946 LIMITATION OF ACTIONS. [ART. 57.
1 H. & G 474 Hysinger v. Baltzells, 3 G & J. 158. Frey v. Kirk, 4 G & J.
509. Maurice v.Worden, 52 Md. 283.
P. G. L., (1860,) art. 57, sec. 5. 1765, ch. 12.
5. If any person liable to any action shall be absent ont 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.
Brent's Lessee v. Tasker, 1 H & McH. 89. Coyrsey v. Wright, 1 H. & McH.
394. Pancoast's Lessee v.Addison, 1 H & J 350. Murdoch v.Winter's Admr.,
1 H & G. 474. Hysinger v.Baltzells, 3 G & J. 158. Frey v. Kirk, 4 G & J.
509. Maurice v. Warden, 52 Md. 283
Ibid sec 6. 1729, ch 25, secs. 3-4 1818, ch. 216. 1853, ch. 132.
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, coroner'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 or she shall be at liberty to bring his or her action within five
years after the removal of such disability.
Ibid sec 7 1849. ch. 224. 1876. ch 58
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 period of eighteen months from the death of such dece-
dent, 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 decedent is proceeded against for the payment
of his debts, the operation of this article, both at law and in
equity, shall be suspended in relation to the heirs and devisees of
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