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Landlord in 12 months after registry, or after attaining the age at 21 may complain at sessions,
on petition, and affidavit of service of notice on tenant 21 days before sessions, tried by jury,
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VI. And for the preventing of fraudulent registries; be it enabled, That any persons under whom the lands shall be held mediately or immediately, whereon the trees registered, or the inclosures registered in pursuance of this act may be, and who shall think himself or herself aggrieved by a fraudulent registry, may apply to the justices of said county assembled in quarter sessions at any time within twelve months after such registry, (or if he or she be a minor at the time of registering, within twelve months after he or she shall arrive at the age of twenty one years) which justices, on receiving a petition complaining as aforesaid of a fraudulent registry, and also an affidavit that notice of such intended complaint had been served on the tenant twenty one days at the least before such quarter sessions, shall cause a jury to be impannelled, who shall decide whether the said registry be a true registry or not, and if they shall find it to be a false registry, then the same shall be deemed utterly null and void, and of no effect; but if they shall find for the tenant, then the registry shall be deemed good, and their verdict in both cases shall be conclusive.
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