1861.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 69.

Delaware, though a minor under twenty-one years
of age, be and she is hereby fully authorized and
empowered by and with the consent and approbation
of the other heirs at law of John Biggs, and with
their concurrence to unite in the division of the real-
estate of the said John Biggs, wheresoever situated,
and to execute and to acknowledge good and suffi-
cient deed or deeds for the same or any part thereof,
so as to pass a perfect and complete title therefor, and
to accept and take her separate part of said real es-
tate to be held by her in severalty is the same
manner, and with like effect, as if she were over
twenty-one years of age, and otherwise competent
to convey.

In force.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from its passage.

CHAPTER 69.

Passed June

20, 1861.

AN ACT to amend the seventy-fifth Article of the
Code of Public General Laws concerning Plead-
ings, Practice and Process by adding thereto the
following sections relating to the service of civil
process.

Article
amended.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the seventy-fifth Article of the
Code of Public General Laws be and the same is
hereby amended by adding thereto the following
sections, viz:

Writ of pro-
cess.

SEC. 1. In all cases of civil process at law or in
equity, or of any civil writ whatsoever, hereafter
to be issued out of any Court, or by any Judge of
this State, and directed to or against, or lawfully
to be served upon any person whatsoever, wherein
the service of such writ or process upon such per-
son then being within the local jurisdiction of such
court or judge, shall be prevented or resisted by
threats, violence, intimidation or superior force on.
the part or behalf of such person; or the said per-