SLAVES
SMALL DEBTS |
INDEX TO THE LAWS.
See Servants and Slaves, and
Negroes
and Slaves.
Where witnesses do not attend, according
to summons,
attachment may be issued by the justice,
The attachment, how returnable,
The offender may be fined not exceeding 20s. towards
defraying the county charges,
Execution to issue to the constable, on refusing to
pay, to levy the fine and costs on the lands, &c.
The constable receiving the fine to pay it to the
justice, to be returned by him, and paid to the county
clerk,
The county clerks to make return of all such
fines received to the levy courts,
The 8th section of the act of 1791,
ch. 68, repealed,
Supersedeas taken by a justice of
the peace not to be
returned to the county court to be recorded or filed,
Execution may be issued by such justice or any
other of the county, against the debtor and securities
or either of them,
To be executed by constables or sheriffs,
Judgment by a single magistrate may
be revived by
scire facias issued by him, or any other of the
county,
To be returnable within forty days to the justice
issuing the same, or to any other in the county,
To be served by the constable, and returned,
as in the case of original warrants, with the same fees,
and under the same penalties,
Persons committed by the justices
may be delivered
at the county gaol by the constable to the sheriff or
gaoler,
Table of fees allowed to justices
of the peace,
On the neglect of constable to return
any execution,
or on his failing to produce the defendant, he may
be fined, and judgment may be entered against him for
the debt and costs,
The justice may issue execution for such fine,
&c.
If the constable shall satisfy the
plaintiff, he shall
have the same remedy against the defendant,
Any justice of the peace empowered
to determine controversies
where the debt, &c. does not exceed fifty
dollars, as before, when not exceeding ten pounds,
On judgments exceeding ten pounds the defendant
may supersede within sixty days, which shall
stay execution for twelve months thereafter,
The supersedeas to be taken by the justices who
rendered the judgment, and no other, if living in the
county, and acting as such,
Each justice directed to keep a docket,
and enter his
proceedings, &c. to furnish the parties with copies
of
judgments, on which any other justice may issue execution,
On omission to keep such docket, &c. whereby
the debt may be lost, the justice to satisfy the same,
County courts not to hold plea in
cases within the
justices jurisdiction, not exceeding fifty dollars, except
on writs, before the first of May then next,
Judgments by justices of the peace
to be entered so
as to carry interest from the date,
The penalty of constables bonds increased,
Constables directed to give receipts
for evidences of
debts put in their hands for collection, if demanded,
on
penalty of $5 for neglect or refusal,
Directions as to executions on judgments
under the
act of 1808, ch. 19, which had expired,
Where a judgment confessed before
a justice of the
peace, with stay of execution, has been assigned, no |
Session. Ch. S.
1801
42 1
2
3
4
62
1
2
3
4
5
74
30
1806
21 2
3
4
1809
76 1
2
3
4
5
6
153
5
177
4
205
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