1013 KINDRED. (Continued.) Table of descents, 235. KIDNAPPING. Punished in the penitentiary from four to seven years, 626. LAND. When land is levied on, notice in writing must be given, 434. Not to be sold by the sheriff out of his county, 434. Sheriff's sales of land in the ten Cherokee counties, 565. Writs of possession shall not go against persons on the land who are strangers to the suit and Not to be attached in any case returnable out of the county, 33. How levied on and sold under justices' executions, 506, 507. Real estate may be sold by order of the court of ordinary, 243. The contracts of deceased persons for the conveyance of real estate, how to be carried into Where the vendee dies, or the vendor and vendee both die, 237. Unauthorized grants not admissible evidence, 211. Parol lessees for less than three years, held at will, 914, 915. Devisees of lands how to be executed or revoked, 915. Estates for the life of another are devisable, 916. Religious societies may hold lands, 686. Partition of lands, 541. Processioning, 543, 544. Forgery of land warrants how punished, 634. Creditors may take out grants, 552, 556. Lottery lands taxed whether granted or not, 555, 562. Draws by illegitimate children valid, 559. Vests in the mother if the child dies intestate and without issue, 560. Grants to issue for all Cherokee lands, 283, 284. Grant of 20,000 acres to Count D'Estaing, 269. Old Carolina grants, 512-516. Acts concerning head rights, 517-540. Land lotteries, and acts concerning them, 545-567. Statement of the local extent of each lottery, and of the grant fees under each from time to Resolutions, 568. LANDLORD AND TENANT. Tenant holding over, to pay double rent monthly, 687. Landlord may have a warrant to re-enter when rent is in arrear, 638. LANDMARKS. LAWS. To be digested and promulgated, 911. All acts and resolutions published by authority, to be judicially noticed as public laws, 215. British laws previously in use, continued in force, 570. Laws in force up to 1800, to be arranged, printed and distributed, 570, 571. Act directing the decennial compilation of the laws, 571. Act prescribing the form of this digest, 572. Acts of each session to be printed and distributed, 571. Militia laws how to be distributed among the officers, 596. Certain parts of them to be read annually at company musters, 595. Governor to send a copy to each State and territory, 573 (n). Resolutions concerning the laws, 573. LAZARETTO. Mayor and aldermen of Savannah allowed to purchase land for a lazaretto, 276. LEASES. To be in writing, 914, 915. Parol leases for more than three years are estates at will, 914. LEE COUNTY. Acts concerning Lee, 953. LEGACIES. Legacy to the witness of a will void, and the witness competent to testify, 918. LEGISLATURE. See General Assembly. LETTERS OF ATTORNEY. See Power of Attorney. Fine or imprisonment, or both, 646. Keeping lewd houses, how punished, 646. LIBEL. Definition and punishment, 643, 644. Printer a competent witness, 644. If he refuses to testify, shall be deemed the author, 644. The truth may be given in evidence, 644. LIBERTY COUNTY. Analysis of acts relating to Liberty, 954. LICENSE. Penalty for retailing spirituous liquors without license, 649. LIEN. See Judgment. On the defendant's property from the entry of judgment, 426, 451. But where several judgments are of equal date, the execution first in the sheriff's bands shall Lien in attachments according to levies, but not to the prejudice of judgments, 34. Liens to have preference to some other debts in administration, 229. LIMITATION OF ACTIONS. Of the action of ejectment, to seven years from the accrual of title, or three years from the Plea of the statute in cases of ejectment, to go to the jury, 574. Of personal actions, to what time from the accrual of the cause, 575. Disclaimer and tender of amends in trespass, 576. To what time from the removal of disabilities, 577. Suit may be renewed within a year after arrest or reversal of judgment, 575. Fines and forfeitures to be sued or prosecuted for in six months, 576. Suits to be brought against officers for extortion, &c. within twelve months, 263. Suits and prosecutions under the habeas corpus act, two years, 928. Act of 1767 repealed on the 7th December, 1805, 577. Abstract of the act of 7th December, 1805, which was in force from that date to the 8th De- Act of 1767 revived as to all causes of action which originated under it, 577. Fully revived 8th December, 1806, 577. LIMITATION OF ACTIONS. (Continued.) Unsealed instruments dated between the 8th December, 1806, and 13th December, 1809, on the same footing as specialties, 577. Limitations since the 13th December, 1809, as to bringing the action, 577, 578. on sealed instruments, twenty years, 577. on notes and unsealed acknowledgments, signed by the party six years, 577, 578. Absent grantees of grants prior to the revolution, barred by younger grants, and seven years' No privilege, right, or exemption to be allowed in favor of absent grantees prior to the Although the statutes may have commenced running, their operation shall be suspended during Suspensions of the acts of limitation, 579 (n). Abstract of the laws relating to Lincoln, 954. LINES. See Boundary. County lines shall be run at mutual expense by county surveyors, 534. Lines of land shall be processioned and newly marked every tenth year, 543. LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. Shall be fostered and promoted (constitution), 913. Resolutions to obtain materials for a history of Georgia, 885. LIQUORS. Persons obtaining license may retail without keeping tavern, 840. Penalty for retailing liquors without license, 649. No liquors to be sold within one mile of divine service except by licensed residents within the LIVERY AND SEIZIN. Unnecessary to the validity of deeds, 161. LOCAL ACTS. Analysis of local acts relative to each county, 930-973. Relative to small associations, 973, 974. To public bridges and ferries individually, 974-976. To particular lotteries, 976. To stage routes, 976. LOTTERIES AND GAMING. Persons establishing lotteries, or any other like contrivance, forfeit £500, 580. Unlawful to sell lottery tickets, penalty from $500 to $1,000, 583. All sales by means of lotteries, void, and the goods forfeited, 580. Lottery tickets taxed, 864. All written securities originating in a gaming consideration, void, 581. All incumbrances of land for such consideration, shall enure to the heirs of the maker, 581. Defendant compelled to discover the amount on oath, 581. Punishment for challenging or fighting on account of gaming, 581. Gaming by insolvent debtors a bar to their discharge, 287. Reference to the acts granting lotteries, 976. LOWNDES COUNTY. Synopsis of the acts relating to Lowndes county, 955. LUMBER. What kind of lumber deemed merchantable, 826, 828. How to be measured, 827. Drift lumber-penalty for taking up or selling or buying it, 827. Inspectors to be appointed by the legislature, 827. Lumber measurers, how appointed, 179, 183. Fees and penalties, 828. LUMPKIN COUNTY. Analysis of the laws concerning it, 956. LUNATICS. Commissions of lunacy-guardian, &c., 254, 255. LUNATICS. (Continued.) Not capable of committing crimes except in lucid intervals, 620. MACON INSURANCE COMPANY. Charter of incorporation (1830), 384. MCINTOSH COUNTY. Acts in relation to it, 959. MADISON COUNTY. Laws concerning it, 956. MALICE. Definition of malice express and implied, 622. MALICIOUS MISCHIEF. Various kinds defined, and the punishments prescribed, 651–653. Prosecutor to pay costs if the jury find the prosecution malicious, 659. Indictments may be preferred against justices for mal-practice, 506, 641, 642. Against constables, 507. MANSLAUGHTER. Definition and punishment of voluntary and involuntary manslaughter, 622, 623. Darien Eastern Steam Saw-mill incorporated (1820), 382. DeKalb Manufacturing Company incorporated (1832), 385. Richmond Woollen and Cotton Manufactory (1832), 392. Cotton and Woollen Manufacturing Company in Upson (1833), 395. Franklin Factory in Upson (1833), 396. Princeton Cotton Factory in Clarke (1833), 397. Richmond Factory (1834), 399. Skull Shoals Manufacturing Company (1834), 400. Eatonton Manufacturing Company (1835), 404. Flat-shoal Creek Manufacturing Company incorporated (1836), 410. Slaves not to be manumitted without the consent of their owners, 913. Penalty for attempting illegal manumission, 787, 795. All wills and contracts for that purpose void, 795, 796. And not to be recorded, 787. Slaves attempted to be illegally manumitted, shall be sold, 796. MARION COUNTY. Laws relative to it, 956. MARKS AND BRANDS. Altering marks and brands, the same as larceny, 629. To be recorded in the clerk's office of the superior court, 149. Effect of recording between persons claiming the same mark, 149, 150. Of 2 persons having the same mark, the 1st recorded is prima facie evidence of right, 149, 150. MARRIAGE. Penalty for performing the ceremony of marriage without a license, or the publication of Marriage may be proved by the return on the license, 237. Marriage of the parties absolves the offence of adultery or fornication, 646. On marriage of female plaintiff, the suit shall proceed in the name of husband and wife, 422. Parol agreement in consideration of marriage, not actionable, 915. MARRIAGE LICENSES. To be granted by the clerk of the court of ordinary, 231, 911. Clerk's fee for recording, 237. MARRIED WOMEN. How far their criminal acts are excused by the coercion of the husband, 620. Defined-the various kinds, how punished, 624, 625, MEDICAL COLLEGE. See Physicians. MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE, Free from arrest in civil cases, 904. MERCHANTS' ACCOUNTS. Excepted out of the statute of limitations, 575. MERIWETHER COUNTY. Acts concerning that county, 958. MIDDLE BRANCH RAIL-ROAD COMPANY. MILE-POSTS. Militia officers to be commissioned by the governor, 912. To hold their commissions during their residence within their command, unless removed by sentence or by address, 912. How elected and commissioned, 585, 586, 602, 608. Vacancies of field officers, how filled, 586, 587. Colonels may be elected at the precincts, 608. Brevets where there is no protest, 586. Where no election of company officers, the colonel shall nominate, 605. Uniform of officers and of volunteers, 588. Officers to procure their uniform in three months, 591. Company officers may uniform in homespun, 601, 602. Volunteers not excused from duty in the line till equipped, 588. Arms, ordnance and ammunition to be inspected semi-annually by the adjutant general, 583, 584. Organization of the division, brigade, regimeut and company, 584, 585. Regimental, battalion, or company districts, to be laid off by the officers, 535. And may embrace two parts of two or more counties, 597. A regiment to consist of either two or three battalions, 585. All districts to be numbered, and the officers commissioned accordingly, and take rank from the dates of their commissions, 585. Vacancies of general officers to be filled by the legislature, 585. Staff to be appointed by the general officers and colonels respectively, 587. Oath of the officers, and how administered, 587. Colonel to nominate the judge advocate, 602. Clerk and provost-marshal, 604, 606. Non-commissioned officers to be appointed by captains; on refusing to serve, such officers to Officers resigning within three years, disqualified for the like period, 595. One company of artillery, riflemen and horse allowed to each regiment, except in Augusta, Act for the encouragement of rifle corps, 598. Act to encourage the formation of squadrons of cavalry in the first division, 599. Companies of cavalry may be formed in any county, 606, 607. Regulations for the organization, equipment, &c. of cavalry, 606, 607. Appropriation of $1,000 for cavalry equipments, 606. Volunteers may be ordered out in entire companies, 588. |