| NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 153. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
court of record of this state, the judgment thereupon shall not be
stayed or reversed for any defect of form or substance in any writ,
original or judicial, or for any variance in such writs from the declaration
or other proceedings, nor for defects in any count in the
declaration, so that there be one good count; and if the court of appeals
should be of opinion that there appears to be sufficient matter
of substance in the record and proceedings on any appeal or writ of
error to enable them to proceed thereon, the same shall not be reversed
or dismissed for want of form, and the court may, on motion,
permit and direct any entry to be made, or act to be done, by either
party, on the trial of any appeal, or during its pendency,
which might or could have been done by such party after verdict,
in the court from whose judgment such appeal was made, and which
in law might have been necessary to give effect and validity to
such judgment.
See 1811, ch. 161, s. 3 and 4. |
This act not to extend
to criminal
prosecutions. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing herein
contained shall be
construed to extend to any criminal process or prosecutions at the
suit of the state. |
Court to enter
such judgment as
will carry interest
&c. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all cases where
a verdict shall
be given in any court of this state, the court before whom such verdict
shall be given, shall and they are hereby authorised to enter
such judgment upon the verdict as will carry an interest on the
same until the payment of the damages assessed by the jury giving
such verdict, in the same manner as is now used and practised in
the cases of a confession of judgment in said court.
By 1811, ch. 161, s. 5, judgments by
default to carry interest in the same manner
as judgments on verdicts. |
Justices to enter
judgment so as to
carry interest. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all justices of
the peace of this
state shall be compelled, upon entering judgments upon cases within
their jurisdiction, to enter the same in such manner as shall carry
an interest thereon from the date thereof until the same shall be
paid or satisfied. |
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Passed Jan. 6, 1810. |
CHAP. CLIV.
An Act to prevent Insurance on Lottery Tickets. Lib. TH.
No. 2,
fol. 372. |
Penalty for insuring
tickets. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That if
any person shall insure, or cause to be insured, any ticket, number
or chance, in any lottery, for any purpose, or against any event
whatever, or shall sell any ticket, part of a ticket, number or chance,
in any lottery, for a day or other limited time, reserving any right,
interest or claim, in or to any such ticket, part of a ticket, number
or chance, or shall make, or cause to be made, any contract
or agreement for or respecting any ticket, number or chance, or
part or share of any ticket, number or chance, in any lottery whatever,
other than a complete and bona fide sale of a ticket or tickets,
or parts of shares of tickets, in lotteries authorised by the laws of
this state, every person so offending shall forfeit and pay the sum
of thirty dollars for each and every offence, one half to the use of
the informer, and the other half to the use of the county in which
the offence shall be committed, to be recovered by warrant before
a justice of the peace, in the same manner as shall debts are or
shall be recovered. |
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