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1803 33 (1803)

handle is hein.ssl/ssin0133 and id is 1 raw text is: GENERAL COURT, 18033 LAWS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE INDIANA TERRITORY, ADOPTED AT THEIR FOURTH SESSION. INDIANA TERRITORY. A Law in addition to a law intitled a law to regulate the practice of the General Court upon Appeals and Wriis of Error, and other purposes. Adopted from the Virginia and Kentucky codes, and (L. S.) published at Vincennes the twentieth day of Sep- tember, one thousand eight hundred and three, by William Henry Harrison, governor, (13) and Thomas T. Davis, and Henry Vander Burgh, judges in and over said territory. § 1st. N all actions hereafter brought to recover the I penalty for the breach of any penal law not particularly directing special bail to be given, in actions for slander, trespass, assault and battery, actions on the case for trover or other wrongs, and all personal actions except such as shall be hereinafter particularly mentioned, the plaintiff or his attorney shall on pain of having his suit dismissed with costs, indorse on the original writ, or subsequent process, the true species of action that the sheriff to whom the same is directed, may be thereby in- formed whether bail is to be demanded on the execution thereof, and in the cases before mentioned, the sheriff may take the engage- ment of an attorney practising in the general court, and the courts of common pleas endorsed on the writ, that he will appear for the defendant or defendants, and such appearance shall be entered with the clerk in the office, on the first day after the end of the 33