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896 4 ANN. CAP. 16, AMENDMENT OF THE LAW. extend to any Writ, Declaration or Suit of Appeal of Felony or Murder, or to any Indictment or Presentment of Treason, Felony or Murder, or other Matter, or to any Process upon any of them, or to any Writ, Bill, Action, or Information upon any Penal Statute. IX. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the said first Day of Trinity-Term, all Grants or Conveyances thereafter to be made, by Fine or otherwise, of any Manors or Rents, or of the Reversion or Remainder of any Messuages or Lands, shall be good and effec- tual, to all Intents and Purposes, without any Attornment of 661* the Tenants of any such Manors, or of the Land out of which such Rent shall be Issuing, or of the particular Tenants upon whose particular Estates any such Reversions or Re- mainders shall and may be expectant or depending, as if their Attornment had been had and made. X. Provided nevertheless, That no such Tenant shall be prejudiced or damaged by Payment of any Rent to any such Grantor or Conusor, or by Breach of any Condition for Non- payment of Sent, before Notice shall be given to him of such Grant by the Conusee or Grantee. XI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the said first Day of Trinity-Term, no dilatory Plea shall be received in any Court of Record, unless the Party Offering such Plea, do, by Affidavit, prove the Truth thereof, or shew some probable Matter to the Court to induce them to believe that the Fact of such Dilatory Plea is true. XII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the said first Day of Trinity-Term, where any Action of Debt shall be brought upon any single Bill, or where Action of Debt or Scire facias, shall be brought upon any Judgment, if the Defendant hath paid the Money due upon such Bill or Judgment, such Payment shall and may be pleaded in Bar of such Action or Suit, and where an Action of Debt is brought upon any Bond which hath a Condition or Defeazance to make void the same upon payment of a lesser Sum at a Day or Place certain, if the Obligor, his Heirs, Executors, or Admin- istrators have, before the Action brought, paid to the Obligee, his Executors or Administrators, the Principal and Interest due by the Defeazance or Condition of such Bond, though such Payment was not made strictly according to the Condition or |
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