LAWS OF MARYLAND.—1765-66. 109
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CHAPTER 12. |
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A SUPPLEMENTARY ACT to the act, entitled, * An act for limitation of certain
actions for avoiding suits at law.
See 1715, ch. 23, and the notes thereto. |
* 1715, ch.
23. |
WHEREAS the act, entitled, An act for limitation of certain
actions for avoiding suits at law, hath provided, that in case any
person or persons whatsoever shall absent themselves out of this
province, after any debt contracted, he, she, or they, so absenting
themselves, shall have no benefit by the limitation or restriction
in the said act specified, but hath made no provision in the case
wherein the person or persons liable to the same hath or have
been, is, are or may be absent out of the province, at the time
when any cause of action may have arisen or accrued, or shall
or may arise or accrue against him, her or them, though the
said case falling under the same reason ought to have the same
remedy; |
Preamble. |
SEC. 3. Be it therefore enacted, by the right honourable the
Lord Proprietary, by and with the advice and consent of his
lordship's Governor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assem-
bly, and the authority of the same, That if any person or persons
liable, or that hath or have been, or shall or may be liable to
any action, or, that hath or have been, or shall or may be absent
out of this province, at the time when the cause of action hath
arisen or accrued, or shall or may arise or accrue against him,
her or them, he, she or they, shall have or receive no benefit
or advantage of or from the said recited act. |
Persons
absent, &c.
to receive
no advan-
tage, &c. |
SEC. 3. Provided, That the person or persons that hath,
have, or hath or have had, or that shall or may have such
cause of action as aforesaid, shall commence or prosecute the
same after the presence in this province of the person or persons
liable thereto, within the time or times limited in and by the
said recited act.
MAY, 1766—CHAPTER 6. |
Proviso. |
A SUPPLEMENTARY ACT to the act, entitled, *An act for the speedy trial
of criminals, and ascertaining their punishment in the county courts,
when prosecuted there, and for payment of fees due from criminal
persons. |
• 1715, ch.
26. |
FOR preventing all doubts for the future, Be it enacted and
declared, by the right honourable the Lord Proprietary, by and
with the advice and consent of his lordship's Governor, and the
Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the authority of the
same, That all legal fees which have arisen, and are not already
otherwise paid and allowed, or which shall hereafter arise on
the prosecution of any negro, or other slave, in any county
court, whether such slave be convicted or acquitted, shall be
chargeable to, and paid by the respective county where such
prosecution shall be had, and assessed in the county levy of
such county. |
Fees to be
paid by the
county. |
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