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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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422 32 H. 8, CAP. 9, CHAMPERTY.
gain, buy or sell, or by any ways or means obtain, get, or have
any pretenced Rights or Titles, or take, promise, grant, or
319 covenant* to have any Eight or Title of any person or
persons, in or to any Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Heredita-
ments (except such person or persons, which shall so bargain,
sell, give, grant, covenant, or promise the same, their Anteces-
sors, or they by whom he or they claim the same, have been in
Possession of them same, or of the Reversion or Remainder
thereof, or taken the Rents or Profits thereof, by the space of
one whole Year next before the said Bargain, Covenant, Grant,
or Promise made) (2) upon pain that he that shall make any
such Bargain, Sale, Promise, Covenant, or Grant, to forfeit
the whole value of the Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, so
bargained, sold, promised, covenanted, or granted, contrary to
the Form of this Act; (3) and the Buyer and Taker thereof,
knowing the same, to forfeit also the value of the said Lands,
Tenements, or Hereditaments so by him bought or taken, as is
abovesaid; (4) the one half of the said Forfeitures to be to the
King our Sovereign Lord, and the other half to the party that
will sue for the same in any of the King's Courts of Record,
by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information; in which
Action, Bill, Plaint, or Infirmation, no Essoin, Protection,
Wager of Law, nor Injunction shall be allowed.
III. And furthermore, That no manner of person or persons,
of what Estate, Degree, or Condition soever he or they be, do
hereafter unlawfully maintain, or cause, or procure any unlaw-
ful Maintenance in any Action. Demand, Suit or Complaint in
any of the King's Courts of the Chancery, the Star-Chamber,
White-hall. or elsewhere within any of the King's Dominions
of England and Wales, or the Marches of the same, where any
person or persons have, or hereafter shall have Authority, by
virtue of the King's Commission, Patent, or Writ, to hold Plea
of Lands, or to examine, hear, or determine any Title of Lands,
or any Matter or Witnesses concerning the Title, Right, or In-
terest of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments; (2) and
also that no person or persons, of what Estate, Degree, or Con-
dition soever lie or they be. do hereafter unlawfully retain, for
Maintenance of any Suit or Plea, any person or persons, or
embrace any Freeholders or Jurors, or suborn any Witness, by
Letters, Rewards, Promises, or any other sinister labour or
means, for to maintain any Matter or Cause, or to the distur-
bance or hindrance of Justice, or to the procurement, by occa-

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