DESCENTS
DEVISE
DEVISEES
DIMINUTION
DIRECTORS
DISABLED MILITIA
DISABLING
DISFIGURING
DISPENSARY
DISQUALIFICATION
DISTRESS
DISTRIBUTION |
INDEX TO THE LAWS.
at the court house door, and other public
places in the county where the lands lie, at least two
months before they proceed,
—Such notice to be deemed a compliance with the
8th section of the act to direct descents, as to notice
to all parties,
No devise, &c. shall lapse or fail
or taking effect by
the death of any devisee &c. in the life time of
the testator,
May appear to actions of ejectment,
&c. that would
before have abated by the death of a party,
Writs of capias ad respondendum,
how to be issued
against devisees, from one county to another,
Proceedings authorised by, and process
for, devisees,
in suits not abating by the death of a party,
Directions concerning writs of diminution
from the
late general court and court of appeals,
Same in suits transmitted to an adjoining
county
court,
See Penitentiary.
Entitled to half pay,
See Crimes, &c. Mayhem.
See Crimes, &c.
Mayhem.
The contributors to the Baltimore General
Dispensary
incorporated,
—A lottery authorised for raising money for the use
of the said Dispensary,
The Baltimore Second Dispensary incorporated,
Taking or giving an illegal fee or
gift, to influence
the behaviour of persons in the administration of justice,
deemed bribery, and disqualifying the person
from holding any office, &c.
Embracers and jurors taking gain or
profit for their
verdict, to be disqualified to serve on juries for ever
thereafter, &c.
Disqualification on challenging or
accepting a challenge,
See Duelling.
Collectors to deliver or leave a particular
account of
assessments, before any personal property shall be distrained
or sold,
Not lawful to seize by distress any
spinning wheel
or loom, which shall be loaned or hired out to any person,
for house rent due by such person,
—Stoves hired or rented, how exempted,
When a man is convicted of bigamy,
his first wife
shall be entitled to one third of his personal estate
as if
he had died intestate, and she had survived him, to be
allotted to her in the same manner as distribution is
made of the personal estate of intestates,
—When a woman is so convicted, she shall forfeit
her distributory share of her first husband's personal
estate, which she would be entitled to if he had died
intestate, and she had survived him,
Distribution of specific articles
to be made by persons
appointed by the orphans courts,
—If it cannot be equally made, a sale to be ordered, |
Session. Ch. S.
1814 109
7
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1810
34 4
1801
74 38
1812 145
3
1815 149
4
1805
65 44
1806
90 9
May 1813 19 23
1807 110
1813 132
1817 211
1809 138
8
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1816 219
2
1800
85
1813 135
1816 210
1809 138
7
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1810
34 5
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