Maintenance and Embracery Act 1540
PIER AND HARBOUR ORDER CONFIRMATION 1863 | ||
CHAPTER IX. | ||
AGENST maintenaunce and embracery byeng of titles, &c. | ||
For Prevention of Maintenaunce and Embracery; | ||
All Statutes against those Offences shall be put Execution. | ||
THE King our Souveraine Lorde calling to his moste blissed remembraunce that there is nothing within this Realme that conserveth his loving subjects in more quietnes rest peace and good concorde then the due and juste ministration of his lawes and the true and indifferent triall of suche titles and issues as ben to be tried according to the lawes of this realme, whiche his moste roiall Majestic pceyveth to be gretely hindered and lettid by maynetenance embracerie Champartie subornacion of witnesses sinistre labour buying of titles and pretensed rightes of personnes not being in possession, wheruppon greate pjury hathe ensued and muche unquietnes oppression vexacion troubles wrongis and dishenheritaunce hath folowed amongest his moste loving subjectis, to the greate displeasure of Allmighty God the discontentacion of his Majestic and to the greate hinderaunce and lett of justice within this his realme; For avoyding of all which misdemeanours and bying of titles and pretensed [- - - -1] and to thintent that justice may be the more fully and indifferently ministred and the trueth in causes of contencion plainely tryed bitwene his subjectis of this realme: Be it enacted by our said souverain lorde with thassent of the lordes spuall and temporall and the cōmons in this present plament assembled and by auctoritie of the same, that fromhensfurth all statutes heretofore made concerning maintenance champarty and embracery, or any of them nowe standing and being in their full streignth and force, shalbe put in due execution according to the tenures and effectis of the same statutis. |