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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
33. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every act and thing
that has been
done by any county court, as it existed before the said thirtieth
day of November, or that has been or shall be done under any
writ, summons, commission or other process, of every nature and
kind whatever, which have issued, or which shall issue on or before
the first meeting of the county courts, as organized or established
under the constitution amended, and this act, shall have the
same effect and operation, to every intent and purpose whatever,
as they would have had if the court in which the same was done,
or from which the same issued, or shall be issued as aforesaid, had
not been changed or abolished, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
1805.
CHAP. 65.
Acts done by late
county courts to
be valid. |
34. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every recognizance
of special bail
taken, or to be taken before the promulgation of this act, shall be
returned to the county court of the county in which the defendants
or defendant resided at the time of taking the same, and on the day
herein limited for the first sitting of the said county court, and
shall be as good, valid and effectual, to every intent and purpose,
as if the same had been returned to the court to which the same
was made returnable in case the general court and county courts
had not been abolished. |
Recognizances and
bail to be returned
to the county court
where defendant
resided. |
35. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every bail bond
taken, or to be taken
before the promulgation of this act, shall be valid and effectual
in law, to compel the appearance of any defendant arrested on
mesne process at the first sitting in virtue of this act of the county
court of the county in which the said defendant resided at the time
of the said arrest; and every such bail bond may be avoided and defeated
by the appearance of the defendant at the time and in the
manner herein prescribed and directed, and not otherwise. |
Bail bonds taken,
&c. effectual to
compel appearance
at the first
sitting of county
court, &c. |
36. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all and every
the judicial acts,
judgments and proceedings, of any county court, and all and every
the official acts and proceedings of any chief justice, or associate
justice, done, entered and performed, since the aforesaid thirtieth
day of November last, shall be and the same are hereby confirmed,
and shall be of the same avail in law as if the same had been done,
entered and performed, at any time prior to that day, any law to
the contrary notwithstanding. |
Judicial acts, &c.
of county court &
judges since 30th
Nov. last, declared
valid. |
37. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all deeds for
land, or other property,
as well as every other instrument of writing, that has been,
since the said thirtieth of November, or that shall be, before the
first day of March next, executed or acknowledged before any judge
of the general court, or before any chief justice of a district, or
before any one or more associate justices of the county court, shall
have the same effect and operation, to all intents and purposes
whatever, as if the general court, or county court, had not been
changed or abolished, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
See 1807, ch. 52, confirming all deeds
acknowledged before two justices of the
peace. See November 1809, ch. 164. |
Deeds, &c. acknowledged,
&c.
to be valid. |
38. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all causes, pleas,
process and
proceedings, of every kind whatsoever, either civil or criminal,
which were depending and undetermined on the aforesaid thirtieth
day of November, in any county court, or in the general court,
shall be and the same are hereby revived and continued until the
next courts to be holden in the several counties on the respective |
All causes, pleas,
&c. depending in
late general or
county courts, revived
and continued
to, and to be
tried in, the respective
county
courts.
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