LAWS OF MARYLAND—1779. 145
said court, of such person or persons, under the age of twenty.
one years as aforesaid, in pursuance of such order and direction
of the court of chancery, and such deed or deeds, conveyance
or conveyances, assurance or assurances, so to be had and made
as aforesaid, shall be as good, valid and effectual in law, as if
such infant or infants were, at the time of making such deed or
deeds, conveyance or conveyances, assurance or assurances, of
the full age of twenty-one years, and had by him, her or them-
selves, executed the same, any thing in the said recited act to
the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. |
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SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all conveyances and
deeds heretofore made by the guardian or guardians of any
infant or infants, in the cases aforesaid, pursuant to the direction
of the chancery court, shall and they are hereby declared to be
valid and effectual, and to have such operation and effect as
declared by the decree or order of the chancellor who directed
the same. |
Conveyan-
ces valid,
&c. |
SEC. 4. Provided nevertheless, That liberty be reserved to
the infant or infants herein before mentioned, and the heirs of
such infant or infants, to shew cause why such deed or deeds,
conveyance or conveyances, assurance or assurances, ought not
to have been ordered or directed, within six months, as limited
in the said recited law, and in the manner and within the time
therein mentioned.
Enacted into a permanent law by 1798, ch. 71, with the principal act.
JULY, 1779.—CHAPTER 6.
AN ACT for Naturalization.
Jurisdiction over this subject is vested in the general government by the
constitution of the United States.
CHAPTER 8.
AH ACT establishing a mode to perpetuate Testimony. |
Proviso. |
WHEREAS, it frequently happens, that material evidence is
lost for want of an easy mode to perpetuate the same; |
Preamble. |
SEC. 2. Be it therefore enacted, by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for any person or
persons to take the deposition or depositions of any witness or
witnesses, who may have knowledge of any fact, in proving
which such person or persons may apprehend him, her or them-
selves, interested, before a judge of the general court, or justice
of the county where such witnesses respectively reside, first
giving twenty days' notice to the party or parties against whom
such depositions are intended to be used, or, in case of absence
or minority, to his, her or their guardian, agent or attorney, if
any, and in case of absence, if no agent or attorney, setting up
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Depositions
may be
taken, &c. |
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