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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
Volume 194, Page 950   View pdf image (33K)
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950 4 GEO. 2, CAP. 28, EJECTMENT.
STATUTES
Made at WESTMINSTER, Anno Regni GEORGII II. quarto and
A. D). 1731.
CAP. XXVIII.
An Act for the more effectual preventing Frauds committed by
Tenants, and for the more easy Recovery of Rents, and Renewal of Leases.
For securing to Lessors and Land Owners their just Eights.
and to prevent Frauds frequently committed by Tenants, Be it
enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with
the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal,
and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by
the Authority of the same, That in case any Tenant or Tenants
for any Term of Life, Lives, or Years, or other Person or Per-
sons, who are or shall come into Possession of any Lands,
Tenements, or Hereditaments, by, from, or under, or by Col-
lusion with such Tenant or Tenants, shall wilfully hold over
any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, after the Determina-
705 tion of such* Term or Terms, and after Demand made,
and Notice in "Writing given, for delivering the Possession
thereof, by his or their Landlords or Lessors, or the Person
or Persons, to whom the Remainder or Reversion of such Lands,
Tenements, or Hereditaments shall belong, his or their Agent
or Agents thereunto lawfully authorized; then, and in such
Case, such Person or Persons, so holding over, shall, for and
during the time he, she, and they shall so hold over, or keep
the Person or Persons intitled, out of Possession of the said
Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, as aforesaid, pay to
the Person or Persons so kept out of Possession, their Execu-
tors, Administrators, or Assigns, at the Rate of double the
yearly Value of the Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, so
detained, for so long time as the same are detained, to be
recovered in any of his Majesty's Courts of Record, by Action
of Debt, whereunto the Defendant or Defendants, shall be
obliged to give special Bail, against the recovering of which
said Penalty there shall be no Relief in Equity.

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