Case ID: h-mch_4/html/0488-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SEPTEMBER TERM, 1750.
    Lewis’s Lessee vs. Beall.
    Ejectment for a tract of land called Strife, lying in Prince-George’s county. Verdict for the plaintiff!, Point saved — Whether a person having a seisin in law, hut never an actual possession of lands in fee, whereof no person whatever hath the actual possession at the time of conveyance, can, for a valuable consideration, convey the same by lease and release? If in th,e affirmative, judgment to be entered for the plaintiff; if in the negative, for the defendant.
    
      S. Bordley and E. Dorsey, for the Plaintiff.
    
      Dulany, junior, Camming andJ. Chase, fol-the Defendant.
    The Provincial Court gave judgment on the verdict and point saved, for the plaintiff