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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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19 CAR. 2, CAP. 6, PRESUMPTION OF DEATH. 677
SUDS for whose Life or Lives such Estates have been granted,
have gone beyond the Seas, or so absented themselves tor many
Years, that the Lessors and Reversioners cannot find out
whether such Person or Persons be alive or dead, by Reason
whereof such Lessors and Reversioners have been held out of
Possession of their Tenements for many Years, after all the
Lives upon which such Estates depend, are dead, in regard that
the Lessors and Reversioners when they have brought Actions
for the Recovery of their Tenements, have been put upon it to
prove the Death of their Tenants, when it is almost impossible
for them to discover the same:
II. For Remedy of which Mischief so frequently happening
to such Lessors or Reversioners, Be it enacted by the King's
most excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent
of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in
this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of
the same, That if such Person or Persons, for whose Life or
Lives such Estates have been, or shall be granted, as aforesaid,
shall remain beyond the Seas, or elsewhere absent themselves
in this Realm by the space of seven Years together, and no
sufficient and evident Proof be made of the Lives of such Per-
son or Persons respectively, in any Action, commenced for
Recovery of such Tenements by the Lessors or Reversioners,
in every such Case the Person or Persons upon whose Life or
* Lives such Estate depended, shall be accounted as 500
naturally dead; (2) and in every Action brought for the Re-
covery of the said Tenements by the Lessors or Reversioners,
their Heirs or Assigns, the Judges before whom such Action
shall be brought, shall direct the Jury to give their Verdict, as
if the Person so remaining beyond the Seas, or otherwise absent-
ing himself, were dead.
III. And be it further enacted. That in any such Action
wherein the Life or Death of any such Person or Persons shall
come in Question between the Lessor or Reversioner, and the
Tenant in Possession, it shall and may be lawful for the Lessor
or Reversioner to take Exception to any of the Jurors returned
for the Trial of that Cause, that the greatest Part of the Real
Estate of any of such Jurors is held by Lease or Copy for
Lives, "who upon Proof thereof shall be set aside as in Case of
other legal Challenges.

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