Limitation of Writs Act 1235

by the English Parliament

PROVISIONES DE MERTON. Statutes made at Merton in Crastino Sancti Vincentii (scil. 23. Jan.) Anno 20 HEN. III. and Ann. Dom. 1235.

Limitation of Writs Act, 1235

(repealed)

1235 (20 Hen. 3) C A P. VIII.

It was provided in the Court of our Lord the King, holden at Merton on Wednesday the morrow after the Feast of St. Vincent, the 20th Year of the Reign of King HENRY the Son of King JOHN, before William * Archbishop of Canterbury, and other his Bishops and Suffragans, and before the greater part of the Earls and Barons of England, there being assembled for the Coronation of the said King, and Hellianor the Queen, about which they were all called, where it was treated for the Commonwealth of the Realm upon the Articles underwritten, thus it was provided and granted, as well of the foresaid Archbishops, Bishops, Earls, and Barons, as of the King himself and others.

Several Limitations of Prescription in several Writs.

Co. Lit. 114. b. 115. b. 2 Inst. 94.

Altered by 3 Ed 1. c. 39. and farther by 32 H. 8. c. 2. 21 Jac. 1. c. 16.

Touching Conveyance of Descent in a Writ of Right from any Ancestor from the time of KingH ENRY the elder, the Year and Day, it is provided, that from henceforth there be no Mention made of so long time, but from the time of King HENRY our Grandfather;

(2) and this Act shall take effect atPentecost, the One and twentieth Year of our Reign, and not afore, and the Writs before purchased shall proceed.

(3) Writs of Mortdauncestor, of Nativis, and Entre, shall not pass the last Return of KingJOHN from Ireland into England; * and this Act shall take effect as before is declared.

(4) Writs of Novel disseisin shall not pass the first Voyage of our Sovereign Lord the King, that now is, into Gascoine. And this Provision shall take his effect from the time aforesaid; and all Writs purchased before shall proceed.'