ADMINISTRATORS
ADVERTISEMENT
AFFIDAVIT
AFFIRMATION
AGE |
INDEX TO THE LAWS.
Letters may be granted by the registers
in the recess,
and those so before granted confirmed,
See Administration,
Advertisement directed as to tobacco
notes lost,
Advertisement directed where persons
entitled to
make election under the act to direct descents are absent,
—As to runaway servants or slaves,
The several sheriffs to cause public
notice of elections
to be given three week previous thereto, by advertisements
set up at the most public places within
each district,
The proclamation, signed by the governor,
of the
names of the electors of president and vice-president,
to be inserted in such newspapers on both shores as
may be directed,
Applications of insolvent debtors
to be advertised,
—As to lands in Allegany county on which taxes
may be due,
Advertisement directed to constitute
legal notice of
sales on execution,
—On commission to make partition of an in intestate's
estate, where any of the parties reside out of the
state,
—To be made by inspectors of tobacco that has
remained in the warehouse as therein mentioned,
—To be made in Baltimore, as to the personal discharge
of insolvent debtors, &c.
—Directed in cases of petitions in any of the courts
against persons non-residents of this state,
Required on motion in the county courts
for the production
of books, &c.
For removal of suits. See Adjoining
County.
Habeas corpus to be awarded
on affidavit that a copy of
the warrant of commitment was refused,
The affidavit of the plaintiff in
actions of trespass
quare
clausum fregit, that the defendant is not a citizen
or a
resident of the state, a ground for awarding special
bail,
Affidavit required to ground a scire
facias against any
bank, &c.
Quakers, &c. allowed to make their
solemn affirmation
as a qualification as jurors, (except in criminal
cases that are capital, and on petitions for freedom,)
—The court to be satisfied that such person is one of
those who profess to be conscientiously scrupulous of
taking an oath,
—Allowed to make such affirmation, to be of the same
avail as an oath to all intents and purposes whatsoever,
—The court to be satisfied of their being such, &c.
All persons professing the christian
religion, who hold
it unlawful to take an oath on any occasion, shall be
allowed
to make their solemn affirmation in the same
manner that Quakers have heretofore been allowed to
affirm, which affirmation shall be of the same avail
as
an oath, to all intents and purposes, whatever,
—The court to be satisfied of their being such, &c.
—The declaration of rights and constitution contrary
to this act repealed,
In case the eldest male shall not be
of age to make
his election, (agreeable to the act to direct descents,)
the eldest female if of age may elect to take the land
at
the valuation, notwithstanding the existence of any
male minor, |
Session. Ch. S.
1818 217
5
1801
63 28
1802
94 3
—— 96
1805
97 4
—— —
33
—— 110
2
1806
62
1818 185
1813 100
7
1816 129
1814 109
7
1815 214
1
1816 221
3
1818 133
1
1804
74 6
1809 125 2-6
1812
94 —
1818 177
4
1809
62 2
—— —
3
1815 182
1
—— —
2
1817
16
Confirmed by
1818 163
—— —
—— —
1805 119 |