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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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30 CAR. 2, CAP. 7, DEVASTAVIT. 773
STATUTES
Made at WESTMINSTER, Anno Regni CAROLI II. Regis Angliae,
&c. tricesimo and A. D, 1677.
CAP. VII.
An Act to enable Creditors to recover their Debts of the Executors and
Administrators of Executors in their own Wrong.
Whereas the Executors and Administrators of such Persons
•who have possessed themselves of considerable personal Estates
of other dead Persons, and converted the same to their own
Use, have no Remedy by the Rules of the Common Law, as
it now stands, to pay the Debts of those Persons whose Estate
hath. been so converted by their Testator or Intestate, •which
hath been found very mischievous, and many Creditors defeated
of their just Debts, although their Debtors left behind them
sufficient to satisfy the same, with a great Overplus:
* II. For Remedy whereof, Be it enacted by the King's 567
most excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of
the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this present
Parliament assembled, and by the Authority thereof, That all
and every the Executors and Administrators of any Person or
Persons, who as Executor or Executors hi his or their own
Wrong, or Administrators, shall from and after the first Day
of August next ensuing, waste or convert any Goods, Chattels,
Estate or Assets of any Person deceased, to their own Use,
shall be liable and chargeable in the same Manner as their
Testator or Intestate would have been if they had been living.
(2) This Act to continue in Force for three Years, and from
thence to the End of the next Session of Parliament, and no
longer. Made perpetual and enlarged by 4 & 5 W. & M. c.
24, sect. 12.
3 Mod. 113.
See the note to 4 & 5 W. & M. c. 24.

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