JOHN E. HALL. ESQ.

COUNSELLOR AT LAW, IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED
STATES.

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1813.

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INDEX TO VOL. IV;

BEING

THE FIRST OF A NEW SERIES.

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ACTS OF CONGRESS, cited and explained. The Embargo Act, 115. The Act of July 1812, prohibiting the use of British Licenses, 485. Act of March, 1809, NonImportation. Act of 15th January, 1811, 497. Act of 2d of March, 1807, 113. Acts of 25th February, 1793 and 22d April, 1800, respecting Patent Rights, 169. ADVERSARIA

ALIENS may hold lands in Kentucky after a residence of

two years

ALLUVION, the doctrine of, discussed

AMES, FISHER, character of

ANECDOTE

471

122

453

453

472

125

128

250

274

466

473

ASSETS. If a defendant plead no assets and payment, the court will not direct the plaintiff to prove assets ASSUMPSIT will not lie against an heir for the debt of his

ancestor

ATTACHMENTS, in Georgia, how regulated

In Maryland, money in the hands of the she-
riff, under an execution, is not liable to be
attached

ATTORNEY, censured by the court, for misconduct
AURORA, case of the, in Rhode-Island

BAIL. Defendant cannot be surrendered in discharge of bail

before a judge at his chambers

BAKER, MISS POLLY, her defence against an indictment for

Bastardy

BASTARD. See Illegitimate.

BATTURE, review of the controversy respecting the
BAXTER V. BIAYS reported.

BILL OF RIGHTS, why unnecessary in the constitution
BILLS OF EXCHANGE, in Kentucky, laws respecting
BLOCKADE, a license, in general terms, for a vessel to sail
from any port, will not authorize her to sail
from a blockaded port

34,2

121

511

CONSOLATO DEL MARE, bibliographical account of the
extracts from the, relating to recaptures

209

648

111

160

299

DEEDS, of the laws respecting, in Kentucky,

120

DENMARK, instructions of the king of, respecting privateers 263

EJECTMENT. An entry or location of land may be given in
evidence in an action of ejectment
Nothing but adversary possession, by actual en-
closures for 20 years, will bar a legal title

EMBARGO. See Acts of Congress.

EVIDENCE. In indictment for libel, the truth may not be
given in evidence, in South Carolina
Two witnesses at the execution and subscribing

1

128

48

a deed of manumission, necessary in Maryland 127
Who are excluded from being witnesses in France 312
EXAMINING COURT in Virginia, cannot acquit a prisoner
charged with murder, and remand him to a Su-
perior Court for manslaughter

EXCHANGE, Case of the, reported
EXECUTOR. Where an executor, who has returned no inven-

tory pleads no assets, the court will not im-
pose the burthen of proof upon the plaintiff
May give parole evidence of debt due by testator
which he has paid

77

233

125

126

His admission upon which a judgment may
have been entered against him in his own
name, is not evidence against him, as such

ib.