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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
Passed May
30, 1853.
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CHAPTER 406.
AN ACT in relation to writs issued by the District
Courts of the several counties of this State, providing
for the time and place of the same in all cases in which
they were not returned by the fourth day of July
eighteen hundred and fifty-one, the day on which the
present Constitution of the State went into operation.
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Not lawful to
return writ.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That it shall be lawful for any constable
or other officer having in charge on the fourth day of
July eighteen hundred and fifty-one, any writ issued
by any of the district courts of this State, to return the
same to the circuit court of the county.
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May cause
rule to be laid.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted,
That any person having
an interest in the same may on application to the
clerks of the circuit courts of the several counties of this
State cause a rule to be laid on the constable or other
officer, having in charge any writ, such as is mentioned
in the first section of this act, to return the same into
the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county,
within any time not exceeding sixty days from the day
of laying the rule.
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Power to issue
writ.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted,
That the circuit courts
of the several counties of the State shall have ample
and full power to issue, on the return of the writ of the
district court, any writ which the said district court
would have had the power to issue had said district
court not been abolished, and to proceed in all things
appertaining to the same, to the same extent as it would
have been competent to the said district courts to have
done.
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In force.
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SEC. 4. And be it enacted,
That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
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