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Before William Allen, Chief Justice.
Lawrence Growden, and	${\displaystyle \scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}}$	Justices.
Caleb Cowpland,

Adjudged by the court, that the Statute of Frauds and Perjuries^[1] does not extend to this Province, though made before Mr. Penn's Charter: The Governor of New-York having exercised a Jurisdiction here, before the making that Statute, by Virtue of the Word Territories, in the Grant to the Duke of York, of New-York and New-Jersey.

Copy of a Deed inrolled in the King’s Bench in England, proved before the Lord Mayor of London to be a true one; allowed to be given in Evidence to a Jury to support a Title to Lands in this Province.^[2]