Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-06-27
STATE OF NEW-JERsEY.
A SUPPLEMENT to the Act consti.
tuting Courts for the trial of small
causes

A SUPPLEMENT to the Act consti-
tuting Courts for the trial, of small
causes.
]. BE 1T ENACTED By The Council
and General assembly Of this State, and
it as hereby enacted by the authority Of the
same, That 10 case any claim shall be
made to any goods or chattels, under the
twenty sixth section of the act to which
this is supplement, and the said claim
ant or claimants shall not within ten days
apply TO justice, and have his, her, or
their right tried, as is prescribed ia said
section, the said claim shall be considered
abandoned, and the constable shall proceed
as if it had not been made.
2. And be at enacted, That SO much
of the sixty-third section of the said
act, under the title of justices. iu said
section, as reads, Each deposition taken
under the fiftieth and fifty first section of
his act, one dollar, shall be taken and
construed TO read, As referring to tho
fifiy-second and fifty.third sections of the
said act and SO much Of the sixty.tbird
section under the same title, as reads, For
issuing commission under the fifty-third
section Of this act, to be paid by the par
ty applying, one dollar, shall be taken and
construed TO read. As referring to the
fifty filth section of the said act; and s.
much Of the sixty.third section, under the
title witnesses, as reads, For their servi-
ces under the fiftieth and fifty first sec
lions of this act, fifty cents shall be take,s
and construed, AS referring TO the fifty
second and fifty-third sections Of The sale
act--sny thing therein expressed 10 the
contrary notwithstanding.
8. And be At enacted, That in all ac
lions hereafter brought before any justice
If the peace in this State where ihe
original process shall be by summons, and
there being more than one defendant there
in named, the constable serving the ssne
shall be entitled TO receive forty cents for
the service of the same 90 one defendant.
and every additional defendant OH whom
the same shall be served, twenty cents, and
make return thereon as directed in the
sixth section of the act 10 which this is q
A. And be 1t eaactedI That SO much OF
the nineteenth section of the act, entitled
An act constituting courts for the trial OF
small causes, passed on the 18th day oil
Feb. 1878. as authorizes and requires al
Justice of the peace to issue venire TO
summon ajuTy of six men and no more, il
the debt or demand depending before him
DO not exceed the sum or value of twenty.
five dollars, be and the same is hereby
repealed: But it shall nevertheless be
lawful for such justice, and he is hereby
required to issue such yeDire TO summon
la Jury Of six men, and no more, 10 all
cases where the debt or demand shall not
exceed the sum of sixteen dollars in the
same manner as he might have done before
the passing Of the said act, passed on the
18th day Of Feb. lsl8.
5. And be it enacted, That any body
polite or corporate in this state, shall and
may be liable TO be sued, in the court for
the trial of small causes, by summons,
which may be served on the president,
cashier, or clerk of said corporation, if
found, and if not found, on any of the
directors or managers of the said corpora
ton, in such manner as is by law required
for serving summons.
g.. And be it enacted, That ifjudgment
shall be given against any body polite or
corporate, by virtue Of this act, the jus.
tice shall grant execution thereupon, a
gainst the goods and chattels of such body
polite or corporate, which may be levied
on and sold according to law.
7. And be 1t enacted, That so much Of
the sixty third section Of the act to which
this is supplement under the title of CON
stables, as allows constabies forty cents for
serving summons when against more
than one defendant, and so much of the
twenty-tourth section of the said act,
as provides that no execution shall issue
against the body Of any man having fam
lily when the debt does not exceed the sum
of ten dollars, and SO much Of said act as
comes within the purview ofthis act also
a supplement to the said act, passed the
18th day of February, 1919, be and the
same are hereby repealed aud made void.
Passed 18th June, 1920.
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