COUNTY COURTS
 

    The clerks required to report annually to the assembly,
on or before the first Monday in December,
the duration of every term, and the number of days
that the judges respectively shall attend,
—Penalty on failure, and allowance for the service,
    Power of any judge of the county courts as to
slaves brought before them as runaways,
    Cases of petitions for freedom in which the record
may be transmitted to another county for trial,
    The judges of the county courts, and the
clerks of those courts, exempted in part from
militia duty,
    Judgments to be rendered in the money hereby made
current,
    Scire facias, how to be issued against heirs and terre
tenants, where resident in another county than that
where the judgment was rendered,
    Capias ad respondendum, how to be issued against
heirs or devisees from one county to another,
    The militia fine therein mentioned to be recovered
by motion in the county courts,
    Money, &c. won or lost by gaming or betting, not
recoverable before any court, &c.
    Directions as to executions, &c.
—As to acknowledgment of deeds, &c.
    An act concerning sentences of foreign courts,
    The county courts empowered to exercise original
equity jurisdiction in all cases in which the court of
chancery has power to act,
    Application may be made to the county courts for
division, &c. of lands of persons dying intestate, and
lying in different counties, and of those devised to joint
tenants or tenants in common,
    See Descents,
    County courts authorised to fine licensed keepers of
ferries, not exceeding 100 dollars,
    Sheriffs, &c. neglecting to make return of process,
may on motion be amerced, (on proof of delivery,) not
exceeding $200, and judgment may be entered thereon,
and execution issued as in other judgments,
    When actions are removed to any county court,
warrants of resurvey, orders, or other process, may be
issued to the county from which they are removed, to
be executed, as in other cases,
—The sheriff, surveyor, &c. liable to amercement
on neglect to execute such warrant, &c.
    In suits which by law are not to abate by the death
of either of the parties, where a declaration is filed before
the death of the plaintiff further proceedings may
be had thereon; but the executor, &c. may, after appearance,
have liberty to amend, as the plaintiff
might,
    On the death of a defendant, where the person necessary
to be made a party resides out of the state, subpœna
may be issued, and on proof of service, and such
party not appearing by the time therein limited, judgment
may be entered by default, nisi the 3d day of the
succeeding term,
    The county courts authorised to order the bonds under
the act to direct descents, to be given to the state,
instead of each representative, &c. such bonds to be
recorded,
    Final discharges to trustees appointed by the county
courts to be recorded,
    Authority given to the chancellor, and to the several
county courts, to order and decree the sales of the
real estates of minors in the cases therein mentioned,
    The county courts, &c. on allowing a certiorari to
remove proceedings under the act for the speedy recovery

  1809       181
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  1810        63    1
  1817      112    6

  1810        63    3

  1811      182    1
June 1812   9    2

  1812      135    3

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May 1813 19  14

  1813        84
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  1814        94
  1815      163
 
 

  1814      109
 

  1815        72
 

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 ——      134
 

  1816      154