Statute of Uses 1634

Where divert jointly feifed to the use of any of them, they only who have the use, shall be adjudged to have the possession in like manner.

Saving the right of others.

II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that where divers and many persons be, or hereafter shall happen to be joyntly seized of and in any lands, tenements, rents, reversions, remainders, or other hereditaments, to the use, confidence, or trust of any of them that he so joyntly seized, that in every such case that those person or persons, which have, or hereafter shall have any such uses, confidence, or trust, in any such lands, tenements, rents, reversions, remainders, or hereditaments, shall from henceforth have, and be deemed and adjudged to have, onely to him or them that have, or hereafter, shall have such use, confidence or trust, such estate, possession, and seizin, of and in the same lands, tenements, rents, reversions, remainders, or other hereditaments in like nature, manner, form, condition and course, as he or they had before in the use, confidence or trust of the same lands, tenements or hereditaments. Saving and reserving to all and singular persons, and bodies politique, their heires and successors, other than those person or persons which be seized, or hereafter shall be seized, of any lands, tenements or hereditaments, to any use, confidence or trust, all such right, title, entry, interest, possession, rents and action, as they or any of them had, or might have had before the making of this act.