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caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony and if
death ensues as a result of wrongful act, neglect or default of a vessel,
suit may be brought in rem against said vessel in any court of com-
petent jurisdiction [; provided, however, that any such action against
the executor or administrator of the said person who would have
been liable shall be commenced within six calendar months after the
date of the qualification of the executor or administrator of the said
person who would have been liable unless such suit shall be brought
as provided in Section 112 of Article 93 of this Code].

ARTICLE 75

(i) Section 15A of Article 75 of said Code (1965 Replacement
Volume), title "Pleadings, Practice and Process at Law," subtitle
"Practice—Abatement and Revivor":

15A.

No action of ejectment, waste, partition, [dower,] replevin, or
any personal action shall abate by the death of either or any of the
parties to such action. This section shall not apply to actions of
slander. This section shall be retroactive so as to apply to the death
of any party prior to June 1, 1963.

ARTICLE 79

(j) Sections 7 and 8 of Article 79 of said Code (1965 Replace-
ment Volume), title "Releases and Receipts":

7.

All receipts, releases, and final discharges from persons residing
in this State authorized to execute the same to any trustee appointed
by any court of equity, by deed or by will, or any guardian ap-
pointed by any court acknowledged before any officer authorized to
take the acknowledgment of deeds of real estate may be recorded,
and the clerk of the court by which said trustee or guardian was
appointed or in which the deed was recorded or trust executed, or
the register of wills in whose office the will was recorded shall record
the same in a well-bound book to be kept for that purpose.

8.

Any receipt, release or final discharge from any person authorized
to execute the same to any trustee or guardian as mentioned in
Section 7, acknowledged by any nonresident of this State before any
officers authorized to take acknowledgments to deeds of real estate,
and certified as required for deeds of real estate, may be received
and recorded by such clerk or register.

(k) Section 2(6) of Article 81 of said Code (1965 Replacement
Volume), title "Revenue and Taxes," subtitle "Rules of Construc-
tion"; Section 144 of said Article, subtitle "Tax on Commissions of
Executors and Administrators"; and Sections 153 and 157 of said
Article, subtitle "Inheritance Tax":

2.

(6) The word "executor" shall include an administrator, a spe-
cial administrator, and a personal representative [and vice versa],
and each of the latter three terms shall include "executor".