Assembly Proceedings, July — August 1642. 157

equall Shares or to the whole if there be no widdow if neither
widow nor Child, the neerest of Kinne (liveing within the
Province that may be heire to the deceased) shall succeed to
the whole In defect of such kinne the Lord Proprietary shall
succeed It any party knowne to have right to succeed in
whole or in part be out of the Province or be orphan the
Execut^r or Administr shall bring the residue belonging to such
forreiner or orphan into the provinciall Court there to be dis-
posed of for such parties use as the Judge shall think fitt
This Act to endure till the end of the next Assembly

Liber
C & W H

An Act Touching Succession to Land

Where any one dyeth Seized of Land in fee not clisposeing
of it otherwise by his last will the next heire shall suceecl as
hath right by the Law of England In defect of such heire the
neerest heire liveing within the Province may enter upon the
Land and hold it for the use of such next heire And if none
neerer enter or clayme in 7 years he shall hold it in the same
right & estate as if he had been next heire And in defect of
all such heyres liveing within the Province the Lord Proprietarie
may enter & hold the Land in such manner as is afore appointed
for neerest heire And the Widow shall succeed to the thirds
of the Lands & to the mansion house to hold it dureing her
widdow hood as her husband was seized of at any time dureing
the Coverture in such manner as she may by the Law of
Engl^d. This Act to endure till the end of the next Assembly

An Act touching Assigments

W'here two parties are indebted to one another upon account
the one of them may not assigne away his intrest in the
account without the Consent of the other unlesse it be of that
which is due from the other upon the clear account at that
time when such assignment is first demanded of the debtor
whoese debt was assigned. Noe deed or Contract made after
the Publication hereof whereby the Propinety of any Lands
goods or Chattells are intended to passe shall be good &
pleadably in Law except the property thereof at or beiore the
makeing of the Contract or delivery of the Instruem^t be altered
by delivering possession in the presence of two or more

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Wittness or that the Instruement by which the right passeth be
acknowledged before some person authorized and recorded in
or certifyed to the office of the County Court afore the next
Court day following This Act to endure till the end of the
next Assembly

p. 96