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(99) much more to the Comp.lts Credit & Equitable dealing to have Continued the possession of the Premisses had he been Refused an assureance thereof according to agreement and to have Exhibitted his bill into this Court against the other Def.t Nathaniell to Enforce an Execution thereof then voluntarily quitt the Possession of the Premisses because he Conceived them too deere in hopes to being this vexatious Suit And he further alleadged that he was advised that the high Court of Chancery in England did not give reliefe in any Suite where the substance thereof tended to the over throwing of any fundementall point of the Comon Law or to overthrow or take from other Courts their Peculiar Jurisdiction but the judgeing and Concludeing the Def.ts said noate or letter (wherein he promised his said Brother should give the Comp.lt good assureance of the premisses) to amount to Generall Warranty is directly Repugnant and in overthrowe of a fundamentall point of the Comon Lawe (to which the Def.t Thomas conceived the people of this Province were subject there being noe Law in the same Contrary thereunto) for as much as the agreement between the Comp.lts and Def.ts Nathaniell was for part Tobacco and part Land and in Liew of the Said one Thousand Acres which was an Exchange in Lawe as to a moiety that could not be Capable of nor Subject to Generall Warranty being against the nature of such Estate but onely Lyable to Speciall warranty the Judgment and Construction whereof properly and peculiarly apperteynes to the Provinciall Court And forasmuch as noe Decree of this Court once Enrolled could be reversed or altered but by bill of review unlesse in Causes of this nature where the case was demonstrative the Petitioner humbly be sought his honnour the Governour to putt a stopp to all further proceedings upon the said Decree untill the matter should be Reheard before the Governour and the whole Councill in the next Generall Assembly Chancery or Provinciall Court whereupon upon Consideration had of the Petition by his honnour the Governour he thought itt Just and Equitable that the proceeding in the cause between the Comp.lts and Defend.ts be fully stopt as to any thing relateing to the Decree within mentioned untill the end of the then next provinciall Court soe that the Defend.t or his Councell might have tyme to be heard (Upon) |
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