United Kingdom Legislation

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Sales by Lotteries void;

And all and every . . . F2 sale or sales of houses, lands, advowsons, presentations to livings, plate, jewels, ships, goods, or other things, by any game, lottery or lotteries, machine, engine, or other device whatsoever, depending upon or to be determined by chance or lot shall and are hereby declared to be void to all intents and purposes whatsoever; . . . F2

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This Act not to affect the Right to any lands, &c. held by Lot.

Provided always that nothing herein contained shall extend, or be any ways construed, deemed, or taken to extend, or in any sort to affect or prejudice any estate or interest in, out of, or to any manors, honours, royalties, lands, tenements, advowsons, presentations, rents, services, and hereditaments whatsoever, which shall or may at any time or times hereafter be, according to the laws now in being, legally allotted to, or held by or by means of any allotment or partition by lots; but that all persons who now are, or that shall hereafter become really and truly seized as part-owners, joint-tenants, and tenants in common, of any manors, honours, royalties, lands, tenements, advowsons, presentations, rents, services, and hereditaments, shall, and he, she, and they, and his, her, and their heirs and assigns is and are hereby made and continued capable to accept and take such estates and interest and parts therein, in such and the like manner and to such and the like uses as he, she, or they might, would, or could have done by or by virtue or in consequence of any lot, scroll, chance, or allotment whatsoever, had this present Act never been made, anything herein contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

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