The Ecclesiastical Leases Act 1571 ( 13 Eliz. 1. c. 10) was an Act of the

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. The Act provided that conveyances of estates by the masters, fellows, any college dean to anyone for anything other than a term of 21 years, or three lives (meaning three particular lives, such as to a person and then two of his heirs), ‘shall be utterly void’. The Act was fought over in the

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(1615) which decided the precedence between the two main branches of the non-criminal law, which had mainly separate courts until the late 19th century. What little remained in effect was repealed by section 1(1) of, and Group 1 of Part II of Schedule 1 to, the

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References

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External links

The Ecclesiastical Leases Act 1571
as amended, from

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The Ecclesiastical Leases Act 1571
revised as of 1 February 1991, from Legislation.gov.uk. Acts of the Parliament of England (1485–1603) 1571 in law 1571 in England {{England-statute-stub