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An Act to amend the law concerning the action of detinue. 1826 49 (1826)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0168 and id is 1 raw text is: KENTUCKY. same is hereby repealed; and the minimum price 1827. shall be at fifty cents per acre, any law to the con- trary notwithstanding. AxD WHEREAS, many persons have heretofore set- fled upon said lands, and have made valuable im- provements thereon, believing their government Preamble. would make some liberal provision for them, as the lands have been enhanced in value by said settle- ments: Therefore, SEc. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any person, within nine months after the passage of this act, to enter any quarter section or fractional quarter section of land within said district, Reservation which has been improved byany actual and bona fide for actual set. settler, at the passage of this act. But said settler, or tiers. his assignee, shall have the exclusive right to enter Faid land, for the aboae period ef time, and no longer. Approved, January 16th, 1827. CHAP. 39.-An act to amend the law concerning the action of detinue. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That in addition to the writ of execution, and other process, allowed to the plaintiff in the action ofdetinue; it shall and may be lawful for the clerk of the court, when the judgment is'obtained on the request of the plaintiff, to issue for Writ of cxe- cution in thie him a writ, directed to the sheriff of any county in action oficti- the State, where the slave or other thing recovered nue. may be supposed to be, commanding the sheriff to take into his possession the slave or thing so recover- ed, and to deliver it to the plaintiff: Provided however, that nothing in this act shall authorize the sheriff to take the slave of any person, not party to the suit, except from a purchaser or other person, derivine title from the defendant, after the commencenient of the action. SEc. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall not here- dutinue not to after be lawful for the defendant to discharge himself ke tdischarged from the delivery of the property adjudged to the by a tend.'r of the alternate plaintiff, in an action of detinue, by a tender of the lalie, unless alternate value given in the verdict, unless the the plaintiff plaintiff shall issue execution, fbr sich xalue, or the i_-ue execa- C toll ti, ree.

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