CHAP. 20.  An act to amend the law concerning common recoveries, and to explain
    and amend an act made in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of king Charles the
    second, entitled, An act for prevention of frauds and perjuries, so far as the same
    relates to estates pur auter vie.

    This statute is recognised in the preamble to the act, to aid defective common recoveries, (November
1766, Ch. 21,) and stated therein, not to have been sufficient.  As to the last part, see the
note on 29 Charles 2, Ch. 3, S. 12.  The surplus of the estates mentioned in this statute, is sufficiently
provided for in the testamentary law.  The first part respecting recoveries, is not now proper to be
incorporated, &c.

    This statute of course extended to the province; it declared in force in all the plantations, the statute
6 George, 1, Ch. 18.
 

    See the note on 7 and 8 W. 3, Ch. 22.
 

    The 1st and 2d sections have expired.  The 3d and 4th may have extended with the other statutes
on the same subject.
 

    There were some regulations in this statute, as to prize ships carried into any of the American
colonies.