an officer de facto, and his acts are valid when they con-
cern the public or third persons who have an interest in
them. Ibid.

Omitted in proper place—page 652.

SLAVERY.

1. In cases of felony, the civil remedy is suspended until the offender is
prosecuted to conviction or acquittal. Neal vs. Farmer.......
555

2. African slavery held never to have existed in the Island of Great
Britain by the Common Law, by Statute, or by the Laws of Na-
tions. Ibid.

3. The Law of Villenage obsolete in England. Quere? Ibid.

4. If not obsolete, but of force in 1732, when the Colony of Georgia was
settled: Held, that it had no application to African slavery in Eng-
land or in Georgia. Ibid.

5. The Common Law of England held to be inapplicable to the institu-
tion of slavery, except to protect the rights of masters. Ibid.

6. The slave trade held to be recognized as a lawful commerce, under the
Law of Nations, and that law obligatory upon the States of the
world, unless repudiated by treaty or positive law. Ibid.

7. Held, that by the comity of nations, when a slave escapes into, or is
found within the jurisdiction of a State where slavery is not recogniz-
ed, it is the duty of that State, upon the demand of his rightful owner,
to deliver him to be taken back to the State where by law, he is a
slave. Ibid.

8. The origin and character of property in slaves in this State defined.
Ibid.

9. It is not felony in Georgia, by the Common Law, to kill a slave, and
the only legal restraint upon the power of the master over the person
of the slave in Georgia, is such as is imposed by Statute. Ib.

2. A Sheriff cannot purchase at his own sale, neither for
himself nor as agent for another; such purchase is void.
Harrison vs. McHenry.........

164

7. The commencement of the action and not the time of
trial, is ordinarily the period at which mutual debts are
to be set-off against each other.

Ibid.

Crawford, Gov. &c. vs. Howard and others.......

3. A Sheriff duly elected, but not having executed a bond
according to law, within thirty days after his election, is

314

an officer de facto, and his acts are valid when they con-
cern the public or third persons who have an interest in
them. lbid.

4. The Sheriff and his sureties held liable on a voluntary
bond, for the acts of his deputies, although it contains no
stipulation to that effect: Held, that such a stipulation is
not necessary to the validity of a Sheriff's bond, under
our Statute. Ibid.

5. When a Sheriff has received money on a fi. fa. the Stat-
ute of Limitations commences to run in his favor, from
the time it was received. Thompson vs. The Central
Bank......

6. A bond being taken and approved by the Justices of
the Inferior Court, to protect the people of the County
from the official misconduct of the Sheriff elect, it is not
competent for these same Justices to discharge this obli-
gation by the substitution of another bond, some thirty
days thereafter; especially, where one of the three Justi-
ces was a co-obligor in the first bond. Towns, Gov. &c.
vs. Stephens and others.........

See Constables, 1. Practice Supr. Court, 7. Prison Bounds,
1. Sheriff's Sales, 2.

413

585

SHERIFF'S BOND.

See Sheriff, 2, 4, 6.

SHERIFF'S SALE.

1. When by a special Act, the Sheriff is authorized to ad-
vertise his sales in a paper published in the County, it is
not necessary to advertise at three of the most public pla-
ces in the County to make the sale legal. Mapp and
another vs. Thompson.....

2. A Sheriff cannot purchase at his own sale, neither for
himself nor as agent for another; such purchase is void.
Harrison vs. McHenry.....

42

164

See Equity, 2.

SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE.

SLAVES.

See Criminal Law, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13. Evidence, 21. Pat-
rols, 1. Lim. of Actions, 18.

STATUTES, CONSTRUCTION OF.

1. The Legislature in a charter declare "that it shall not
be lawful for any person or persons, at any time or times,
to build any bridge, or keep any ferry on the river Great
Ogeechee, within five miles either above or below (another
bridge on the same stream :") Held, that the distance of
five miles is to be measured by the course of the river.
McLeod et al. vs. Burroughs......

... 213

2. Grants of exclusive privileges to corporations or individ-
uals are to be strictly construed; and if the terms of the
contract are ambiguous, the ambiguity must operate in
favor of the public. Ibid.

3. A Statute of the State declaring of full force, all the or-
dinances of a City, or other corporation, "in operation"
at its date, does not embrace one which has beed judicial-
ly pronounced by the Superior Court to be inoperative be-
fore its passage. Allen, Ball & Co. vs. The Mayor, &c... 286

4. The phrase "in operation," defined. Ibid.

5. Grants from the Legislature to a company, in derogation
of common right, are to be strictly construed. The Jus-
tices &c. vs. The Griffin, &c. Plankroad Company............ 475

See Constitutional Law. Grants, 1 to 5. Patrols, 1. Plank-
roads.

SURETY.

See Bail, 1. Bond, 1. Claim, 2. Sheriff, 2, 4.

TORT.

See Abatement, 1.

TREASURER, (COUNTY.)

1. It is a condition precedent before a County Treasurer
can enter upon the duties of his office, that he should give
bond and security, and not having done so, he does not
legally hold the office. Foster vs. The Justices, &c......... 185
2. Before the Inferior Court can issue execution against
a County Treasurer, for a balance in his hands, ten days'
notice is required by Statute to be given him; and the
order of the Court under which the fi. fa. is issued, must
show that such notice has been given. Ibid.

3. If the order is passed but not entered by the Clerk, it
is competent for the Court to place it on the minutes
nunc pro tunc. Ibid.

4. It is not competent for a County Treasurer to resist the
payment of a debt, directed by the proper authority to be
discharged out of the public funds, set apart in his hands
for that purpose, upon the ground that he had been noti-
fied that the holder thereof was not the rightful owner of
the property upon the valuation of which the certificate
had issued. The State ex rel. Strange vs Bell......

5. When the Legislature declares that the certificate of cer-
tain commissioners, certifying that a particular sum of
money is due an individual in consequence of the de-
preciation of his property by the removal of a County
site, shall become a debt against the County Treasurer
of such County, no order of the Inferior Court is necessa-
ry to authorize the County Treasurer to pay it. Bell,
Treasurer, vs. The State ex rel. Strange.....

334

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