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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
Volume 194, Page 951   View pdf image (33K)
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4 GEO. 2, CAP. 28, EJECTMENT. 951
II. And whereas great Inconveniencies do frequently happen
to Lessors and Landlords, in Cases of Re-entry for Nonpay-
ment of Bent, by Reason of the many Niceties that attend
Re-entries at Common Law; and forasmuch as when a legal
Re-entry is made, the Landlord or Lessor must be at the
Expence, Charge, and Delay of recovering in Ejectment, before
he can obtain the actual Possession of the demised Premisses;
and it often happens that after such a Re-entry made, the
Lessee or his Assignee, upon one or more Bills filed in the
Court of Equity, not only holds out the Lessor or Landlord, by
an Injunction, from recovering the Possession, but likewise,
pending the said Suit, do run much more in Arrear, without
giving any Security for the Rents due, when the said Re-entry
was made, or which shall and do afterwards incur: For remedy
whereof, be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That in all
Cases between Landlord and Tenant, from and after the
Twenty fourth Day of June, One thousand seven hundred and
thirty one, as often as it shall happen that one Half Year's
Rent shall be in Arrear, and the Landlord or Lessor, to whom
the same is due, hath Right by Law to re-enter for the Non-
payment thereof, such Landlord or Lesssor shall and may, with-
out any formal Demand or Re-entry, serve a Declaration in
Ejectment for the Recovery of the Demised Premisses, or in
case the same cannot be legally served, or no Tenant be in
* actual Possession of the Premisses, then to affix the 706
•same upon the Door of any demised Messuage, or in case such
Ejectment shall not be for the Recovery of any Messuage, then
upon some notorious Place of the Lands, Tenements, or Hered-
itaments, comprized in such Declaration in Ejectment, and
such affixing shall be deemed legal Service thereof, which
Service, or affixing such Declaration in Ejectment, shall stand
in the Place and Stead of a Demand and Re-entry; and in case
of Judgment against the casual Ejector, or Nonsuit for not
confessing Lease, Entry, and Ouster, it shall be made appear
to the Court where the said Suit is depending, by affidavit, or
be proved upon the Trial, in case the Defendant appears, that
half a Year's Kent was due before the said Declaration was
served, and that no sufficient Distress was to be found on the
demised Premisses, countervailing the Arrears then due, and
that the Lessor or Lessors in Ejectment had Power to re-enter;
then, and in every such Case, the Lessor or Lessors in Eject -

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