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PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.
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REGISTER OF LAND-OFFICE.
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See LAND.
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REGISTER OF WILLS.
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See ORPHANS COURT.
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RELEASE.
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See FINAL DISCHARGE.
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RELIGIOUS INCORPORATIONS.
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Certain persons incorporated in every Christian church 1802, ch. 111,*
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RENT.
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Tenant to be answerable to the landlord for the costs of distress for
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rent made by constables 1821, ch. 162, .....
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No negro, servant or slave, shall be liable to be distrained for rent,
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unless they shall bona fide belong to the person lawfully liable for,
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or chargeable with such rent 1823, ch. 161, ....
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REPLEVINS.
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The law between Tenant and Landlord is indexed in page 2619, word
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'Distress.'
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In replevins the court shall, upon a motion for return of the property
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taken, inquire into the circumstances and nature of defendant's ob-
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taining possession, and if it shall appear that such possession was
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forcibly or fraudulently obtained, or that the possession being first
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in the plaintiff was got or retained by the defendant, without proper
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authority and right derived from the plaintiff, the court may refuse
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to order a return 1785, ch. 80, sec. 14, .....
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See Abatement Executors and Administrators Magistrates' Court.
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RESIDENCE.
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See Constitution.
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RETAILERS OF SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS.
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Retailers may be suppressed by the courts on complaint of keeping a
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disorderly house, or permitting liquor sold by them, mixed or un-
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mixed, to be drank in or about the house 1784, ch. 7, sec. 9,
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184
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Nothing in this act to prohibit any merchant or shop-keeper to sell any
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wine, &c. not less than ten gallons, so that it be not drank in the
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house or shop 1784, ch. 7, sec. 11, .
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Not to prohibit any person, his agent, &c. to sell or barter any such
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liquor, not less than one pint at a time, to tradesmen, labourers, or
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others, hired or employed 1784, ch. 7, sec. 11, .
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Two of the justices during the recess of the court may, for such rea-
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son, suspend such retailers till the meeting of the court, who may
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determine thereon 1784, ch. 7, sec. 11, .
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* See notes thereto.
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