Maintenance and Embracery Act, 1634

But persons in lawful possession may buy, &c. the pretensed title of others.

IV. Provided alway, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be lawful to any person or persons being in lawfull possession by taking of the yearly farme, rents, or profits of or for any mannors, lands, tenements or hereditaments, to buy, obtaine, get, or have by any reasonable way or meanes the pretensed right or title of any other person or persons hereafter to be made to, of, or in such mannors, lands, tenements or hereditaments whereof he or they shall so be in lawfull possession; any thing in this act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.