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1 U.S. 175

Moore's Lessee v. Few

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1786-04

Cited by 1 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1792

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Decided 1786-04

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¶1Devise.

¶2The act of 1777 disabled non-jurors from devising land.

¶3This was an ejectment for certain premises in the county of Philadelphia.

¶4After solemn argument, by Wilcocks and Bawle, for the plaintiff ; and the Attorney- General and Sergeant, for the defendant,

¶5the Chiee Justice delivered the opinion of the court, that the word transfer, being used among the disabilities to which non-jurors are subjected by the act of assembly, passed the 13th of June 1777 (P. L. 37), the testator, John Hunt, under whose devise the plaintiff’s title was made, being at the time of his death a non-juror, was incapable of devising lands and tenements.

¶6And, consequently, the defendants, claiming under the heir-at-law, had judgment.

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