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unless the parties give notice of trial at the return court above

thirty days before the silting thereof— 1790, ch. 42, .

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Replevins sued out, under a warrant from a justice, for property seized

for taxes, shall be tried and determined at the court to which they

shall be returnable, unless upon special reasons shewn to the court,

on affidavit in writing, they shall otherwise order — 1790, ch. 53,

ser. 8, ...........

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Appeals from a justice of the peace to the county court, to be heard the

first court without further continuance, unless it appears to the

court that further time ought to be given — 1791, ch. 68, sec. 4,

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Directions respecting the continuance of caveats in the land offices —

1797, ch. 114, sec. 10, 11, .

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CONVEYANCES.*

All sales, gifts and grants, before the 13th of April, 1674, of any lands,

&c. made by writing, with or without seal, by persons having a

right, to he good in law, notwithstanding errors in form — 1715,

ch. 47, sec. 2, ..........

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Also all sales, &c. that could be proved by witnesses, where the writ-

ings were lost — 1715, ch. 47, sec. 3, ......

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Sales and grants of any lands, &c. by deed indented and enrolled since

the 13th of April, 1674, or that might thereafter be so, to be good

in law, without livery of seizin — 1715, ch. 47, sec. 4, .

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Conveyances made and enrolled under the several acts of 1674, ch. 2,

1692. ch. 30, nnd 1699, ch. 42, while they continued, are con-

firmed, but declared void if not enrolled — 1715, ch. 47, sec. 5,

p. 36, sec. 6, 7, .

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Such acknowledgment may be made in the general court, or before a

judge thereof— 1715, ch. 47, sec. 8, ......

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In the county courts where the lands lie — 1715, ch. 47, sec. 8, .

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Before two justices of the county where the land lies — 1715, ch. 47,

sec. 8, ...........

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Before the court, or two justices of the county where the grantor lives,

if remote from the general court, or the county where the land lies,

on transmitting a certificate of such acknowledgment by the clerk,

under seal, to the county where the lands lie — 1715, ch. 47, sec 9,

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By letter of attorney sufficiently proved, where the grantor lives in

another state, the acknowledgment to be in the same courts, &c. as

in other cases — 1715, ch. 47, sec. 9, .

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Acknowledgments of deeds in the mayor's court, or before two magis-

trates of the city of Annapolis, if the lands are within the pre-

cincts of that city, declared good and available as if acknowledged

before a judge of the general court, or justices of the county —

1725, ch. 8, . .

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No feme covert, named as a grantor, or her heirs, shall be barred, except

upon her acknowledgment of the writing, and the person or per-

* See the notes to the original act in which the whole legislation of this state

on this subject, is arranged under one view.