William Penn
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
proprietary and Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania
in the texts
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
Proprietor and governor of colonial Pennsylvania whose enactment is quoted.
, “under the hand and broad seal of William Penn, proprietary and governor of this province and territories thereunto belonging, in the second year of his government, by the king’s authority.
The following enactment of William Penn, as proprietary and Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania and its territories, illustrates one of the common uses of the word “freeman,” as known to the English law, and as used in this country prior to the revolution—that is, as distinguishing a native born citizen, and one capable of holding real estate, &c.
Be it enacted, by the proprietary and governor of the province and counties aforesaid, by and with the advice and consent of the deputies of the freemen thereof, in assembly met, That all persons who are strangers and foreigners, that do now inhabit this province and counties aforesaid, that hold land in fee in the same, according to the law of a freeman, and who shall solemnly promise, within thr …
The Genius of the Common Law
Proprietor of Pennsylvania whose 1681 charter secured a dispensation from the statute Quia Emptores.
We may note for curiosity that William Penn’s charter of 1681 contained, among other ample and regal franchises, a dispensation from Quia Emptores, by force whereof, as I understand, in the State of Pennsylvania rents are reserved on conveyances in fee simple to this day;