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Lord or Tenant may compel Extinguishment of Claim to Heriots.
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VII. ‘And whereas in many Manors Heriots are by Custom due and payable to the Lord by Tenants of Freehold or Customary Freehold Lands holden of such Manors:’ Be it enacted, That at any Time after any such Heriot shall be due and payable with respect to any such Freehold or Customary Freehold Lands, it shall be lawful for the Lord or the Tenant to require and compel the Extinguishment of all such Claim to Heriots, and the Enfranchisement of the Lands subject thereto, in the same Way as if such Lands were Copyhold; and the same Proceedings shall thereupon be had as are herein and in the Copyhold Act, 1852, mentioned with reference to the Enfranchisement of Copyhold Lands, or as near thereto as the Nature of the Case will admit.
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