Upon refusal, the tenant for life shall be deemed dead.
As of 1752, all devices, legacies, and bequests made by will in
Great Britain or the colonies is void if not in writing and
witnessed by three witnesses. No witness may receive under the
will.
An accessory before or after the fact of felony may be prosecuted
and tried not only if the principal accused felon has been
convicted, but even if he stood mute or peremptorily challenged
over 20 persons to serve on the jury. The accessories shall be
punished the same as if the principal had been attainted. Buyers
and receivers of stolen goods may be prosecuted and punished if
they knew the goods to be stolen, even if the principal felon has
not been convicted. The punishment will be as for misdemeanor by
fine and imprisonment. This is to deter the counselors and
contrivers of theft and other felonies and the receivers of stolen
goods from taking advantage of the former rule that an accessory
could not be convicted or punished unless the principal had first
been attainted. And if any captain or mariner or other officer
belonging to any ship willfully casts away, burns, or otherwise
destroys that ship to the prejudice of its owners or merchants
loading goods onto the ship, he shall suffer death as a felon.
Journeymen shoemakers or employees of such who sell or pawn boots,
shoes, slippers, cut leather or other materials for making such
goods which are not his proper goods, or exchange for worse good
leather which has been entrusted to them, shall for the first
offense, recompense the injured person, or if his goods are
insufficient for distress, may be whipped.
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