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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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27 ELIZ. CAP, 4, FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCES. 557
Lessees or Grantees, or of or to the Disturbance or Hindrance
of their Heirs and Successors, Executors, Administrators, or
Assigns, or such as have or shall lawfully claim any Thing by,
from or under them, or any of them, shall incur the Penalty
and Forfeiture of one Year's Value of the said Lands, Tene-
ments and Hereditaments so purchased or charged; (2)
* the one Moiety whereof to the Queen's Majesty, her Heirs 415
and Successors, and the other Moiety to the Party or Parties
grieved by such fained and fraudulent Gift, Grant, Lease, Con-
veyance, Incumbrance, or Limitation of Use, to be recovered in
any of the Queen's Courts of Record, by Action of Debt, Bill,
Plaint or Information, wherein no Essoin, Protection or Wager
of Law shall be admitted for the Defendant or Defendants; (3)
and also being thereof lawfully convicted, shall suffer imprison-
ment for one half Year, without Bail or Mainprize.
IV. Provided also, and be it enacted by the Authority afore-
said, That this Act, or any Thing therein contained, shall not
extend or be construed to impeach, defeat, make void or frus-
trate any Conveyance, Assignment of Lease, Assurance, Grant,
Charge, Lease, Estate, Interest, or Limitation of Use or Uses,
of, in, to or out of any Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments
heretofore at any Time had or made, or hereafter to be had or
made, upon, or for good Consideration and 'bona fide, to any
Person or Persons, Bodies Politick or Corporate; any Thing
before-mentioned to the contrary hereof notwithstanding.
V. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
That if any Person or Persons have heretofore sithence the
Beginning of the Queen's Majesty's Eeign that now is, made,
or hereafter shall make any Conveyance, Gift, Grant, Demise,
Charge, Limitation of Use or Uses, or Assurance of, in, or out
of any Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, with any Clause,
Provision, Article or Condition of Revocation, Determination
or Alteration, at his or their Will or Pleasure, of such Convey-
ance, Assurance, Grants, Limitations of Uses or Estates of, in
or out of the said Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, or of,
in or out of any Part or Parcel of them, contained or men-
tioned in any Writing, Deed or Indenture of such Assurance,
Conveyance, Grant or Gift; (2) and after such Conveyance,
Grant, Gift, Demise, Charge, Limitation of Uses, or Assurance

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