# Administration of Intestates' Estate Act 1685, Section VIII: Proviso in the said Act for Customs of London and Province of Yorknot to extend to Intestate's Estate claimed by Administrator quatenus Administrator.


Provided and it is hereby for the determining some Doubts ariseing upon the Act aforementioned for the better setleing Intestates Estates Enacted and Declared That the Clause therein by which it is Provided That that Act or any thing therein contained should not any wayes prejudice or hinder the Customs observed within the City of London and Province of Yorke was never intended nor shall be taken or construed to extend to such Part of any Intestates Estate as any Administrator by vertue onely of being Administrator by pretence or reason of any Custome may claime to have to exempt the same from Distribution but that such part in the hands of such Administrator shall be subject to Distribution as in other Cases within the said Act.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Ja2/1/17/section/VIII (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-intestates-estate-act-1685/section-VIII
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