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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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32 H. 8, CAP. 33, WRONGFUL DISSEISIN. 439
Estate or Estates of Inheritance of and in any Manors, Lands,
Tenements, and Hereditaments: (3) Be it therefore enacted
by the King our Sovereign Lord, and by the Assent of the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this pre-
sent Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same,
That all joint Tenants, and Tenants in common, and every of
them, which now hold, or hereafter shall hold, jointly or in
common for term of Life, Year or Years, or joint Tenants, or
Tenants in common, where one or some of them have, or shall
have Estate or Estates for term of Life or Years, with the
other that have or shall have Estate or Estates of Inheritance
or Freehold in any Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Heredita-
ments, shall and may be compellable from henceforth, by Writ
of Partition to be pursued out of the King's Court of Chan-
cery, upon his or their case or cases, to make Severance and.
Partition of all such Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Heredi-
taments which they hold jointly or in common for term of Life
or Lives, Year or Years, or where one or some of them hold
jointly or in common for term of Life or Years with other, or
that have an Estate or Estates of Inheritance of Freehold.
II. Provided alway, and be it enacted, That no such Parti-
tion or Severance hereafter to be made by force of this Act, be,
nor shall be prejudicial or hurtful to any person or persons,
their Heirs or Successors, other than such which be parties
unto the said Partition, their Executors, or Assigns.
I. 31 H. 8, c. 1. Joint Tenants, and Tenants in common for Lives or
Years shall make Partition. 2 Bulstr. 114. 1 Leon. 162. Joint Tenants for
Life or Years, are compellable to make Partition. Bro. Partition, 38, 41.
Co. Litt. 175 a. 187 a.
II. Partition to be prejudicial to none but Parties. Co. Entr. 412 b.
See the note to 31 H. 8. c. 1.
CAP. XXXIII. 334
An Act that wrongful Disseisin is no Descent in Law.
Where divers persons of their insatiable Minds have hereto-
fore by Strength, and without Title, entered into Manors, Lands,
Tenements, and other Hereditaments, and wrongfully disseised
the rightful Owners and Possessors thereof, and so being seised

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