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Item, regarding the article proposed, forasmuch as often young persons die who may not make testaments, the ordinaries usually appoint executors dative to their goods, who intromit therewith and withdraw the goods from the kinfolk and friends that should have the same by law, it is statute and ordained by the three estates in this present parliament that where any such persons die within age that may not make their testaments, the nearest of their kin to succeed to them shall have their goods without prejudice to the ordinaries regarding the quot of their testaments.