Lessee of German v. Gabbald
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
THIS case came before the court upon a point reserved at the trial at Nisi Prius in November last, by Judge Brackenridge. The act of frauds and perjuries of tile state of Pemtsylvania, does not raiion^ftrust*1" it is competent evu/enee^of the lieMiusTa'id10*1 lwd given her only a life es-from being made by parol.
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THIS case came before the court upon a point reserved at the trial at Nisi Prius in November last, by Judge Brackenridge. The act of frauds and perjuries of tile state of Pemtsylvania, does not raiion^ftrust*1" it is competent evu/enee^of the lieMiusTa'id10*1 lwd given her only a life es-from being made by parol. Hence in an ejectment declarations of A that the land she had purchased in her own name, was hought for the use of B, with tate, by his will, and had devised it to B after her death. Jonathan Beere by his last will devised to his wife Mary, two tenements and lots of ground for the…
1Opinion of the Court
Tilghman C. J.
after stating the facts, delivered his opinion as follows:
The objection to the parol evidence is founded on our act for prevention of frauds and perjuries. This act is in some parts copied from the English statute of frauds and perjuries, but the likeness does not hold throughout. The first section of our act contains the first three sections of the English statute, and so far as concerns the present question, enacts, that no estates or interests, either of freehold, or term for years, of, or in, any messuages, lands &c., shall be assigned, granted, or surrendered unless by deed…
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