| 1806.
CHAP. 39.
Passed Jan. 3, 1807. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. XXXIX.
An Act annulling the Marriage of George Sampson and Pamela Sampson.
Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 234. |
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Passed Jan. 3, 1807. |
CHAP. XL.
An Act for the relief of the Representatives of George Sharky, of
Washington County. A Private Act. Lib.
TH. No. 1, fol. 235. |
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Passed Jan. 3, 1807.
* 1805, ch. 65. |
CHAP. XLI.
An Act Supplementary to an act, * entitled, 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. 235. |
No action commenced
to continue
longer than
end or first court
after imparlance
court.
Proviso. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
no action commenced or to be commenced, shall continue longer
than the end of the first court after the imparlance court, unless
with consent of parties, at the discretion of the court, or for
such cause as the law heretofore allowed for granting a continuance
beyond the time limited herein appearing to the satisfaction of the
court; Provided, that such actions as have been transferred from
the general court to the county courts, by the act to provide for the
organization and regulation of of the courts of common law in this
state, and for the administration of justice therein, shall continue
in the same manner, for the same time, and under the same circumstances,
as they might have continued in the general court. |
Court to determine
in certain
cases, on merits
of case. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That where any writ
of error has been
or may be brought, or exception taken, in any action transmitted
from the late general court to any county court, under the provisions
of the act to which this is a supplement, the court of appeals
shall determine thereon upon the points arising out of the real merits
of the case, and not upon the legal form of the record, nor
shall the judgment which may be in such cases entered, or the opinion
given in the county court, be reversed for the want of legal
form in such record.
See ch. 90, s. 10, and November 1809, ch. 153. |
Sections declared
void. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the fortieth and
forty-sixth sections
of the act to which this is a supplement are hereby declared
null and void. |
Certain executions
declared valid. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all executions
which issued out
of the late general court, previous to, or on the thirtieth of November,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
five, and which were not placed in, or which were placed in the
hands of, and returned by, the proper officer to whom they were
respectively directed, to the court of appeals in June last, shall be
in the same state and condition, and of the same force, validity and
effect, as if all such executions had been issued under and in virtue
of the twenty-eighth section of the act to which this is a supplement;
and all executions which have issued, or shall issue, out
of the court the appeals for the western or eastern shores respectively,
on any judgment rendered in the late general court of either
shore (a), shall be of the same force, validity and effect, and may
be proceeded on in the same manner, as if all such executions had
issued on judgments rendered in the said court of appeals respectively.
(a) By 1810, ch. 156, executions
may also issue on judgments and decrees rendered
in the court of appeals. |
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