Disabling Statutes
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
The English statutes of 1 Eliz. c. 19, 18 Eliz. c. 10, 14 Eli«. cc. 11, 14, 18 Eliz. c. 11, and 43 Eliz. c.
29, (otherwise called the restraining statutes,) by which all colleges, cathedrals, and other ecclesiastical or eleemosynary corporations are restrained from making any leases of their lands, unless under certain regulations.
2 Bl. Com. 319, 321. Co. Litt. 44 a. 3 Steph. Com. 140.