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Repealed.
Substituted.
Action of
ejectment.
Copy of de-claration.
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAPTER 346.
AN ACT to repeal sections forty-six, forty-seven,
fifty-five and fifty-six, of article seventy-five, of the
Code of Public General Laws, entitled "Pleading
Practice and Process," also the Act of the Gen-
eral Assembly passed at the January session,
eighteen hundred and seventy, chapter four hun-
dred and twenty, entitled an Act to amend the
third section of the seventy-fifth article of the
Code of Public General Laws, relating to " Plead-
ing Practice and Process," by substituting the
following in lieu thereof:
SECTION 1. Be It enacted by] by the General Assembly of
Maryland That sections forty-six, forty-seven, fifty-
five and fifty-six, of article seventy-five, of the Code
of Public Genera! Laws, and also the Act passed at
January session, eighteen hundred and seventy,
chapter four hundred and twenty, entitled an Act
to amend the third section of the seventy-fifth article
of the Code of Public General Laws, relating to
" Pleading Practice and Process," be and the same
are hereby repealed, and the following substituted
therefor:
SEC. 46. SUB-SEC. 1. The action of ejectment shall
be commenced by filing a declaration in which the
real claimant shall be named as plaintiff', and the
tenant in possession, or the party claiming adversely
to the plaintiff+ T, shall be defendant; it shall he suffi-
cient To state in the declaration that the plaintiff was in
possession of the land or premises described in the
declaration, and that the defendant ejected him
therefrom, and retains possession thereof, and the
amount or' damages claimed by the plaintiff; a copy
of the declaration, with a written notice of the suit
addressed to the defendant shall be served on each of
the defendants, or the land if no person be in actual
possession; to tins declaration the defendant or any
other person, with leave of the court, may appear and
plead not guilty to the action, which plea shall be
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