Section III Clerk of the Crown not punishable for issuing Process against Heirs, &c. before they have entered or pleaded their Title.
And whereas divers persons having Grants of Felons Goods and Deodands and inrolled and pleaded as aforesaid do many times alien and convey their Interests therein to other person or persons or by their last X1Will doe devise the same or by their deaths such Estates do descend to theire Heires whereby the Clerk of the Crowne of the said Court is rendred uncapable to discerne where such Interest lyes until the person or persons to whom such Estates are conveyed devised or descended shall come into the said Court and make entry of such their claime as aforesaid be it therefore hereby further enacted by the authority aforesaid That the Clerk of the Crowne of the said Court for the time being nor any succeeding Clerke there shall incurr any penalty mentioned in this Act for issueing processe against any person or persons who shall not upon every purchase of the Title of such Felons Goods and Deodands inrol and plead the same purchase in the said Court nor against any Devisee of the like Estate who shall not likewise inroll or plead such Devise nor against any Heire who shall not in like manner inroll his or her right by descent to the same and until after such pleas have been allowed of and approved by the said Court nor whereby any inquest of any Coroner or Coroners the goods of any Felon or Felons or Deodands shall be by such inquest not found to be in the hands of such Purchaser Devisee or Heire or their respective Officer or Officers in trust for them respectively.
Annotations
Editorial notes
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Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Wills O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]