Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-21


mo person shall here).
make an entry on, For Quieting of
or bring an action to Mems Estates, and
recover any land. hut avoiding of Suits
within fifteen years be II enacted by the
next after the time Kings most excel
at which the right &c lent Majesty the
make such entry or Lords Spiritual and
to bring such action, Temporal and Conn
shall have first ac- mons in this pres
crued to himself. or ent Parliament as
to some person sembled. That all
through whom ne Writs Of Formedon
claims" I'm Descender. For
medon in Remainder, and Formedon In
Reverter, at any time hereafter to be sued
Tenements, or Hereditaments, whereunto
any Person or Persons now hath or have
any title or Cause to have or pursue any
such Writ, shall be sued and taken within
twenty Years next after the End of this
present Session of Parliament. and after
the said twenty Years expired. no Person
or Persons. or any of their Heirs. shall
for any of the said Manors. Lands. Tene-
ments, or Hereditaments; (2 and that all
Writs of Formedon in Descender Formedon
in Remainder, and Formedon in Reverter
of any Manors. Lands. Tenements, or
Heredtaments whatsoever at any Time
hereafter to be sued or brought by Occa-
after happening. shall be sued within
twenty Years next after the Title and
Cause Of Action first descended or fallen
and at no time after the said twenty Years:
ha tn any Right or Title of Entry into any
Manors. Lands. Tenements or Heredtta-
ments now held from him or them. shall
thereinto enter, but within twenty Years
next after the End of this present Session
| of Parliament o. within twenty Years next
after his or their Right or Title which shall
| hereafter first descend or accrue to the
same; and in Default thereof. such Person
| not entering. and Their Heirs. shall be ut
| terly excluded and disabled from such En-
| try after to be made: any former Law or
| Statute to the Contrary NOTWITHSTANDING"
Dissemination Of the Statute Law.
AS to the dissemination of the statute
law.-Perhaps in no civilized country are
the statutes less known and less dinfused
among the people than in the District of
Columbia, the seat of government of the
most powerful and the most progressive of
| the nations. Those publications which con-
tain the British statutes are rare and cost
| ly, and seldom seen outside Of the public
libraries 1 quote here, with Mr. Alexander.
the language of resolution of the general
| assembly Of Maryland: In a free govern
| ment all legislative acts, which respect the
| lives, liberties and estates of the people
| ought to be published. and knowledge of
| them diffused generally through the state /"
Among other advantages to be derived from
compilation of the laws Is the ready
means which would thereby be afforded to
members OF Congress of informing them
| selves as TO the state of the statute law of
| the District on any given subject Many OF
our legislators are not lawyers, and many
| of them who are lawyers come from states
where totally different systems Of juris-
prudence prevail and in the press of their
duties have no time to follow up the OBJ
| scure ramiffca tons of our law. Both must
rely upon the informa ton which they derive
from advocates or opponents of proposed
| legislation, and IL Is far to assume that
such Information will be strongly tinged
with the predictions of the adviser.
| The acts of Congress of a general nature
not locally inappicable. and those of the
| legislative assembly and of the levy court
which are in force, should be culled from
| the general mass and brought into the COM
pilation. IL is possible that the profession
can easily distinguish between the applica-
bic and inappiicable acts OF Congress, but
| the distinction may be a source of perplex-
| ity to the inexperienced student, the foreign
| lawyer and the unskilled public. AS to the
ordinance of the levy court, doubt If their
! existence is known outside Of court circles
And yet one of them figured prominently in
| a recent trial for homicide in this city. The
valid city ordinances of Washington and
Georgetown should be compiled and pub
| lshed in a separate volume.
The Compilation Now in Progress
BY act of Congress, March 2, 1889 Is Stat
at-Large, So. the Supreme Court of the Dis
| trict was directed to appoint commissioners
] to compile. arrange and classify. with q