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Item, it is decreed and declared that all heritable dispositions given and granted in any time bygone or to come to any person of his highness's annexed property, to be held of his majesty and his successors in chief by service of ward and relief or in any other manner of holding than in feu ferm only, is null and of no value by way of action or exception, because lands or other annexed property to the crown cannot be set or conveyed except in feu ferm only, providing that this constitution in no way prejudice such infeftments and alienations as are made and given by his highness or his predecessors by way of excambion, permutation nor compensation, so that thereby his highness's rental be not diminished.