to produce the said original books or writing, or answer such bill of discovery by the ordinary rules of proceeding in chancery ; and if a Plaintiff shall fail to comply with any such order to produce such books or writings, or answer such bill of discovery, it shall be lawful for the said courts, on motion, to give the like judgment for the Defendant as in cases of nonsuit ; and if a Defendant shall fail to comply with such order to produce books or writings, or to answer any bill for discover)- only, it shall be lawful for the said courts, on motion as aforesaid, to give judgment against him, her or them, by default; provided, that any Plaintiff or Defendant may, in compliance with any rule for producing extracts of such books or papers, bring into court the original books or papers.VII. AndBeItEnacted,That neither the chief justice of any district, or any of the associate justices, after their appointment and qualification, or any register of wills, shall act as an attorney or solicitor in any court of law or equity in this state during the time that they shall respectively act as such.VIII. AndBeItEnacted,That no action, to be commented in any county court appointed in virtue of this act, shall continue longer than the end of the first court after the imparlance court, unless by consent of parties, at the discretion of the court, or such cause as the law may allow for the continuance of suits beyond the time limited shall appear to the satisfaction of the court.IX. AndBeItEnacted,That in all cases where suits may hereafter be brought by any person or persons, non-residents of this state, or who may remove out of the state after the bringing of such suit or suits, the Defendant or Defendants against whom such suit may be commenced, or his, her or their attorney, may lay a rule, at or before the trial court, on suchVot.ni. eNovember, . CHAP. LXXV.Acknowl-edgmentsof deeds be-fore a chiefjustice or aaassociatejustice to begood.Courts to require copies of books, &c. containing evidence pertinent to tile issue.Justices net to act as attornies.How longactions shall continue.In certain cases defendants may lay a rule on plaintifis to give security for costaNovember ,Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, or hisJier, or their attorney, to give security .ior all costs and charges that the said Defendant or Defendants CHAP. may be put to in case such Plaintiff or Plaintiffs shall be nonLXX\. suited, or judgment be given against them, and in case of non^^”Y”"^’ compliance with such rule,judgment of nonsuit shall be entered ;provided nevertheless, that it any Defendant or Defendants shall lay a rule on any Plaintiff or Plaintiffs for security for costs at the trial court, that then and in such case the court granting said rule may, at the instance or motion of the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, by his, her or their counsel, in their discretion, continue said cause until the next term. Parly, for X A>DBE IT ENATEP, That when any action shall be whose use brought, and it shall be entered upon the record that such suit is action is in- brought for the use of any other person or persons, and the Kabitffor’ Plaintiff or Plaintiffs in such action shall discontinue or strike costs. off his, her or their said action, or be nonsuit thereon, or iocase there hall be a judgment or verdict in favour of the Defendant or Defendants, the party or parties for whose use the action was instituted shall be answerable for die legal costs of suit, and may be proceeded against by attachment against \htperson or property of such party or parties for the recovery of the same, in the same manner as if he, she or they, had been entered by rule of court the security for such costs of suit. to’be ^ “^ND BE IT tNACTED? That it shall not be lawful forted out of any person whatsoever to cause any inhabitant of this state to the couniy, be arrested out of the countv where he or she doth reside, by until non ettvirtue of any capias ad respondendum,or capias ad satisfacienis re urnejum^ fQrany debt, damage or cost, until the sheriff or coroner of the county where such Defendant shall
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