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Infants, femes covert, and lunatics may be admitted to copyhold estates by their guardian, committee, or attorney.
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3. Where any person being under the age of twenty-one years, or being a feme covert or lunatic, is or shall be entitled by descent, or surrender to the use of a last will, or otherwise, to be admitted tenant of any copyhold lands, such person in his or her own proper person, or being a feme covert by her attorney or being an infant by his guardian or attorney, as the case may require, or being a lunatic by the committee of his estate, shall come to and appear at one of the three next courts which shall be kept (for the keeping whereof the usual notice shall be given) for the manor whereof such land shall be parcel, and shall there offer himself or herself to the lord or his steward to be admitted tenant to the said land; to make which appearance and to take which admittance in behalf of such infant or lunatic, or feme covert, such guardian, committee, or attorney shall be and is hereby respectively authorized and required.
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