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administration of justice; (2. ) The misbehavior of any officers of
the said courts in their official transactions; (3. ) The disobedience
or resistance by any officer of the said courts, party, juror, wit-
ness or any other person or persons to any lawful writ, process,
order, rule, decree or command of the said courts; (4. ) For
unlawfully detaining or fraudulently and wilfully preventing, or
disabling from attending or testifying a witness or party to an
action, while going to, remaining at, or returning from the court,
or sitting of an examiner in equity, or commissioner, where such
cause may be set for trial, hearing, or the taking of testimony;
(5. ) For fraudulently and wilfully removing, concealing or
destroying any book, paper or document for the production of
which for purposes of evidence, either at the trial of a cause, or
before an examiner in equity, or commissioner, notice shall have
been given; (6. ) For rescuing any person from the custody or
removing any property from the possession of any officer holding
said person or property by virtue of any writ of a court of com-
petent jurisdiction; (7. ) Any person for assuming to be any
attorney, solicitor, or other officer of the court, and acting as such
without authority. Every offense which has been, or shall have
been, wholly or partly committed against this section, before the
repeal and re-enactment thereof with amendments as hereinbe-
fore provided, shall be dealt with, inquired into, tried, determined
and punished, and every penalty in respect to any such offense
shall be im posed or inflicted, and any fine shall be imposed,
enforced or recovered as if said section had not been repealed;
and no case or preceding pending shall abate, by reason of such
repeal, and any liability in respect to any matter or thing com-
mitted or done before such repeal and re-enactment with amend-
ments, shall continue and be of the same force and effect as if said
section had not been so repealed and re-enacted.

1890, ch. 411.

6. The clerk of any court in this State may, during the recess
of said court, enter a judgment by confession with the assent of
the parties or attorneys in writing, which shall be filed with the
titling, nar., cause of action and other papers in the case in
which said judgment is entered; and a judgment so entered shall
from the date of the entry of the same by the clerk, have the
same effect as if entered during the session of the Court.