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 de*u *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*
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      *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 per*il*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 *32“ 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**