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WITNESSES AND Evidence. [ART. 70.

Md 516, 604 . 30
Md 65,417,420,
47 Md 111
2 Md Ch 485

Id s 10.
1777, c 6 , 1779,
c 25, s 19 , 1801
c 74, s 82

before the action brought, such possession shall be a bar to all right
or claim derived from the State under any patent issued upon such
warrant; but nothing herein contained shall apply to any warrant
laid before the twenty-sixth day of January, eighteen hundred and
nineteen.

Prosecutions fur
tines or penal-
ties
19 Md 294 , 21
Md 422 , 45 Md
432

10, No prosecution or suit shall be commenced for any fine,
penalty, or forfeiture, or any misdemeanor, except those punished
by confinement in the Penitentiary, unless within one year from the
time of the offence committed.

Id s 11
1723, c 16, s13
Blasphemy,
Sabbath-break-
ing, or drunken-

ness

11. All actions or prosecutions for blasphemy and Sabbath-
breaking, or drunkenness, shall be made within one month after
the fact.

45 Md 432
Id s 12
1833, C 258, s 1.
Fees

12. The fees of attorneys, solicitors, clerks, registers, sheriffs,
constables, and other officers, shall be collected in three years from
their date, and not after.

1868, c 357
When right to
bring suit ac-
crues
46 Md 257

13. In all actions to be hereafter brought, where a party has a
cause of action of which he has been kept in ignorance by the fraud
of the adverse party, the right to bring suit shall he deemed to have

Fraud

first accrued at the time at which such fraud shall, or with usual and
ordinary diligence might have been known or discovered.

ARTICLE LXX.
WITNESSES AND Evidence.

COMPETENCY OF WITNESSES.

1 Who may be witnesses , no exclusion on the
ground of interest or crime, exception
2 When original party is dead or insane, or
where an executor or administrator is
party to suit, exceptions
3 Witnesses in criminal proceedings

4 Testimony of party to suit may be rebutted
5. Not applicable in cases of adultery, divorce,
and breach of promise of marriage
6 Evidence of interest, or infamy of witness,
proof of conviction.