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An Act limiting actions in certain cases. 1807 28 (1807)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0058 and id is 1 raw text is: CHAP. XM.,
AIn act ame.n-1aory of the laws regzdating tke cotur
t2/appeals.
Ap proved F'ebriurv 20, 1'808.
'Sec. i. Be it enacted by the general assembly,
ohat the court of appeals shall cause thcir decisi-
ons'to be so rccorded as to shew   the governing
principle or principles thereof..
Stc. a. Zdi&.be itfirther cnacled, That when a
case shall be before the said court, in which two
Qf the judgcs can'nQt with propricty: adjudicate,'
it shall be lawful foir tfl' other two j udges (not
iVeing 4ls6 disqualified) to constitute the court fo
Tli trial of such particular coisc, and should they
'cvm.tual!y ditferin opinion therein,it shall amount
to an aflirmrance of so much of the opinion of the
inferior court as shall be within such differencei
.This aft sh.alr be in foice from and after the
passage thereof.'
CIAP. XIII.
Av afl limiting aclions in certain cases.
Approved Iebruary 20, 1808.
*Whereas creditors, purchasers and others are
exo Med to great injustice by the assertion.by per-
sons .held in slavery, of dormant claimi- to their,
freedom, founded upon certain acts of the legis-,
latur-,,,s of Virginia and Pennsylvania, at d thein-
teircst and p'Mcc of society requi ring that all such.
Oaimr should be broujght to a speedy ddtermina-
tion  therefore,
8cc. I. Be it civcted by the gencral assembly, That
iv) writ, suit or action shall be sued out, com-
imenced or prosecuted by any person of color

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