Quia Emptores (1290)

IIIX1Mortmain prohibited.E+W

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1 And It is to wit, that this Statute extendeth but only to Lands [X2holden] in Fee Simple; and that it extendeth to the time coming; and it shall begin to take effect at the Feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle next coming. [Given the eighteenth year of the Reign of King Edward, Son to King Henry.]

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X1Marginal note no longer accurate

X2Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: sold to be holden

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