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Deputy Commissary's Guide within the Province of Maryland, 1774
Volume 139, Page 19   View pdf image (33K)
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INVENTORY.        19

    The crop is to be understood to include, not
only tobacco, and grain, but every other kind
of annual produce, or artificial profit, arising
from the culture of soil.
 

    Disputes often happen between heirs, and
executors and administrators, on the question,
what things are affixed to, and made part of
the freehold:  in this respect, the law seems not
to be held so strict as formerly; what may be
taken away without prejudice to the fabrick of
the house, are to be considered as chattels, and
not as parcel of the freehold; as tables, tho'
fastened to the floor; furnaces, if not made part of
the wall; grates, iron ovens, jacks, clock cases,
and such like, tho' fixed to the freehold by 
nails or otherwise.  Str. 1141.------Burn.
E. L. 648.
 
What is
deemed parcel
of the
freehold, and
what not.
    The inventory so made, must be cast up in
one total sum, and signed by the two sworn appraisers,
as also by the two next of kin, and
the two creditors, who were present at the appraisement;
which kindred and creditors must
also certify, that they were present at the appraisement,
and do approve of it;
 
Inventory
how to be
signed.
    " And if any executors or administrators return
" an inventory without such certificate as
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