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PENNSYLVANIA 
 
 Legal Time-Table. 
 
 CONDENSED FROM ACTS OP ASSEMBLY AND EULES 
 OP COUKTS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 
 
 BY 
 WILLIAM HAEDCASTLE BROWNE, Esq., 
 
 OF THE PHILADELPHIA BAR, 
 AUTHOR OP "digest OF DIVORCE AND ALIMONY," ETC. 
 
 PHILADELPHIA: • 
 
 KAY & BROTHER, 
 LAW BOOKSELLERS, PUBLISHERS AND IMPORTERS, 
 
 17 AND 19 SOUTH SIXTH STREET, EAST SIDE. 
 1875. 
 
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by 
 
 "WM. H. BROWNE, 
 In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at "Washington. 
 
 Webtcott & TH<msox, 
 
 , Phila.ln. 
 
 Stereotypers nuA Eltctru/i/jji-i 
 
 Coi.i.iNS, Printer, 
 Philaihi. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Abbitkation 13 
 
 Assignment for Creditors 15 
 
 Attachment op Vessels 17 
 
 Attachments 17 
 
 Auditors in Philadelphia 19 
 
 Bill op Exceptions, Philadelphia 21 
 
 Bill op Particulars, Philadelphia 21 
 
 Building Associations 23 
 
 Capias 25 
 
 Capias, Special 27 
 
 Carriers, Commission Merchants and Factors 27 
 
 Certiorari 27 
 
 Collateral Inheritance Tax 29 
 
 Commissions prom Philadelphia Courts 31 
 
 Constables 31 
 
 Corporations : 33 
 
 Costs in Philadelphia 37 
 
 Decedents' Estates 37 
 
 Deeds 39 
 
 Depositions in Philadelphia 41 
 
 Divorce 41 
 
 Ejectment 45 
 
 Equity 47 
 
 Error 53 
 
 Escheats 55 
 
 Executions 55 
 
 Executors and Administrators 57 
 
 Feigned Issues in Philadelphia 61 
 
 Foreign Attachment 61 
 
 Ground Eents 63 
 
 Guarantee 63 
 
 Guardian 65 
 
 Habeas Corpus 65 
 
 Inn-Keepees 67 
 
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 Insolvents 67 
 
 Judgments in Philadelphia (in part) 69 
 
 Judgments 71 
 
 Justices OP the Peace and Magistrates 71 
 
 Landlord and Tenant 77 
 
 Limitations 81 
 
 Livery-stable Men 87 
 
 Lunacy 87 
 
 Mechanics' Liens 89 
 
 Mortgages '. 91 
 
 Municipal Claims in Philadelphia 93 
 
 New Trials in Philadelphia 95 
 
 Orphans' Court 95 
 
 Partition 99 
 
 Party Walls in Philadelphia 101 
 
 Pleadings in Philadelphia 101 
 
 Practice 103 
 
 Process 103 
 
 Quo Warranto 105 
 
 Kailroads 105 
 
 Real Estate 105 
 
 Register of Wills 107 
 
 Replevin 109 
 
 Sheriff 109 
 
 Sheriff's Sales « Ill 
 
 Taxes in Philadelphia ; 113 
 
 Trial by Jury 115 
 
 Trustees 117 
 
 Unseated Lands 117 
 
 Viewers 119 
 
 Wages 119 
 
 Warrant of Arrest in Civil Actions 119 
 
 Waste 121 
 
 Widow 121 
 
 Witnesses in Philadelphia ; Ii3 
 
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PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 
 
 AEBITEATION. 
 
 1. Voluntary. 
 
 The referee must be an attorney of the Supreme Court. 
 
 The submission must be filed with notice to the ref- 
 eree, who has twenty days to file acceptance with oath to 
 act impartially. During this time, the referee shall ap- 
 point the time and place of meeting. Receives $10 per 
 diem. 
 
 [Phila. After notice of report filed, four days are 
 allowed, excluding Sunday, to file exceptions, with affida- 
 vit, during which time execution shall not issue.] 
 
 2. Compulsory. — (Not applicable to Philadelphia.) 
 After narr. filed, either party may enter a rule of ref- 
 erence and notice of intention to choose arbitrators 
 within thirty days. If the case be on the trial list, arbi- 
 tration must be by mutual consent within thirty days 
 before or during Ct. session, unless the case have been 
 previously continued to next term. A certified copy of 
 the rule must be served on opponent fifteen days before 
 day of appointment. 
 
 Three to five arbitrators may be chosen, as the parties or 
 Prothy. decide. If fire, each party nominates two. If 
 objected to, he nominates up to six to be selected from. 
 Each party may nominate up to seven for an umpire. 
 If all be objected to, Prothy. nominates up to seven. If 
 
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PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 15 
 
 all these be objected to, he chooses five, and the parties 
 strike out alternately until one be left. Same process 
 where no selection of arbitrators by the parties. 
 
 If one party only be present, the Prothy. acts for the 
 other. If no agreement as to meeting, the Prothy. 
 chooses a day from ten to twenty days off. Party en- 
 tering rule gives ten days' notice of meeting. Same 
 notice to produce books and papers. 
 
 The award must be filed in seven days after it be given, 
 or no compensation will be allowed to the arbitrator. It 
 remains a lien for five years, and may be revived by sci. 
 fa. Twenty days are allowed after the award be filed, in 
 which to appeal, the witness costs being first paid. 
 
 ASSIGNMENT FOE CEEDITOES. 
 
 The assignment must be recorded in the Eecorder's 
 ofl&ce within thirty days from the date of its execution ; 
 and the inventory, with affidavit of assignee, must be 
 filed in Com. Pleas Ct. office during the same time. The 
 judge appoints two or more appraisers. 
 
 Where the Commonwealth has a lien, the assignee 
 should give fifteen days' notice of the sale to the Aud. 
 Gen. or the State Treas. 
 
 After one year, the court may cite the assignee to file 
 his account. One year is allowed to appeal to the Su- 
 preme Court. 
 
 [Phila. Vide Advertisements. File exceptions by 
 the first day of the succeeding term, or the account will 
 be confirmed.] 
 
 \_Vide Auditors in Phila.] 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 17 
 
 ATTACHMENT OF VESSELS. 
 
 Attachments are granted by the Common Pleas Court, 
 where no previous admiralty process has issued. 
 
 The Sheriff advertises in one paper, once a week, six 
 times, the name, port and captain, the proposed sale, un- 
 less the vessel be discharged in three months, and also 
 notice to file claim within three months. Sale will take 
 place after three months' publication. 
 
 [Allegheny. Lien for three months' wages and 
 within sixty days after the wages become due. Other 
 liens must be sued within two years after the cause of 
 action accrues.] 
 
 ATTACHMENTS. 
 
 1. Domestic, seldom resorted to. 
 
 2. FokeigjST, vide Foreign Att. 
 
 3. In executiojST, sur. judgt. (vs. Garnishee), the writ 
 is returnable the next return day or the next term. 
 [Phila. luterrogotaries with rule on garnishee to an- 
 swer in twenty days as in Foreign Att. Forty-eight 
 hours' notice of hearing of rule for judgment on the an- 
 swers filed should be given. No narr. Rule to plead 
 in eight days where the answers are unsatisfactory.] 
 Vide Justices. 
 
 4. To ENFORCE decrees in the Orphans' Court and in 
 Equity. 
 
 5. Vs. Sheriffs and Constables for the non-return 
 of process, etc. 
 
 6. Fob alimony. 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 19 
 
 7. Vs. non-residents' propeety. Vide Justices. 
 
 8. Vs. Attorney, retaining money or papers. 
 
 9. Vs. RECUSANT WITNESSES, Subpoenaed by courts, ar- 
 bitrators, auditors, coroner, registers and commissioners. 
 
 10. For CONTEMPT of court, punishable by three 
 months' imprisonment or less. 
 
 11. Vs. absconding dft. in the Orphans' Court. 
 
 12. Vs. Insolvent banks. 
 
 13. Vs. stock held in another's name. 
 
 14. Under Act March 17, 1869, where there has 
 been fraudulent removal, concealment or assignment. 
 Where no personal service, after the first day of the sec- 
 ond term, proceed as in Foreign Att. 
 
 15. Phila. Vs. absconding dft.'s property in cer- 
 tain actions for personal torts. 
 
 AUDITOES IN PHILADELPHIA. 
 
 [ Vide Advertisements.] 
 
 In Orph. Ct. auditors are appointed only by the request 
 of all the parties. Except in Com. Pleas Ct. No. 3, aud- 
 itors must have been 2 years at the bar. 
 
 Notice of auditor's intention to file report must be 
 given in Cora. Pleas Ct.; in Orph. Ct. 10 days' notice; 
 in U. S. Ct. 2 weeks' notice — may be waived. 
 
 In Orph. Ct. report filed on Saturday, and if no 
 exception, confirmed on second Saturday afterward. 
 Confirmed in Com. Pleas Ct. nisi when filed ; eight 
 days thereafter to file exceptions. Distribution in twenty 
 days if no writ of error be taken. 
 
 In Com. Pleas Ct. when issue desired, request must be 
 made in writing of the auditor, with aflSdavit, within 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 21 
 
 forty-eight hours after the hearing is ended. The aud- 
 itor must file his report within sixty days after his 
 appointment, or it may be vacated, unless the time be 
 enlarged. 
 
 BILL OF EXCEPTIONS, PHILADELPHIA. 
 
 The exceptions must be presented to the Judge within 
 ten days after the verdict, who has twenty days thereafter 
 to settle the same, on application, with forty-eight hours' 
 notice to opponent and copy of exceptions served on him. 
 In U. 8. Ct. two weeks after verdict. 
 
 Exceptions to the Judge's charge must be taken before 
 the jury retire. 
 
 Points to be charged upon must be handed the Judge 
 at the close of the evidence, before the argument. 
 
 Where a nonsuit is ordered for insufficiency of evidence, 
 or where a verdict with a point reserved, or a verdict re- 
 duced or set aside on a reserved point, ten days thereafter 
 are allowed to file exceptions. 
 
 BILL OF PAKTICULAES, PHILADELPHIA. 
 
 If not furnished in three months after demand, the 
 court may order the common counts stricken oflf, and if 
 no special counts exist, may nonsuit, on motion, where no 
 good cause to the contrary be shown. In U. S. Ct. two 
 months after demand, nonsuit on two weeks' notice. 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 23 
 
 BUILDING ASSOCIATIONS. 
 
 (A.) Act April 12, 1859. 
 
 Ten or more persons requisite as corporators. [Phila. 
 By Act February, 1853. Twelve persons.] 
 
 Capital stock $500,000. 2500 shares, $200 each. 
 Charter granted by Com. Pleas Ct. [Vide Corporations. 
 Act October 13, 1840.] 
 
 No periodical payment of over $2 per share. 
 
 Stockholder may withdraw on 30 days' notice, unless 
 his stock be pledged for security. Entitled to amount 
 paid and proportion of profits, less fines, etc.: Provided, 
 except by consent of the directors, only one-half of the 
 funds at any time can be so applied. 
 
 The highest bidder is entitled to a loan of $200 or 
 more upon each share. 
 
 Where non-payment of instalments or interest by 
 borrowing stockholders for six months, payment of the 
 principal and interest, without deducting premium paid, 
 may be enforced by legal proceedings on securities. 
 
 A borrower repaying a loan before the end of the 
 eighth year of organization should be refunded one- 
 eighth of the premium paid for each preceding year. 
 
 The association cannot hold over fifty acres of land, 
 and must dispose of it in 10 years from organization. 
 
 (B.) Act April 29, 1874. 
 
 Five or more persons are required as corporators. Ap- 
 plications should be advertised in two papers of proper 
 county for three weeks. Acknowledgment should be 
 made before the Recorder by at least three original sub- 
 scribers. The Governor, after examination, may direct 
 incorporation. [Vide Corporations.] 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 25 
 
 .Capital stock not over $1,000,000 maximum. Shares 
 $500 each. If issued in series, no one series shall be 
 over $500,000. 
 
 Withdrawing stockholder is entitled to interest after 
 one year. 
 
 Highest bidder is entitled to a loan on each share of 
 not more than the amount fixed by the charter for the 
 full value of a share. 
 
 Other points of time are similar to the former act. 
 
 CAPIAS. 
 
 Plaintiff with notice has twenty days after return day 
 to except to bail. [Phila. With forty-eight hours' 
 notice to Sheriff and defendant, bail examined and 
 approved.] Bail must justify, or new bail be substituted 
 and justify, within ten days after notice of exception. 
 [Phila. With forty-eight hours' notice of justification.] 
 
 [Phila. Rules to show cause of action aud discharge 
 on common bail must be moved within six days from the 
 return day of the process.] 
 
 Bail may surrender principal within fourteen days 
 after the writ be served on them : 4 P. L. J. 360. Ten 
 days if before justice. 
 
 Unencumbered freehold to the extent of £50 exempts 
 from arrest. If in the county, defendant need only show 
 existence and value. Plaintiff may show the encum- 
 brance. If out of county, defendant must produce 
 searches that it is clear of encumbrance : 2 M. 342. 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 27 
 
 CAPIAS, SPECIAL. 
 
 Where special capias is issued against a defendant 
 about to remove, the Sheriff should make return within 
 ten days. 
 
 The writ issues where the bail in any action assigns for 
 creditors, or removes or is about to remove, upon affidavit, 
 with rule and three days' notice to defendant, previous 
 request having been made on the defendant to find addi- 
 tional bail. 
 
 CAKKIEKS, COMMISSION MEKCHANTS AND 
 FACTOES. 
 
 Where a lien exists against the owner or consignee for 
 charges on goods, after sixty days from personal demand 
 made, sell at auction sufficient to pay charges and costs. 
 Notice of the sale should be published for three weeks in 
 one paper, and six handbills posted. 
 
 "Where an affidavit alleges that the owner and con- 
 signee are unknown, a Judge will authorize a sale upon 
 such terms and notice as he thinks proper. If perishable 
 property, a Justice may do it. 
 
 CEKTKMIAEI. 
 
 To set the judgment of a justice aside, the writ from, 
 the Court must issue within twenty days after the judg- 
 ment, and be served within five days thereafter. If, 
 however, the record shows no jurisdiction, or the sum- 
 mons wrongly served, or of fraud, defendant not appear- 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 29 
 
 ing, the writ may issue within twenty days after the 
 knowledge of the judgment by the defendant. 
 
 To set aside an execution, the writ must be served 
 within twenty days after the execution was issued. 
 
 Six days' notice must be given to opponent of an 
 intended motion to certiorari an indictment to the Supr. 
 Ct. IVide Error.] 
 
 [Phila. Exceptions must be filed and record returned 
 two days before the first day of argument. In landlord 
 and tenant cases, a certiorari is a supersedeas, if issued 
 within ten days from the date of the judgment.] 
 
 COLLATEEAL INHEEITANCE TAX. 
 
 Five per cent, charged on estates over |250. Penalty 
 after one year. Discount allowed if the tax be paid 
 within three months. Remainder men elect when to 
 pay. 
 
 Executors, etc., have six months to give notice to 
 Register, or one month thereafter after knowledge. 
 
 Thirty days after the appraisement to appeal to Orph. 
 Ct. 
 
 Where Register cannot cite executor and heirs, he 
 shall advertise in one paper once a week for four weeks. 
 
 Payment is presumed after twenty years. 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 31 
 
 COMMISSIONS FEOM PHILADELPHIA 
 COUKTS. 
 
 Forty-eight hours' notice must be given of a rule for a 
 commission to take testimony in other States. U. S. Cts. 
 ten clays' notice. 
 
 Interrogatories M'ith the name of the commissioner 
 must be iiled and copy served fifteen days before the 
 commission issues. In U. 8. Ct. two weeks. 
 
 Counsel must not be present before the commissioner. 
 
 Exceptions may be tiled within ten days after notice 
 of return of commission. U. S. Ct. two weeks. Ten 
 days thereafter to move for decision on exceptions, aliter, 
 they may be argued at the trial. 
 
 [ Vide Depositions.] 
 
 CONSTABLES. 
 
 A levy is a lien for twenty days, during which time 
 the sale may take place after three bills posted. An 
 alias execution may be subsequently issued, if the time 
 expire. 
 
 Exemption should be claimed before the day of sale. 
 Property of non-residents of State, also partnership 
 property, cannot be exempted. 
 
 Where an execution is not returned, a justice or magis- 
 trate may summon the constable to appear within eight 
 days. To sue a constable for an act done under a war- 
 rant of a justice, make a written demand on the constable 
 for a certified copy of the warrant. If it be supplied, 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 33 
 
 the justice also becomes a defendant, thirty days' notice 
 of intended suit being given him. If neglected for six 
 days, the constable may be the sole defendant. 
 
 CORPOEATIONS. 
 
 (A.) By Act Oct. 13, 1840, and amendments. 
 
 Where the charter is filed in Com. Pleas' Ct., adver- 
 tise application in one paper three weeks. The Court 
 will decree incorporation at the next term. Record char- 
 ter in Recorder's office. 
 
 Advertise application to court for dissolution in two 
 papers near the chief office. 
 
 In suing a company incorporated here, but having its 
 office and officers outside the State, publish process in 
 one paper, as the court may direct, six weeks before re- 
 turn day. Sue in the county where the business of the 
 company had been transacted, or where the property or 
 works are located. 
 
 Where foreign attachment, the clerk or agent must 
 notify the principal in thirty days, or liable for treble 
 damages. 
 
 Where effects are concealed, the court cites an officer 
 to answer interrogatories on fifteen days' notice before 
 return day, under penalty of attachment. 
 
 (B.) Undee Act 29th April, 1874. 
 
 Corporation formed by five or more persons. Appli- 
 cation should be advertised in two papers of proper 
 county three weeks. Same notice for amendments. Ac- 
 knowledgments of at least three original subscribers must 
 be made before the Recorder of Deeds. 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIMErTABLE. 35 
 
 If the company be one not for profit, any law judge 
 after examination may order incorporation. If for profit, 
 the Governor, after examination, may approve and direct 
 letters patent to be issued. 
 
 Stockholders in arrears for thirty days are barred from 
 voting. They are liable individually to the amount of 
 stock held by each for the work done and materials fur- 
 nished to carry on the operations of the company. 
 
 In any action or bill in equity, the Plaintiff may in- 
 clude one or more of the stockholders. Suit therefor must 
 be brought within six months after debt due. Execution 
 shall first be made on corporation property in the county. 
 
 Thirty days' publication of notice of a meeting to issue 
 preferred stock is requisite. 
 
 A corporation desirous of increasing its capital stock or 
 indebtedness should publish the notice of an intended 
 meeting once a week for sixty days, in one paper in the 
 county of the chief ofiice. 
 
 No one can vote on a share transferred within sixty 
 days, nor by proxy executed within three months. 
 
 Thirty days are given to file return with Secretary of 
 State. 
 
 (C.) In Actions vs. Stockholdeks. 
 
 Service of process in county like ordinary summons. 
 If stockholder in another county, service by Sheriff of 
 such county. If non-resident of State, publish notice of 
 suit four times in a newspaper in original county, and 
 also in the State where the stockholder lives, as the court 
 may direct, and mail a copy of the publication to P. O. 
 address, if it can be ascertained. Limitation of such 
 action to six years after the debt was due or neglect of 
 duty. 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 37 
 
 COSTS IN PHILADELPHIA. 
 
 Taxed with twenty-four hours' notice between 2 and 3 
 o'clock p. M. The party appealing has three days there- 
 after to file items objected to, and grounds therefor. 
 
 DECEDENTS' ESTATES. 
 
 No unsecured debt is a lien over five years after the 
 decease of the debtor, unless the suit be duly prosecuted ; 
 or, if the debt be not due, a statement thereof be filed 
 with the Prothy. Judgments are liens for five years after 
 death, though not revived by sci. fa. 
 
 Devisees, heirs, etc., must apply within five years, un- 
 less incapacitated ; then five years from the removal of 
 the disability. In cases of personalty, the relatives of 
 the intestate must claim within seven years. 
 
 Heirs accepting lands under an appraisement must 
 give security to pay the other heirs within twelve months. 
 After twenty years presumed paid. 
 
 Where a residuary estate is bound by a contingent or 
 postponed legacy, the executor after one year may petition 
 the Court to exempt a part of the real estate from the 
 charge. One year to appeal, if the petition be granted. 
 Executor every year thereafter shall report to the Court 
 the condition of such retained property. 
 
 If plaintiff die, and no letters be taken out in this 
 State within one year after his death have been suggested. 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 39 
 
 the suit abates and the Prothonotary makes entry, pro- 
 vided the Court directed notice served on executor or next 
 of kin one month before. 
 
 Bequests or conveyances to charities, etc., made within 
 one month of decedent's death are void. 
 
 Where an action to enforce a real contract of decedent, 
 the contract must first be recorded, and notice given, 
 allowing six weeks' time after the next succeeding Court 
 for defendant to apply for leave to execute a deed. 
 
 If a sale in partition occur within two years after 
 decedent's death, real estate in hands of purchaser is not 
 liable for decedent's debts. 
 
 [Phila. Notice to absent heirs, legatees, etc. Vide 
 Advertisement.] 
 
 [ Vide Collateral Inheritance Tax, Escheats, Executors 
 and Administrators, Guardian, Limitations, Orph. Ct., 
 Register, Widow.] 
 
 DEEDS. 
 
 Unless recorded within six months, deeds are void 
 against subsequent bona fide purchasers and mortgagees, 
 with prior record. Twelve months where the deed is 
 executed outside of the State. 
 
 If land in two counties, file exemplification in second 
 county. 
 
 The owner of land may demand, on six months' notice, 
 the recording or delivery of title papers held by another, 
 or the Court will grant decree. 
 
 Advertise lost deed three weeks before asking Court 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 41 
 
 for decree on testimony adduced. [Phila. Vide Ad- 
 vertisement.] 
 
 The Recorder is liable for five years for false searches. 
 
 DEPOSITIONS IN PHILADELPHIA. 
 
 Depositions cannot be read, where the witness is a resi- 
 dent of the State and within forty miles, unless a subpoena 
 be taken out (witness being in the State) and witness be 
 subpoenaed, or not found after effort made. 
 
 Deposition of any witness taken on eight days' no- 
 tice. 
 
 Depositions of ancient, infirm and going witnesses, and 
 on rules to show cause on forty-eight hours' notice, 
 Sunday excluded. For cause. Court may reduce this 
 to six hours. 
 
 Except as to execution, form, etc., in ten days after 
 notice of depositions filed. May be argued at trial or 
 within ten days after exception filed. 
 
 [ Vide Commissions.] 
 
 DIVOECE. 
 
 The libellant must have resided the last year in the 
 State. 
 
 Where desertion is the cause, the action may be com- 
 menced six months after the act, but two years must 
 expire before the divorce be decreed. 
 
 Marriage on false rumor of death of one absent two 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 43 
 
 years is not adultery. Six months is allowed after return 
 for the absentee to claim his partner, or to ask the Court 
 to dissolve the marriage. 
 
 Two years' sentence for a felony is a cause for divorce. 
 
 Either party may demand a jury trial before the 
 examiner's report be filed. 
 
 The libel, endorsed by a Judge, must be filed thirty 
 days before the next term. 
 
 The subpoena must be served personally fifteen days 
 before. 
 
 Sheriff, with the written consent of a Judge, may 
 deputize another Sheriff in any part of the United States 
 to serve the subpcena personally and make return thereto. 
 
 [Phila. Appearance should be entered by the re- 
 spondent within ten days after return of writ. If not 
 done in twenty days, proceedings ex parte, with twenty 
 days' notice of the time and place of taking testimony. 
 Rule to answer in thirty days. Interrogatories with 
 notice of meeting, and names, residence and business of 
 witnesses, must be served personally ten days before the 
 meeting. Respondent at any time before the expiration 
 of the ten days may file cross interrogatories. If re- 
 spondent is not so served after personal service of the 
 subpoena, publication should ensue. [Vide Advertise- 
 ments.] Respondent may file interrogatories with ten 
 days' notice to libellant to file cross interrogatories. 
 Commission may issue with fifteen days' notice. Where 
 proceedings are ex parte, post cojjy of interrogatories and 
 notice in Prothonotary's ofiice ten days before the exami- 
 nation of witnesses. Alimony pendente lite usually 
 dates back to the return day of the writ. Personal 
 service should be made of a rule for a decree one week 
 
PENIS^SYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 45 
 
 before the decree is granted, aliter publication. \_Vide 
 Advertisements.] 
 
 If subpoena be not served, issue alias to any subsequent 
 term. If then no service. Sheriff on being ordered will 
 publish to the next term the order of publication four 
 weeks in one paper. Hence three distinct terms are 
 required to perfect the entire process. 
 
 [Phila. Vide Advertisements, also, as to rule for a 
 decree. Post and file interrogatories with names, etc., in 
 Prothonotary's office ten days before hearing.] 
 
 One year to appeal to Supr. Ct. 
 
 Libellant cannot testify unless the resj)ondent have 
 been personally served, or appears and defends. 
 
 EJECTMENT. 
 
 Entered in judgment index at outset. 
 
 No entry will arrest the Statute of Limitations unless 
 ejectment be brought in one year thereafter. 
 
 Adverse possession for twenty-one years forces claim- 
 ant to prove title under Statute of Limitations. Where 
 plaintiff is under legal disability, the action must be 
 brought within ten years from its removal, not in all 
 to exceed thirty-one years. If statute pleaded, mesne 
 profits prior to the last six years are barred. 
 
 Praecipe describes property. No narr. needed. 
 
 Defendant is not bound to appear until the second 
 term, nor can there be judgment until then. 
 
 In vendor's action to enforce specific performance of 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 47 
 
 a contract of sale against an absent vendee of unoccupied 
 land, publish rule to appear and plead sixty days before 
 return day three times in one newspaper. Judgment 
 then by default. Same rule in ejectment brought by 
 claimants and mortgagees of such land, except actual 
 notice must be given before trial and judgmept. 
 
 In ejectment for unoccupied land sold for taxes, pub- 
 lish rule on absent defendant to appear and plead sixty 
 days successively before return day in a weekly or daily 
 paper. Judgment then by default. 
 
 Two verdicts for one party bar a third action between 
 the same parties. 
 
 Where verdict and judgment, claimant may be ruled 
 to commence another action within two years, or show 
 cause. Where a nonsuit, or verdict for defendant, plain- 
 tiff may be ruled to sue out a writ of error in one year, 
 or be for ever barred. Thereupon defendant may rule 
 plaintiff to bring second action within one year, or show 
 cause. 
 
 After, a writ of hab. fac. poss. returned, Ct. may order 
 alias within three years. 
 
 EQUITY. 
 
 Endorse on printed bill notice to defendant to appear 
 within fourteen days or bill taken pro confesso. 
 
 Where a bill relates to real estate, on request, the 
 Prothy. makes entry in judgment index at outset. Each 
 party is entitled to ten copies of all the pleadings. 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 49 
 
 Injunction bills will be dismissed, unless in twenty- 
 days printed copies be filed and served. 
 
 Where a bill is taken pro confesso, the decree is abso- 
 lute, unless set aside by the court within fourteen days 
 after service of notice of such decree. 
 
 Rule to plead, answer or demur in thirty days. De- 
 murrer and pleas must have an affidavit of not interposed 
 for delay. If plaintiff does not set them down for argu- 
 ment in ten days after service thereof, defendant may do 
 so on five days' notice. 
 
 Interrogatories and rule to answer within ten days may 
 be filed by either party. Answers thereto may be com- 
 pelled by attachment. Objections to an interrogatory 
 may be argued on forty-eight hours' notice. Exception 
 to a particular answer for insufficiency must be filed and 
 served ten days before hearing. If sustained, defendant 
 has ten days to file amended answer. Exceptions to an 
 answer for scandal and impertinence must be filed in ten 
 days after service of answer, and the case heard on forty- 
 eight hours' notice. If allowed, ten days are given to 
 perfect answer. Other exceptions to answer to interrog- 
 atories filed in twenty days after service. 
 
 Exceptions to answers to the bill must be filed and 
 served ten days before hearing. If no exceptions to the 
 answer, or if held sufficient, plaintiff should reply in ten 
 days. May be ruled to do so. 
 
 Before replication filed, plaintiff without notice may 
 have leave to amend the bill within twenty days. 
 
 Where a personal representative of decedent is to be 
 joined, ten days' notice must be given him to appear. 
 
 Fifteen days' notice must be given of a commission. 
 After notice by Frothy, of its return, ten days are allowed 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 51 
 
 to file exceptions; heard on forty-eight hours' notice. 
 Depositions of ancient, etc., witnesses on reasonable 
 notice. 
 
 Either party may rule opponent to close testimony in 
 thirty days. Court may enlarge the time. 
 
 Party asking the appointment of a master should refer 
 the case to him within ten days, aliter the other party 
 may do it at the expense of the former. The master 
 should give ten days' notice of filing his report. Excep- 
 tions thereto should be filed with him. 
 
 To place a case on the equity argument list, four days 
 should intervene. [Phila. Com. Pleas Ct. three days 
 before calling of list with three days' notice to opponent.] 
 
 If no exceptions filed, report will be confirmed in 
 twenty days after being filed. 
 
 Injunctions granted without previous notice will be 
 dissolved, unless motion argued within five days after 
 such notice given. 
 
 [Phila. Rules expiring in July or August are deemed 
 to expire on the same day in September.] 
 
 Counsel should frame decree and serve a copy with 
 notice three days before submitting it to court, to give 
 time to file exceptions. 
 
 [U. S. Equity Cts. in Phila. Printed rules exist, but 
 have practically fallen into disuse.] 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 53 
 
 EEEOE. 
 
 Where writ is issued for delay, Supreme Ct. assess six 
 per cent, damages on judgment, |20 attorney fee and cost 
 of printing. Limited to two years after the judgment, or 
 decree obtained since April 1, 1874. 
 
 Murder and manslaughter, thirty days after sentence ; 
 hearing in Supreme Ct. should be within thirty days 
 thereafter. Must be taken out within twenty days from 
 a decree of distribution (in Com. Pleas Ct.) of proceeds 
 of Sheriff's sale, or court will order the money paid. 
 
 Execution is stayed, where a writ of error is taken out 
 within twenty-one days after the judgment. Supersedeas 
 even after twenty-one days, where no actual levy made. 
 
 Twenty days' notice given to except to bail, with ten 
 days thereafter to justify or nol. pros, by Prothy. 
 
 \Wol. pros, in Supreme Ct. Eastern District, where ex- 
 ceptions and record are not filed by first Monday in Jan- 
 uary in Philadelphia cases.] 
 
 Plaintiff" by third day of term to which returnable must 
 file specification of errors. 
 
 If no appearance when case called, proceed ex parte, 
 ten days' notice having been given to defendant. 
 
 If writ of error be pending three years, plaintiff" must 
 be ready at next call and give thirty days' notice to de- 
 fendant, or be non prossed. 
 
 [Phila. Short causes will be heard in Supreme Ct. on 
 Tuesday, and from country on Wednesdays. Paper- 
 books must be served by plaintiff" in error ten days before 
 the argum.ent, and by defendant three days before.] 
 
 Paper-books, in cases originating out of Philadelphia, 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 55 
 
 must be served by plaintiff in error ten days oefore the 
 day appointed for the hearing, and by defendant three 
 days before ; but if the writ was taken thirty days before 
 the day assigned, the paper-book of plaintiff must be 
 served twenty days, and that of defendant five days before 
 such appointed time. 
 
 [Vide Certiorari. Also Bill of Exceptions in Phil- 
 adelphia.] 
 
 ESCHEATS. 
 
 Where the c. q. trust is unknown for seven years, his in- 
 terest escheats. Twenty days' notice to claimants. Sher- 
 iff's sale after ten days' notice. Lands sold after seven 
 years upon advertising one month in two papers. 
 
 Persons under disability have two years after its re- 
 moval to claim personal property, and four years to claim 
 real estate. Non-residents have five years from sale of 
 goods, and seven from sale of land. 
 
 Commth. barred after twenty-one years. Informer 
 receives one-third of personal property and one-fifth of 
 real estate. 
 
 EXECUTIONS. 
 
 Issued within five years after judgment, or revival 
 thereof or expiration of stay. On special verdict, demur- 
 rer or case stated, twenty-one days must elapse. Lien of 
 test. fi. fa. continues five years. 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 57 
 
 In case of personal property, demand for exemption 
 must be made before the day of sale. In real estate, 
 before inquisition. 
 
 Six days' notice of sale of personal property by six 
 handbills. 
 
 [Phila. Where third party claims goods, interplead. 
 Vide Feigned Issue.] 
 
 Rent for one year and wages for six months before 
 sale to the extent of |200 have preference out of fund. 
 
 [Phila. Executions levied on real estate acquired 
 after judgment, may on application be docketed in judg- 
 ment index and bind such real estate for five years.] 
 
 Stay of execution is computed from the return day of 
 the writ. Refers to judgments upon actions ex contractu, 
 except actions of debt and sci. fa. on judgments and 
 mortgages. Not allowed where judgment entered on 
 warrant of attorney. Six months on $200 or under. 
 Nine months up to $500. Over $500, twelve months. 
 [Phila. If stay be entered after seven days from judg- 
 ment, defendant must pay costs of execution unless 
 execution executed.] 
 
 If fi. fa. has been issued within a year and a day, sci. 
 fa. to revive unnecessary as to personal projDerty. 
 [ Vide Justices, Constables and Sheriff's Sales.] 
 
 EXECUTORS AND ADMINISTRATORS. 
 
 Publish notice of Letters Testamentary or of Adminis- 
 tration in one paper once a week for six weeks. [Phila. 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 59 
 
 Vide Advertisements.] No original letters granted 
 after twenty-one years, except on order of the Court. 
 
 Except to bond within one year after the inventory 
 be filed. Register notifies administrator or non-resident 
 executor to appear within ten days. Neglect causes 
 revocation. 
 
 Two appraisers are appointed. File inventory within 
 thirty days and account within one year. If additional 
 goods found, file inventory with Register in four months 
 after discovery. Statement of goods sold at auction by 
 executor or administrator should be filed in thirty days. 
 
 Notify corjDoration of a bequest within six months. 
 
 One year to make distribution, and to pay legacies and 
 debts, except wages and expenses of illness and death. 
 After six months, additional further distribution may be 
 made. 
 
 Creditors should present claims within one year, if 
 public notice be given. 
 
 Suit of administrator d. b. n. vs. predecessor must be 
 stayed until judgment on the account, when it is filed 
 twenty days before the term succeeding the return day 
 of the writ. 
 
 The Court in which a suit of decedent is pending may 
 issue sci. fa. forcing executors or administrators within 
 twenty days to become parties, or show cause at the next 
 term. If they are out of the State, by publication in a 
 paper convenient to them, at option of the Court. The 
 case will be continued one term. 
 
 If plaintiff die, and no letters be taken out in this State 
 for one year, suit shall abate, one month's notice being 
 given to next of kin. 
 
 Removal from State for one year, or no known resi- 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 61 
 
 dence, is a cause for the removal of executor or adminis- 
 trator. 
 
 Balances due by executors, etc., may be by transcripts 
 made a lien in Com. Pleas Ct., and revived every five 
 years. If paid, satisfaction must be entered within 
 thirty days after notice, or $50 penalty, with damages 
 sustained. 
 
 [ Vide Decedent's Estates, Orph. Ct., and Register.] 
 
 FEIGNED ISSUES IN PHILADELPHIA. 
 
 Sheriff's interpleader is allowed where a third party 
 claims the goods levied on under an execution. In this 
 issue, the claimant becomes the plaintiff, and the original 
 plaintiff the defendant. 
 
 The claimant must file narr., and give approved l)ond 
 within fourteen days after the rule to interplead be made 
 absolute. 
 
 FOREIGN ATTACHMENT. 
 
 Writ is returnable at the next term. 
 
 If real estate and no tenant. Sheriff shall advertise 
 writ for six weeks in one paper, and file a description 
 of property within five days after attaching. [Phila. 
 Vide Adver.] 
 
 Judgment against the defendant at third term for 
 want of an appearance after narr. filed. Prothy. assesses 
 damages. 
 
 Issue scire facias to garnishee to next term. [Phila. 
 Interrogatories filed and garnishee ruled to answer in 
 twenty days. Plaintiff within three months after judg- 
 
Note.— Under a special act, applicable only to 
 Philadelphia, a statement, referring to the book and 
 page of the record of a Ground Eent deed, or of its 
 assignment, will suffice in lieu of filing a copy of the 
 deed itself 
 
J'ENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 63 
 
 nient must issue sci. fa., or Court may on motion dissolve 
 tte attachment.] 
 
 Plaintiff either leaves property unsold for a year and 
 a day, or enters security to restore the goods or their 
 value, if defendant within a year and a day after execu- 
 tion disproves the debt. 
 
 Non-resisting garnishee is not liable for interest after 
 attachment made. 
 
 Where one defendant is summoned and the other 
 attached, and a verdict for defendant be given, the 
 attachment will be dissolved, unless a writ of error be 
 taken within a year and a day. 
 
 GKOUND EENTS. 
 
 Two nihils are equivalent to Service. 
 
 Alias writ covenant should be served on tenant, or 
 posted on the premises ten days before return day, and 
 publication be inserted in one or more papers, as the 
 Court directs. [Phila. Vide Adver.] 
 
 File within two weeks after return day of the first 
 summons a copy of the deed. Also file narr. 
 
 To obtain judgment on quarto die post, the alias writ 
 must have issued ten days before the return day. 
 
 Twenty-one years is a limitation to the action, unless 
 a clear acknowledgment. 
 
 GUAEANTEE. 
 
 A promise to pay the debt of another is not good 
 where $20 or over, unless it be in writing. 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 65 
 
 GUAEDIAN. 
 
 Thirty days after property in possession is allowed to 
 Hie inventory. Account should be filed every three 
 years and when the ward arrives at age. 
 
 The Court will not appoint an exr. or admr. a guardian 
 also. Father cannot appoint a testamentary guardian, 
 when for one year before his death he wilfully neglected 
 the child. 
 
 Foreign guardian must give thirty days' notice to 
 resident gdn., exr. or admr. of his intended application 
 for their jJischarge in his favor. 
 
 Ward at age of fourteen may change his guardian. 
 
 Where guardian applies to the Court for leave to sell 
 real estate, he must give thirty days' notice of hearing to 
 minor and his next of kin in the county. 
 
 HABEAS COKPUS. 
 
 Officer within three days must make return to writ, or 
 may be attached. Ten days, where party lives from 
 twenty to one hundred miles distant. Twenty days, 
 where over one hundred miles. Judge has two days 
 thereafter to take bail or discharge prisoner. 
 
 [Phila. Hearing usually on Saturdays.] 
 
 Person not indicted at the next term shall be released 
 on bail, where wilful delay by Commonwealth. If not 
 indicted and tried the second term [Phila. fourth month], 
 unless by defendant's consent, defendant will be dis- 
 charged. 
 
 A penalty exists for not delivering to prisoner or agent, 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 67 
 
 six hours after request, a copy of the warrant of commit- 
 ment. 
 
 Two years' limitation for penalties under the hab. 
 Corp. act. If party be out of prison, the limitation dates 
 from the offence, otherwise it dates from freedom. 
 
 INN-KEEPERS. 
 
 A lien exists on baggage for board not exceeding two 
 weeks. After three months, justice may order constable 
 to sell after ten days' posted notice in three places. 
 Owner may redeem up to sale on paying debt and costs. 
 
 [Allegheny. Wages may be attached for four weeks' 
 board.] 
 
 INSOLVENTS. 
 
 Six months' residence in State or three months' con- 
 finement is requisite before application can be made for 
 discharge. 
 
 [Phila. Vide Adver. of notice to Creditors. Publi- 
 cation fifteen days at least before hearing, or personal 
 notice may be given with proof filed three days before 
 hearing.] 
 
 In certain judgments for torts, imprisonment for sixty 
 days before discharge on final hearing. Where $15 or 
 less, thirty days or less. 
 
 Trustees of an insolvent should give notice of appoint- 
 ment for four weeks in one paper. Make distribution 
 within twelve months. 
 
 [Phila. Prothy. gives notice of account filed. Vide 
 Adver.] 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 69 
 
 Rent for one year preferred. 
 
 Court may exempt from execution for seven years on 
 consent of a majority of creditors in number and value. 
 
 JUDGMENTS IN PHILADELPHIA (IN PART). 
 
 (1.) NoL. PROS, in Supreme Ct. where no exceptions 
 in error, and no record filed by first Monday of January. 
 
 (2.) NoN PROS, where no narr. filed after rule to de- 
 clare in eight days. Time often enlarged on forty-eight 
 hours' notice of motion. In Supreme Ct. entered where 
 failure after notice to justify bail. 
 
 (3.) Nonsuit. Where case called and plaintiff is ab- 
 sent, or if present he fails to make out his case. 
 
 (4.) Upon verdict, after four days elapse, in which 
 motions for a new trial and arrest of judgment may be 
 made. 
 
 (5.) Upon demurrer. Leave is usually given to amend 
 where the pleadings are defective. 
 
 (6.) NoN obstante veredicto. 
 
 (7.) Upon two nihils upon certain writs of sci. fa. 
 
 (8.) For want of a plea. Where service of rule to 
 plead in eight days. Time enlarged on forty-eight hours' 
 notice of motion. 
 
 (9.) For WANT" OF an APPEARANCE. Where Writ scrved 
 and narr. filed before return day. If ten days' service 
 before return day, judgment may be taken quarto die post. 
 Aliter fourteen days after return day. In U. S. Cts. one 
 week must elapse. Not applicable to ejectment, partitions 
 and writs of sci. fa. 
 
 (10.) For WANT of an affidavit of defence. Where 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 71 
 
 plaintiff has filed such an instrument of writing as is re- 
 quired by Act March 28, 1835, or affidavit of loan or 
 advance required by Act March 11, 1836, within one 
 week after return day, or if filed the second week, has 
 given forty-eight hours' written notice of his intention to 
 apply for judgment in an original case, or where an ap- 
 peal from a justice and no affidavit of defence to copy of 
 claim filed in such time, judgment on motion on third 
 Saturday after return day. 
 
 (11.) Foe WANT OF a sufficient AFFIDAVIT OF DE- 
 FENCE. Forty-eight hours' notice of hearing of rule for 
 judgment. 
 
 JUDGMENTS. 
 
 Lien on real estate for five years. May be revived by 
 sci. fa., which must be prosecuted to judgment in five 
 years, or the lien of the original judgment is lost. 
 
 Where the judgment is paid, plaintiff must satisfy 
 within eighty days after tender of charges, or maximum 
 penalty of half of debt. [Phila. Where judgment of 
 ten years' standing has been paid or compromised and 
 no satisfaction. Court may, on proof shown, order the 
 Frothy, to satisfy after personal or published notice.] 
 
 JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND MAGIS- 
 TKATES. 
 
 Summons returnable in five to eight days, between 
 hours named, with four days' service. 
 
 Where plaintiff is a non-resident of the State, or de- 
 fendant is a non-resident of the county, short summons 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 73 
 
 may issue returnable in two to four days with two days' 
 service. 
 
 Twenty days to enter stay or to appeal from judgment 
 over $5.33, the day of judgment excluded. If the twen- 
 tieth day fall on Sunday, Monday is in time. The time 
 is extended where there has been a neglect of the justice, 
 or where a rule to open judgment is pending. 
 
 If both parties assent to transfer case to referees from 
 justice, no award unless appeal exceeds $20. 
 
 Stay may be entered even after twenty days, if no exe- 
 cution issued. The bail on appeal is for costs only, ex- 
 cept in capias and suit for wages. Exrs., admrs. and 
 gdns. need not give security. 
 
 Enter appeal in the court on or before the first day of 
 the next term after it was taken. [Phila. File appeal 
 on or before the next return day after the judgment, by 
 Act IMay 1, 1861, although the custom is to file the ap- 
 peal before the next return day after the appeal was 
 taken.] 
 
 No nonsuit except for want of an appearance. 
 
 Set-off under $100 must be presented or be for ever 
 barred. May be done in Court on appeal. Where a 
 judgment by default, the defendant having a set-off, may 
 have a rehearing within thirty days, on proof of absence, 
 sickness, etc. 
 
 Where depositions are to be taken out of the county 
 file interrogatories, serving copy on opponent, who has 
 four days to file cross interrogatories. Not filed where 
 witness is in the county. 
 
 After five years, no execution unless sci. fa., or amica- 
 ble confession. 
 
 Three months stay of execution on judgments of $20 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE, 75 
 
 or less; six months on |60 or less; over |60, nine 
 months. No stay allowed in judgment for wages of 
 manual labor. 
 
 Penalty of one-fourth of debt when, after 30 days' 
 written notice of payment, plaintiff" neglects to satisfy the 
 judgment, unless in fifteen days after payment, any 
 defendant forbid him by writing filed with justice. 
 
 Where capias and judgment, and sci. fa. against bail, 
 ten days allowed to,, deliver up principal. Criminal 
 returns to Q. S. Court made ten days before session of 
 Court to which returnable, if recognizance have been 
 given. 
 
 (A.) Attachments against garnishees returnable in 
 four to eight days. Served like summons. File inter- 
 rogatories by return day, to be answered in eight days. 
 Wages and salary not attachable in hands of employer. 
 Plaintiff", defendant or garnishee may appeal. Claim 
 exemption before day of hearing. 
 
 (B.) Attachments on property for intent to defraud 
 creditors, returnable in two to four days, with two days' 
 service. If no service, issue summons, and if defendant 
 not found, the justice will proceed in his absence. De- 
 fendant not served has thirty days after judgment to 
 apply for a rehearing, with four to eight days' notice to 
 opponent. Attachments are a lien for sixty days from 
 the date when execution could issue. If appeal taken, 
 lien continues sixty days from final judgment. 
 
 (C.) Upon affidavit and bond filed, attachment issues 
 against property of non-resident of State, returnable in 
 two to four days, with two days' service. If no personal 
 service, issue summons, and the case will proceed whether 
 he be found or not. No exemption allowed. 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 77 
 
 Thirty days' full written notice must be given to 
 justice or magistrate of an intended suit for his official 
 act, which suit must be brought within six months after 
 the act or knowledge thereof by plaintiff. 
 
 Suit against surety of justice, in eight years from the 
 date of the bond. 
 
 Against surety of magistrate, in six years from the 
 time the action accrued. 
 
 LANDLOED AND TENANT. 
 Leases for more than three years must be in writing. 
 
 (A.) To KECOVEE, POSSESSION. 
 
 Where the tenancy is from year to year, give tliree 
 months' notice to quit before the year expires. If 
 disobeyed, issue summons returnable in four to eight 
 days before justice or magistrate, who may give judg- 
 ment of possession, with damages and costs, enforceable 
 by constable. Ten days to appeal in bail absolute for 
 rent and costs up to final judgment. [In Phila. the 
 appeal is a supersedeas.] 
 
 Where a lease expires at a definite time, and also 
 where ownership under Sheriff's deed, after three months' 
 notice given to quit, a justice or magistrate shall issue 
 writ to Sheriff to summon twelve freeholders to appear 
 before the magistrate. Summon tenant also. Returna- 
 ble in four days. 
 
 If the tenant allege the property to be claimed by 
 another than plaintiff, summon such party to appear in 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 79 
 
 six days. Claimant may give bond to appeal to next 
 Com. Pleas Ct. 
 
 Where the lease is lost or the date be unknown, the 
 tenant must furnish to the landlord, in thirty days after 
 written notice to him, the date such tenancy commenced. 
 If he neglect, the landlord may give three months' notice 
 thereafter to quit. If the tenant swears before the thirty 
 days expire, that he cannot give the date, the landlord 
 may give him six months' notice to quit. 
 
 Tenant in arrears, not having goods over amount 
 exempted, may be notified between April 1st and Sep- 
 tember 1st to quit in fifteen days, and in thirty days 
 during the remainder of the year. If he disobey, the 
 magistrate summons him to appear in from three to eight 
 days. Judgment of possession with costs, enforceable by 
 constable, who has ten days to make return. Payment 
 before execution stops proceedings. Five days after such 
 judgment before execution issues [Phila. Ten days.], 
 in order to allow appeal, which is in bail absolute for 
 rent and cost up to final judgment. 
 
 [Phila. If tenant remove, leaving insufficient prop- 
 erty for three months' rent, or refuse to give security 
 therefor in five days after demand or to deliver posses- 
 sion, magistrate may summon lessee in five to eight days, 
 and give judgment of possession, enforceable by constable. 
 No writ of possession is allowed in any case until ten 
 days exjaire, during which time certiorari may issue.] 
 
 (B.) Distress. 
 
 Must be made in the daytime, but not on the day the 
 rent falls due. 
 
 Holding a note or judgment does not bar distress. 
 
 Thirty days are allowed to follow goods clandestinely 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 81 
 
 removed, not in hands of bona fide purchaser without 
 notice. 
 
 Landlord may remove the goods at once, or leave them 
 on the premises under a watchman or with security. 
 Must have tenant's consent to let goods remain more than 
 five days after levy, or it is trespass. If last day falls on 
 Sunday, Monday is in time to remove the' goods. 
 
 If in five days after the day of the distress, the tenant 
 does not replevy, the party distraining, aided by the 
 Sheriff or constable, may appraise and after six days' 
 notice sell the goods. 
 
 Landlord's claim for one year's rent is preferred out 
 of the proceeds of any execution or of funds in assignee's 
 hands. [F-icZe Replevin.] 
 
 [Phila. and Allegheny. Thirty days to follow 
 goods fraudulently removed before the rent is due. The 
 landlord must apportion rent, and make oath that it will 
 not affect bona fide purchasers.] 
 
 LIMITATIONS. 
 
 (A.) Real estate. 
 
 Entry on real estate barred after twenty-one years' 
 adverse possession. [Phila. forty years.] Thirty years 
 is the extreme limit where legal disability. If proceed- 
 ings abate, three years to recommence. Six years' quiet 
 possession under Sheriff's deed bars objection to defects 
 of process and execution. 
 
 Thirty years' continuous possession is evidence as be- 
 tween parties litigant that the Commonwealth title is 
 divested. Where Commonwealth might have claimed 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 83 
 
 land held by a corporation, twenty-one years' possession 
 without inquisition by Commonwealth renders such title 
 indefeasible in purchaser. Twenty-one years after death 
 of intestate for Commonwealth to claim escheat. 
 
 Ground rents, annuities or rents charge are presumed 
 released or extinguished, unless claimed or acknowledged 
 within twenty-one years. 
 
 Five years to sue for specific performance of real con- 
 tract or damages therefor, or to enforce equity of redemp- 
 tion after re-entry for conditions broken or on implied 
 and resulting trusts, except where concealed fraud, or in 
 trusts where lands are jDurchased by attorneys. 
 
 In ejectment, sue within one year after entry. 
 
 Judgments and balances due by exrs. entered in Com. 
 Pleas Ct. are liens on real estate for five years only, un- 
 less revived by sci. fa. 
 
 Probate of will is conclusive as to real estate, unless 
 contested in five vears. 
 
 Taxes are a lien for five years. 
 
 Six months to file municipal claims and mechanics' 
 liens- 
 
 Trespass six years. 
 
 (B.) Peesonal. 
 
 Detinue, trover, replevin for goods and cattle, action 
 upon account and upon the case other than merchants' ac- 
 counts with merchants, factors or servants, debt, grounded 
 on lending or contract without specialty, or debt for ar- 
 rearages of rent six years. 
 
 Running or mutual accounts, where some items are with- 
 in six years, bar the statute. Runs from the discovery of 
 fraud. Clear acknowledgment made to plaintiff" or agent 
 within six years takes the case out of the statute. Not so 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 85 
 
 if made by executor, though he need not plead statute. 
 Nor by defendant's attorney, nor by one partner after the 
 dissolution of firm. Wi'it issued within six years after 
 original bars statute. 
 
 A claim against decedent's estate is not barred where six 
 years expire after the death and before the settlement of 
 the estate, unless an action against personal representative. 
 Where legal disability, date from removal. 
 
 In debt on bond, sci. fa. on judgment and collateral, 
 inheritance tax, payment is presumed after twenty years. 
 
 Five years against railroad for use of land, or three 
 years after road operated, and two years for penalties. 
 
 Relatives of intestate decedent are barred as to claim 
 for personalty in seven years. 
 
 Usurious interest recoverable within six months from 
 date of payment of debt. 
 
 Illegal fees of officers, six months. 
 
 Penalties under habeas corpus Act, two years. 
 
 Trespass as to person, assault, battery, menace or im- 
 prisonment, two years. 
 
 Slander and libel, one year. 
 
 Treason, arson, sodomy, robbery, burglary, perjury, 
 forgery, counterfeiting and uttering such paper, five 
 years. All other crimes two years after their commission. 
 
 Not applicable to absentee from State. 
 
 Six years where misdemeanor committed by officer of 
 corporation. 
 
 After reversal or arrest of judgment, where plaintiff 
 gained the case originally, one year is allowed to recom- 
 mence. 
 
 Two years for error, or certiorari to the Supr. Ct. 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 87 
 
 LIVEEY-STABLE MEN. 
 
 Lien exists on a horse for its keep. 
 
 If the owner does not pay a bill of |30 or over in 
 fifteen days after demand, or in case of removal, within 
 ten days after notice of amount due, and demand left at 
 usual place of abode, the horse may be sold at public sale. 
 
 LUNACY. 
 
 Three months after the return is allowed to file traverse 
 of inquisition. 
 
 Committee should file inventory of personal estate, 
 with a statement of the real estate of the lunatic, within 
 forty days after the trust be assumed. An additional 
 inventory should be filed in forty days after any new 
 discovery. 
 
 Where a party in prison under a civil action is reported 
 insane by a justice to a Judge, the latter gives ten to 
 twenty days' notice of hearing for his discharge by publi- 
 cation, and one week's notice to creditors. 
 
 Where a decree aflfects real estate, file a certified copy 
 with the Recorder within six months. 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 89 
 
 MECHANICS' LIENS. 
 
 Must set forth name of claimant, of reputed owner and 
 of contractor or builder, if contract made with the latter, 
 amount due, nature of work or kind of materials, time, 
 locality, size and number of stories, or other description 
 to identify it. Usual to attach bill of items. 
 
 Claims against two or more adjacent buildings should 
 be apportioned. 
 
 Unless buildings are on one lot, file distinct claims. 
 
 Claim filed within six months after work done or 
 material furnished to each house. May count from' last 
 item. 
 
 No sci. fa. shall issue within fifteen days of the succeed- 
 ing return day. 
 
 If defendant be not found, serve writ on tenant, aliter 
 post on door of building. 
 
 Other lien claimants may become parties to the action 
 by suggestion. 
 
 Lien expires in five years, unless revived by sci. fa. 
 
 Claimant may be required to file affidavit of the 
 amount actually due. 
 
 May be ruled to sue out sci. fa. to next return day, or 
 the lien be stricken off. Defendant may give bond and 
 have lien stricken off. 
 
 On payment, 60 days after request are allowed to 
 satisfy, or penalty of one-half the claim or less. 
 
 In half the State a claim for $20 or over may be filed 
 for alterations, additions or repairs to old houses, but in 
 Phila. such claim must be for more than $50, and the 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 91 
 
 debt liave been contracted by the owner, or by the tenant 
 with written consent of the owner, a co-pj of which 
 assent must be filed with the claim. 
 
 M0ETGAGE8. 
 
 Purchase money mortgages recorded within sixty days 
 are a lien from the date of execution. Other mortgages 
 become a lien when recorded. 
 
 If two mortgages be recorded the same day, the first 
 one brought to the recorder has a priority. If a judg- 
 ment and a mortgage, they take pro rata. 
 
 8ci. fa. may issue one year after the mortgage be due, 
 unless, as is usually the case, there be a contrary proviso. 
 If no service, alias writ and judgment on two nihils. 
 Judgment by default for want of an appearance may be 
 taken, where service and no apj^earance on quarto die 
 post, and where writ served ten days before return day. 
 
 Narr. unnecessary, description with reference to record 
 being embodied in praecipe. No stay of execution. 
 
 Judgment need not be revived after five years. 
 
 Sell under a levari facias. 
 
 Satisfaction. 
 
 If a mortgage be not satisfied within three months after 
 payment and request, penalty not beyond amount of 
 ftiortgage. If payment by instalments, on request, re- 
 ceipt on record within sixty days, or j)enalty of amount 
 of instalment or less. 
 
 Where holder dies after payment, or removes or con- 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 93 
 
 tinue absent from State two years, neglecting to enter 
 satisfaction, petition court to order Sheriff to notify rep- 
 resentative in the county. If none, advertise once a week 
 four times in one paper to mortgagee to appear at the next 
 term. [Phila. Vide Adver. also as to lost mortgages.] 
 
 Where the mortgage is forged, Court will order Sheriff 
 to notify mortgagee or representative. If not found, ad- 
 vertise once a week in two papers for eight weeks before 
 next term. The Court in default of defence will then 
 order satisfaction. 
 
 MUNICIPAL CLAIMS IN PHILADELPHIA. 
 
 Must be filed within six months after the work was 
 done or the materials furnished to constitute a lien. En- 
 tered in locality index of court. Expires in five years, 
 unless revived by sci. fa. 
 
 Defendant may notify plaintiff or city solicitor to issue 
 sci. fa. to next return day, fifteen days distant. If not 
 done, Court may strike claim from record. Before writ 
 issues, city solicitor must search for owner, and if found, 
 give him ten days' notice. If out of city, fifteen days' 
 notice by mail, of which sworn proof must be given be- 
 fore judgment. 
 
 Sci. fa. published by Sheriff twice a week for two weeks 
 in one daily paper, with posting on premises. 
 
 Sales January, April, July, October. 
 
 Equity of redemption for two years after acknowledg- 
 ment of Sheriff's deed, on payment of twenty per cent. 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 95 
 
 on amount of bid. Property of minor not sold until 
 two years after he becomes of age. 
 [ Vide Taxes.] 
 
 NEW TEIALS IN PHILADELPHIA. 
 
 Motions for new trials, or in arrest of judgment, or to 
 take off" nonsuit, must be made and reasons assigned 
 therefor in writing, within four days after the verdict. 
 The day of verdict is excluded, also Sunday, where it is 
 the first or fourth day thereafter. This, too, even if 
 points reserved. Copy of reasons filed must be served on 
 the Judge. 
 
 If counsel show a prima facie case when reached on 
 the new trial motion list, his motion will be transferred 
 to the argument list, when opposing counsel will be heard. 
 
 OEPHANS' COUET. 
 
 Citation to appear is returnable in not less than ten 
 days from the date of the application. If party and 
 surety are not found, issue alias. Publication in two or 
 more papers, as the Court directs, and the Court makes 
 decree. If defendant within five years and one year 
 after notice appear and pay costs, he may be heard. 
 
 Within five years after final decree confirming account 
 of exr., etc., for errors in record, the Court will grant re- 
 hearing, with right of appeal for one year. 
 
 Appeal from final decree of Orph. Ct. to Supr. Ct. in 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. , 97 
 
 three years. Shall not stay execution of a final decree, 
 unless notice and security within twenty days after the 
 decree was made. 
 
 Confirmation of appraisement of real estate is conclu- 
 sive, unless appeal to Supr. Ct. in three months. 
 
 [Phila. Widows' appraisement. Vide Adver. Ex- 
 ceptions presented second Saturday after notice expires.] 
 
 Notice should be given for application for order of sale 
 of real estate devised; also, twenty days' notice of sale 
 by posting and publication in one paper. [Phila. Vide 
 Adver.] "Where exr., etc., dies after sale, and no succes- 
 sor be appointed in three months, Court may direct the 
 clerk to execute a deed. So also where the exr., etc., 
 neglect for eighty days after notice to execute or deliver 
 the deed. 
 
 Upon non-resident executor, etc., producing exemplifi- 
 cation of record, the Court, with thirty days' notice, may 
 discharge resident executor, guardian, etc. 
 
 After twenty years from date of administrator's bond, 
 payment is presumed. Where additional bond by order 
 of Court, seven years gives presumption of payment. 
 
 Transcripts of amounts found due by auditor may be 
 filed in Com. Pleas Ct. 
 
 [ Vide Decedent's Estate, Guardian, Register, Widow.] 
 
 [Phila. Exceptions to the settlement of an account 
 or to a decree of distribution filed with copy should be 
 handed to the auditing Judge by third Saturday after 
 adjudication filed. Clerk on order of Court approves 
 security of guardian or trustee under $2000. Where 
 real estate is valued over f 1000, applications are referred 
 to a master or examiner. Preliminary injunctions argued 
 in five days, unless special order. Subpoenas taken out 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 99 
 
 five days before day of auditing account.] [ Vide Depo- 
 sitions, Commissions, Advertisements and Auditors.] 
 
 [Phila. Auditors are only appointed wlien all parties 
 request. No lien on report for fee, but may attach 
 therefor. Audit lists. Vide Advertisements.] 
 
 PARTITION. 
 
 The writ is returnable at the next term. 
 
 Service of the summons and notice of the inquisition 
 should be made on resident defendants in the county 
 twenty days before the return day, or the day of taking 
 the inquisition. Aliter, publish the substance of the 
 writ in a paper once a week for six weeks prior to 
 the return day. 
 
 A party taking at the valuation may enter security to 
 pay the other heirs their proportions in one year. If not 
 so taken, the Court will order sale, with advertisement, 
 twenty days before the sale. If the lands are in different 
 counties, sixty days' notice must be given. Defendants 
 before return day may ask the plaintiff's part only to be 
 set out. 
 
 If the sale occur two years after decedent's death, the 
 real estate is not liable in the hands of a purchaser for 
 the debts of the decedent. 
 
 If the land be in different counties, file exemplifications 
 of record of inquest in all. If in adjoining counties, 
 record exemplifications with Sheriff's deed in six months 
 after execution in such county. 
 
 After ten days' public notice of a writ executed and 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 101 
 
 the inquest of partition be returned, final judgment may- 
 be taken. One year thereafter to present matter in bar 
 of partition. 
 
 PARTY WALLS IN PHILADELPHIA. 
 
 One month is allowed to appeal from the decisions of 
 surveyors or regulators. Persons under disability may 
 appeal within three years after the disability be removed, 
 or one year after notice. 
 
 Building inspectors may examine dangerous walls on 
 forty-eight hours' notice to owner or agent. Owner has 
 three days to appeal to the board of surveys. 
 
 PLEADINGS IN PHILADELPHIA. 
 
 Pules to declare or plead in eight days. U. S. Court, 
 two weeks' time ; extended by Court on forty-eight 
 hours' notice of application. Four days after narr. 
 served, is the time allowed to file dilatory plea. 
 
 Notice of set-off must be given ten days before the 
 first day of the period in which the cause is down 
 for trial. 
 
 Under plea of payment in au action on bond or other 
 specialty, defendant must give thirty days' notice before 
 trial, of the matter to be offered in avoidance. 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 103 
 
 PEACTICE. 
 
 (Altered in Philadelphia, Allegheny and many other 
 counties.) 
 
 In actions in Court on a verbal promise, book account, 
 note, bond or bill, the plaintiff should file a statement or 
 demand by the third day of the term to which the action 
 is returnable. Defendant at least twenty days before the 
 next term should file his statement of set-off, if he has 
 any, or of the amount due the plaintiff. Judgment by 
 default where the defendant does not appear and defend, 
 or of nonsuit where the plaintiff does not appear on the 
 third day of the next term after return day if the term 
 be for one week, or on the second Monday of the term if 
 it is to continue two weeks. If there be a defence, go to 
 a jury. 
 
 PROCESS. 
 
 Writs are returnable to the first day of the next term, 
 or in many counties to the first Monday of the next 
 month, at the plaintiff's option. 
 
 Except in Phila. and Allegheny, ten days must inter- 
 vene between the day on which a summons is issued and 
 the return day ; and if no such interval, the summons 
 may be returnable on the next day preceding the last 
 day of the term, or the first day of the succeeding term. 
 
Note. — The Section on Railroads is probably annul- 
 led by Section 21, Article III., of the Constitution of 
 1874. 
 
 At this date, May, 1875, the Supreme Court has 
 given emphasis to that Section, as to one point at 
 least, in Central Railway of N. J. v. Cook, reported in 
 WeeUi/ Notes and Legal Intel, April, 1875. 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 105 
 
 QUO WAKKANTO. 
 
 Writ is returnable at discretion of Judge. Must be 
 served ten days before the return day, like a summons. 
 Judgment may be taken by default. 
 
 EAILK0AD8. 
 
 Five years to be sued for occupancy of land, or three 
 years therefor after the road is in operation. Two years 
 to be sued for penalties, and one year for damages for 
 injuries received through negligence. 
 
 No limit as to amount of damages except when death 
 results from injuries received. 
 
 KEAL ESTATE. 
 
 Where an owner has been absent and unheard of for 
 seven years, the law presumes him dead, or where a mar- 
 ried woman owns real estate and her husband has aban- 
 doned her for two years, the Court may order a sale, 
 which may be partly on credit. Advertise by twenty 
 handbills and in two papers, three times in each. The 
 Court may authorize a private sale. Before the decree be 
 carried into effect, twenty days is allowed from its entry 
 to appeal. 
 
 Trusts for the accumulation of rents, interests, etc., 
 shall not extend over the life of the grantor, and twenty- 
 one years thereafter, except for charities, etc. 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 107 
 
 KEGISTEE OF WILLS. 
 
 Where a will contains a legacy or a bequest to a pub- 
 lic corporation, the register must notify the officers by 
 letter within six months. 
 
 The register may file his bill of costs and fees in any 
 matter in the Com. Pleas Ct. after thirty days from the 
 time they were due, and issue execution in the name of 
 the Commonwealth. 
 
 Thirty days having expired after the account of an 
 exr. or admr. has been filed, the register shall send certi- 
 fied copy to the Orph. Ct., and advertise in two papers 
 four weeks, also post in seven places. [Phila. Vide 
 Adver.] 
 
 May cite a party holding a will to deposit it for probate 
 within fifteen days, and cite witnesses in the county or 
 within thirty miles in the State to appear at a day not 
 less than five days distant. 
 
 Nuncupative wills cannot be probated until fourteen 
 days after the death of the party. Testimony thereon 
 will not be admitted after six months, unless committed 
 to writing by the witness within six days. 
 
 Appeals from Register to Orph. Ct. three years ; to 
 Supr. Ct. one year, where over $150 is involved. 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 109 
 
 REPLEVIN. 
 
 Limitation six years. Two kinds. 
 
 (1.) In the detinet, where the defendant in replevin 
 retains possession by filing claim property bond, which 
 cannot be done in rent cases. 
 
 (2.) In the detinuit, where the plaintifi" obtains the 
 goods. In the latter case the defendant usually rules 
 the plaintiff to declare [Phila. in eight days], then de- 
 fendant may file avowry and cognizance, and rule plain- 
 tiff to plead. Pleas are non cepit, no rent in arrear, Stat. 
 of limit., property or justification and avowry or cogni- 
 zance, or in abatement, that property is in third person. 
 
 [Vide Landlord and Tenant.] 
 
 SHEEIFF. 
 
 The Court may enforce the return of writs and pay- 
 ment of money by attachments at any time within two 
 years after the Sheriff's term expires. Suits against 
 Sheriffs for excessive fees must be brought within six 
 months. Other suits on his bond within five years after 
 the recognizance was given. 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. Ill 
 
 SHEKIFF'S SALES. 
 
 The Sheriff should give five days' notice of holding 
 inquisition personally or by handbills. [Phila. Held 
 on Friday before return day.] If, on proof shown, he 
 find seven years' rent will pay the debt and costs, the 
 plaintiff can obtain the land under a writ of liberari 
 facias, and collect the rents until his judgment be paid, 
 or until the land be sold under another execution. May 
 be waived by the plaintiff, and the defendant allowed to 
 retain. The Sheriff has ten days thereafter to notify the 
 defendant, who accepts or rejects in writing in thirty days. 
 If he assent and is in default of payment of any semi- 
 annual instalment in thirty days, the plaintiff may issue 
 a writ of vend. ex. 
 
 In executions upon- life estates, where the defendant or 
 occupant gives the plaintiff three days' notice before 
 inquisition, the Sheriff appraises annual value, and gives 
 thirty days to elect to pay such value in semi-annual 
 instalments. Aliter, act as if a fee simple, giving ten 
 days' notice of application for a writ of vend. ex. 
 
 The Sheriff's sale must be made on or before the return 
 day, or within six days thereafter. Bills should be posted 
 ten days before the sale. 
 
 Publish sale of real estate in two papers, one in Eng- 
 lish and the other in German, if one in the county, once 
 a week for three weeks. [Phila. Vide Advertisements.] 
 
 Deeds are acknowledged on the first Monday of term. 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 113 
 
 or upon any Saturday in open court. One week after 
 the return day must expire. 
 
 Where lien creditors purchase, the return shall be read 
 in Court on the Saturday succeeding the filing of the 
 return, and exceptions to the purchaser's right to the 
 proceeds of the sale may be filed with the Prothy. by the 
 next Wednesday, and the purchaser be ruled to show 
 cause why the sale should not be set aside, returnable the 
 next Saturday. If the Court believe the lien creditor is 
 not entitled, the rule will be made absolute, and unless 
 the purchaser within ten days after the decision pay the 
 purchase money to the Sheriff, the Court may grant an 
 issue or refer to an auditor. 
 
 [As to the process of obtaining possession after sale, 
 vide Justices and Landlord and Tenant. Also vide Ex- 
 ecutions and Partition.J 
 
 TAXES IN PHILADELPHIA. 
 
 Registered taxes are a lien for five years from January 
 1 of the year after they are due. If a suit be pressed 
 thereon, the lien dates from the judgment. 
 
 Suit may be sci. fa. or by summons, but is almost 
 invariably by sci. fa. Act March 11, 1846, orders in 
 case of sci. fa. that there shall be posting on premises and 
 advertisement twice a week for two weeks in one paper 
 before the return day. 
 
 If the land does not bring enough to pay taxes, sale 
 stayed, unless the city purchase. Property then not 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 115 
 
 irredeemable unless six months' previous notice be pub- 
 lished by the city solicitor, after which he may sell with 
 same notice as in Orph. Ct. sales. 
 
 Equity of redemption within two years from the 
 acknowledgment of Sheriff's deed. 
 
 Tax sales by the Sheriff, January, April, July, October. 
 
 [ Vide Municipal Claims.] 
 
 TEIAL BY JURY. 
 
 Parties not acting in a fiduciary capacity may waive a 
 jury trial, and by agreement filed submit the decision to 
 the Court, which decision shall be in writing and filed 
 within sixty days. If no exception be filed in thirty 
 days after notice, judgment shall be entered. 
 
 Judges must see that all cases shall be reached and 
 have a fair opportunity for trial within one year after 
 they were commenced. 
 
 [Phila. Causes must be at issue before the venire 
 goes out, which is thirty days before the period. 
 
 Causes transferred to another t«rm must be, by writ- 
 ten consent of both parties, filed three weeks before the 
 period. 
 
 When by mistake of the clerk a case is omitted from 
 the trial list, either party may order it on with ten days' 
 notice before the day marked for trial. 
 
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL TIME-TABLE. 117 
 
 TEUSTEES. 
 
 In trusts for life or marriage, trustee at the end of 
 three years may be cited to file account on thirty days' 
 notice. When filed, the Court may cite parties in inter- 
 est to appear on a day between twenty and thirty days 
 thereafter, to show cause why the trustee should not be 
 discharged. 
 
 Appeal to the Supr. Ct. from the Com. Pleas Ct. in 
 three years. 
 
 pHiLA. Vide Advertisements.] 
 
 UNSEATED LANDS. 
 
 Sixty days' notice of sale for taxes in two papers. 
 Sale to commence the second Monday of June. Pur- 
 chaser, after paying taxes and costs, gives surplus bond 
 to county treasurer for balance. The bond, when en- 
 tered, is a judgment for five years, upon which, after 
 three months from entry, execution may issue. Two 
 years to redeem, with twenty-five per cent, additional. 
 Actions for recovery barred after five years from sale, or 
 two years from removal of disability. [Vide Ejectment, 
 as to unoccupied land.J 
 
 If lands are purchased by county commissioner, not 
 
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 bringing enough to pay taxes, five years are allowed to 
 redeem. Then the commissioner sells after thirty days' 
 notice in county paper and six posters. 
 
 VIEWEES. 
 
 Appeals from assessments of damages made by viewers 
 to Com. Pleas Ct. within thirty days after ascertainment 
 of them on the filing of a report thereon. 
 
 WAGES. 
 
 Lien on money in Sheriff's hands for labor to the ex- 
 tent of $200 done within six months, if claimed by notice 
 to Sheriff before sale. 
 
 Appeals from judgments before justice for wages must 
 be for debt as well as costs. 
 
 Orders on employers from operatives ten days before 
 wages due to pay contributions to charitable institutions 
 are a lien thereon. 
 
 Cannot be attached for debt. [Except in Allegheny. 
 Vide Innkeepers.] 
 
 WARRANT OF ARREST IN CIVIL ACTIONS. 
 
 [Seldom resorted to in Philadelphia.] 
 Defendant released on giving security to pay debt in 
 sixty days, if time for stay has expired, or when stay 
 
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 shall expire, if over sixty days distant. Same rule 
 where a judgment has not been obtained. 
 
 Where allegation of intended fraudulent removal, a 
 bond may be given not to remove or sell property until 
 the debt be paid, or until thirty days after the final judg- 
 ment in the suit. The defendant will be released on giv- 
 ing security that within thirty days he will apply for the 
 benefit of the insolvent law. 
 
 Thirty days shall intervene between the time of pre- 
 senting this petition and the time of hearing the same. 
 
 WASTE. 
 
 Remainder men must give five days' notice to tenant 
 in possession before estrepment issues. 
 
 WIDOW. 
 
 One year to elect to take under will or dower, with 
 knowledge on her part of the estate. Where intestacy. 
 Court within one year may order inquest to find her in- 
 terest in her husband's real estate. [Phila. Vide Ad- 
 vert, as to claim for $300 appraisement.] 
 
 Where she claims out of real estate worth less than 
 $600, Orph. Ct. may set it apart for her, and give her 
 one year to pay appraised excess over $300. 
 
 If one year expire after the representative of decedent 
 obtains his real estate and no partition have been made, 
 the widow may ask the Court to award inquest. 
 
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 WITNESSES IN PHILADELPHIA. 
 
 Take subpoena out five days before the day assigned 
 for trial, or the action will not be continued for the ab- 
 sence of the party, if he were at his residence in the 
 mean time. 
 
 Apply for attachment before 11 o'clock on the day 
 fixed for trial, unless witness was in attendance and left 
 without leave. 
 
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