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FAIRFAX'S DEVISEE v. HUNTER'S LESSEE

11 U.S. 603 (1812)

7 Cranch 603

FAIRFAX'S DEVISEE v. HUNTER'S LESSEE.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 15, 1813.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. LEE and JONES, on the part of the Plaintiff in error.

HARPER, contra.

... . MARSHALL, WASHINGTON,

The Court having taken time since last term to consider this case,

STORY, J. delivered their opinion as follows, (MARSHALL Ch. J. and TODD J. being absent.)

The first question is, whether lord Fairfax was pro-proprietor of, and seized of the soil of the waste and unappropriated lands in the Northern Neck, by virtue of the royal grants, 2 Charles,

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