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Stat. Westm. sec. - Actions of Waste Act 1285

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 1 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1285 c. 22
Year1285
The Statute of WESTMINSTER the Second, made Anno 13 Edw I Stat. 1. and Anno Dom. 1285 Waste maintainable by one Tenat in common against another.

(13 Edw. 1) C A P. XXII.

'WHereas two or more do hold Wood, Tursland, or Fishing, or other such Things in common, wherein none knoweth his several, and some of them do Waste against the Minds of the other, an Action may lie by a Writ of Waste; (2)and when it is come unto Judgement, the Defendant shall choose either to take his Part in a Place certain, by the Sheriff, and by the View, Oath, and Assignment of his Neighbours sworn and tried for the same Intent, or else he shall grant to take nothing from henceforth in the same Wood, Tursland, and such other, but as his Partners will take. (3) And if he do choose to take his Part in a Place certain, the Part wasted shall be assigned for his Part, as it was before he committed the Waste. (4)And there is such a Writ in this Case, that is to say,' Cum A. & B. tenant boscum pro indiviso, B. fecit vastum, &c.

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