Reasons for the continuance of the common assurance of land by fines This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B28716 of text R217519 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B28716 Wing R512F 99829181

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 eng Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo Reasons for the continuance of the common assurance of land by fines n/a 1650 1 465 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2014-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-08 Sampled and proofread 2014-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Reasons for the continuance of the common Assurance of Land by Fines .

I. Fines are the common and the most ancient Assurances of this Nation , long before the Conquest : Plow . fol. 357. & 368. which puts an end to all Controversies in the Law , and against which there is no averment .

II . They are the most short and concise of all Evidences , yet full and perfect , in so much that the Chirographer ( for security ) writes them twice over , to be kept in severall places ; proclaims them foure times in open Court ; And because all parties are by them barred , not claiming within five years , He enters them in severall Rolls , every County by it self , to be sent into each perticular County , and published at the Assizes , and all this for his Fee of five shillings , per Stat. 13 E. 1. 4 Hen . 7.23 . Eliz .

III . They are most in esteeme and acceptation with the people , against which there was never any complaint : And in case the State should relinquish their Revenue thereby ( which none complains against ) amounting to twenty thousand pounds per annum at least ) they would be as cheap Assurances , and as perfect Evidences as can be devised .

IV . They are by the wisdom of former Parliaments so carefully provided for , in way of their acknowledgment , prosecution , and recording , as that they can neither be forged nor embezeled .

V. Although divers persons inhabiting in severall Counties should happen to have one joynt estate in Lands , which lye in many Counties , yet may they all joyne and leavy a Fine by Commission , and so passe away their Estates at their own severall habitations , without further travell or trouble .

VI . They bar a Feme Covert , which no other Deed or Conveyance can do .

VII . They may ( as anciently usually they did ) with much brevity declare their own uses , that the parties need no other deed .

Wherfore , seeing Fines are so concise , so ancient , so cheap ; so much esteemed by all men , such perfect Assurances , and in regard they put an end to all Suits , bar all Claims , have so many Acts of Parliament approving and strengthning them , and take their rise long before the comming in of the Normans , and are part of the Common Law of England . It is humbly conceived , it will be most safe and acceptable to the people still to hold their Estates by this Assurance .