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CONTESTED MOTIONS-

where to be heard....

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... 674

CONTINGENT ACCOUNTS-

to be lodged in Comptroller General's office................

CONTINUANCE OF ACTION-

by assignee or representative, &c.......

CONTRACT-

.... 576

work given out by County Commissioners to be done by,

if exceeding $100......

148

between land-owners and laborers to be witnessed............ 490
to contain what........

490

punishment for violation of...

491

certain, by minor undergraduates of colleges, void........... 560
actions on, within what time to be commenced....

591

evidence of new, or continuing, must be in writing.... 594
See Performance.

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County Auditor to make, of delinquent land, after two

years....

CONVEYANCES-

County Auditor to keep a record of.........

Register of Mesne Conveyances and Clerk of Courts to

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may be acknowledged, before whom.

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188

408

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memorial of, to be kept in office of Mesne Conveyances... 423

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made before August 30, 1731, by married women, legal... 431

made prior to March 8, 1788, and certified by proper officer,
valid from time of acknowledgment.................

titles under such, confirmed........

See Grants.

431

431

COPIES-

of entry in State Treasurer's books, certified by Treasurer,
evidence in Court.....

of papers in office of Clerk of Board of County Commis-
sioners evidence in Courts....

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123

.....150, 151

notice of intention to use in evidence, to be given to oppo-
site party (See Evidence.).....

COPY-

......515, 516

of paper or pleading may be substituted for a lost original, 678
when Court may give leave for, to be taken of documents
in possession of opposite party.....

of Clerk's fee for.......

670

652

of pleadings, &c., to be furnished to Court, on jury trial... 634
CONVICTION—

for crime, may be by confession in open Court, &c........... 708
punishment on, where no sentence is provided by

statute

for profane swearing, to be registered and certified to Court
of General Sessions...

CONVICTS-

penalty for bringing into the State........

CORN-

749

.. 737

.... 738

punishment for setting fire to, or destroying ricks or stacks
of, in night time.....

punishment for setting fire to, or destroying ricks or stacks
of, in day time....................

CORONERS-

election of.....

to perform duties of office until their successors are quali-
fied.......

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... 170

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may appoint deputies, to be approved by Judge of the Court

of Common Pleas...

any Trial Justice to exercise powers of, in certain cases..171, 202
to take inquests of casual or violent deaths..............171, 752
to view person dying of bite of a rattlesnake....
to act as Sheriff, when.....

171

..157, 171, 677

vacancy in office of, how filled temporarily.....
to enter in a suitable book his proceedings as Sheriff..
not to act as Sheriff unless especially instructed....

171

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CORONERS--

to make list of prisoners when entering on duties of
Sheriff.....

172

to enter list in Coroner's book

172

to lodge original list in Clerk's office....

172

to turn over to succeeding Sheriff, books, &c., when retiring
from office of Sheriff.....

172

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of, to be paid by County

153

Clerk of Court to furnish certificates to, in certain

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to charge jury....................

may issue warrants for witnesses, &c...

may commit witnesses to jail for refusal to testify....

to bind over witnesses....

may adjourn jury from day to day.....

may supply places of absent jurors.
to swear witnesses upon an inquest.

to take down testimony in writing..

jury to render verdict to........

warrant to be issued by, in case of murder....

to commit parties arrested on return of warrant.........
Sheriffs and Jailers to keep prisoners committed by
the

.393, 756, 759

to bind over parties killing others by mischance, and
witnesses

to cause bodies to be taken up on suspicion of violent
death............

756

... 757
757

to keep record of fact of body long dead..
to bind over persons directing burial of body of per-
son dying a violent death without notice..............756, 757
CORPORATIONS-

752

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754

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754

754

756

Secretary of State to report to General Assembly corpo-
rations formed under corporation law.....
returns of property by, for taxation..

14

..56, 57

what property to be returned............

57

73

County Auditor may examine, suspected of making false
returns.

..... 338

Attorney General to prosecute, for failure to make returns 109
charters of, subject to amendment, &c........
not to be chartered whose rules discriminate between persons
on account of color, &c.........

338

to forfeit charters for making unlawful discriminations..... 740
manner of acquiring rights of way by certain.......... 352

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service of process on, provisions of the Code applied to

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actions against, in the name of the Attorney General...... 683

limitation of action against.............

590

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how examined, as to property of a judgment debtor......

action to annul charter of...

680

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ordered to be given....

of enforcing certain liens for labor, &c.

Clerk of Court to judge of sufficiency of security for, when

taxation of, in cases appealed from Probate Court......

181

555

576

all statutes, rules, &c., as to costs or fees of attorneys, so-
licitors, or counsel, repealed............

......

648

amount of, to be regulated by agreement between the par-
ties....

648

certain allowances to prevailing party, called costs.......... 648
to plaintiff of course..

648

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in an action by or against an executor or administrator, or
a trustee of an express trust, or a person expressly au-
thorized by statute to sue..

652

COSTS-

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in proceedings against joint debtors, heirs, devisees, &c.,
(§§ 375, 381)......

652

on claim against a deceased person, referred pursuant to
the statute......

652

on submitting controversy without action.

666

set-off of......

664

after order of defendant to compromise, or to liquidate

damages...

670

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offenders may be committed to jail for not paying, &c..... 751

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allowed persons indicted for capital offenses, to have full

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on trials for counterfeiting bank notes, banks to furnish

witnesses...

723

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