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Excerpt from Acts of the Called Session of the General Assembly of Alabama: Held in the City of Montgomery, Commencing on the Second Monday in January, 1861 Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened, That hereafter in the commencement of any suit in any of the courts of law or equity in this state, the court to which any suit, writ, summons, complaint, or bill may be made returnable shall be deemed and held as the return term of such suit, writ, summons, complaint, or bill, and the same shall stand for trial at the next succeeding regular term of such court appointed by law to be holden after such return term; and the parties in the law courts shall not be required to plead at the first term, except that pleas in abatement shall be filed as now required by law: Provided, The provisions of this section shall not apply to bills in chancery for partition and sales of property. or in cases for divorce: And provided further, That the defendant or party against whom a bill may be exhibited in a chancery suit may come in and consent to a trial at the first term. Under this section, when suits are hereafter f; ?;.;. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.