4 - Vesting of crown lands in the people of the state.

§ 4. Vesting  of crown lands in the people of the state.  The absolute  property of all messuages, lands, tenements and  hereditaments,  and  of  all  rents,  royalties,  franchises, prerogatives, privileges, escheats,  forfeitures, debts,  dues,  duties  and  services  by  whatsoever  names  respectively the same are called and known in the law, and all right and  title  to  the  same, which next and immediately before the ninth day of  July,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven  hundred   and  seventy-six, did vest in, or belong, or was, or were due to the crown of  Great  Britain  be,  and  the same and each and every of them hereby are  declared to be, and ever since the said ninth day of July, in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, to have been,  and forever after shall be vested in the people of this state,  in  whom  the  sovereignty  and seigniory thereof, are and were united and vested,  on and from the said ninth day of July, in the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand seven hundred and seventy-six.