These termers, their executors and
assigns, shall hold and enjoy their terms against the lessors,
their heirs and assigns. The lessor shall have a remedy for rents
due or waste by a termer after recovering the land as well as if
he had not recovered the land.
A lord may distrain land within his fee for rents, customs, or
services due without naming the tenant, because of the existence
of secret feoffments and leases made by their tenants to unknown
persons.
Anyone seised of land to the use or trust of other persons by
reason of a will or conveyance shall be held to have lawful seisin
and possession of the land, because by common law, land is not
devisable by will or testament, yet land has been so conveyed,
which has deprived married men of their courtesy, women of their
dower, the king of the lands of persons attainted, the king of a
year's profits from felons' lands, and lords of their escheats.
(This was difficult to enforce.)
A woman may not have both a jointure [promise of husband to wife
of property or income for life after his death] and dower of her
husband's land. (Persons had purchased land to hold jointly with
their wives)
A sale of land must be in writing, sealed, and registered in its
county with the clerk of that county. If the land is worth less
than 40s. per year, the clerk is paid 12d. If the land exceeds
40s. yearly, the clerk is paid 2s.
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