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The natural days and times of payment of rents, annuities, sums of money, or interest.
or of the delivery of goods,
commencement or expiration of leases, &c.,
or of attaining the age of 21 years, &c., not altered by this Act.
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6. Provided also, and it is hereby further declared and enacted, that nothing in this present Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to accelerate or anticipate the time of payment of any rent or rents, annuity or annuities, or sum or sums of money whatsoever which shall become payable by virtue or in consequence of any custom, usage, lease, deed, writing, bond, note, contract, or other agreement whatsoever, now subsisting, or which shall be made, signed, sealed, or entered into at any time before the said fourteenth day of September, or which shall become payable by virtue of an Act or Acts of Parliament now in force, or which shall be made before the said fourteenth day of September, or the time of doing any matter or thing directed or required by any such Act or Acts of Parliament to be done in relation thereto; or to accelerate the payment of or increase the interest of any such sum of money which shall become payable as aforesaid; or to accelerate the time of the delivery of any goods, chattels, wares, merchandize, or other things whatsoever; or the time of the commencement, expiration, or determination of any lease or demise of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or of any other contract or agreement whatsoever; or of the accepting, surrendering, or delivering up the possession of any such lands, tenements, or hereditaments; or the commencement, expiration, or determination of any annuity or rent; or of any grant for any term of years, of what nature or kind soever, by virtue or in consequence of any such deed, writing, contract, or agreement; or the time of the attaining the age of one and twenty years, or any other age requisite by any law, custom, or usage, deed, will, or writing whatsoever, for the doing any act, or for any other purpose whatsoever, by any person or persons now born, or who shall be born before the said fourteenth day of September, or the time of the expiration or determination of any apprenticeship or other service, by virtue of any indenture, or of any articles under seal, or by reason of any simple contract or hiring whatsoever; but that all and every such rent and rents, annuity and annuities, sum and sums of money, and the interest thereof, shall remain and continue to be due and payable, and the delivery of such goods arid chattles, wares and merchandize, shall be made, and the said leases and demises of all such lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and the said contracts and agreements, shall be deemed to commence, expire, and determine, and the said lands, tenements, and hereditaments shall be accepted, surrendered, and delivered up, and the said rents and annuities, and grants for any term of years, shall commence, cease, and determine, at and upon the same respective natural days and times as the same should and ought to have been payable or made or would have happened in case this Act had not been made; and that no further or other sum shall be paid or payable for the interest of any sum of money whatsoever than such interest shall amount unto for the true number of natural days for which the principal sum bearing such interest shall continue due and unpaid; and that no person or persons whatsoever shall be deemed or taken to have attained the said age of one and twenty years, or any other such age as aforesaid, or to have completed the time of any such service as aforesaid, until the full number of years and days shall be elapsed on which such person or persons respectively would have attained such age or would have completed the time of such service as aforesaid in case this Act had not been made, any thing herein before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
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