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After Acknowledgment or part Payment on account of Specialty, Judgment, Recognizance, &c.
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XXIII. If any Acknowledgment shall have been or shall be made, either by Writing signed by the Party liable by virtue of any Indenture, Specialty, Judgment, Statute Staple, or Statute Merchant, or Recognizance, or his Agent, or by part Payment or part Satisfaction on acconnt of any Principal or Interest being then due thereon, it shall be lawful for the Person entitled to bring his Action for the Money remaining unpaid, and so acknowledged to be due, within Twenty Years after such Acknowledgment by Writing, or part Payment or part Satisfaction as aforesaid, or in case the Person entitled shall at the Time of such Acknowledgment be under such Disability as aforesaid, or the Party making such Acknowledgment be at the Time of making the same beyond the Seas, then within Twenty Years after such Disability shall have ceased as aforesaid, or the Party shall have returned from beyond the Seas, as the Case may be; and the Plaintiff in any such Action on any Indenture, Specialty, Judgment, Statute Staple, or Statute Merchant, or Recognizance, may rely on such Acknowledgment, and that such Action was brought within the Time aforesaid, in answer to a Plea of this Statute.
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