Quia Emptores (1290)
IFreeholders may sell their Lands; so that the Feoffee do hold of the Chief Lord.
II Sale of Part.Apportionment of Services.
IIIMortmain prohibited.

Quia Emptores (1290)

1290 c. 1

A STATUTE of our LORD THE KING, concerning the Selling and Buying of Land. The Title Statute d’ni R. de t’ris vendend’ emend’ is in the Margin of the Roll, and of the Vetus Codex at the Tower, fo. 20: On the Close Roll 18 Edw. I. m. 6. d, this Statute is entered with the following Title in the Margin, ’Statute qd null emat tras de aliis tenend qa de capitalibz dnis, &c.’ In the Printed Copies and Translations it is intituled, ’Statutum Westm. iij. The Statute of Westminster the Third, viz. of Quia Emptores Terrarum.’X1X2

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This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland

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The original text of this Act was not modern English. The traditional translation appears first with obsolete characters modernised. The original text (as an image) appears second.