LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1829.

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CHAPTER 39.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT/ entitled, an Act relating to Sheriffs, and for
other purposes.

*1813,ch.
102.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
in all cases where any sheriff, coroner or elisor hath seized or
taken any goods, chattels, lands or tenements, in virtue of any
writ of fieri facias sued out of any court of law of this state,
and the said sheriff, coroner or elisor so seizing and taking the
same, shall either die, resign or remove from the county, before
the goods, chattels, lands or tenements, are sold in virtue of any
such writ, and the said goods, chattels, lands and tenements,
shall be insufficiently or informally described in the schedule
returned by such sheriff, coroner or elisor, the several county
courts of this state, or any one of the judges thereof, during the
recess of the court, shall be, and are hereby authorized and
required, to order and direct the schedule and return of any
such sheriff, coroner or elisor, to any such writ, to be amended
so as to describe with sufficient certainty, the property purport-
ing to be taken in virtue of such writ, and that the schedule
and return so amended, shall be as available as if it had been
originally in the form given to it by such amendment.

Amend
schedule.

CHAPTER 61.
AN ACT to authorize Equitable Assignees to sue in their own names.
A Supplement, 1830, ch. 165.

WHEREAS, equitable assignees have frequently sustained in-
juries and loss, by the death of the assignor or legal plaintiff;
therefore,

Preamble.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
any assignee or assignees, bona fide entitled to any judgment,
bond, specialty or other chose in action for the payment of mo-
ney by assignment in writing, signed by the person or persons
authorized to make the same, may, by virtue of such assign-
ment, sue and maintain, an action or actions, execution or
executions, in any court of law or equity in this state, as the
case may require, in his, her or their name or names, against
the obligor or obligors, debtor or debtors therein named, saving
and reserving to the defendant or defendants, all such legal or
equitable defence as might or could have been had and main-
tained against the assignor or assignors at the time, and before
notice of such assignment, in the same manner and to the same
extent as if no such assignment had been made.

May sue.