Fraudulent Conveyances Act 1584
| Year | 1584 |
(27 Eliz. 1) C A P. IV.
'FOrasmuch as not only the Queen's most excellent Majesty, but also divers of her Highness good and loving Subjects, and Bodies Politick and Corporate, after Conveyances obtained or to be obtained, and Purchases made or to be made, of Lands, Tenements, Leases, Estates and Hereditaments, for Money or other good Considerations, may have, incur and receive great Loss and Prejudice by reason of fraudulent and covinous Conveyances, Estates, Gifts, Grants, Charges and Limitations of Uses heretofore made or hereafter to be made, of, in or out of Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments so purchased or to be purchased; (2) which said Gifts, Grants, Charges, Estates, Uses and Conveyances were, or hereafter shall be, meant and intended by the Parties that so make the same to be fraudulent and covinous, of Purpose and Intent to deceive such as have purchased or shall purchase the same; (3) or else by the secret Intent of the Parties the same be to their own proper Use, and at their free Disposition, (4) coloured nevertheless by a fained Countenance and Shew of Words and Sentences, as though the same were madebona fide , for good Causes, and upon just and lawful Considerations:'
II Ed. 3. c. 6. 2 R. 2. Stat. 2. c. 3. 3 H. 7. c. 4. Fraudulent Conveyances made to deceive Purchasers shall be void.
II. For Remedy of which Inconveniences, and for the Avoiding of such fraudulent, fained and covinous Conveyances, Gifts, Grants, Charges, Uses and Estates, and for the Maintenance of upright and just Dealing in the purchasing of Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments; (2) Be it ordained and enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament, That all and every Conveyance, Grant, Charge, Lease, Estate, Incumbrance and Limitation of Use or Uses, of, in or out of any Lands, Tenements or other Hereditaments whatsoever, had or made any Time heretofore sithence the Beginning of the Queen's Majesty's Reignthat now is, or at any Time hereafter to be had or made, for the Intent and of Purpose to defraud and deceive such Person or Persons, Bodies Politick or Corporate, as have purchased or shall afterwards purchase in Fee-simple, Fee-tail, for Life, Lives or Years, the same Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, or any Part or Parcel thereof, so formerly conveyed, granted, leased, charged, incumbred or limited in Use, (3) or to defraud and deceive such as have or shall purchase any Rent, Profit or Commodity in or out of the same, or any Part thereof, (4) shall be deemed and taken only as against that Person and Persons, Bodies Politick and Corporate, his and their Heirs, Successors, Executors, Administrators and Assigns, and against all and every other Person and Persons lawfully having or claiming by, from or under them, or any of them, which have purchased or shall hereafter so purchase for Money or other good Consideration, the same Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, or any Part or Parcel thereof, or any Rent, Profit or Commodity in or out of the same, to be utterly void, frustrate and of none Effect; (5) any Pretence, Colour, fained Consideration, or expressing of any Use or Uses to the contrary notwithstanding.
III The Penalty of the Parties to fraudulent Conveyances, who do avow the same.
III. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all and every the Parties to such fained, covinous and fraudulent Gifts, Grants, Leases, Charges or Conveyances before expressed, or being privy and knowing of the same or any of them, which after the twentieth Day ofApril next coming shall wittingly and willingly put in ure, avow, maintain, justify or defend the same or any of them, as true, simple, and done, had or made, bona fide , or upon good...
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