Conveyancing Act, 1634

Conveyance with power of revocation or alteration, void as against a subsequent bargain and sale, charge, &c. for money or other consideration.

IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person or persons have heretofore, sithence the beginning of the raign of our late most gracious foveraigne lord King James of ever blessed memory, made, or hereafter shall make any conveyance, gift, grant, demise, charge, limitation of use or uses, or assurance of, in, or out of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, with any clause, provision, article, or condition of revocation, determination or alteration, at his or their will or pleasure, of such conveyance, assurance, grants, limitations of uses or estates, of, in or out of the said lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or of, in, or out of any part or parcell of them contained or mentioned in any writing, deed, or indenture of such assurance, conveyance, grant or gift; and after such conveyance, grant, gift, demise, charge, limitation of uses or assurances so had or made, shall or doe bargaine, sell, demise, grant, convey, or charge the same lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any part or parcell thereof, to any person or persons, body politicke or corporate, for mony, or other good consideration, paid or given, the said first conveyance, assurance, gift, grant, demise, charge or limitation, not by him or them revoked, made voide, or altered according to the power and authority reserved or expressed unto him or them, in and by the said secret conveyance, assurance, gift or grant ; that then the said former conveyance, assurance, gift, demise, and grant, as touching the said lands, tenements, or hereditaments, so after bargained, sold, conveyed, demised, or charged, against the said bargainees, vendees, lessees, grauntees, and every of them, their heires, successors, executors, administrators and assigns, and against all and every person and persons which have, shall, or may lawfully claime any thing, by, from, or under them, or any of them, or to their or any of their use or uses, shall be deemed, taken and adjudged to be void, frustrate and of none effect, by vertue and force of this present act.