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Attaints Act 1439

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 2 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1439 c. 2
Statutes made at Westminster, Anno 18 Hen VI. and Anno Dom. 1439 They which have Gavelkind Lands to the yearly Value of Twenty Pounds, may be returned in Attaints.

(18 Hen. 6) C A P. II.

‘ITEM, Whereas in the Parliament of our Lord the King, holden atWestminster the Fifteenth Year of his Reign, among other Articles it was ordained, That no Sheriff, Bailiff of Franchise, nor Coroner, in Action or Writs of Attaint of Plea of Land of the yearly Value of xl. s. or more, nor in Action of Attaint of Deeds concerning Lands and Tenements of the yearly Value of xl. s. and more, nor in personal Action, whereof the Judgment of the Recoevry extends to xl. li. or more, should return or impanel in any Inquisition or Inquest, any Persons but them that be inhabiting within his Bailiwick, which have Estate to their Use or they to whom other Persons have Estate of Fee-simple, Feetail, or Free-hold, in Lands and Tenements of the yearly Value of xx. li. or more, within his Bailiwick, out of antient Demean, Five Ports, and the Tenure of Gavelkind; (2) in respect of which Ordinance, seeing within the County of Kent there be but Thirty or Forty Persons at the most, which have any Lands or Tenements out of the Tenure of Gavelkind, because the greater Part of the said County, or well nigh all, is of the Tenure of Gavelkind, which Persons be continually impanelled and returned in the said Actions, to the great Hindrance and Impoverishment of the...

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