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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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104: 0 25 GEO. 2, CAP. 6, ATTESTATION.
the Defendant or Defendants on such other Plea or Pleas,
then they shall give a Verdict for the Plaintiff, and such
Damages as they shall think proper, which he or she shall
recover, together with his or her Costs of Suit.
See note to 21 Jac. 1, c. 12.
781 STATUTES
Made at WESTMINSTER, Anno Regni GEORGII II. vicesimo quinto
and A. D. 1752.
CAP. VI.
An Act for avoiding and putting an End to certain Doubts and Ques-
tions relating to the Attestation of Wills and Codicils concerning Real
Estates in that Part of Great Britain called England, and in his Majes-
ty's Colonies and Plantations in America,
Whereas by an Act made in the twenty-ninth Year of the
Reign of his late Majesty King Charles the Second, intituled,
an Act for Prevention of Frauds and Perjuries; it is amongst
other Things enacted, That from and after the twenty-fourth
Day of June, in the Year of our Lord one thousand six hun-
dred and seventy-seven, all Devises and Bequest*! of any Lands
or Tenements deviseable, either by Force of the Statute of
Wills, or by that Statute, or by Force of the Custom of Kent,
or the Custom of any Borough, or any other particular Custom,
shall be in Waiting, and signed by the Party so devising the
same, or by some other Person in his Presence, and by his
express Direction; and shall be attested and subscribed in the
Presence of the said Devisor, by three or four credible Wit-
nesses, or else they shall be utterly void and of none Effect,
which hath been found to be a wise and good Provision; But
whereas Doubts have arisen who are to be deemed legal Wit-
nesses within the Intent of the said Act; Therefore, for avoid-
ing the same, Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent

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