Administrative

Moore's Lessee v. Few et al.

1 U.S. 1701 Dall. 170·Supreme Court of Pennsylvania·1786·PA

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Opinion

*Moore’s Lessee v. Few et al. Devise. The act of 1777 disabled non-jurors from devising land. This was an ejectment for certain premises in the county of Philadelphia. After solemn argument, by Wilcocks and Bawle, for the plaintiff ; and the Attorney- General and Sergeant, for the defendant, [MAJORITY] the Chiee Justice delivered the opinion of the court, that the word transfer, being used among the disabilities to which non-jurors are subjected by the act of assembly, passed the 13th of June 1777 (P. L. 37), the testator, John Hunt, under whose devise the plaintiff’s title was made, being at the time of his death a non-juror, was incapable of devising lands and tenements. And, consequently, the defendants, claiming under the heir-at-law, had judgment.