| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all cases of
judgments, decrees,
and other final proceedings, duly had, rendered and made in the
several county courts, as formerly or now established within this
state, which according to the laws of the land heretofore used and
approved, ought to have been recorded, but nevertheless remain unrecorded
by the respective clerks whose duty it was to record the
same, it shall and may be lawful for the several clerks of the county
courts, for the time being, and they are hereby authorised and required,
on the application of any person or persons being interested
in any such judgment, decree or final proceeding, and having occasion
to use the same, to grant and certify an exemplification or
official copy of a record thereof, in like manner as if such judgment,
decree or final proceeding, had been duly recorded and signed by
the clerk whose duty it was to enrol the same; and the minutes of
the court, the entries on the dockets, and the original papers and
documents filed in every such cause, shall be sufficient vouchers to
the said respective clerks for entering the style of the court by
which, and the term and year in which such judgment, decree, or
final proceeding, was had, rendered or made, and for making a due
and proper record thereof. |
1817.
CHAP. 119.
Judgments, &c in
county courts, unrecorded,
may be
certified. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the person or persons
applying
for the exemplification or official copy of any such record, shall be
chargeable for the same to such clerk or register who shall grant
the same, for the like fees and in like manner for other copies taken
from his office. |
Persons applying
for official copy of
such record to pay
for the same. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the executors or
administrators of
the officers now deceased, who in their life-time were the respective
clerks of the general courts for the western and eastern shores, or
the securities of such deceased officers, whose papers and judicial
proceedings remain unrecorded, and each and every officer now
living, who lately was the clerk or register of any court of justice
within this state, and has been removed or has resigned, or the securities
of such officer, whose papers and judicial proceedings remain
unrecorded, and the executors or administrators of each and
every officer, now deceased, who in his life-time was the clerk or
register of any such court, or the securities of such deceased officer,
whose papers and judicial proceedings remain unrecorded, and
the present clerk or register of any such court whose papers and
judicial proceedings remain unrecorded, shall respectively proceed,
without delay, to record, or cause to be recorded, in sufficient and
well bound books, and in a fair and covert manner, all and singular
the judgments duly rendered in each and every action of ejectment,
trespass quare clausum fregit, dower, partition, replevin wherein
an avowry has been pleaded or rent recovered, judgments in debt,
or damages under which any lands or tenements have been seized
in execution, and the several executions by virtue of which the
same have been sold, and the several returns to such executions, and
all decrees, petitions, commissions, returns, deeds, papers and
proceedings, whatsoever, relating to lands, tenements, or other
real estate, remaining in their respective offices unrecorded, and
which they respectively are bound to record; and the records of
such judgments, decrees, papers and proceedings, shall be made up
at full length, and contain the pleadings, continuances, and all other
documents and entries, necessary to complete the same, according
to the forms and customs heretofore most used and approved. |
Officers, &c. whose
papers remain unrecorded,
to proceed
to record the
same. |
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