LAWS OF MARYLAND—1715. II
vince, for that the said act was altogether silent, Be it therefore
enacted, by the authority aforesaid. That from and after the
publication hereof, no person or persons whatsoever, absenting
themselves out of this province, or that shall remove from
county to county, after any debt contracted, whereby the cre-
ditor or creditors may be at an uncertainty of finding nut the
said person or persons, or his or their effects, shall have any
benefit by the limitation or restriction in this act specified.
By November, 1765, ch. 12, persons liable to any action, who may be
absent at the time when the cause thereof accrues, shall not have any
benefit by this act, provided that after their presence such action shall be
commenced within the time limited. |
Certain
persons to
nave no
benefit, &c. |
SEC. 6. Provided always, and it is the true intent and mean-
ing hereof, That this act, or any thing herein contained, shall
not be construed, reputed or taken, to prejudice or debar any
person removing himself or family from one county to another
for his conveniency, or any person leaving this province for the
time and term in this act limited, from the benefit thereof, he
leaving effects sufficient and known for the payment of his just
debts, in the hands of some person or persons who will assume
the payment thereof to his creditors, any thing in this act con-
tained to the contrary hereof in anywise notwithstanding. |
Proviso. |
SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid,
by and with the advice and consent aforesaid. That no bill,
bond, judgment, recognizance, statute merchant, or of the
staple, or other specialty whatsoever, except such as shall be
taken in the name or for the use of our sovereign lord the king,
his heirs and successors, shall be good and pleadable, or admit-
ted in evidence against any person or persons of this province,
after the principal debtor and creditor have been both dead
twelve years, or the debt or thing in action above twelve years
standing; saving to all persons that shall be under the afore-
mentioned impediments of infancy, coverture, insanity of mind,
imprisonment, or being beyond the sea, the full benefit of all
such bills, bonds, judgments, recognizances, statutes merchant,
or of the staple, or other specialties, for the space of five years
after such impediment removed, any thing in this act before
mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding.
See preceding note.
CHAPTER 25.
As ACT for the publication of all the Laws of this province, and for the
recording the same in the secretary's office, as also for transmitting the
journal of the council in assembly, and of the house of delegates, into
the said office, to the end that no person may be ignorant of the laws in
this province.
This law is superseded by the sixtieth section of the constitution; by
1790, ch. 51 ; by 1791, ch. 20; by 1804, ch. 55; by 1816, ch. 241. |
No bill, &c.
to be good,
&c. |
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