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Of wills, under hand and seal of one devisee, guardian or trustee, and two witnesses, one whereof by affidavit to prove signing and sealing the memorial.
8 G. 1. 15. Heirs, &c. may sign memorial.
Memorial to contain the day and year of the deed or will,
names and additions of parries, and of devisor and all the witnesses,
lands, &c. and counties, &c. where situate.
The deed, &c. to be produced at time of entering memorial,
8 Anns 10.
Register to indorse and sign certificate, of the time of entering, the book, page and number.
Certificate evidence of registry.
The page and memorial numbered, and the day entered in margin.
Register to keep alphabetical kalendar,
and file every memorial in order of time.
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VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every memorial of any deed, conveyance, or will, shall contain the day of the month and the year when such deed, conveyance, or will bears date, and was perfected, and the names and additions of all the parties to such deed or conveyance, and of the devisor or testatrix of such will, and of all the witnesses to such deed, conveyance, or will, and shall express or mention the honors, manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments contained in such deed, conveyance, or will, and the names of all the counties, baronies, cities, towns corporate, parishes, townships, hamlets, villages, precincts, within this kingdom, where any such honors, manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments are lying and being, that are given, granted, conveyed, devised, or any way affected or charged by any deed, conveyance, or will, in such manner as the same are expressed or mentioned in such deed, conveyance, or will, or to the same effect; and that every such deed, conveyance, or will, or probate of the same, of which such memorial is to be registered as aforesaid, shall be produced to the said register, or his deputy, at the time of entering such memorial, who shall endorse a certificate on every such deed, conveyance, and will, or probate thereof, and therein mention the certain day and time, on which such memorial is so entered and registered, expressing also in what book, page and number the same is entered, and that the said register or his deputy shall sign the said certificate when so endorsed: which certificate shall be taken and allowed as evidence of such respective registries in all courts of record whatsoever; and that every page of such register books, and every memorial, that shall be entered therein, shall be numbered, and the day of the month and the year when every such memorial is registred shall be entered in the margines of the said register-books, and of the said memorial; and that every such register shall keep an alphabetical kalendar of all counties, baronies, cities, towns corporate, parishes, and townships within this realm, with reference to the number of every memorial, that concerns the honors, manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments in every such county, barony, city, town corporate, parish or township respectively, and of the names of the parties mentioned in such memorial and that such register, or his deputy, shall duly file every such memorial in order of time, as the same shall be brought to the said office, and enter or register the said memorials in the same order that they shall respectively come to his hands.
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