Statute Quia Emptores

Statute Quia Emptores
An act of Parliament in 1290 (18 Edw I ch 1), prohibiting sub-infeudation as by providing that upon all sales or feoffments of lands, the feoffee shall hold the same, not of the immediate feoffor, but of the chief lord of the fee, of whom such feoffor himself held it, the object of the Act being to remove feudal restraint upon the alienation of land. 28 Am J2d Est § 3. A statute which had the effect of abolishing rent service. Van Rensselaer v Hays, 19 NY 68. For text of statute, see Am J2d Desk Book, Document 105.

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