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Page 53 - That in case the devisees of Lord Fairfax, or those claiming under them, will relinquish all claims to lands supposed to lie within the Northern Neck, which were waste and unappropriated at the time of the death of Lord Fairfax...
Page 11 - ... into manors, and to call the same after their own or any of their names, or by other name or names whatsoever, and within the same to hold a court, in the nature of a court baron, and to hold pleas of all actions, trespasses...
Page 61 - In our judgment, by virtue of the devise to him he held a fee simple in his own right. At the time of the commencement of this suit (in 1791) he was in complete possession and seizin of the land. That possession and seizin continued up to and after the treaty of 1794, which being the supreme law of the land, confirmed the title to him, his heirs and assigns, and protected him from any forfeiture by reason of alienage.
Page 31 - Rappahannock to the first head or spring of the river Potomac, the committee do agree humbly to report to your majesty as their opinion, that within the words and meaning of the letters patent, granted by King James...
Page 62 - ... point of fact, the court of appeals did not decide either upon the treaty or the title apparent upon the record, but upon a compromise made under an act of the legislature of Virginia. If it be true, as we are informed, that this was a private act, to take effect only upon a certain condition...
Page 2 - ... snow or water, when the snow is dissolved, which falls down from the mountains commonly about the beginning of June; and then their verdure is wonderful pleasant to the eye, especially of such as having travelled through the shade of the vast forest, come out of a melancholy darkness of a sudden, into a clear and open skie. To heighten the beauty of these parts, the first springs of most of those great rivers which run into the Atlantick ocean, or...
Page 7 - Company to be held of the Crown 'as of the Manor of East Greenwich in free and common Soccage' for the annual rent of ten pounds, which was actually paid to 1730.
Page 62 - ... of the act, or of the performance of the condition, unless spread upon the record. At all events, we are bound to consider that the court did decide upon the facts actually before them. The treaty of peace was not necessary to have been stated, for it was the supreme law of the land, of which all courts must take notice. And at the time of the decision in the court of appeals and in this court, another treaty had intervened, which attached itself to the title in controversy, and of course must...
Page 12 - England ; and to receive and take all amercements, fruits, commodities, advantages, perquisites, and emoluments whatsoever, to such respective court barons belonging or in any wise appertaining ; and further, to hold within the same manors a court leet and view of frank pledge of all the tenants, residents, and inhabitants of the hundred within such respective manors,
Page 4 - ... head of the river of Toppahanock is a people called Mannahoacks. To these are contributers the Tauxanias, the Shackaconias, the Ontponeas, the Tegninateos, the Whonkenteaes, the Stegarakes, the Hassinnungaes, and divers others, all confederates with the Monacans, though many different in language, and be very barbarous, living for the most part of wild beasts and fruits.