And moreover it is ordained by the same Statute, That at all Times that such forcible Entries be made, and Complaint thereof come to the Justices of Peace, or any of them, that the same Justices or Justice shall take the Power of the County, and shall go, or one of them shall go, to the Place where such Force is made; (3) and if they find, or he findeth, any holding such Place forcibly, after such Entry made, they should be taken and put in the next Gaol, there to remain convict by the Record of the same Justices or Justice, until they have made Fine and Ransom to the King; (4) and that all the People of the County, as well Sheriffs as other, shall be attending to the said Justices, and to assist them to arrest such Malefactors, upon Pain of Imprisonment, and to make Fine and Ransomto the King. And that in the same Manner be done of them that make forcible Entries into Benefices or Offices of holy Church, as in the same Statute is contained more at large.'
II. And for that the said Statute doth not extend to Entries in Tenements in peaceable Manner, and after holden with Force, nor if the Persons which enter with Force into Lands and Tenements, be removed and voided before the coming of the said Justices or Justice, as before, nor any Pain ordained if the Sheriff do not obey the Commandments and Precepts of the said Justices for to execute the said Ordinance, many wrongful and forcible Entries be daily made in Lands and Tenements by such as have no Right, and also divers Gists, Feoffments, and Discontinuances sometimes made to Lords, and other puissant Persons, and Extortioners within the said Counties where they be conversant, to have Maintenance, and some times to such Persons as be unknown to them so put out, to the Intent to delay and defraud such rightful Possessors of their Right and Recovery for ever, to the final Dishierison of divers of the King's faithful liege People, and likely daily to increase, if due Remedy be not provided in this Behalf:" '(2)Our Lord the King considering the Premisses, hath ordained, That the said Statute, and all other Statutes of such Entries or...
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