ART. 64. ] PROCEEDINGS IN ACTIONS AT LAW.

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such property may lie, or cannot be found in such county, such tres-
passer may be sued in any county where he may be found and an
executor may be sued either in the county where he resides or where
he obtained administration.

Trespasser re-
moving
6 G & J 499

Executor.

V. Any captain, master, or owner, of any steamboat or other ves-
sel, may be sued for the non-delivery or injury of any goods or chat-
tels, in the county where the goods or chattels are received on board
of his vessel, or in the city or county in which the delivery was by
the contract to be made, in the same manner as he can now be sued
in the county in which he resides.

Id s 89
1860, c 29
Captain, master,
or owner of
steamboat, or
other vessel.

8. Every county lying on any navigable river in this State, shall
extend its jurisdiction from the shore to the channel of the river
that divides the counties, except where a dividing line has been
fixed in such river by law; and where any ship or other vessel shall
be in said river, process may be served on board the said ship or
vessel by the officers of either county that can first serve it, but if
she is moored or fastened to the land on either side of said river,
then she shall be considered as in the county to whose shore she is
fastened.

Id s 90.
1704, c 92, s 3
Jurisdiction of
counties lying
on navigable
rivers

0. Where a testator devises lands and dies in debt, any of his
creditors may sue his devisees without making his heirs at law par-
ties, unless such heirs are known to the plaintiff and reside in this
State.
10, It shall not be necessary for any officer, in serving any writ
of scire facias, or attachment with writ of scire facias, to serve the
same in the presence of witnesses
11. In cases of writs of scire facias against heirs and terre ten-
ants, where any of the heirs or terre tenants reside in another
county than that in which the judgment on which such scire facias
is issued was obtained, duplicates of such writ may issue, directed
to the sheriff of each county wherein any of the heirs or terre ten-
ants reside, and shall be served by the sheriff and returned to the
court from which they issued, and the party so summoned by means
of such duplicates shall be proceeded against in the same manner as
if they were residents of the county in which the judgment was ob-
tained.

Id s 92
1815, c 149, s 4.
When devisees
mar be sued by
creditors with-
out making
heirs parties
Id s 93
1854, c 75
Service of scire
facias or attach-
ment with scire
facias clause
Id s 94
1812, c 145, s ]
Duplicate writs
of scire facias
against heirs or
terre tenants

12. In all cases where a joint action is instituted against heirs
and devisees, and any of such heirs or devisees shall be residents of
another county, a duplicate writ may issue to the county where any
of said heirs or devisees reside, directed to the sheriff thereof, who
shall serve and return the same to the court from which it issued,
and the same proceedings shall be had as if such heirs or devisees
resided in the county where the suit was brought; provided, all such

Id s 95
1812, c 145, s 3
Duplicate writs
in joint actions
against heirs
and devisees.

actions shall be instituted in the county in which the deceased died,
if any of his heirs reside there, and if not, in the county in which
bis real estate, or some part thereof, is situated.

Where actions
to be instituted.