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Item 8
App. IIA]
Cestui Que Vie Act 1540
[1987 Ed.
of or in any rentis or fee fermes, and the same rentis or fee fermes nowe be or herafter shalbe due byhinde and unpaid in the said wifes lif, [than1] the said husbaund aftre the death of his said wife his executours and administratours shall have an action of dett for the said arrerages against the tenaunt of the demeane that ought to have paid the same his executours or administratours, and also the said husbaund after the death of his said wife may distraine for the said arrerages, in like manner and fourme as he mought have doon yf his said wif had ben [than1] lyving, and make avowry uppon his said matier as is aforesaid.
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Persons entitled to rents, during the life of another, may recover the same after death of cestui que vie..... yf any (person) or (persons) whiche nowe have or herafter shalhave any rentis or fee fermes for terme of life or lyves of anny other (person) or (persons), and the said rent or fee farme nowe be or heraftre shalbe due behinde and unpaid in the life of suche (person) or (persons) for whose life or lifes the estate of the said rent or fee ferme did depend or contynue, and aftre the said (person) or (persons) doth dye, [than'] he unto whome the said rent or fee ferme was due in fourme aforesaid, his executours and administratours, shall and may have an action of dett against the tenant in demeane that ought to have paid the same whan it first was due his executours and administratours, and also distrayne for the same arrerages uppon suche landis and tenementis out of the whiche the said rentis or fee fermes were yssuyng and payeable, in suche like maner and fourme as he ought or might have doon if suche (person) or (persons), by whose deathe the aforesaid astate in the said rentis and fee fermes was determined and expired, had ben in full lif and not deade,.
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Item 14
THE CESTUI QUE VIE ACT 1666
(18 & 19 Car. 2 c. 11)
[Extracted from Halsbury's Statutes of England (2nd edition), Vol. 20, p. 377]
An Act for Redresse of Inconveniences by want of Proofe of the Deceases of Persons beyond the Seas or absenting themselves, upon whose Lives Estates doe depend.
Whereas diverse lords of mannours and others have granted estates by lease for one or more life or lives, or else for yeares determinable upon one or more life or lives and it hath often happened that such person or persons for whose life or lives such
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