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APPENDIX——CHANCERY LAWS.
JULY SESSION, 1729.
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CHAP. III.
A Supplementary act to the Acts for* regulating Writs of Error,
and granting Appeals from and to the Courts of Common
Law
within this Province, and for regulating† Appeals
from the Court
of Chancery. Lib. L. No. 5, fol. 257.
* 1713, ch. 4. †See 1721,
ch. 14, s. 3. |
JULY 1729.
CHAP. 3.
Passed Aug. 8, 1729. |
3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, by the Authority
aforesaid
by and with the advice and consent aforesaid, That appeals from the
court of chancery to the court of appeals, shall be subject to the
same regulation and limitation, as to the prosecution of them, as
appeals from the courts of common law are, any law, statute,
usage or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Appeals from
chancery to be
under the same
regulations as
those from courts
of common law. |
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NOVEMBER SESSION, 1773.
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CHAP. VII.
An Act for the amendment of the Law. Lib.
RG. fol. 242.
A Supplementary act October, 1778, ch. 22. |
Passed Dec. 23, 1773. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the Right Honourable
the Lord Proprietary,
by and with the advice and consent of his Governor, and the Upper
and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the authority of the same, That
from and after this session of assembly, persons under the age of
one and twenty years, and persons being idiot, lunatic, or non compos
mentis, seized or possessed of any lands, tenements or hereditaments,
in trust, or by way of mortgage, or seized or possessed
thereof, charged or chargeable with the payment of money or tobacco,
and therefore subject or liable to a decree for sale, or bound
by an agreement to convey, made by some person or persons having
right or title to make such agreement, and therefore subject or
liable to a decree for conveyance on a suit for specific performance
or execution of such agreement, shall, by direction of the court of
chancery, signified by an order made upon the hearing of all persons
concerned, on the petition of the person or persons for whom
such infant or infants, or persons being idiot, lunatic, or non compos
mentis, or his, her or their committee or committees, in his,
her or their name or names, shall be seized or possessed in trust,
or of the mortgagor or mortgagors, or other person or persons entitled
to redemption, or person or persons entitled to money or tobacco
secured by or upon the said lands, tenements or hereditaments,
are or shall be charged or chargeable, or of the person
or persons entitled to a specific performance or execution of such
agreement as aforesaid, convey and assure any such lands, tenements
or hereditaments, in such manner as the court of chancery
shall, by such order so to be obtained, direct, to any other person
or persons; and such conveyance or assurance, so to be had and
made as aforesaid, shall be as good and effectual in law as if such
infant or infants were, at the time of making such conveyance or |
Persons under age
&c. in certain
cases, shall convey,
&c. |
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