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An abstract of laws and government wherein as in a mirror may be seen…An abstract of laws and government wherein as in a mirrour may be seen…
An abstract of laws and government wherein as in a mirror may be seen the wisdom & perfection of the government of Christs kingdom accommodable to any state or form of government in the world that is not antichristian or tyrannical / collected and digested ... by John Cotton ... ; and now published after his death by William Aspinall.An abstract of laws and government wherein as in a mirrour may be seen the wisdome & perfection of the government of Christs kingdome accomodable to any state or form of government in the world that is not antichristian or tyrannicall / collected and digested ... by John Cotton ... ; and now published after his death by William Aspinall.
London: printed by M.S. for Livewel Chapman, 1655
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. IV. Of right of Inheritances.
Sect. 1. For as much as the right of disposal of the inheritance of all the lands in the country lieth in the general Court; whatsoever lands are given and assigned by the general Court, to any town or person, shall belong and remain by right of inheritance, to such towns and their successors, and to such persons and to their heirs and assigns, as their propriety for ever.
Sect. 1. FOr as much as the right of disposall of the inheritance of all the lands in the country lyeth in the generall Court; whatsoever lands are given and assigned by the generall Court, to any town or person, shall belong and remaine by right of inheritance, to such towns and their successors, and to such persons and to their heires and assignes, as their propriety for ever.
Sect. 2. Whatsoever lands (belonging to any town) shall be given by the town, or by such Officers therein as they shall appoint, unto any person; the same shall belong and remain to such person and his heirs and assigns, as his proper right for ever.
Sect. 2. Whatsoever lands (belonging to any town) shall be given by the town, or by such Officers therein as they shall appoint, unto any person; the same shall belong and remain to such person and his heires and assignes, as his proper right for ever.