46:3-2. Certain tenures and holdings turned into free and common socage
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The tenures of honors, manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or of estates of inheritance at the common law, held either of the king of England, or of any other person or body politic or corporate, at any time before July fourth, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, and declared, by section three of an act entitled "An act concerning tenures," passed February eighteenth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, to be turned into holdings by free and common socage from the time of their creation and forever thereafter, shall continue to be held in free and common socage, discharged of all the tenures, charges and incidents enumerated in said section three.