Conveyancing Act, 1634

Parties or privies that justify, &c. forfeit one years value of the lands, the whole value of goods, and the money contained in such covenous bond,

to be divided and recovered, and imprisonment upon conviction as aforesaid.

XI. And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all and every the parties to such fained, covenous or fraudulent feoffment, gift, grant, alienation, bargaine, conveyance, bonds, suits, judgements, executions, and other things before expressed, or being privy and knowing of the same, or any of them, which at any time after the first day of May next comming shall wittingly and willingly put in ure, avow, maintaine, defend or justifie the same, or any of them, as true, simple and done, had, or made bona fide, and upon good consideration, or shall alien or assign any the lands, tenements, goods, leases, or other things before mentioned to him or them conveyed, as is aforesaid, or any parte thereof, shall incurre the penalty or forfeiture of one years value of the said lands, tenements, hereditaments, leases, rents, commons or other profits, of or out of the same, and the whole value of the said goods and chattels, and also so much money as is or shall be contained in any such covenous and fained bonds, the one moyety whereof to be to the King’s Majesty, his heires and successors, and the other moyety to the partie or parties grieved, by such fained and fraudulent feoffment, gift, grant, alienation, bargaine, conveyance, bonds, suits, judgments, executions, leases, rents, commons, profits, charges, and other things aforesaid, to be recovered in any of the King’s courts of record, by action of debt, bill, plaint or information, wherein no essoin, protection or wager of law shall be admitted for the defendant or defendants; and also being thereof lawfully convicted, shall suffer imprisonment for one halfe yeare, without baile or mainprise.