ADMINISTRATION
        OF JUSTICE











ADMINISTRATORS

    Provisions concerning appeals, scire facias, costs, conveyances,
mandamus, records, abatement, &c.
— Concerning executions,
— Concerning scire facias, process, parties, &c.
— Concerning the Court of Appeals,

    Provisions for the administration of justice in cases
of crimes and misdemeanors in the city and county
of Baltimore,
    An act concerning crimes and punishments,
— Respecting the right of challenge in criminal
cases,

    May appear to actions that would have abated by the
death of a party, &c.  See Abatement.
    Administrators not having assets to discharge a claim,
or any part for which suit is brought, may plead the
fact,
— If, on trial, (the demand being contested,) there
be any other issue than on the subject of assets, the jury,
if they find the amount of assets less than the debt,
shall declare the amount of the debt and the sum to be
paid by the defendant,
— The sum to be paid to be ascertained by reference
to the assets in hand, and the debts due from the
deceased,
— Judgment thereupon to be entered to be entered for the debt or
damages, &c. to be released on payment of the sum ascertained
by the verdict, and interest from the time of
the judgment,
— The said sum to be levied of the goods and chattels
of the deceased, or of the defendant,
— The residue of the debt or damages to be levied of
the goods and chattels of the deceased thereafter coming
to hand, or of the defendant,
— On such assets arising thereafter, the plaintiff
may issue scire facias, on which the trial may be had,
    Proviso as to cases under the testamentary law referred
to an Auditor,
    The crop growing on the lands of a deceased person,
at the time of his death, to be assets in the hands of
the administrator, &c.
    Directions for proceedings on the revocation of letters
ad colligendum,
— On the revocation of letters testamentary or of
administration,
    Administrators, are not bound to take notice of or
discover any judgment or decree against the deceased,
— Creditors on judgment, &c. to exhibit their claims
as other creditors, subject to be barred in like manner,
— But not deprived of their preference, if the claim
is exhibited in due time,
    Administrators, &c. may contest claims passed by the
orphans courts, or registers, which thereupon shall be
proved, as if no such order had been made,
    Suits then depending to be proceeded in according to
this act,
— To enable administrators, &c. to plead the new
matter therein directed, a continuance authorised to the
end of the third term after the usual time,
    Administrators not to retain property which had by
law devolved on free schools, on account of their being,
in some counties, abolished; but the same to go to colleges,
or schools, or if none, to the county,
    The 7th, 8th, and 9th sections of ch. 8, of the act of
1798, ch. 101, and such other parts as are repugnant
to this act, repealed,