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1692.
Passed 9th June
1692. |
APPENDIX.
At an Assembly, held at the City of St. Mary's, on the
10th day of May, Anno Domini, 1692, and in the 4th
year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord and Lady
William and Mary, by the Grace of God, of England,
Scotland, France and Ireland, King and Queen, &c.
and
ended the 9th day of June following:
HIS EXCELLENCY
LYONEL
COPLEY, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
AMONGST OTHERS THE FOLLOWING LAWS WERE
ENACTED, TO
WIT:
CHAP. XIII.
An act for Quieting of Possessions. Lib. LL. No. 1, fol.
41. Lib.
WH. and L. fol. 70. ad Lib. LL. No. 2, 44. |
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FORASMUCH as a good and beneficial law*, entitled,
An act for
quieting possessions, was made the seven and twentieth day of
March, in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred seventy
and one, in this province, which by the use thereof hath been found
very much conducing to the benefit of the people of the said province. |
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1. BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED, by the King
and Queen's Most
Excellent Majesties, by and with the Advice and Consent of this present
General Assembly, and the authority of the same, That all sales,
gifts and grants, at any time before the said seven and twentieth
day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred
and seventy-one, and not after, of any lands, tenements or hereditaments,
within this province, by any person or persons whatsoever
that right had to sell, give or grant such lands, tenements or
hereditaments, made by writing only, with or without seal, shall
forever hereafter be accounted good and available in law to bar the
heirs and executors of such vendors, donors or grantors, any error
in the former only of such writing to the contrary notwithstanding. |
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2. AND FORASMUCH as divers assignments of
patents (written on
the backside of such patents) for land, are now worn out, and also
many other sales in paper, either worn out, or quite lost, for which
the purchase money hath been bona fide paid; BE IT FURTHER ENACTED
by the Authority aforesaid, by and with the Advice and Consent
aforesaid, That all sales, gifts or grants, at any time before the
day and year aforesaid, made by persons that right had as aforesaid,
if either the sale, gift or grant, or payment bona fide, can be
proved by witness, such sale shall forever hereafter be accounted
good and available in law to bar the heirs and executors of such
vendors, donors or grantors, or other persons claiming dower from
such vendor, donor or grantor, any law, usage or custom, to the
contrary hereof notwithstanding.
N. B. This act, mutatis mutandis,
was re-enacted in 1715, ch. 47, s. 1 and 2. |
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