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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
in the several counties, and triable by law in the county courts,
shall be returned to the justices appointed in virtue of this act, by
the justice making such commitment or taking such recognizance,
on the first day of holding the county court of their county; and all
sheriffs, clerks, and all other civil officers, shall execute and perform
the same offices and duties, under the same penalties as they
are now obliged by law to perform and execute them in the county
courts as now established.
35. See note to sections 1, &c. |
1801.
CHAP. 74. |
36. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the second
section of an act, *
entitled, An act concerning jurisdiction, be and the same is hereby
repealed.
37. See note to sections 1, &c. |
Section repealed.
* 1785, ch. 87. |
38. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no action of ejectment,
waste,
partition, dower, trespass quare clausum fregit, trover or replevin,
brought or to be brought in any court of law in this state, shall
abate by the death of either of the parties to such action, but upon
the death of either of the parties, the action shall be continued, and
the heir, devisee, executor or administrator, of the deceased party,
as the case may require, or other person interested on the part of
the deceased party, may appear to such action, and in case the heir,
devisee, executor, administrator, or other proper persons to prosecute
or defend such action, as the case may be, do not appear to
such action at the term at which the death is suggested, the surviving
party, whether plaintiff or defendant, may proceed to make
proper parties to such action, according to the provisions of the
act, † entitled, An act to alter and amend the law in certain cases.
39, 40, 4, 42, 43, 44. See note to sections 1, &c. |
No action to abate
by the death of
either party.
† 1785, ch. 80. |
45. AND BE IT ENACTED, That an act of assembly,
passed at
November session, seventeen hundred and ninety six, ‡ entitled,
An act for the better administration of justice in the several counties
of this state, and the several supplements thereto, and also the
fourth section of an act passed at November session, in the year
seventeen hundred and ninety, || entitled, An act for the better administration
of justices in the several counties of this state, be and
the same are hereby repealed. |
Acts repealed.
‡ Ch. 43.
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46. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall
commence upon the
twentieth day of January next, and continue and be in force until
the first day of January, eighteen hundred and five.
Further continued by 1804, ch. 25,
(except the 19, 20, 21, 24, 25 and 26 sections,)
be 1st October 1810, &c. Further continued by annual general
continuing acts,
1818, ch. 147, &c. |
Commencement. |
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CHAP. LXXV.
An Act to repair the old or to build a new Poor-House in Anne-Arundel
County. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 147.
A Supplement 1803, ch. 106. |
Passed Dec. 31. |
WHEREAS, it has been represented to this general
assembly, that
the poor-house of Anne-Arundel county has been destroyed by fire,
and that there is at this time no place for the reception and accommodation
of the poor of said county; |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the justices of the levy court of Anne-Arundel county be and they |
Levy authorised
to repair or build
a poor-house. |
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