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After Confirmation of Apportionment, &c. in Cases of Enfranchisement, the customary Modes of Descent to cease, and the Lands to descend and to be subject to Dower and Curtesy in like Manner as Freehold Lands.
Proviso.
Proviso as to Gavelkind.
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XXXIV. From and after the final Confirmation of any Schedule of Apportionment under the said recited Acts, and from and after the final Enfranchisement of any Lands under this Act or the said recited Acts, the several Lands included in any such Enfranchisement shall thenceforth cease to be subject to the Customs of Borough English or Gavelkind, or to any other Customary Mode of Descent, or to any Custom relating to Dower or Freebench or Tenancy by the Curtesy of England, or to any other Custom whatever; and all the Laws relating to Descents or to Estates of Dower or Estates by the Curtesy of England which shall for the Time being affect and be applicable to Lands held in Free and Common Soccage shall thenceforth affect and be applicable to the Lands included in every such Enfranchisement: Provided always, that nothing herein contained as to Curtesy or Dower or Freebench shall extend or be applicable to the Case of any Person who shall have been married before such Enfranchisement shall have been completed: Provided always, that nothing in this Act shall affect the Custom of Gavelkind as the same now exists and prevails in the County of Kent.
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