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CHAP. 107. |
APPENDIX——CHANCERY LAWS.
according to the equity of the case, in the same manner as if
the said person or persons, or those under whom they claim, had
originally appeared before him; and provided also, that such defendant
or defendants may, at any time before a decree shall have
been passed, appear in court, and be admitted to defend the cause,
on filing a good and sufficient answer, plea or demurrer, to the bill. |
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Passed Jan. 25,
1806. |
NOVEMBER SESSION, 1805.
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CHAP. LXV.
An Act to provide for the organization and regulation of the Courts
of
Common Law in this State, and for the Administration
of Justice
therein. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 72. |
Where chancellor
is interested chief
judge of the district
to decree, &c. |
19. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all cases where
the chancellor
is or may be interested, and where bills in chancery may properly
lie, the chief judge of the district in which the chancery court shall
sit, shall hear, determine, order and decree thereon, in the same
manner as if such chief judge was the chancellor, and an appeal
may lie in such cases from the decree of the judge to the court of
appeals, who may hear and determine in the same as on appeals
from the chancery court; provided, that the process on all such
cases shall be issued by the register in chancery, tested in the name
of the said judge.
See 1806, ch. 55, and 1811, ch. 189. |
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Passed 27th of
Jan. 1806. |
CHAP. XCIII.
An Act authorising the Chancellor in certain cases to decree Conveyances
for Land, the title to which is in British Subjects.
Lib. TH.
No. 1, fol. 132.
See ch. 99. |
Preamble.
Ch. 45. |
WHEREAS it has happened that many citizens of this
state have
purchased land lying within this state, and hold the same under a
contract alone for the conveyance thereof, the legal title being outstanding
in British subjects, or vested by law in this state, who
come within the meaning and purview of the act of assembly passed
at October session, seventeen hundred and eighty*, entitled, An
act to seize, confiscate and appropriate, all British property within
this state, and the said purchasers, in some instances, having paid
the whole, and in others, a great part of the purchase money, and
are desirous to complete their contract, and to obtain a legal title
to their land, and doubts having been entertained whether there
exists any competent authority to execute conveyances to the said
purchasers; for remedy whereof, |
Chancellor may
decree respecting
lands, the legal
title to which is in
a British subject,
or in the state, &c. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
in all cases in which any citizen of this or any of the United States
shall have purchased any land lying within this state, the legal
title to which is now outstanding in a British subject, or vested by
law in this state, or who now has a fair and equitable claim to any
such land which had been so purchased, it shall and may be lawful,
upon a bill being filed in the court of chancery, either by the claimant |
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