Assembly Proceedings, September 1642. 191

heire living within the Province, may enter vpon the land & hold
it for the vse of such next heire. And if none nearer enter, or
clayme in seven yeares, he shall hold it in the same right and
estate, as if he had beene next heire. And in defect of all
such heires living within the Province, the Lord of the fee of
whom the land is immediately holden, and in defect of all such
Lords, then the Lord Proprietary may enter & hold the land
in such manner as is afore appointed for nearest heire.
And the widdow shall succeed to the cheife mansion house
(to hold it during her widdowhood) and to the thirds of all the
lands whereof her husband died seised. This Act to endure
for three yeares from this present day.

13 An Act touching Succession to goods of intestate persons

The widdow shall succeed to the goods & chattells of the
deceased intestate, if there be no child. And if there be but
one child, the widdow shall succeed to the one halfe, and the
child to the other halfe. And if there be more then one child,
the widdow shall succeed to one third, and the residue shalbe
divided among the children by sequall shares. If there be no
widdow, the child, or children by sequall shares shall succeed
to the whole. If neither widdow nor child, the nearest of
kinne living within the Province; that may be heire to the
deceased, shall succeed to the whole.
If any partie knowen to have right to succeed in whole or
in part be out of the Province, or be orphan, the Administrator
shall bring the residue belonging to such forreiner or orphan,
into the Provinciall Court, there to be disposed of to such
par[ties] vse, as the Judge shall think fitt. This Act to endure
for three yeares from this [present day.]

Liber P R

14 An Act touching Assignments

Where two parties are indebted to one another vpon
accompt, [the one of them] may not assign away his interest
in the accompt without the consent [of the other unless] it be

of that w^ch is due from the other, vpon the cleare accompt, at
[that time when such] assignment is first demanded of the
debtor, whose debt was assigned.
No deed or contract made after the publication hereof, where-
by the propriety of any lands, goods, or chattells are intended
to passe, shalbe good and pleadable in law, except the prop-
erty thereof at or before the making of the contract or
delivery of the instrument, be altered by delivering possession
in the presence of two or more witnesses, or that the contract

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