SECT. XI. The statute 27 Hen. 8. c. 10. (80.) (81.) 66 liefs, harriots, escheats, aids pur fair fitz chivalier, & pur file marier, and scantly any person can be certainly assured of any "lands by them purchased, nor know surely "against whom they shall use their actions, "or execution, for their rights, titles, and "duties; also men married have lost their "tenancies by the courtesy, women their' "dowers; manifest perjuries by trial of such "secret wills, and uses, have been commit"ted; the king's highness hath lost the pro"fits and advantages of the lands of persons "attainted, and of the lands craftily put in "feoffments to the uses of aliens born, and "also the profits of waste for a year and a "day of lands of felons attainted, and the "lords their escheats thereof; and many "other inconveniencies have happened, and daily do increase among the king's subjects,' "to their great trouble and inquietness, and "to the utter subversion of the ancient com"mon laws of this realm: for the extirpating "and extinguishment of all such subtle prac"tised feoffments, fines, recoveries, abuses, "and errors heretofore used and accustomed "in this realm, to the subversion of the good "and ancient laws of the same, and to the "intent that the king's highness, or any "other his subjects of this realm, shall not "in anywise hereafter, by any means or in"ventions be deceived, damaged, or hurt by "reason of such trusts, uses, or confidences, SECT. XI. The statute 27 "it may please the king's most royal majesty, "that it may be enacted by his highness, by H137 Hen. 8. c. 10. "the assent of the lords spiritual and tem"poral, and the commons in this present par"liament assembled, and by the authority of "the same, in manner and form following, "that is to say, That where any person or persons stand, or be seised, or at any time. "hereafter shall happen to be seised, of and "in any honours, castles, manors, lands, te nements, rents, services, reversions, re"mainders, or other hereditaments, to the use, confidence, or trust of any other person 66 or persons, or of any body politic, by rea"son of any bargain, sale, feoffment, fine, " recovery, covenant, contract, agreement, will, or otherwise, by any manner of means "whatsoever it be; that in every such case The possession "all and every such person and persons, and "bodies politic, that have, or hereafter shall "have, any such use, confidence, or trust, in "fee simple, fee tail, for term of life, or for years, or otherwise, or any use, confidence, "or trust in remainder, or reverter, shall "from henceforth stand, and be seised, deem ed, and adjudged in lawful seisin, estate, "and possession, of and in the same honours, "castles, manors, lands, tenements, rents, 66 services, reversions, remainders, and here'ditaments, with their appurtenances, to all "intents, constructions, and purposes in the "law, of and in such-like estates, as they had shall be in him or them that have the use. (82.) SECT. XI. The statute 27 Hen. 8. c. 10. S. 2. Conveyances made to different persons to the use of one or some, of them. (93.) "or shall have in use, trust, or confidence, of or in the same; and that the estate, title, right, and possession, that was in such person or persons, that were or hereafter "shall be seised of any lands, tenements, or "hereditaments, to the use, confidence, or "trust of any such person or persons, or of any body politic, be from henceforth clearly "deemed and adjudged to be in him or them, "that have or hereafter shall have such use, "confidence, or trust, after such quality, "manner, form, and condition, as they had "before in or to the use, confidence, or trust "that was in them. 66 2. "That where divers and many persons be, or hereafter shall happen to be, jointly seised "of and in any lands, tenements, rents, reversions, remainders, or other heredita"ments, to the use, confidence, or trust, of "any of them that be so jointly seised; that "in every such case, that those person or persons which have or hereafter shall have any such use, confidence, or trust, in any "such lands, tenements, rents, reversions, "remainders, or hereditaments, shall from "henceforth have, and be deemed and ad"judged to have only to him or them that "have or hereafter shall have any such use, "confidence, or trust, such estate, possession, "and seisin of and in the same lands, tene"ments, rents, reversions, remainders, and "other hereditaments, in like nature, man SECT. XI. Hen. 8, c. 10. ner, form, condition, and course, as he or The statute 27 they had before in the use, confidence, or trust of the same lands, tenements, or he"reditaments: saving and reserving to all Saving of the "and singular persons, and bodies politic, gere. "their heirs and successors, other than those person or persons which be seised, or here"after shall be seised, of any lands, tene ments, or hereditaments, to any use, con"fidence, or trust, all such right, title, entry, "interest, possession, rents, and action, as "they or any of them had or might have had "before the making of this act. 3. "And also saving to all and singular "those persons, and to their heirs, which be "or hereafter shall be seised to any use, all "such former right, title, entry, interest, possession, rents, customs, services, and actions, as they or any of them might have had to his or their own proper use, in or to any manors, lands, tenements, rents, or "hereditaments, whereof they be, or herc"after shall be, seised to any other use, as if "this present act had never been had nor "made, any thing contained in this act to "the contrary notwithstanding. Upon this clause, see Ferrers v. Fermor, Cro. Jac. 643. 1 Vent. 195. 280. Cecil's case, 7 Co. right of stran Saving of the their own use. (84.) right feoffees to 4. "And where also divers persons stand The statute 27" and be seised of and in any lands, tene SECT. X. Hen. 8. c. 10. (85.) 5 S. The execution of rents. ments, or hereditaments, in fee simple or otherwise, to the use and intent that some "other person or persons shall have and per"ceive yearly to them, and to his or their heirs, one annual rent of 10. or more or "less, out of the same lands and tenements, "and some other person one other annual "rent to him and his assigns, for term of life or years, or for some other special time, ac"cording to such intent and use as hath "been heretofore declared, limited, and made "thereof: 5. "Be it enacted therefore by the authority "aforesaid, That in every such case, the same રે persons, their heirs and assigns, that have "such use and interest, to have and perceive any such annual rents, out of any lands, "tenements, or hereditaments, that they and 66 every of them, their heirs and assigns, be adjudged and deemed to be in possession "and seisin of the same rent, of and in such "like estate, as they had in the title, interest, or use of the said rent or profit, and as if a sufficient grant, or other lawful conveyance, had been made and executed to them, |