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and able , to execute the Office of Sheriff for their respective Counties , for the two
then next succeeding Years ; of which Three Persons so recommended , the said
Governor or Commander in Chief shall accordingly Commissionate such one ...
and able , to execute the Office of Sheriff for their respective Counties , for the two
then next succeeding Years ; of which Three Persons so recommended , the said
Governor or Commander in Chief shall accordingly Commissionate such one ...
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is hereby impowered , to appoint one of the Surveyors recommended as
aforesaid , to be Sheriff , in his Room ; And when any Sheriff appointed upon a
Neglect or Refusal of the County Court to recommend Three Persons , according
to the ...
is hereby impowered , to appoint one of the Surveyors recommended as
aforesaid , to be Sheriff , in his Room ; And when any Sheriff appointed upon a
Neglect or Refusal of the County Court to recommend Three Persons , according
to the ...
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or Wager of Law , shall be allowed ; and moreover , such Sheriff so failing as
aforesaid , shall be liable to an Action at Common Law , at the Suit of the Party
injured , for any Damage which shall be sustained by such failure : And if any
Sheriff ...
or Wager of Law , shall be allowed ; and moreover , such Sheriff so failing as
aforesaid , shall be liable to an Action at Common Law , at the Suit of the Party
injured , for any Damage which shall be sustained by such failure : And if any
Sheriff ...
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Provided always , That no Sheriff or other Officer , shall make Return upon any
Writ or Precept , against whom the same issued is not to be found , until he shall
have been at the Dwelling house or Place of Residence of such Person , and not
...
Provided always , That no Sheriff or other Officer , shall make Return upon any
Writ or Precept , against whom the same issued is not to be found , until he shall
have been at the Dwelling house or Place of Residence of such Person , and not
...
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An Act , to supply the defect of an Act , passed last Session of Assembly , intituled
, An Act , for appointing Sheriffs in the ... Three such Justices of the same County
Court as they shall think most fit and able , to execute the Office of Sheriff , for ...
An Act , to supply the defect of an Act , passed last Session of Assembly , intituled
, An Act , for appointing Sheriffs in the ... Three such Justices of the same County
Court as they shall think most fit and able , to execute the Office of Sheriff , for ...
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Page 34 - Outlawry, that in all such cases the Party Plaintiff, his Heirs, Executors or Administrators, as the Case shall require, may commence a new Action or Suit, from Time to Time, within a Year after such Judgment reversed, or such Judgment given against the Plaintiff, or Outlawry reversed, and not after.
Page 556 - Payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, and each of us, our, and each of our Heirs, Executors and Administrators jointly and severally, firmly by these Presents.
Page 413 - Act, the Defendant may plead the General Issue, and give this Act in Evidence: and if the Plaintiff shall be non-suit, or a Judgment pass against him, upon a Verdict or demurrer, the Defendant shall recover double Costs.
Page 34 - ... beyond the seas, that then such person or persons shall be at liberty to bring the same actions, so as they take the same within such times as are before limited, after their coming to or being of full age, discovert, of sane memory, at large, and returned from beyond the seas, as other persons, having no such impediment, should have done.
Page 3 - ... no tradesman, artificer, workman, labourer, or other person whatsoever shall do or exercise any worldly labour, business or work of their ordinary callings, upon the Lord's Day, or any part thereof (works of necessity and charity only excepted...
Page 69 - And in case there be no children nor any legal representatives of them, then one moiety of the said estate to be allotted to the wife of the intestate, the residue of the said estate to be distributed equally to every of the next of kindred of the intestate, who are in equal degree and those who legally represent them. VII. Provided, that there be no representations admitted among collaterals after brothers
Page 68 - AB, or into the hands or possession of any other person or persons for him, do well and truly administer according to law, and further do make or cause to be made a true and...
Page 488 - Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, Council and Assembly, and by the Authority of the same, That...
Page 58 - Parish & the other half to him or them that shall sue for the same to be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information...
Page 58 - Government and the other half to him or them that shall Sue for the Same to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any Court of Record within this Province wherein no Essoyn Protection or Wager of Law to be Allowed...
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| Title | The State Records of North Carolina: Laws, 1715-1776 Volume 23 of The State Records of North Carolina, North Carolina |
| Author | North Carolina |
| Editors | Walter Clark, William Laurence Saunders, Stephen Beauregard Weeks |
| Contributor | North Carolina. Trustees of the Public Libraries |
| Publisher | P.M. Hale, 1904 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 17 Jan 2008 |
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