Grantees of Reversions Act 1540
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1540 c. 34 |
(32 Hen. 8) C A P. XXXIV.
'W HERE before this Time divers, as well Temporal as Ecclesiastical and Religious Persons, have made sundry Leases, Demises and Grants to divers other Persons, of sundry Manors, Lordships, Ferms, Meases, Lands, Tenements, Meadows, Pastures, or other Hereditaments, for Term of Lifeor Lives, or for Term of Years, by Writing under their Seal or Seals, containing certain Conditions, Covenants and Agreements to be performed, as well on the Part and Behalf of the said Lessees and Grantees, their Executors and Assigns, as on the Behalf of the said Lessors and Grantors, their Heirs and Successors; (2) and for as much as by the Common Law of this Realm, no Stranger to any Covenant, Action or Condition, shall take any Advantage or Benefit of the same, by any Means or Ways in the Law, but only such as be Parties or Privies thereunto, by the Reason whereof, as well all Grantees of Reversions, as also all Grantees and Patentees of the King our Sovereign Lord, of sundry Manors, Lordships, Granges, Ferms, Meases, Lands, Tenements, Meadows, Pastures, or other Hereditaments late belonging to Monasteries, and other Religious and Ecclesiastical Housesdissolved, suppressed, renounced, relinquished, forfeited, given up, or by other Means come to the Hands and Possession of the King's Majesty since the fourth Day ofFebruary , the seven and twentieth Year of his most noble Reign, be excluded to have any Entry or Action against the said Lessees and Grantees, their Executors or Assigns, which the Lessorsbefore that Time might by the Law have had against the same Lessees for the Breach of any Condition, Covenantor Agreement comprised in the Indentures of their said Leases, Demises and Grants:' (3)Be it therefore enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same, That as well all and every Personand Persons, and Bodies Politick, their Heirs, Successors and Assigns, which have or shall have any Gift or Grant of our said Sovereign Lord by his Letters Patents of any Lordships, Manors, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Parsonages, Tithes, Portions, or any other Hereditaments, or of any Reversion or Reversions of the same, which did belong or appertain to any of the said Monasteries...
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