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After Acknowledgment or part Payment in respect of Liabilities on Simple Contract.
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XXIV. In Actions grounded upon any Simple Contract no Acknowledgment or Promise shall be deemed sufficient Evidence of a new or continuing Contract, whereby to take any Case out of the Operation of the Provisions of this Act in relation to the Limitation of Actions, or to deprive any Party of the Benefit thereof, unless such Acknowledgment or Promise shall be made or contained by or in some Writing to be signed by the Party chargeable thereby; and where there shall be Two or more Joint Contractors, or Executors or Administrators of any Contractor, no such Joint Contractor, Executor, or Administrator shall lose the Benefit of this Act so as to be chargeable in respect or by reason only of any written Acknowledgment or Promise made and signed by any other or others of them: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall alter or take away or lessen the Effect of any Payment of any Principal or Interest made by any Person whomsoever.
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