DANIEL MARTIN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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hundred and twenty-five, chapter fifty-eight, be complied
with.
Sec 5. And be it enacted, That the governor and coun-
cil shall be, and they are hereby authorised and requested,
to cause this act to be published once a week for six weeks
in one newspaper in each of the counties in which a news-
paper is printed in this state.
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1830.
CHAP. 165.
Law to be
published
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CHAPTER 165.
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A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act to authorise
Equitable Assignees to sue in their own Names.
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Passed Feb 22
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Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That any assignee or assignees, bona fide en-
titled to any legacy or distributive share of the estate of a
deceased person, may by virtue of such assignment, sue
and maintain an action or actions, execution or executions,
in any court of law or equity in this state, in the same
manner as the assignor or assignors might or could have
done before such assignment.
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Assignee enti.
tled to legacy,
Sec. may sus-
tain an action,
Sic,
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Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That equitable assignees of
judgments may issue scire facias in their own name to
revive the same, without administration being granted upon
the estate of the legal plaintiff or plaintiffs; and in all suits
entered for the use of any person, where the legal plaintiff
shall die before judgment, the person for whose use the
same may be entered, or his representative, shall have
power to prosecute the same to judgment as if the legal
plaintiff had not died.
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May issue
scire facias, &c
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Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That any defendant or de-
fendants may make the same legal or equitable defence as
might or could have been had and maintained against the
assignor or assignors at the time of such assignment, and
to the same extent.
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Defendants
may make e-
quitable de-
fence, &c.
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