ESTATE OF CRIMINALS
ETCHERSON, JAS.
ETCHING
EVIDENCE |
INDEX TO THE LAWS.
In case of an infant's death under
age, without lawful
issue, the proceeds of sale under this act to be considered
as real estate, and descend as such,
Leasehold estates of infants may be
sold by guardians
under the authority of the orphans court,
And others, of Prince-George's countymoney
to
be levied for their support,
In imitation of a bank note, &c.
punishment of. See
Crimes, &c.
The testimony of inspectors of tobacco
to be admitted
in cases of forged notes, false packing, &c.
Slaves shall in all cases in which
a free negro or mulatto,
or other person of colour, free or freed, is charged
with stealing goods or receiving stolen goods, be
admitted to give evidence for or against the accused,
The party prosecuted for a libel may
give the truth
of the matter charged in evidence under the general
issue, by way of justification,
Proof required of letters of attorney
for the acknowledgment
of deeds,
In criminal prosecutions against any
negro or slave,
or mulatto descended from a white woman, or any negro
or mulatto free or freed, the testimony of any negro
or mulatto slave, or of any mulatto descendant
from a white woman, or of any negro or mulatto free
or freed, may be received in evidence for or against
them,
An approver shall never be admitted
in any case
whatever,
Copies under seal of the records of
receipts, final
discharges, &c. to executors, administrators and
guardians,
to be admitted as evidence,
Deeds for the manumission of slaves,
which had
been acknowledged and recording according to the act
of 1796, ch. 67, declared valid, although not evidenced
by two or more witnesses,
A copy of any such deed, duly attested,
to be good
evidence thereof,
Rights of purchasers saved,
Copies from any of the books, papers,
&c. in the
possession of the register of the land office, (not matter
of record,) to be received in evidence, when attested
under seal, to have the same effect as the originals,
The sentence of a foreign court, &c.
not to be conclusive
evidence of any facts, &c. therein contained,
except of the acts and doings of such court, &c.
Letters testamentary or of administration,
granted in
the District of Columbia, or a copy certified under the
seal of the authority granting the same, shall be sufficient
evidence to prove the granting thereof, &c.
Copies of final discharges, &c.
to trustees, attested
under the seal of office, to be admitted as evidence,
Convicts confined in the penitentiary,
may be admitted
as witnesses where persons confined therein are on
trial, for an offence committed while thus confined,
both for and against,
Certificates by county clerks as therein
directed to
be evidence of the receipt and delivery of process to
sheriffs, &c.
Evidence required as to the return by the sheriffs,
Directions concerning the evidence
in prosecutions
against retailers of liquors in the counties therein
mentioned,
suffering negroes, &c. to be in their store houses
between sun-set and sun-rise, |
Session. Ch. S.
1816 154
9
203
2
1817
99
1809 138
6
1801
63 27
109
1803
54
1807 154
2
1813 104
2
1808
81
1809 138 10
108
2
1810
15 1
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1812
82
1813 164
165
1816 134
1817
72 2
139
8
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7
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