PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.

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No bill, bond, judgment, recognizance, statute merchant, or of the

staple, or other specialty, (except in the name or the use of the

state,) shall be good and plcadable after the principal debtor and

creditor have been both dead twelve years, or the debt, &c. above

twelve years standing — 1715, ch. 23, sec. 6, ....

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Saving to persons under the impediments of infancy, coverture, insa-

nity of mind, imprisonment, the full benefit of such bills, &c. for

five years after such impediments are removed — 1715, ch. 23,

sec. 6, ...........

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To prevent sheriffs or sub-sheriffs from being injured by the prohibi-

tion of taking bonds, &c. without endorsing the same, the time of

their remaining in office, shall not be accounted in the act of limi-

tations — 1715, ch. 46, sec. 14, .

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Actions on administration and testamentary bonds shall be commenced

within twelve years after the passing such bonds — 1729, ch. 24,

sec. 21, . . . ...

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Saving to infants, Sec. a right of bringing such actions within six years

after the disability is removed — 1729, ch. 24, sec. 21, .

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Actions on sheriffs' bonds shall be brought within five years after pass-

ing such bonds, saving to the state the right of suing in its own

right at any time, and to infants, &c. the liberty of bringing such

actions within five years after the disability is removed — 1729, ch.

25, sec. 3, 4, ..........

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The bonds to be given on the assignments or conveyances therein men-

tioned not to be pleadable after three years, with a saving of three

years in case of infancy, &c. — 1753, ch. 36, sec. 2, ...

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See Bankrupts.

Informations for sabbath breaking to be made within one month — 1723,

ch. 16, sec. 13, ..........

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Prosecutions, &c. for cursing, drunkenness, and omission to punish the

same, within ten days — 1723, ch. 16, sec. 13, ....

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In any cause referred, if a party or an arbitrator hath died, or shall die

before the making of an award, if any arbitrator has refused or

shall refuse to act, or if an award hath been or shall be set aside,

then all the time from the original writ till such death) refusal to.

act, or setting aside the award, shall not run or be reckoned as part

of the time limited for bringing such suit — October, 1778, ch. 21,

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

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No prosecution or suit to be commenced for any penalty or forfeiture

imposed by the act for the regulation of officers' fees, unless within

one year from the time of the offence committed — November, 1779,

ch. 25, sec. 19, ........

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In case no suit shall be brought to call in question the adjudication of

the commissioners for marking and bounding lands within five

years next after recording the return, the marking and bounding

such land, and the record thereof, shall be conclusive evidence of

the original location thereof— 1786, ch. 33, sec. 5,

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A saving to infants, &c. of five years after the disability is removed —

1786, ch. 33, sec. 5, .........

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