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     give damages in the nature of interest, over and. 
     
     above the value of the goods, at the time of the 
     
     conversion or seizure; in all actions of trover or 
     
     trespass de bonis aspartatis, and over and above 
     
     the money recoverable in all actions on policies of 
     
     assurance. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VII. In all cases where any verdict or assess- 
     
     ment of any debt or damages, may be given or 
     
     made for any party in any suit, in any such courts 
     
     in which interest is, or may have been included, 
     
     under the provision of this Act, or otherwise, and 
     
     the final judgment ol the Court thereupon may 
     
     have been delayed by the opposite party, either by a 
     
     rule nisi demurer, or otherwise; it shall be lawful 
     
     for such court in its discretion, when such verdict 
     
     or assessment is sustained, to allow interest there- 
     
     upon, at a rate not exceeding six per centum per 
     
     annum, from the time of such verdict or assessment, 
     
     until the rendering of final judgment therefor. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VIII. The Supreme Court may by general rule, 
     
     prescribe the form of entry, of judgment and exe- 
     
     cution, in cases where such further interest may be 
     
     so allowed. 
     
    
   
   
    
     IX. Any action of trespass or trespasses on the 
     
     case, as the case may be, may be maintained by the 
     
     executors or administrators of any person deceased, 
     
     for any injury to the real estate of such person, 
     
     committed in his life time, for which an action 
     
     might have been maintained by such person, so as 
     
     such injury shall have been committed within six 
     
     calendar hmontlis, before the death of such deceased 
     
     person, and provided such action shall be brought 
     
     within one year after the death ofsueh person; and 
     
     the damages when recovered, shall be part of the 
     
     personal estate of such person; and further, that an 
     
     action oftrespass or trespass on the case, as the 
     
     case may be, may be maintained against the 
     
     executor or administrator ofany person deceased,for 
     
     any wrong committed by him in his lifetime, to an- 
     
     other, in respect of his property, real or personal 
     
     so as such injury shall have been committed withiii 
     
     six calendar months before such person’s death 
     
     and so as such action shall be brought within 53,; 
     
     calendar months after such executor or adminis- 
     
     trator shall have taken upon himself the adminis- 
     
     tration of the estate and affairs of such person- and 
     
     the hamages to be recovered in such action, shall 
     
     be payable in like order of administration, as the 
     
     simple contract debts of such person. 
     
    
   
   
    
     X. In all actions upon Bills of Exchange or 
     
     Promissory Notes, or other written instruments, 
     
    
   
   
    
     any of the parties to which are designated by the 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     initial letter or letters, or some contraction ofthe 
     
     christian or first name or names,it shall be sullicient 
     
     in every atiidavit to hold to bail, and in the process 
     
     or declaration to designate such persons by the 
     
     same initial letter or letters, or contraction ofthe 
     
     christian or first name or names, instead of stating 
     
     the christian or first name or names in full. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XI. All notes in writing, payable in specific 
     
     articles, whether for a sum certain or otherwise, 
     
     shall be deemed and held prima facie, to import 
     
     that they were given for a valuable consideration, 
     
     in like manner as promissory notes for the payment 
     
     of money. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XII. It shall and may be lawful for the defend- 
     
     ant, in all personal actions, pending or to be brought 
     
     in the Supreme Court, (except actions for assault 
     
     and battery, false imprisonment, malicious arrest, 
     
     or prosecution, Criminal conversation or debauchery 
     
     of the plaintiff’s daughter or servant), by leave of 
     
     the Court, or a Judge ofthe Court, to pay intothe 
     
     said Court a sum of money, by way of compensa- 
     
     tion or amends, in such manner, and under such 
     
     regulations as to the payment of costs and the form 
     
     of pleading, as the Supreme Court shall, by any 
     
    
   
   
    
     rule or orders by them to be from time to time, 
     
     order and direct. ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     XIII. Whereas the practice ofrequiring a rule of 
     
     court to be ‘taken out for pleading several matters in 
     
     any cause brought into the Supreme Court, is found 
     
     inconvenient, and may be abolished, leaving to the 
     
     Court or any Judge thereof, the power to set aside 
     
    
   
   
    
     any improper or inconsistent pleas, as heretofore 
     
     accustomed. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XIV. In all cases where by the law or practice 
     
     ofthe Supreme Court, a party may be authorized 
     
     or required to take out a rule to plead several mat- 
     
     ters, such party may plead such several m 
     
     without actually obtaining such rule. and the leave 
     
     ofthe Court to plead suchseveral matters,a"reeably 
     
     to the directions of the Statute, in such cause made 
     
     and provided, shall always be presumed to have been 
     
     given; prowded that any pleas may be set aside by 
     
     the Court or a Judge, either on the ground of in- 
     
     con.Sistency or any other grounds, (except for not 
     
     taking out such rule) where by law or the practice 
     
     ofthe Court, pleas can be set aside. 
     
    
   
   
    
     atters, 
     
    
   
   
    
     XV. In all cases for partition of lands, whether 
     
     new pending or hereafter to he brought under the 
     
     prov1smns. of the Statute of the eighteenth year of 
     
     Queen Victoria. chapter eighteen, and of any Act 
     
     or Acts in amendment thereof, the Supreme Court 
     
     or any Judge or Judges thereof, may receive evi-