Opinion
SEPTEMBER TERM, 1754.
LAWRENCE GROWDEN, and CALEB COWPLAND, Justices.
ADJUDGED by the Court, that the Statute of Frauds and Perjuries 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.
Page 1 29 Car. 2. c. 3. This statute was supplied, however by an act of General Assembly passed the 12 Ga. 3. a. 31. 1 State Laws 462, and see 2 P. Will. 75.