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16 INVENTORY.
estate, and shall be assets in their hands. The
owner of lands might have devised them away
to the prejudice of his specialty creditors, till the
statute of fraudulent devices 3 and 4th. of Will,
and Mary, Ch. 14, by which it is enacted, that
all wills of lands, &c. whereof any person hath
power to dispose by his last will and testament,
shall be deemed void against bond, or specialty
creditors.
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The words in the statute include estates pur
auter vie devisable under the statute of 29th.
Car. 2d.
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By the statute of 14th., Geo 2d, C. 20, it
is enacted, that estates pur auter vie, in case
there be no special occupant, of which no devise
shall have been made, according to the
29th. Car. 2d, or so much thereof, as shall not
be devised, shall go, be applied, and distributed
in the same manner, as the personal estate of
the testator, or intestate.
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Real estates
chargeable
with all just
debts. |
By the statute of the 5th. Geo. 2d. C. 7, it
is enacted, that the houses, lands, and real
estates, within any of the plantations, belonging
to any person indebted, shall be liable to,
and chargeable with, all just debts, and demands
of what nature, or kind soever, owing |
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