CHANCERY.] PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.

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Causes set down for hearing, or submitted, where there is a solicitor in

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court, shall not abate by the death of either party — 1797, ch. 114,

sec. 4, ...........

358

The chancellor may, on application of either party, in actions in the

general court, or on bills in chancery, require and decree that the

parties shall produce either the original books, Sec. or certified copies,

on being satisfied by oath that the said books or papers contain evi-

dence pertinent to the issue, and that the party cannot safely go to

trial without them — 1798, ch. 84, ......

369

The chancellor may, when he has ordered the production of books, &c.

on failure to produce them, take the allegations in the bill pro con-

fesso— 1807, ch. 140, ........

554

Where an injunction is obtained by executors or administrators on

filing bonds as therein prescribed, the chancellor may decree against

them as equity and good conscience require — 1793, ch. 75, sec. 3,

304

Ca. sa's issuing out of the chancery court may be entered not called,

and new writ issue — 1802, ch. 109, ......

476

Mode of determining in the chancery court as to the lunacy of persons

entitled to be executors or administrators — 179S, ch, 101, sub ch.

4, sec. 5, ..........

381

The court of chancery may decree or give directions in cases where

under a will it shall be necessary for an executor or administrator

to retain assets in his hands for the payment of money at a distant

period— 1798, ch. 101, sub ch. 10, sec. 11, ....

400

No part of the real estate of a ward shall be diminished on account of

his maintenance or education, without the approbation of the chan-

cery court, as well as the orphans' court — 1798, ch. 101, sub ch.

12, sec. 10, ..........

405

Nothing in this act to affect the general superintending power of the

chancery court with respect to trust—1798, ch. 101, sub ch. 12,

sec. 16, ...........

406

The payment of legacies may be compelled by a suit in the chancery

court, &c.— 1798, ch. 101, sub ch. 14, sec. 6,

408

Where a citizen has purchased land, the legal title whereof is outstand-

ing or in a British subject, or in the state, on bill being filed, chan-

cellor to decree, &c. — 1805, ch. 93, . . . . . .

513

Money to be decreed to be paid if any due, and if nothing due, chan-

cellor to convey — 1805, ch. 93, .......

513

The chancellor to execute deeds for lands sold by the commissioners

of confiscated property — 1805, ch. 99,

527

Where the chancellor is interested in any cause in chancery, the chief

judge of the district in which the chancery court shall sit to decide,

&c.— 1805, ch. 65, sec. 19, .......

504

In any suit in which the chancellor may have been counsel, or has

given an opinion, the chief judge of the third judicial district to de-

cide, &c. — 1806, ch. 55, sec. 1, ......

541

The chancellor may require the opinion of the said chief judge on any

question of law in any suit in chancery, &c. — 1806, ch. 55, sec. 2,

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