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These trustees were to be "able and capable in Law to take, demand, receive, and possess all monies, goods, and Chattels" and "any Lands, Rents, Tenements, and Hereditaments" that should be given them for the use of the University.
The History of Escheats Blackwell Pierce 1955
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"Hereditaments and Real estate," as were the villeins -- a rule wholly different from that of the French law.
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Tenements and Hereditaments by him or them fb purchafed; and if the faid laft Payment be in Cer - tificates or other paper Securities bearing an In - tereft, no Interelt fhall be allowed or reckoned thereon, other than fuch as had accrued at the Time of the Sale of the Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments aforefaid; and in Cafe fuch lafl:
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• Difcovery of Rent» refpeftive Execotofs or Adminiftrators, upon a quantum vaUrint, for the Ufe and Occupation of the Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments poflef - fed by the faid Pcrfons refpeftively; and upon the Trial of the J ury fliall find a Verdift for the Plain - tiiFs, for fuch Sum as fhall be proved to them voaId have been a reafonable Rent for fuch Lands,
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Tenements or Hereditaments, without having de - vifed the fame in due form of Law and leaving more than one Perfon lawful Iflue, or without lawful IfTue, the Inheritance, in flead of defcending to the Heir at Law, Ihall hereafter, in the four fe - veral following Cafes, defcend as in each Cafe it particularly fpecified, that is to fay. ift.
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Tenements and Hereditaments, during the Time they were poirefled by the Defendant or Defend - ants; fo as the Damages to be aifefled fliall not exceed the whole Value of the Rent which the Defendant or Defendants fliall prove to have been referved and to have become due, while fuch De - fendant or Defendants was or were in Poffeflion of fuch Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, and. to be then unpaid.
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Hereditaments, in Law, arc fuch things as defcend to a Man and his Heirs by way of Inheritance, not falling within the Compafs of an jExeciuor or Adminiftrator, as Chattels do.
Glossographia Anglicana Nova: Or, A Dictionary, Interpreting Such Hard Words of Whatever ... 1707
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Section 5 of the Act of 1640 provided that neither his Majesty nor his Privy Council have or ought to have any jurisdiction, power or authority ... to examine or draw into question, determine or dispose of the Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Goods or Chattels of any of the Subjects of this Kingdom, but that the same ought to be tried and determined in the ordinary Courts of justice and by the ordinary Course of Law.
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Lands, Negroes and other Hereditaments and real Estates situate or being within any of the said (British) Plantations (in America) shall be liable "to be sold under execution.
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Lands, Negroes and other Hereditaments and real Estates situate or being within any of the said (British) Plantations (in America) shall be liable "to be sold under execution.
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