ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 665
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Chapter 417.
AN ACT to amend article seventy-five, title
" Pleading, Practice and Process," of the Code
of Public General Laws, by the addition
thereto of another section, to follow after sec-
tion sixty of said article, and to be numbered
section sixty A.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That article seventy-five, title
" Pleading, Practice and Process," of the Code
of Public General Laws, be amended by the ad-
dition thereto of a new section, to follow after
section sixty of said article, which new section
shall read as follows :
60A. In all actions of replevin where the de-
fendant shall have been duly summoned and re-
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Additional
section.
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turn shall have been made by the sheriff that
either all or some portion of the chattels de-
scribed in the writ have been eloigned, the
plaintiff having duly established his right of
possession to all or any portion of the chattels
described in the writ and the illegal detention of
the same from him by the defendant, shall be
entitled on verdict to a judgment for the return
of such portion of said chattels as may have
been eloigned, or for their value as found by
the verdict, as well as for any of said chattels
actually taken under the writ, together with
damages for the detention of all chattels men-
tioned in the writ which the jury shall have
found were unlawfully detained from him by
the defendant.
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Entitled to
judgment.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 5, 1888.
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Effective.
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