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of the court to require the return of the jurors aforesaid, and to
hold a session of said adjourned jury term shall exist as though
there were no such non-jury terms of said court, and the same
had not intervened.

ARTICLE LII.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

	Civil Jurisdiction. 6. To what cases it extends. Process and Practice 29A. Partnership, incorporation, rep- resentative character of par-	ties taken to be admitted un- less specially denied Post- ponement for proof when de- nied.

Civil Jurisdiction.

1900, ch. 302.

6. The civil jurisdiction of justices of the peace extends to
all cases for the enforcement of contracts, and to obtain redress
for wrongs where the debt or damages claimed shall not exceed
one hundred dollars; to all suits on bonds with penalty exceed-
ing one hundred dollars, where the sum due and claimed does
not exceed one hundred dollars; to actions of replevin, where
the value of the thing in controversy does not exceed one hun-
dred dollars, and which value shall be ascertained by appraisers
summoned and sworn by the sheriff or other officer to whom the
writ of replevin is directed; and to all cases of attachments
against non-resident or absconding debtors, where the sum claimed
does not exceed one hundred dollars; and also to all cases of
attachment in any of the cases mentioned in section 35 of article
9, where the sum claimed shall not exceed one hundred dollars;
provided, that nothing herein contained shall be held or con-
strued to effect pending suits or existing judgments.

Process and Practice.

1900, ch. 11.

29A. In all actions or proceedings before any justice of the
peace in this State and appeals therefrom, the partnership of