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Purchasers, &c. of lands from crown debtors or accountants may in certain cases obtain a certificate of discharge of the purchased, &c. lands from crown debts.
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14. [Recital.] It shall be lawful for the Treasury, by writing, upon payment of such sums of money as they may think fit to require into the receipt of her Majesty’s Exchequer, to be applied in liquidation of the debt or liability of any debtor or accountant to the crown, or upon such other terms as they may think proper, to certify that any lands, tenements, or hereditaments of any such crown debtor or accountant shall be held by the purchaser or mortgagee or intended purchaser or mortgagee thereof, his or their executors, administrators, and assigns, wholly exonerated and discharged from all further claims of her Majesty, for or in respect of any debt, claim, or liability, present or future, of the debtor or accountant to whom such lands, tenements, or hereditaments belonged, or in case of leases for fines to certify that the lessees, their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, shall hold, so exonerated and discharged, without prejudice to the rights and remedies of the crown against the reversion of the lands, tenements, or hereditaments comprised in any such leases, and the rents and covenants reserved and contained by and in the same, and thereupon the same lands, tenements, and hereditaments shall respectively be held wholly exonerated and discharged as aforesaid, but in cases of leases without prejudice as aforesaid.
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