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Lamott v. M'Laughlin

3 Md. 324 (1793) · Court of Appeals of Maryland
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The Court, on full deliberation and examination of the authorities, determined that as the plea of limitations was not a plea to the merits, it should not be received after the rule day, nor amended if pleaded defectively. The Chief Justice said that 1 Bl. Rep. and Barnes’s Notes, made the true distinction.