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Clement Dorsey. The general public statutory law and public local law of the state of Maryland : from the year 1692 to 1839 inclusive, with annotations thereto,and a copious index.
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100 LAWS OF MARYLAND.—1753.
judgments, the defendants in such suits frequently running
away to avoid the consequence thereof;
In certain
actions
court may
award spe-
cial bail,
&c.
SEC. 2. Be it therefore enacted, by the right honourable, the
Lord Proprietary, by and with the advice and consent of his
lordship's Governor, awl the Upper and Lower Houses of Assem-
bly, and the authority of the same. That in all actions of trover
and conversion, and actions of detinue, to be commenced after
the first day of December next, in any of the courts in this
province, it shall and may be lawful for the justices of the court
in which such action shall be commenced, or such of them as
shall be present, upon the affidavit of the plaintiff, or other
evidence of his cause of action given to the satisfaction of such
court, to award special bail against any defendant or defendants
in such action, and for default of such bail to commit such
defendant or defendants to the custody of the sheriff, or coroner,
as the case may require, until he, she or they, shall put in such
bail as is usual in other cases, any law, usage or custom, to the
contrary notwithstanding.
CHAPTER 30.
*1751, ch
14.
A SUPPLEMENTARY and explanatory ACT loan act, entitled, *An act for
the more effectual punishment of negroes and other slaves, and for taking
away the benefit of clergy from certain offenders, and a supplementary
act to an act, entitled, an act to prevent the tumultuous meetings and
other irregularities of negroes and other slaves.
Preamble. WHEREAS by an act of assembly of this province, entitled,
an act for the more effectual punishment of negroes and other
slaves, and for taking away the benefit of clergy from certain
offenders, and a supplementary act to an act, entitled, an act to
prevent the tumultuous meetings and other irregularities of
negroes and other slaves, and directing the manner of trying
slaves, made at a session of assembly begun and held at the
city of Annapolis on the fifteenth day of May, in the year of
our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-one, amongst
other things it was enacted) 'that if any slave shall happen to be
slain for refusing to surrender him or herself, contrary to law,
or in unlawful resisting any officer, or other person, who shall
apprehend, or endeavour to apprehend, such slave or slaves,
and such officer or other person so killing such slave as afore-
said making resistance, shall be and he is by this act indemnified
from any prosecution for such killing aforesaid:' And whereas
some doubts may possibly arise about the construction of the
said recited clause, and whether the person so killing such
slave as aforesaid making resistance shall undergo any prosecu-
tion for the same; for the explanation whereof, and to pre-


 
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Clement Dorsey. The general public statutory law and public local law of the state of Maryland : from the year 1692 to 1839 inclusive, with annotations thereto,and a copious index.
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