Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	common_a	hold_v	tenant_n	1,715	5	9.6503	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52197	Acts and laws, passed by the great and general court or assembly of Their Majesties province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England begun at Boston, the thirty-first day of May, 1693, and continued by adjournment, unto Thursday the sixth day of July following : being the second sessions.; Laws, etc.	Massachusetts.	1693 (1693)	Wing M952; ESTC R235719	2,102	5

ACTS AND LAWS Passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of Their Majesties Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in NEW-ENGLAND Begun at Boston the Thirty-first Day of May. 1693 And Continued by Adjournment unto Thursday the Sixth Day of July following Being the Second Sessions Anno Regni Guilielmi et Mariae Regis et Reginae Angliae Scotiae Franciae et Hiberniae Quinto BOSTON Printed by Bartholomew Green and Sold by Samuel Phillips 1693. AN ACT For Coasting Vessels within the Province VVHEREAS in and by an Act of Parliament made in the Twenty Fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty KING Charles the Second Entituled An Act for the Encouragement of the Greenland and Eastland Trades and for the better securing the Plantation Trade Effectual care is taken and provision made for the preventing of Frauds and securing the payment of the Rates and Duties granted by said Act unto His said Majesty His Heirs and Successors upon Sugar Tobacco Cotton-wool Indico Ginger Fustick and all other dying wood of the growth production and Manufacture of His Majesties several Plantations in America Asia and Africa which shall be laden on board any Ship or other Vessel with intent to be transported and carried into any other of His Majesties Plantations which said Rates and Duties are to be paid in the respective places of the growth and production of the said goods and Commodities before the Lading thereof It is therefore Declared and Enacted by the Governour Council and Representatives Convened in General Assembly and by the Authority of the same Liberty for carrying one Tun half of the Enumerated Commodities from place to place in the Province without Entry c. That any of the before Enumerated Goods and Commodities which are or shall at any time hereafter be brought into this Province from any other of Their Majesties Plantations where the same do grow and are produced shall and may be transported and carried from Port to Port and Place to Place within the Province by Land or Water for the supply of the Inhabitants and Trade within the same without any Entry or Clearing Bond or Certificate to be given or taken out for the same And that no Boat or other Vessel using to pass or trade between port and port place and place within the Province onely and not designed to go elsewhere shall be obliged to Enter or Clear Provided that no such Boat or other Vessel do take in or carry more than Six Hogtheads or one Tun and half of the said Enumerated Commodities at any one time turn or Voyage Masters to Enter give bond if they take in above that Quantity The Masters of all Boats or other Vessels so passing or trading from Port to port or place to place within the Province taking in more than Six Hogsheads or the quantity of one Tun and half of any of the said Enumerated Commodities at any one time turn or Voyage shall before the taking in the same give bond at the Naval Office of one Thousand pounds with one sufficient surety to Land all such Goods and Commodities at some other Port or place within the Province or in some other of Their Majesties Colonies or Plantations adjoyning and not elsewhere on Pain of Forfeiting such Vessel and goods according as by the within recited Act of Parliament is directed For which bond there shall be paid three Shillings and no more and no such bond to be sueable after the end of Twelve Moneths from the time of giving the same AN ACT For Partition of Lands c. and the Recovery of Legacies at the Common Law BE it Enacted by the Governour Council and Representatives Convened in General Court and by the Authority of the same Partition of Lands betwixt Coparceners c. to be forced by the common Law That all persons having or holding or that hereafter shall have or hold any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments as Coparceners joint-Joint-Tenants or Tenants in Common may be compelled by writ of Partition at the Common Law to divide the same where the parties cannot agree to make Partition thereof by themselves Provided this Act shall not be understood to repeal or any wayes alter any clause or clauses in the Act for Regulating of Town-ships referring to undivided or common Lands And it is Further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Legacies to be Recovered at the common Law That where any certain Legacy is or shall be bequeathed and given by any Person in his or her last Will and Testament As also where any residuary or uncertain Legacy is or shall by the Accompt of any Executor be reduced to a certainty every such Legacy and Legacies as aforesaid may be Sued for and recovered at the common Law and Law custom or usage to the contrary notwithstanding An Additional ACT For the Punishing of Criminal Offences WHEREAS the Breach of sundry Criminal Laws of this Province is only Punishable by Fines and many times the breakers of them have not Money to satisfy the same Be it therefore Enacted by the Governour Council and Representatives Convened in General Assembly and by the Authority of the same Criminal Offences to be punisht by Stocking c where the Offenders cannot otherwise satisfy the Law That henceforward it shall be in the power of any Justice of the Peace that shall have Cognizance thereof to Punish breakers of the Peace Prophaners of the Sabbath and unlawful Gamesters Drunkards or prophane Swearers or Cursers by setting in the Stocks or putting into the Cage not exceeding three Hours or imprisonment Twenty four Hours or by Whipping not exceeding Ten Stripes as the case may deserve and where the offender has not wherewithall to satisfy the Law in that case provided FINIS