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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
Volume 194, Page 628   View pdf image (33K)
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628 21 JAC. I, CAP. 24, EXECUTION.
all actions, (except actions for assault and battery, false imprisonment,
libel, slander, malicious arrest or prosecution, criminal conversation, or
debauching of the plaintiff's daughter or servant,) to pay into Court a
sum of money by way of compensation or amends, see Bishop of London
v. M'Niel, 9 Exch. 490.
CAP. XXIII.
An Act for avoiding of vexatious Delays caused by removing Actions
and Suits out of inferior Courts.
This Statute seems at the present time to be altogether inapplicable. I
have, therefore, inserted it only by its title.
CAP. XXIV.
An Act for the Relief of Creditors against such Persons as die in
Execution.
Forasmuch as heretofore it hath been much doubted and ques-
tioned, if any Person being in Prison, and charged in Execu-
465 tion,* by reason of any Judgment given against him,
should afterwards happen to die in Execution, whether the
Party at whose Suit, or to whom such Person stood charged in
Execution at the Time of his Death, be for ever concluded and
barred to have Execution of the Lands and Goods of such Per-
son so dying:
II. And forasmuch as daily Experience doth manifest, that
divers Persons of Sufficiency in Real and Personal Estate,
minding to deceive others of their just Debt, for which they
stood charged in Execution, have obstinately and wilfully
chosen rather to live and die in Prison, than to make any Satis-
faction according to their Abilities: To prevent which Deceit,
and for the Avoiding of such Doubts and Questions hereafter;
(2) Re it declared, explained and enacted by the King's most
excellent Majesty, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the
Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the
Authority of the same, That from and after the End of this
present Session of Parliament, the Party or Parties, and at

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