
Whereas the Executors and Administrators of such persons who have possessed themselves of considerable
Personall Estates of other dead persons and converted the same to their owne use have noe Remedy by
the Rules of the Common Law as it now stands to pay the Debts of those persons whose Estate hath beene soe
converted by their Testator or Intestate which hath beene found very mischeivous and many Creditors defeated
of their just Debts although their Debtors left behinde them sufficient to satisfie the same with a great Overplus
For remedy whereof Bee it enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majestie by and with the Advice and Consent
of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and the Commons in this present Parlyament assembled and by the Authoritie
thereof That all and every the Executors and Administrators of any person or persons who as Executor or
Executors in his or their owne wrong or Administrators shall from and after the First day of August next ensueing
waste or convert any Goods Chattells Estate or Assetts of any person deceased to their owne use shall be lyeable
and chargeable in the same manner as their Teftator or Intestate would have beene if they had beene liveing
This Act to continue in force for three yeares and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parlyament
and noe longer.