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Forfeiture upon Attainder of Treason Act 1799

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 2 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1799 c. 93
Year1799
Anno Regni GEORGII III. tricesimo nono. An Act to repeal so much of an Act, passed in the seventh Year of the Reign of QueenAnne , and also so much of an Act passed in the seventeenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, as puts an End to the Forfeiture of Inheritances upon Attainder of Treason, after the Death of the Pretender and his Sons.

(39 Geo. 3) C A P. XCIII.

[12th July 1799]

'WHEREAS an Act was passed in the seventh Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen , intituled,An Act for improving the Union of the two Kingdoms ; whereby, amongst other Things, it was provided and enacted, that after the Decease of the Person who pretended to be Prince of Wales during the Life of the late King James , and since pretends to be King of Great Britain , and at the End of the Term of three Years after the immediate Succession to the Crown, upon the Demise of her said late Majesty, should take Effect, no Attainder for Treason should extend to the disheriting of any Heirs, nor to the Prejudice of the Right or Title of any Person or Persons, other than the Right or Title of the Offender or Offenders, during his, her, or their natural Lives only; and that it should and might be lawful to every Person or Persons to whom the Right or Interest of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, after the Death of any such Offender, should or might have appertained, if no such Attainder had been, to enter the same: And whereas by another Act, passed in the seventeenth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, Great Britain, Anne, ; after reciting so much of the aforesaid Act as is herein before recited, it was further...

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