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An Abridgement of the Laws in Force and Use in Her Majesty's Plantations; 1704
Volume 193, Page 59   View pdf image (33K)
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                    Maryland, now in force.                    59

errors therein by discontinuance or otherwise by the late
Troubles.
    II.  Provided no Person shall take any benefit of this
Act for any error or mistake in any Process, Pleas or
other proceedings not occasioned by the said late troubles.
    III.  The 2 last years, viz. from 1690 to 1692, shall
not be accounted, concluded and meant in the Statute
of Limitations for payment or demand of Debts, or in
the clause for returning of Certificates upon Land granted,
or suing out Patents for lands, but in those and
such like cases the said years shall be passed by, and
not counted for years thereby meant or mentioned.
    IV.  An. 6. W. & M. 1694. p. 24.  All Actions, Suits,
Causes and Proceedings in all Courts within this Province
shall be taken and reputed as valid in Law or Equity
to all intents and purposes, as any other Judicial
Proceedings, and all Officers Military and Civil are confirmed,
established and ratify'd, for, in, or by reason 
of any legal acting or proceeding in their respective
Offices and Stations, from the Access of Sir Edmund Andross,
Knight, to the present Governour Francis Nicolson, 
Esq; his arrival, any Clause, Imperfection, or want
of Authority in the said Sir Edmund Andross or his Commission
notwithstanding.
    V.  Provided nothing in this Act shall justify the said
Sir Edmund Andross's taking and disposing of the Publick
Revenues, or debar the Assembly or any other Person of
their Right or Claims to the same.
    VI.  An. 11. W. 3. 1699. p. 69.  No County Court
shall hold Plea of any Action upon Bond, Bill, Assumption,
Reckoning or Account, where the Debt or
Damages doth not exceed the sum of 200 l. of Tobacco,
or 16 s. 8 d. in Money:  but in all such cases it shall be
lawful for any one Justice of Peace in the County where
the Debtor resides, to hear and determine the matter,
and to administer Oaths as occasion shall require; and
upon full hearing, to proceed as the nature of the case
shall require, whose determination shall be final.
    VII.  All which the said Justice shall do without fee
or reward; and if the Party against whom Judgment
shall be given, shall refuse or delay to pay such Debt as
shall be awarded against him, the said Justice shall award
Execution against him by fi. fa. or Ca. sa. directed to

 

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