1666 c. 11 (Regnal. 18_and_19_Cha_2) Section I
[I.] Cestui que vie remaining beyond Sea for Seven Years together and no Proof of their Lives, Judge in Action to direct a Verdict as though Cestui que vie were dead.
If such person or persons for whose life or lives such Estates have been or shall be granted as aforesaid shall remain beyond the Seas or elsewhere absent themselves in this Realm by the space of seven years together and no sufficient and evident proof be made of the lives of such person or persons respectively in any Action commenced for recovery of such Tenements by the Lessors or Reversioners in every such case the person or persons upon whose life or lives such Estate depended shall be accounted as naturally dead, And in every Action brought for the recovery of the said Tenements by the Lessors or Reversioner their Heires or Assignes, the Judges before whom such Action shall be brought shall direct the Jury to give their Verdict as if the person so remaining beyond the Seas or otherwise absenting himself were dead.
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An Act for Redresse of Inconveniencies by
want of Proof of the Deceases of Persons beyond the Seas or absenting
themselves upon whose lives Estates doe depend.
Chapter 18 & 19 Car 2 c 11
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