Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-05-15
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STAY Law.
AN ACT


To Pfostds dgaiast tie ss1vscs Of property md =
sssFend Procsnd;sgsi II certain casG.
Fssed a. the Kxtra Session. Nay, lae1.I
Sscnoa l.. Be It enassed BY to General Aasms-
bly, Of North Oaro1iaa aud It i hereby enacted b.
tho authority Of tic sams That no execution Of
ters jdeios or ssnditioni a1ponas founded upon .
judgment in any suit action for debts and demands
due on bonds, promssory notes, bills Of exchange,
covenants for the payment Of money, judgments &C
counts, and al other contracts for money, demands
or contracts for specific articles other than those
upon official bonds in favor Of the Sste against
non-resdents, shall be issued from the passage Of
this act, BY any Court of record, or by any magis
vided by law. Nor shall there be any sales under
deeds Of trust or decrees unless by the consent Of
parties interested until otherwise provided by law
SEC 3. Where such executions have issued, and
are now in the hands Of officers, whether levied or
not the officer having such executions shall return
the same to the magistrates. or the Court from
whence they issued without further execution there
Of, and executions upon the same judgments shall
not issue again until tho operation Of this act ceases
Provided, that this act shall not be construed to
discharge the lien which has already been acquired
by the taking out such execution.
Sec. 3. There shall be no trials Of any cases re-
curing the Intervention Of jury, nor upon war
rants before Justice of the Peace in any suit or &C
ton for debts or demands due on bonds promissory
notes, bills Of exchange covenants for the payment
of money, judgments, accounts, and al other con-
tracts for money demands, or contracts for specific
articles. :. f..
SEC 4 This act shall net .pply to liabilities up.
the part of public officers either to the State,
counties, corporations or individuals nor to State
county or corporation taxes to debts hereafter
contracted nor to debts due the State to debts
due from non-residents nor to the annual collection
of interest: Pruided, that no note, bill of accep-
tance or other obligation, the consideration Of which
is any debt or obligation at present existing shall
be held or considered debt hereafter contracted
SEC. s. The interest which has accrued since the
first day Of January, A. D. 1850, which may here
after accrue upon any bond or proinissory note,
which vas payable before the passage of this act
fore any Justice of the Peace if the amount of in
terest sued for be within his jurisdiction and not
then in the county or Superior Court: Provided
however, that no warrant or suit shall be brought
except for the interest of year or more always
making an even number) by computing the time
from the day when the interest upon such bond or
promissory note begun to accrue.
Sec. 6. That any person who is about to remove
his property out of the State without the consent
of his creditors, shall not be entitled to the benefit
of this act.
SEC. z. That all mortgages and Deeds in Trust
for the benefit of creditors, hereafter executed,
whether registered or not and all judgments con.
fessed during the continuance of this act shall be
utterly void and of no effect
Sec. 8. The time during which this law is in
force shall not be computed in any case where the
statute of limitation comes in question.
Sec. 9. That this act shall be in force from and
after its ratification