Maryland, now in force.
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Garnishee, together with such Costs as the Garnishee
shall put the Plaintiff to in contesting the same.
IV. Provided also, that no Sheriff shall
by any Attachment
or other Execution, levy, seize, or take the
Goods of any Inhabitant of this Province, so far as to
deprive him of all lawful Livelihood for the future; but
that Corn for necessary maintenance, Bedding, Gun,
Axe, Pot, Labourers Tools, and such like, shall be protected
from all Attachments and Executions whatsoever.
V. Such as shall be found by proof wilfully
to absent
themselves in Woods or elsewhere, whereby they cannot
be found to be brought to Tryal, and such as shall be absent
by Flight, or Proscription, out of the Province,
shall have no Benefit by the favourable Interpretation
of this Law.
VI. Any person having obtained a Judgment
in any
Court of this Province, may take out an Attachment
against the Goods, Chattels and Credits of the Defendant,
in the Plaintiffs own hands, or in the hands
of any other person whatsoever, with a Clause
in the said Attachment for the Sheriff to warn the party
in whose hands, at a certain day, to shew cause why the
the said Goods, &c. shall not be condemned, and
if no cause be shewn, the said Goods shall be condemned
and Execution awarded by Ca. Sa. or Fi. Fa. or otherwise.
VII. An. 11. W. 3. 1699.
p. 51. After the 10th day of April
in every year, no Execution shall issue out of any Court
against the Body or Goods of any Person inhabiting in
this Province until the 10th of October following, upon
any Judgment in any Court of this Province, provided
the Defendant and 2 other persons with him shall come
before one Justice of the Provincial Court, or Mayor, and
any two Aldermen of St Mary's, or two Commissioners
of Annapolis, or 2 Justices of the respective County Court,
and confess Judgment for the Debt and Costs adjudged,
with stay of Execution till the 10th of October next following.
VIII. And if the party be taken in Execution,
a Certificate
of the confessing such Judgment as aforesaid, shall
be a sufficient Supersedeas for the release of such person
out of Prison, the party paying or securing to the Sheriffs
his due Fees.
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