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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD>Rea&s;ons for the continuance of the common A&s;&s;urance of Land by Fines.</HEAD>
<P N="1">I. Fines are the common and the mo&s;t ancient A&s;&s;urances of this Na|tion, long before the Conque&s;t: <HI>Plow. fol. 357. &amp; 368.</HI> which puts an end to all Controver&s;ies in the Law, and again&s;t which there is no averment.</P>
<P N="2">II. They are the mo&s;t &s;hort and conci&s;e of all Evidences, yet full and per|fect, in &s;o much that the <HI>Chirographer</HI> (for &s;ecurity) writes them twice o|ver, to be kept in &s;everall places; proclaims them foure times in open Court; And becau&s;e all parties are by them barred, not claiming within five years, He enters them in &s;everall Rolls, every County by it &s;elf, to be &s;ent into each perticular County, and publi&s;hed at the A&s;&s;izes, and all this for his Fee of five &s;hillings, <HI>per Stat. 13 E. 1. 4 Hen. 7.23. Eliz.</HI></P>
<P N="3">III. They are mo&s;t in e&s;teeme and acceptation with the people, again&s;t which there was never any complaint: And in ca&s;e the State &s;hould re|linqui&s;h their Revenue thereby (which none complains again&s;t) amount|ing to twenty thou&s;and pounds <HI>per annum</HI> at lea&s;t) they would be as cheap A&s;&s;urances, and as perfect Evidences as can be devi&s;ed.</P>
<P N="4">IV. They are by the wi&s;dom of former Parliaments &s;o carefully provided for, in way of their acknowledgment, pro&s;ecution, and recording, as that they can neither be forged nor embezeled.</P>
<P N="5">V. Although divers per&s;ons inhabiting in &s;everall Counties &s;hould hap|pen to have one joynt e&s;tate in Lands, which lye in many Counties, yet may they all joyne and leavy a Fine by Commi&s;&s;ion, and &s;o pa&s;&s;e away their E&s;tates at their own &s;everall habitations, without further travell or trouble.</P>
<P N="6">VI. They bar a Feme Covert, which no other Deed or Conveyance can do.</P>
<P N="7">VII. They may (as anciently u&s;ually they did) with much brevity declare their own u&s;es, that the parties need no other deed.</P>
<P>Wherfore, &s;eeing Fines are &s;o conci&s;e, &s;o ancient, &s;o cheap; &s;o much e&s;teemed by all men, &s;uch perfect A&s;&s;urances, and in regard they put an end to all Suits, bar all Claims, have &s;o many Acts of Par|liament approving and &s;trengthning them, and take their ri&s;e long before the comming in of the <HI>Normans,</HI> and are part of the Common Law of <HI>England.</HI> It is humbly conceived, it will be mo&s;t &s;afe and acceptable to the people &s;till to hold their E&s;tates by this A&s;&s;urance.</P>
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