Author : Elizabeth Merritt
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656507900
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (79 download)
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Provincial Court of Maryland, 1678-1679, Court Series (13) by : Elizabeth Merritt
Download or read book Proceedings of the Provincial Court of Maryland, 1678-1679, Court Series (13) written by Elizabeth Merritt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proceedings of the Provincial Court of Maryland, 1678-1679, Court Series (13): Published by Authority of the State Under the Direction of the Maryland Historical Society This volume, LXVIII, begins on October 8, 1678 and ends, with the end of Liber NN of the proceedings of the Provincial Court, on October 16, 1679. Finis huius says Clerk Nicholas Painter. The jurisdiction of the Court remains substantially as it had been. All important cases had to originate in the Provincial Court, and minor cases might be heard there, if the Court wanted to hear them. Cases appealed from county courts came to the Provincial Court, whether on appeal or on writ of error. After November 1678 the person appealing the county court decision had to give bond in double the sum from which he was appealing to pursue the appeal and to pay the judgment, if the Provincial Court sustained the lower court (archives VII, 70 There are, in these pages (post, I 56, examples of that kind Of bond. As to chancery cases, though the Court of Chancery had been set up in 1669, the same men served in both courts, and both had the same clerk. It is, therefore, not surprising that cases begun in one court sometimes appear later in the other (post, 80. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.