Of BARGAINS and SALES. 27 HENRY VIII. CAP. 16. BE it enacted by the authority of this present parliament, That from the last day of July, which shall be in the year of our Lord God 1536, no manors, lands, tenements, or other hereditaments, shall pass, alter or change from one to another, whereby any estate of inheritance or freehold shall be made or take effect in any person or persons, or any use thereof to be made, by reason only of any bargain and sale thereof, except the same bargain and sale be made by writing indented, sealed and inrolled in one of the King's courts of record at Westminster, or else within the same county or counties, where the same manors, lands, or tenements, so bargained and sold, lie or be, before the Custos Rotulorum, and two justices of the peace, and the clerk of the peace of the same county or counties, or two of them at the least, whereof the clerk of the peace to be one; and the same inrollment to be had and made within six months, next after the date of the same writings indented; the same Custos Rotulorum, or justices of the peace and clerk, taking for the inrollment of every such writing indented before them, where the land comprised in the same writing exceeds not the yearly value of forty shillings, 2s. that is to say, 12d. to the justices, and 12d. to the clerk; and for the inrollment of every such writing indented before them, wherein the land comprised exceeds the sum of 40s. in the yearly value, 5s. that is to say, 2s. 6d. to the said justices, and 2s. 6d. to the said clerk for the inrolling of the same. And that the clerk of the peace for the time being, within every such county, shall sufficiently inroll and ingross in parchment the same deeds or writings indented as is aforesaid, and the rolls thereof at the end of every year shall deliver unto the said Custos Rotulorum, of the same county for the time being, there to remain in the custody of the said Custos Rotulorum, for the time being, amongst other records of every of the same counties, where any such inrollment shall be so made, to the intent that every party that hath to do therewith, may resort and see the effect and tenure of every such writing so inrolled. II. Provided always, That this act, nor any thing therein contained, extend to any manor, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, lying or being within any City, Borough, or Town corporate, within this realm, wherein the mayors, recorders, chamberlains, bailiffs, or other officer or officers, have authority, or have lawfully used to inroll any evidences, deeds, or other writings, within their precinct or limits; any thing in this act contained to the contrary notwithstanding. INTRODUCED OR CITED CASES. ADAMS A. Clough and Clough, 243. DAMS v. Savage, 209, Collard v. Collard, 138. 220, 221, 224. Archer's case, 157. B. Cooper v. Franklin, 186, 187. v. Sir Corbet's case, 11, 83, 85, Callard v. Callard, 138. |