Colony there and the reasonable convenience and
commodity of every such adventuror and planter.
8. His Lordship doth except out of these Conditions of
Plantation all Corporations Societies Fraternities Guilds and
Bodys Politick, as well spiritual and temporal, and every
of them, and doth declare that he doth not intend that they
or any of them shall be capable of or have any benefit by
virtue of these Conditions to inherit possess or enjoy any
land within the said Province either in their own name or
right or in the name or names or right of any other person or
persons whatsoever to the use interest or benefit of, or in
trust for, any such Corporation, Guild, Bodys Politick,
Societies or Fraternities or any of them as aforesaid without
further particular and especial license first had and
obtained therefore under his Lordship's hand and seal at arms
9. In case his Lordship shall think fit to except any other
person or persons from having any land within the said
Province by virtue of these Conditions and shall cause notice to
be given to such person or persons of such exceptions such
person or persons so to be excepted by his said Lordship shall
not from and after six months next ensuing after such
notice given as aforesaid have any future benefit or be
capable of having any land within the said Province by virtue
of these Conditions for or in respect of any person or
persons which shall be transported into the said Province
without further especial license under his Lordships hand and
seal at arms for the same
10. No adventuror or planter to or in the said Province
or any of them who shall have any lands due unto him her
or them by virtue of these Conditions nor their heirs nor
assigns shall give grant sell alien or assign any of those lands
tenements or hereditaments within the said Province (which
shall be assigned or granted unto him or them from his said
Lordship or his heirs or which such adventurors or planters
or any of them shall possess and enjoy by virtue of these
Conditions) to any Corporation, Society, Fraternity, Guild,
or Body politick either spiritual or temporal, or to any
other person or persons in trust for them or any of them or
to such use or uses or to any use or uses comprized
mentioned or forbidden in any of the Statutes of Mortmayne
heretofore made in the Kingdom of England at any time
before the reign of Henry the VIII. who was King of that
Realm, without particular and especial license first had and
obtained for that purpose under the hand and the seal at
arms of his Lordship or his heirs upon pain of forfeiture of
all such lands to his said Lordship and his heirs
11. Every person whatsoever that shall claim any
proportion of land in the said Province of Maryland by virtue of
Source: John Kilty. Land Holder's Assistant and Land Office Guide. Baltimore: G. Dobbin & Murphy, 1808. MSA L 25529.
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