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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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21 JAC. 1, CAP. 16, LIMITATIONS. 601
tiff, and upon Matter alledged in Arrest of Judgment, the
Judgment be given against the Plaintiff, that he take nothing
by his Plaint, Writ or Bill; or if any the said Actions shall
be brought by Original, and the Defendant therein be outlawed,
and shall after reverse the Outlawry, that in all such cases the
Party Plaintiff, his Heirs, Executors or Administrators, as the
Case shall require, may commence a new Action or Suit, from
Time to Time, within a Year after such Judgment reversed, or
such Judgment given against the Plaintiff, or Outlawry
reversed, and not after.
V. And be it further enacted, That in all Actions of Tres-
pass, Quare clausum fregit, hereafter to be brought, wherein
the Defendant or Defendants shall disclaim in his or their
Plea, to make any Title or Claim to the Land in which the
Trespass is by the Declaration supposed to be done, and the
Trespass be by Negligence, or Involuntary, the Defendant or
Defendants shall be admitted to plead a Disclaimer, and that
the Trespass was by Negligence or Involuntary, and a Tender
or Offer of sufficient Amends for such Trespass before the
Action brought, whereupon, or upon some of them, the Plaintiff
or Plaintiffs shall be enforced to join Issue; (2) and if the
said Issue be found for the Defendant or Defendants, or the
Plaintiff or Plaintiffs shall be Nonsuited, the Plaintiff or Plain-
tiffs shall be clearly barred from the said Action or Actions,
and all other Suits concerning the same.
* VI. And be it further enacted by the Authority afore- 449
said, That in all Actions upon the Case for slanderous Words,
to be sued or prosecuted by any Person or Persons in any the
Courts of Record at Westminster, or in any Court whatsoever
that hath Power to hold Plea of the same, after the End of this
present Session of Parliament, if the Jury upon the Trial of
the Issue in such Action, or the Jury that shall enquire of the
Damages, do find or assess the Damages under forty Shillings,
then the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs in such Action, shall have and
recover only so much Costs as the Damages so given or assessed
amount unto, without any further Increase of the same; any
Law, Statute, Custom or Usage to the contrary in any wise
notwithstanding.
VII. Provided nevertheless, and be it further enacted, That
if any Person or Persons that is or shall be entitled to any
such Action of Trespass, Detinue, Action sur Trover, Replevin,
Actions of Accounts, Actions of Debts, Actions of Trespass for

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