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APPENDIX——CHANCERY LAWS.
be brought in the chancery court of this state, shall have all
the benefits and advantages which are given to complainants by
the first section of the act to which this is a supplement, passed
at
November session eighteen hundred and six*. |
NOV. 1811.
CHAP. 189.
now given to
complainants.
* Ch. 55. |
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MAY SESSION, 1813.
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CHAP. XXI.
An Act relating to Lunatics, Idiots and Persons insane. Lib.
TH.
No. 3, fol. 578. |
Passed May 29, 1813. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the chancellor shall have full power, on the application of any trustee
of a lunatic, idiot or person insane, and receiving proof to his satisfaction
that it is necessary or proper to confine such lunatic,
idiot or person insane, to direct such trustee to send the person
under his charge to the hospital in the vicinity of the city of Baltimore,
provided he can be there received, to remain until the further
order of the court of chancery. |
Chancellor's power
in cases of lunatics,
&c. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the chancellor
shall have power
at any time to order and direct the removal to the said hospital of
any lunatic, idiot or person insane, who hath heretofore, under his
direction, been sent to any hospital or receptacle in Philadelphia,
and to enforce his order as in other cases. |
May be removed
from hospitals in
Philadelphia. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the seventh section
of the act of
assembly, passed at November session one thousand seven hundred
and ninety-seven†, entitled, An act relative to proceedings in the
court of chancery and land offices, and to the real estate of persons
dying intestate, be and the same is hereby repealed. |
Part of act of 1797
repealed.
† Ch. 114. |
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DECEMBER SESSION, 1814.
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CHAP. XCIV.
An Additional Supplement to the act (a),
entitled, An act respecting
the Equity Jurisdiction of the County Courts.
Lib. TH. No. 4,
fol. 351.
(a) 1791, ch. 78. See
1815, ch. 163. |
Passed Jan. 28, 1815. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the several county courts of this state may exercise original equity
jurisdiction in all cases in which the court of chancery has now
power to act, in the same manner that they now exercise equity jurisdiction
by virtue of the act to which this is a supplement.
By 1815, ch. 163, the several county
courts are vested with all the powers, &c.
which can be exercised by the chancellor, whether derived
from the common
law, or in virtue of any statute or act of assembly. |
Equity jurisdiction
may be exercised
by county
courts. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That each of the judges
of the several
judicial districts of this state, during vacation, shall have the same
power to grant and enforce, within their respective judicial districts,
writs of injunction, in the same manner, and with the same limitation,
as the chancellor of the state can or may exercise.
By 1815, ch. 163, the several judges
in vacation may grant injunctions and direct
any rule, order or interlocutory decree, to be entered. |
Judges may grant
writs of injunction. |
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