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Fraudulent Devises Act 1691
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III.Proviso for Devise for raising Portions pursuant to a Marriage Contract.
Provided always and be it Enacted by the authority aforesaid That where there hath been or shall be any Limitac[i]on or Appointment Devise or Disposition of or concerning any Mannours Messuages Lands Temements or Hereditaments for the raiseing or payment of any real and just Debt or Debts or any Portion or Portions Sum or Sums of Money for any Child or Children of any person other than the Heir att Law according to or in pursuance of any Marriage Contract or Agreement in Writeing bona fide made before such Marriage the same and every of them shall be in full force. And the same Manours Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments shall and may be holden and enjoyed by every such person or persons his her and their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assignes for whom the said Limitation Appointment Devise or Disposition was made and by his her and their Trustee or Trustees his her and their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assignes for such Estate or Interest as shall be so limitted or appointed devised or [X1deposed] until such Debt or Debts Portion or Portions shall be raised paid and satisfied Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: disposed O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
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