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JOHN EAGER HOWARD, Esq; Governor.
and Robert Booth, and each of them, if it should appear that they, or
either
of them, be still alive, all their several rights and interest in the said
tract of land,
except in such parts thereof as may hereafter be sold by order of the orphans
court of Washington county, for the payment of the just debts and legacies
of
the said Bartholomew Booth, and his sons William and Robert Booth,
and the
aforesaid sum of fourteen hundred pounds to Alexander Robinson, agreeably
to
the subsequent provisions of this act. |
1788.
CHAP.
XXIV. |
III. And be
it enacted, That the bond to be taken as aforesaid shall be lodged,
within six months from the passing of this act, in the office of register
of wills for
Washington county, and the same proceedings may be had thereon, at the
instance
of the creditors or legatees aforesaid, and of the said Alexander Robinson,
or of any of them, as are or may by law be had on testamentary or administration
bonds. |
Bond to be
lodged, &c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That the several creditors and legatees aforesaid, or any
of them, shall and may, at any time after the passing of this act, and
the execution
and lodging of the bond aforesaid of the said John Booth, or any of them,
have the same remedy against the said John Booth that they would have been
entitled
to if the said tract of land had descended to him as heir at law to
the person
last seized thereof, or he had taken as devisee of the person against whom
such claim hath arisen; and in all suits to be brought against him, the
creditor
or legatee may elect to charge the said John Booth as heir or devisee,
or may proceed
on the bond aforesaid; and the action or actions to be brought against
him
as heir or devisee, shall have the same operation and effect that they
would have
had if the said land had descended or been devised to him, and this act
had not
passed. |
Creditors, &c.
to have remedy,
&c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That the aforesaid sum of fourteen hundred pounds current
money, with interest, agreed to be paid by the said John Booth to Alexander
Robinson and Priscilla his wife, shall be a lien on such part of the tract
of land
called Delamere, as shall not be sold for the payment of debts and
legacies under
this act. |
The sum of
£. 1400 to be
a lien, &c. |
CHAP. XXV.
An ACT to revive and aid the proceedings of Prince-George's
county court. |
Passed December
22. |
WHEREAS April court in the present year, for the
said county, stood adjourned
to the thirty-first day of May last, on which day only one of
the justices of said county attended, whereby the county court of said
county for the said month of April could not be held and adjourned
according to
law, and all causes, pleas, process and proceedings, both civil and criminal,
in
the same court depending, were discontinued: And whereas the justices
of the
said court have since continued to do and transact the business of the
said court,
as if such discontinuance had not happened; |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all causes, pleas,
process and proceedings, both civil and criminal, (except as hereafter
excepted)
which were depending and undetermined in the said county court, which ought
to have been held and adjourned on the said thirty-first day of may last,
shall be
adjudged and taken to have been in the same state and condition at the
court then
next ensuing and held for the said county, to all intents and purposes,
as if the
justices of said court had met and adjourned, and held the said court,
as by law
required; and that all process, pleas and proceedings, had, made and done,
since
the aforesaid thirty-first day of May last, in the county court of the
said county,
by the justices thereof, shall be adjudged and taken to be good and valid,
and in
the same state and condition, to all intents and purposes, as if the justices
of the
said court had met and adjourned, and held the said court, as by law required,
the said discontinuance, or any other matter or thing, to the contrary
notwithstanding. |
Causes, &c.
to be in same
state, &c. |
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