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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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11 H. 7, CAP. 20, ALIENATION IN DOWER. 349
CAP. XX.
Certain Alienations made by the Wife, of the Lands of her deceased
Husband, shall be void.
For certain reasonable Considerations be it ordained, en-
acted, and established by the King our Sovereign Lord, and by
the* Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the 265
Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by Au-
thority of the same, That if any Woman which hath had, or here-
after shall have, any Estate in Dower, or for Term of Life,
or in Tail jointly with her Husband, or only to her self, or to her
Use, in any Manors, Lands, Tenements, or other Hereditaments
of the Inheritance or Purchase of her Husband, or given to
the said Husband and Wife in Tail, or for Term of Life, by any
of the Ancestors of the said Husband, or by any other person
seised to the Use of said Husband, or of his Ancestors, and have
or shall hereafter, being sole, or with any other after taken
Husband, discontinued or discontinue, aliened, released, or
confirmed, aliene, release, or confirm with Warranty, or by
Covin suffered or suffer any Recovery of the same against them,
or any of them, or any other seised to their Use, or to the Use
of either of them, after the Form aforesaid, that all such Re-
coveries, Discontinuances, Alienations, Releases, Confirmations,
and Warranties so had and made, and from henceforth to be
had and made, be utterly void and of none effect: (2) And
that it shall be lawful to every person and persons, to whom
the Interest, Title, or Inheritance, after the Decease of the
said Women, of the said Manors, Lands, and Tenements, or
other Hereditaments, being discontinued, aliened, and suffered
to be recovered, after the first Day of December next coming, in
the Form aforesaid, should appertain, to enter into all and
every of the Premisses, and peaceably to possess and enjoy the
same, in such manner and form as he or they should have done,
if no such Discontinuance, Warranty, nor Recovery had been
had nor made. (3) And over this be it ordained and enacted
by the said Authority, That if any of the said Husbands and
Women, or any other seised, or that shall be seised to the Use
of them of the Estate afore specified, after the said first Day
of December, do make or cause to be made, or suffer any such
Discontinuance, Alienations, Warranties, or Recoveries in form

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