[148] Wheeler, Op. Cit., 41.

[149] Acts of 1784, Ch. 10, Sec. 7.

[150] Acts of 1801, Ch. 2, Sec. 11.

[151] Davis v. Mitchell, 5 Yerger, 281 (1833); See also Cains and Wife v. Marley, 2 Yerger, 582 (1831); and Battle v. Stone, 4 Yerger, 168 (1833).

[152] Ragan v. Kennedy, I Overton, 91 (1804).

[153] Acts of 1784, Ch. 22, Sec. 11.

[154] Ibid., Ch. 10, Sec. 4.

[155] Acts of 1796, Ch. 14, Sec. 1.

[156] Acts of 1819, Ch. 36, Sec. 1.

[157] Young v. Pate, 4 Yerger, 164 (1833).