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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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4 GEO. 2, CAP. 26, PROCEEDINGS IN ENGLISH 947
porated. No case has arisen in this State in which the construction of
the Statutes or of the Act of Assembly, as to the particular point, has
been brought into question. The Act of Nov. 1773, ch. 7, is now super-
seded by the Code, Art. 16, secs. 72, 73,1 and these sections, by their very
general language, will doubtless be held to embrace every case intended to be
provided for by the Statute.
' Code 1911, Art. 16, secs. 100, 101.
STATUTES 702
Made at WESTMINSTER, Anno Regni GEOEGII II. quarto and
A. D. 1731.
CAP. XXVI.
An Act that all Proceedings in Courts of Justice within that Part of
Great Britain called England, and in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland,
shall be in the English Language.
Whereas many and great Mischiefs do frequently happen to
the Subjects of this Kingdom, from the Proceedings in Courts
of Justice being in an unknown Language, those who are sum-
moned and impleaded having no Knowledge or Understanding
of what is alledged for or against them in the Pleadings of their
Lawyers and Attornies, who use a Character not legible to any
but Persons practising the Law: To remedy these great Mis-
chiefs, and to protect the Lives and Fortunes of the Subjects
of that Part of Great Britain called England, more effectually
than heretofore, from the Peril of being ensnared or brought
in danger by Forms and Proceedings in Courts of Justice,
in an unknown Language, be it enacted by the King's most
Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons of Great Britain,
in Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same,
That from and after the Twenty fifth Day of March, One thou-
sand seven hundred and thirty three, all Writs, Process, and
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