Provisions
I.14 proposed for 1916 • Restraints on alienation prohibited.
REJECTED
The Text
All fines, quarter-sales, or other like restraints upon alienation, reserved in any grant of land hereafter to be made, shall be void.
A Few Facts
• Has 22 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 4 of 1915
If New Yorkers voted to approve this provision, it would have:
• Joined the Constitution in 1916
• Been in Article I: Civil rights
• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1895-I.14
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