Limitation of Actions Act 1553
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1553 c. 5 |
| Year | 1553 |
(1 Mar. Session 2) C A P. V.
'W H E R E at a Parliament holden atWestminster the twenty-fourth Day of July in the thirty-second Year of the Reign of the late King of famous Memory, King Henry the Eighth, it was enacted, That no Manner of Person or Persons should from thenceforth sue, have or maintain any Writ of Right, or make any Prescription, Title or Claim of, to or for any Manors, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Annuities, Commons, Pensions, Portions, Corrodies or other Hereditaments of the Possession of his or their Ancestor or Predecessor, and declare and alledge any further Seisin or Possession of his or their Ancestor or Predecessor, but only of the Seisin or Possession of his Ancestor or Predecessor which hath been, or then was or shall be, seised of the said Manors, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Annuities, Commons, Pensions, Portions, Corrodies or other Hereditaments within threescore Years next before the Teste of the same Writ, or next before the said Prescription, Title or Claim, sued, commenced, brought, made or had after the making of the same Act:
II A Rehearsal of Part of the Stat. of 32 H. 8. c. 2. touching Limitation of Prescription.
II. And where also it was further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, amongst other Things, That no Person or Persons should after that make any Avowry or Cognisance for any Rent, Suit or Service, or alledge any Seisin of any Rent, Suit or Service, in the same Avowry or Cognisance, in the Possession of his or their Ancestors or Predecessor or Predecessors, or in his own Possession, or in the Possession of any other whose Estate he should after that pretend or claim to have, above fifty Years next before the making of the said Avowry or Cognisance.
III. And where by the same Act it was also further enacted amongst other Things, That if any Person or Persons at any Time after that, did sue any of the said Actions or Writs for any Manors, Lands, Tenements or other Hereditaments, or make any Avowry, Cognisance, Prescription, Title or Claim of or for any Rent, Suit, Service or other Hereditaments, and could not prove that he or they, or his or their Ancestors or Predecessors were in actual Possession and Seisin of and in the same Manors, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Suits, Services, Annuities, Commons, Pensions, Portions...
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