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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
Volume 194, Page 421   View pdf image (33K)
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32 H. 8, CAP. 9, CHAMPERTY. 421
STATUTES 318
Made at WESTMINSTER, Anno 32 HEN. VIII. and A.]). 1540.
CAP. IX.
The Bill of Bracery and buying of Titles,
The King our Sovereign Lord, calling to his most blessed
Remembrance, that there is nothing within flits Realm that
conserveth his loving Subjects in more Quietness, Rest, Peace,
and good Concord, than the due and just Ministration of his
Laws, and the true and indifferent Trials of such Titles and
Issues, as been to be tried according to the Laws of this Realm,
(2) which his most Royal Majesty perceiveth to be greatly
hindred and letted by Maintenance, Embracery, Champerty,
Subornation of Witnesses, sinister Labour, buying of Titles
and pretenced Rights of persons not being in Possession, (3)
whereupon great Perjury hath ensued, and much Inquietness,
Oppression, Vexation, Trouble, Wrongs, and Disinheritance
hath followed among his most loving Subjects, to the great
Displeasure of Almighty God, the Discontentation of his
Majesty, and to the great Hinderance and Let of Justice within
this his Realm; (4) For the avoiding of all which Misdeamean-
ors, and buying of Titles and pretenced Rights, and to the in-
tent that Justice may be more fully and indifferently minis-
tered, and the Truth in causes of Contention plainly tried be-
tween his Subjects of this Realm: (5) Be it enacted by our
said Sovereign Lord, with the Assent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament
assembled, and by Authority of the same. That from hence-
forth all Statutes heretofore made concerning Maintenance,
Champerty, and Embracery, or any of them now standing and
being in their full strength and force, shall be put in due Exe-
cution, according to The Tenures and Effects of the same
Statutes.
II. And over that, be it further enacted by the Authority
aforesaid, That no person or persons, of what Estate, Degree,
or Condition soever lie or they be, shall from henceforth bar-

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