ART. 69.] LIMITATION OF ACTIONS.

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4. No person absenting himself from this State, or that shall
remove from county to county after any debt contracted, whereby
the creditor may be at an uncertainty of finding out such person
or his effects, shall have any benefit of any limitation herein con-
tained, but nothing contained in this section shall debar any person
from removing himself or family from one county to another for
his convenience, or to deprive any person leaving this State for the
time herein limited, for the benefit thereof, he leaving effects suffi-
cient and known for the payment of his just debts in the bands of
some person who will assume the payment thereof to his creditors.

Id s 4
1715, c 23, ss
4,5
Persons absent-
ing or abscond-
ing not to have
benefit of
3 G & J 158 ,
4 G. & J 569

5. If any person liable to any action shall be absent out of the
State at the time when the cause of action may arise or accrue
against him. he shall have no benefit of the limitation herein con-
tained, if the person who has the cause of action shall commence
the same after the presence in this State of the person liable thereto
within the terms herein limited.

Id s 6
1765. c 12
Person absent
when cause
arises not to
have benefit of

6. All actions on sheriffs', coroners', and constables' bonds shall
be brought within five years after the date of said bonds and not
afterwards; but the State may sue on said bonds for her own use,
at any time; and if any person entitled to suit on a sheriff's, coro-
ner's, or constable's bond shall be at the time of the accruing of
any cause of action on such bond under the age of twenty-one
years, feme covert, non compos mentis, or imprisoned, he shall be
at liberty to being his action within five years after such disability
removed.

Id s 6.
1729, c 25,as
3 4, 1818, c
206 , 1853, c 132
Actions on
sheriffs', cor-
oners' and con-
stables' bonds.
21 Md 432

7. Whenever any person may die indebted, and his interest in
real estate may be liable to be proceeded against for the payment of
his debts by reason of the insufficiency of his personal estate, the
operation of this article both at law and in equity, shall be suspended
in relation to the heirs and devisees of such debtor for the peiiod of
eighteen months from the death of such decedent, and where any
debts of such person so dying indebted have been or may be paid
by his executor or administrator, and the real estate of such dece-
dent is proceeded against for the payment of his debts, the opera-
tion of this article, both at law and in equity, shall be suspended in
relation to the heirs and devisees of such deceased debtor, as to the

1876, c 58
When to run
when person
dies indebted
and personal
estate not suf-
ficient
4 Md Chan 149,
408

claims so paid until the lapse of eighteen months after the filing of
said bill.
8. The time intervening between the petitioning of an insolvent
debtor, and the time when his petition may be dismissed, shall not
be computed on any plea of limitation so as to defeat the claim of
any person against such debtor.

Id s 8
1814, c 122, s 3.
Time interven-
ing between
petition of in-
solvent debtor
and dismissal of
petition not to
be computed

9. Whenever land shall be taken up under a common or special
warrant, or warrant of resurvey, escheat, or proclamation warrant,
any person, body politic or corporate, may give in evidence under
the general issue his possession thereof, and if it shall appear in
evidence that the person, body politic or corporate, or those under
whom they claim, have held the lands in possession for twenty years

Id s 9
1818, c 90 ,
1849, c 424
Possession of
twenty years to
bar right or
claim derived
from Slate
9 Md 570 , 21
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