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JULY TERM, 1714.
    Lib. V. D. No. 1. folio 234.
    Richard Lee’s Lessee against William Bladen et al.
    EJECTMENT for Lee’s Purchase, lying in Charles County.
    The defendant pleaded not guilty, and also the following plea of limitations: “ And as to the residue of the tresM pass and ejectment, aforesaid, above supposed to be “ made, William Bladen, cfc. protesting that they are in “ nothing thereof guilty, say that the aforesaid Richard. u Lee, by Walter Bayne, his lessee, his action aforesaid “ against them ought not to have and maintain, because “ they say that by the late king of England, in the 21st year “ of his reign at Westminster in the County of Middlesex, “ there published, it was enacted by the authority of the “ same parliament, that all writs of formedon in deu scender, formedon in remainder, and formedon in re~ “ verter, at any time thereafter, to be sued or brought u of or for any manor, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, “ whereunto any person or persons, should have or cause “ to have or pursue any such writ, should be sued and u taken within twenty years next after the end of the then “ present session of parliament, and after the said twenty “ years expired, no person or persons, or any of their heirs, “ should have or maintain any such writ of, or for any of “ the said manor lands, tenements, or hereditaments, “ and that all writs of formedon in descender, formedon 
      
      M in remainder, formedon in reverter, of any manors, 5£ lands, tenements, or other hereditaments whatsoever, at any time thereafter to be sued or brought, by occa- “ sion or means of any title or cause thereafter happening, M should be sued and taken within twenty years next after the title and cause of action first descended or fallen, and “ at no time after the said twenty years. And that no “ person or persons, that then had any right or title of “ entry into any manors, lands, tenements, or heredita- “ ments, they held from him or them, should thereinto et enter, but within twenty years next after the end of M that present session of parliament, or within twenty “ years next after any other title of entry accrued; and “ that no person or persons, should at any time there-6C after, make any entry into any lands, tenements, or he- “ reditaments, but within twenty years next after his or “ their right or title, which should hereafter first descend ic or accrue to the same; and in default thereof, such peril sons, so not entering, and their heirs, should be utterly excluded and disabled’from such entry after to be made, “ any former law or statute to the contrary notwithstandc£ ing, as by the same act more fully appeareth. And the “ aforesaid W. B. &?c. further say, that the aforesaid session M of parliament ended the twenty-ninth day of May, in the “ 22dyearof the reign of the aforesaid yantes, late king, &c. “ And that the aforesaid Richard Lee, and those whose estate “ he claimeth to have by his said lessee, have not possessed, “ or have not entered into the lands and premises in the “ declaration mentioned, at any time, within the space of ££ twenty years, after the title of entry into the same lands “ and premises unto the said Richard Lee and those whose “ estate he claimeth, have first descended, or accrued, or “ next after before the bringing the trespass and ejectment aforesaid; and that Philip Lynes, late of Charles “ County, deceased, under whom the aforesaid W. B° fife. “ claim and have their possession in the lands and premi- “ ses in the aforesaid declaration mentioned, and those -ct whose estate the aforesaid Philip Lynes had in the said “ lands and premises, held the said lands and premises for “ the space of twenty years, next before the 20th day of “ April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hun- “ dred and eight, on which day the aforesaid Richard Lee, “ by his lessee aforesaid, exhibited and filed in the Pro- “ vincial Court of our Lady the Queen, that now is, his “ declaration in trespass and ejectment for the recovery ‘' of the possession of, and entry into the lands and pre* “ mises in the declaration aforesaid mentioned, and next “ before the said Richard Lee, or those whose estate he s‘ claimeth to have in the lands and premises aforesaid “ in the declaration mentioned, had their title of entry “ into the same lands and premises accrued, or have enter* “ ed into the same. With this that the said W. B. £fc. “ are ready to verify that the aforesaid Richard Lee, and “ those whose estate he claimeth to have in the aforesaid “ lands and premises, have not at any time within the space “ of twenty years after the title of entty, or entrance “ into the aforesaid land and premises first descended, “ accrued, came, or did fall to him or them, been within “ the age of one and twenty years, feme covert, non compos “ mentis, imprisoned or beyond the seas; and this the said “ W. B. £s?c. are ready to verify, wherefore,” &c.
    General demurrer by Thomas Bordley, attorney for the plaintiff.
    The Court gave judgment on the demurrer for the plaintiff.
   The defendant appealed to the Court of Appeals. At July Term, 1716, in the Court of Appeals, the cause was entered struck off*