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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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4 GEO. 2, CAP. 10, LUNATIC TRUSTEES, &c. 945
I. Explained and amended by 5 Geo. 2, c. 27. None to be held to Special
Bail in a Superior Court, under 101. Nor in an Inferior Court, under 40s.
Not appearing, Plaintiff may enter a Common Appearance, &c.
II. Where the Cause of Action amounts higher, Affidavits to be made
thereof, and the Sum indorsed on the Back of the Writ, &c.
This Statute relates to Imprisonment for Debt, and needs no further
notice.
STATUTES 700
Made at WESTMINSTER, AH HO Regni GEORGII II. quarto and
A. D. 1731.
CAP. X.
An Act to enable Ideots and Lunaticks, who are seized or possessed
of Estates in Fee, or for lives, or Terms of Years in Trust, or by Way
of Mortgage, to make Conveyances, Surrenders, or Assignments of such
Estates,
Whereas many Inconveniencies do and may arise, by reason
that Persons being Ideot, Lunatick, or Non compos mentis,
having Estates in Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, in
Trust only for others, or by way of Mortgage, cannot (though
by the Direction of the Cestuy que Trust, or Mortgagor) con-
vey any sure Estate in any such Lands, Tenements, or Hered-
itaments, to any other Person or Persons; for Remedy thereof,
be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and
with. the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Tem-
poral, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled,
and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the
Twenty fourth Day of June, One thousand seven hundred and
thirty one, it shall and may be lawful to and for any such
Person or Persons, being Ideot, Lunatick, or Non, compos
mentis, or for the Committee or Committees of such Person or
Persons, in his, her, or their Name or Names, by the Direc-
tion of the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, or the Lord
Keeper, or Commissioners of the Great Seal of Great Britain
for the time being, signified by an Order made, upon hear-

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