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32 H. 8, CAP. 28, LEASES. 427 Wife, and she to seal to the same; (3) and that the Perm and Eent be reserved to the Husband and to the Wife, and to the Heirs of the Wife, according to her Estate of Inheritance in the same; (4) and that the Husband shall not in any wise aliene, discharge, grant, or give away the same Rent reserved, nor any part thereof, longer than during the Coverture, without it be by Fine levied by the said Husband and Wife; (5) but that the same Rent shall remain, descend, revert, or come after the Death of such Husband, unto such person or persons, and their Heirs, in such manner and sort as the Lands so leased should have done, if BO such Lease had been thereof made. IV. Provided also, That this Act extend not to give any liberty or power to any person or persons to take any mo Ferms, Leases, or Takings of any Manors, Lands, Tenements, or other Hereditaments, than he or they should or might law- fully have done before the making of tills Act; any thing con- tained in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding. * V. And furthermore be it enacted by Authority afore- 324 said, That all Leases at any time within the space of three Years next before the twelfth Day of April, in the thirty first Year of our Sovereign Lord the King's Reign, made by Writing indented under Seal, by any person or persons of full Age, of whole Memory, not unlawfully coarcted, nor being covert Baron, for term of Years, of any Manors, Lands, Tenements, or other Hereditaments, whereof the Lessor or Lessors were seised of any Estate of Inheritance of and in the same, to their own only use, at the time of making any such Lease thereof, and whereof the Lessees, their Executors, or Assigns, be now in Possession by virtue of the same Lease, and no cause of Re- entry or Forfeiture thereof had or made, shall be good and ef- fectual in the Law against the Lessors, their Heirs, and Suc- cessors, and the Heirs and Successors of every of them, ac- cording to the Covenants, Articles, and Agreements specified in every such Indenture or Lease; (2) So always there be re- served and yearly payable during the same Lease to the said Lessors, their Heirs, or Successors, or to such other as should or ought to have had the same Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments so leased after the Decease of such Lessors, in case no such Lease had thereof been made, as much yearly Rent for the same, as was at any time therefore yielden or paid within twenty Years next before the making of any such |
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