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13 Eliz. 5. Eng.
Fraudulent conveyances, &c. of lands or goods to avoid the debts or duties of others, void.
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X. And furthermore for the avoyding and abolishing of fained, covenous and fraudulent feoffments, gifts, grants, alienations, conveyances, bonds, suites, judgements and executions, as well of lands, and tenements, as of goods and chattels more commonly used and practised in these daies, then hath been seen or heard of heretofore; which feoffments, gifts, grants, alienaions, bonds, suits, judgements and executions have been and are devised and contrived of malice, fraud, covin, collusion or guile, to the end, purpose and intent to delay, hinder or defraud creditors and others of their just and lawfull actions, suits, debts, accompts, dammages, penalties, forfeitures, herriots, mortuaries, and reliefs, not onely to the lette or hinderance of the due course or execution of law and justice, but also to the overthrow of all true and plaine dealing, bargaining and chevisance between man and man, without the which no common wealth or civill society can be maintained or continued; Be it therefore further declared, ordained and enacted, by the authority of this present Parliament, That all and every feoffment, guist, grant, alienation, bargaine and conveyance of lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods and chattels, or of any of them, or of any lease, rent, common, or other profit or charge out of the same lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, and chattles, or any of them, by writing or otherwise, and all and every bond, suit, judgement and execution at any time had or made, sithence the beginning of the raign of his said late Majesty King James of blessed memory, or at any time hereafter to be had or made, to or for any intent or purpose before declared and expressed, shall be from henceforth deemed and taken onely as against that person or persons, his or their heires, successors, executors, administrators and assignes, and every of them, whose actions, suits, debts, accompts, dammages, penalties, forfeitures, herriots, mortuaries and relieses, by such guilefull, covenous and fraudulent devises and practies, as is aforesaid, are, shall, or mought be in any wise disturbed, hindred, delayed or desrauded to be clearely and utterly void, and of none effect: any pretence, colour, fained consideration, expressing of use, or any other matter or thing to the contrary notwithstanding.
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