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Stat. 1.
Anno decimo tertio Edwardi I.
A.D. 1285.

moveable of the Debtor, the Mainpernors or Pledges shall be without Damage: (2) Notwithstanding, for default of moveable Goods of the Debtor, the Creditor shall have Execution of his Recognisance upon the Mainpernors or Pledges, [1]in such Manner and Form as before is limited against the principal Debtor.

Enforced and amended by 13 Ed. 1. stat. 3. c. 3.

  1. Rast. 97.

STATUTUM WALLIE. See Appendix.[1]

  1. Stat. 12 Edw. 1. This statute is also known as the Statute of Rhuddlan; however, it has sometimes been misreferred to as the Statute of Rutland, 10 Edw. 1. (Wikisource contributor note)

STATUTA REGIS EDWARDI edita apud Westmon' in Parliamento suo Pasch. Anno Regni sui tertio decimo.
The Statute of Westminster the Second, made Anno 13 Edw. I. Stat. 1. and Anno Dom. 1285.

WHEREAS of late our Lord the King, in the Quinzim of Saint John Baptist, the Sixth Year of his Reign, calling together the Prelates, Earls, Barons, and his Council at Gloucester, and considering that divers of this Realm were disherited, by Reason that in many Cases, where Remedy should have been had, there was none provided by him nor his Predecessors, ordained certain Statutes right necessary and profitable for his Realm, whereby the People of England and Ireland, being Subjects unto his Power, have obtained more speedy Justice in their Oppressions, than they had before; and certain Cases, wherein the Law failed, did remain undetermined, and some remained to be enacted, that were for the Reformation of the Oppressions of the People: Our Lord the King in his Parliament, after the Feast of Easter, holden the Thirteenth Year of his Reign at Westminster, caused many Oppressions of the People, and Defaults of the Laws, for the Accomplishment of the said Statutes of Gloucester, to be rehearsed, and thereupon did provide certain Acts, as shall appear here following.

CAP. I.
In Gifts in Tail the Donor's Will shall be observed. The Form of a Formedon.

Several Sorts of Gifts of Lands in Tail.FIRST, [1]Concerning Lands that many Times are given upon Condition, that is to wit, Where any giveth his Land to any Man and his Wife, and to the Heirs begotten of the Bodies of the same Man and his Wife, with such Condition expressed, that if the same Man and his Wife die without Heirs of their
  1. 1 Leon. 212.; 1 Roll. 48, 153, 158, 333, 357, 385.