t

JOINT DEBTORS AND JOINT SURETIES,

Remedy, in case of debts due by judgment,

392

Account and affidavit, shewing the sum due, how filed, 393
See assignment.

JONES JACOB, CAPTAIN,

Appropriation to carry into effect resolution in ho-

JUDGES,

nour of,

Any judge in vacation, may determine questions

of bail,

In vacation, may hear petitions of poor persons,
imprisoned on civil process,

And make order for security, to indemnify

county, &c.

Security not being given, prisoner discharged,
Exception, if imprisoned by authority of United

States,

JUDGMENT,

On report of referees, not reversible, if referees

sworn, &c.

Not reversible for want of Veni. fa. ju.

JURORS, GRAND, To Quarter Sessions,

665, 666

218

215, 216

ind

ibid.

217

445

457

To be summoned by sheriff, without writ of ve. fa.ju. 445

No person obliged to serve as grand juror two
years successively,

ibid.

Neglect to attend, or to answer, when called, fine,

When to be summoned, and how,

Panel, of what to contain, and when returned,

When precept to summon a grand jury omitted,
Fine, excuses, &c.

Allowance to grand jurors,

447

ibid.

447, 448

448

51, 592

JURORS, PETIT,

Terminer,

How summoned, &c. to court of Oyer and

To be summoned by sheriff, to Supreme court,
Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions,
without writ of ve. fa. ju.

Number,

Panel, what to contain, and when returned,

446, 447

449

447, 449

ibid. ibid.

Same jurors to Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions,
Manner of drawing,

ibid.

449, 450

Of a second jury, first not discharged,

ibid.

Tales,

451

Writ of veni. fa. ju. in such case to issue to

coroner,

ibid.

Or in case of exception to coroner, to some in-

different person,

ibid.

Number of jurors to be summoned in such case,
Views, in case of, number of jurors to attend,

Viewers first sworn,

Register of the names of jurors, with their atten-

dance, or default,

Lists of jurors attending, with amount due to each,
To be examined by the court,

ibid.

453

ibid.

ibid.

ibid.

ibid.

Inquests, how summoned,

Sheriffs, returning jurors not summoned, penalty,

Neglecting to summon grand or petit jurors,

penalty,

Neglecting to summon inquests, penalty,

Oath, &c. of sheriff or coroner, as to summon.

Repeal of certain acts concerning jurors,

JURY, SPECIAL,

To be ordered, upon application of either party, 322, 323

456

454

ibid.

456

455

452, 456

454

457

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE,

To deliver copies of records, &c. before them,

Penalty for neglect,

Their jurisdiction in cases of trespass, for injuries
to real or personal property,

Form of proceedings,

Exception as to officers, acting as such,

As to injuries to real property, the freehold be-
ing claimed by defendant, &c.

Proceedings in such case,

Jurisdiction in cases of complaints of assaults and

batteries,

Parties compromising, recognizance withheld,

To attend elections,

Penalty for neglect,

In case of landlord vs. tenant, for holding over, may
issue attachments for witnesses,

Award tales,

May issue attachment against freeholders,

Impose fines,

To deliver to county treasurer, certificates of fines
and forfeitures imposed, &c. by them,

Certificates before, delivered to auditor,

What such certificate shall contain,

To appoint some constable to collect fines, &c.
To pay over fines, &c.

Penalty for neglect, and for concealing or taking

off fines, &c.

48

ibid.

$10

ibid.

ibid.

ibid.

ibid.

311

· ibid.

436

ibid.

441

ibid.

ibid.

442

Their duty, on information given by constable, that
any free negro or free mulatto has children, ibid.
To bind out such children, in certain cases,
Terms of such binding,

To appoint constables in case of vacancies,

Their jurisdiction, in case of the discharging of fire-
arms in any town, &c.

Certain public papers relating to, to be recorded, 4, 114, 230

Stepheson's papers,
Copies of papers relating to, be obtained in Mary-

land,

Conveyances of, by executors or administrators,
by orders of Supreme court,

When belonging to husband, how the wife must
be examined, in case of grants, &c. by
husband and wife,

Certain grants, &c. without such examination,

115

295

75

461

In what cases purchased and held by aliens,
Former purchases by aliens,

483

484

LAND-OFFICE,

Caveat docket in Sussex county, to be transcribed,
Proceedings concerning caveats in said county,
how recorded,

General warrants issued after June 19, 1793, and

before January 11, 1798, valid,

Surveys and patents under them good,

Special warrants to have preference, though of
younger date,

7

ibid.

86, 87

ibid.

ibid

LANDLORD AND TENANT,

Remedy by distress for rents,

Costs of distress,

Proceedings, to ascertain value of rent payable in

grain,

Entitled to one year's rent, if a money rent, out of
sales of goods, on the premises, by exe-
cution, though rent not due,

If grain rent, &c. grain, &c. to be sold subject

to the rent,

262

266

263

264

265

264

[265] 442

265

266

Notice to him, of tenant's goods taken in execution,
Fees therefor,

May distrain and sell goods taken in execution,
Notice which he must give in such case,

In case of proceedings, landlord against tenant, at-
tendance of witnesses and freeholders,
may be compelled by attachment,

Tenant not to remove straw, &c.

LARCENY,

Stealing bonds, bills, promissory notes, orders,

bank notes, &c.

Free negroes and free mulattoes convicted of, how

LAWS,

punished,

To be transmitted to executives of several States,
An additional number of copies printed,

LEVY COURT, for Kent county,

441

266

81

408, 409

521

ibid.

May remove lunatics from public gaol to poor-house, 564
To receive and account for certain money of Ro-

Vested with certain powers relative to the gaol and
work-house, in that county,

To raise money, and appoint persons for the pur-
pose of destroying crows in said county,

Report to auditor,

To lay a statement of expenditures on bridge
across Naaman's creek, before legislature,
Clerk to deliver to collectors copies of lists of
owners of dogs, &c.