Bayard v. . Singleton

The defendant pleaded not guilty, under the common rule.

He held under a title derived from the State, by a deed from a Superintendent Commissioner of confiscated estates.

At May Term, 1786, Nash for the defendant, moved that the suit be dismissed, according to an act of the last session, entitled an act to secure and quiet in their possession all such persons, their heirs and assigns, who have purchased or may hereafter purchase lands and tenements, goods and chattels, which have been sold or may hereafter be sold by commissioners of forfeited estates, legally appointed for that purpose, 1785,…