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Penalty upon parties and privies, to fraudulent conveyances, if they avow or justify the same.
One year’s value of the lands purchased or charged, one moiety to the K. the other to the persons grieved,
and one half year’s imprisonment, upon conviction.
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II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all and every the parties to such fained, covenous and fraudulent gifts, grants, leases, charges, or conveyances before expressed, or being privy or knowing of the same, or any of them, which after the first day of May next coming, shall wittingly and willingly put in ure, avowe, maintaine, justifie or defend the same, or any of them, as true, simple, and done, had or made, bona fide, or upon good consideration, to the disturbance or hinderance of the said purchaser or purchasers, lessees or grauntees, or of, or to the disturbance or hinderance of their heirs, successors, executors, administrators or assignes, or such as have, or shall lawfully claime any thing by, from or under them, or any of them, or to their or any of their use or uses, shall incurr the penalty or forfeiture of one years value of the said lands, tenements and herediaments, so purchased or charged, the one moyety whereof to be to the King’s Majesty, his heires and successors, and the other moyety to the person or persons grieved by such fained and fraudulent gift, grant, lease, conveyance, incumbrance, or limitation of use, to be received in any of the King’s courts of record, by action of debt, bill, plaint or information, wherein no essoine, protection or wager of law, shall be admitted for the defendant or defendants; and also being thereof lawfully convicted, shall suffer imprisonment for one half year, without baile or mainprise.
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