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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

* Ruth Bonner and Others, Petitioners for Partition, versus The Proprietors of the Kennebeck Purchase.
    A petition for partition lies only for a person who has a seisin in fact of the premises.
   It appearing in this case that the share in the Kennebeck pur chase, which the petitioners claimed to have set off to them in severalty, had been sold more than forty years since, for non-payment of an assessment voted by the proprietors, and that the purchasers, under the sale, had been ever since in possession; the Court observed that this process lies only for persons actually seised, and the petitioners became nonsuit.