ART. 57.] LIMITATION OF ACTIONS. 945

merchant, or of the staple, or other specialty whatsoever, except
such as shall be taken for the use of the State, shall be good and
pleadable, or admitted in evidence against any person in this
State after the principal debtor and creditor have been both dead
twelve years, or the debt or thing in action is above twelve years'
standing, saving to all persons that shall be under the aforemen-
tioned impediments of infancy, coverture, insanity of mind or
imprisonment, the full benefit of all such bills, bonds, judgments,
recognizances, statutes merchant, or of the staple or other special-
ties, for the space of six years after the removal of such disability.

Hammond v.Denton, 1 H. & McH. 200. Lord Baltimore's Ex'x v. Evans,
4 H. & McH. 482. Glasgow's Admr. v. Porter, 1 H. & J 109. Beall v. Prather,
1 H. & J. 210 Hoffner v. Dickson, 2 H & J 46 Schell v. State, 3 H. & J. 538.
State v. Wright, 4 H. & J. 148. Maddox v.State, 4 H & J 539. Welch v.
State, 5 H. & J 369. Merryman v.State, 5 H& J 425, (note ) Salisoury v.
Black, 6 H. & J 293. Ruff v. Bull, 7 H & J Veasey e Bassett, 7 H. & J.
461. Watkins v. Harwood, 2 G. & J. 307. State v.Boyd, 2 G. & J 365. Green

v. Johnson, 3 G. & J. 395. Carroll B. Waring, 3 G. & J 491. State v.Greene, 4
G. & J. 381. Lamar v. Manro, 10 G & J 50 Tiernan v. Rescaniere's Admr ,
10 G & J. 224. Booth v. U S , 11 G & J 873. Hall's Admr. v.Cresswell, 12
G. & J 36. Post v. Mackall, 3 Bl. 486. Hayden v. Stewart, 1 Md. Ch. 459.
Boyd v. Hams, 2 Md Ch 214 Dorsey v. Dashiell, 1 Md 203. Young v.
Mackall, 4 Md. 362. Bevans v. McGlocklin, 9 Md 477. Knight v. Brawner,
14 Md. 1. Petty v. Young, 18 Md. 163. Duvall v. Pearson, 18 Md. 502. Thrus-
ton v. Blakiston, 36 Md 501. Leonard v. Hughlett, 41 Md 380. Byrd v. State,
44 Md. 492. B. & O. R. R. v.Trimble, 51 Md. 104. Wright v. Gilbert, 51 Md.
146. Johnson v. Foran, 59 Md. 460. Johnson v. Hines, 61 Md. 122. Lambson v.
Moffet, 61 Md. 326.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 68, sec. 4. 1715, ch. 23, secs. 4-5.

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 per-
son from removing himself or family from one county to another
for his convenience, or shall deprive any person leaving this
State, for the time herein limited, of the benefit thereof, he leav-
ing effects sufficient and known for the payment of his just debts
in the hands of some person who will assume the payment
thereof to his creditors.

Brent's Lessee v. Tasker, 1 H. & McH 89 Coursey v.Wright, 1 H & McH.
394. Pancoast's Lessee v. Addison, 1 H. & J 350. Murdoch v. Winter's Admr