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CHAPTER XIV.

DEPOSITIONS.

No person is disqualified as a witness by reason of his interest in the event of suit.

Depositions may be taken as soon as a case is commenced, and may be used when the witness does not reside in the county where the action is pending, or is absent therefrom; or when from age or infirmity or imprisonment of the witness he is unable to attend Court, or is dead; or when in any case oral examination is not required; or in cases of appeals from Justices' Courts.

They may be taken in or out of the Territory, before a Justice of the Peace, Chancellor, or Judge of any Court of record, Notary Public, Mayor, or chief Magistrate of any city or town corporate, a Commissioner appointed by the Governor of the Territory, or any person authorized by special commission from the Territory.

They may be taken in narrative form or by questions and answers, except in chancery cases, in which they must be taken on interrogatories and cross-interrogatories, settled before issuing the commission. In law cases they may be taken on notice or commission issued by the Clerk of the Court.

CHAPTER XV.

JUDICIAL RECORDS.

The judicial records of another State must be proven in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress, except judgments of Justices of the Peace, whose proceedings may be authenticated by their own certificate, supported by the official certificate of the Clerk of any Court of record in the county in which such Justice resides, that his signature is genuine, and that he is an acting Justice of the Peace of that county.

CHAPTER XVI.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

Deeds or mortgages, executed within this Territory, of lands or any interest in lands, shall be executed in the presence of two witnesses, who shall subscribe their names to the same as such; and the person executing such deeds or mortgages may acknowledge the execution thereof before any Judge or Clerk of a Court of record, or before any County Clerk, or before any Notary Public or Justice of the Peace within the Territory; and the officer taking such acknowledgment shall indorse thereon a certificate of the acknowledgment thereof, and the true date of making the same, under his hand and seal of office, if there be one.

If any such deed or mortgage shall be executed in any other State, Territory or District of the United States, such deed or mortgage may be executed according to the laws of such State, Territory or District, by any officer authorized by the laws of such State, Territory or District to take the acknowledgment of deeds or mortgages therein, or before any Commissioner appointed by the Governor of this Territory for such purposes.

In the cases provided for in the last preceding section, unless the acknowledgment be taken before a Commissioner appointed by the Governor of this Territory for that purpose, such deed or mortgage shall have attached thereto a certificate of the Clerk or other proper certifying officer of the Court of record of the county or district within which such acknowledgment was taken, under the seal of his office, that the person whose name is subscribed to the certificate of acknowledment was, at the date thereof, such officer as he is therein represented to be; that he knows the signature of such person subscribed thereto to be genuine, and that the deed or mortgage is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of such State, Territory, or District.

CHAPTER XVII.

LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS.

Limited partnerships may be formed by two or more persons. There may be general partners, so-called, and special partners. Parties forming must sign a certificate stating:

1. The name under which it is to be conducted.

2. Nature of business to be transacted.

3. Names and residences of the parties, specifying which are general and special.

4. Amount of stock each special partner contributes to the common stock.

5. Period of its beginning and ending.

The certificate must be acknowledged and recorded in the County Clerk's office of the county in which principal business is to be done. Each partner must also make an affidavit that the sums stated in the certificate have been actually paid in; the certificate must be published. The general partners only have authority to transact the business. The general partners are liable to the same extent as general partners in any partnership.

CHAPTER XVIII.

MARRIED WOMEN.

Married women retain their property, real and personal, which they had at marriage, or which they acquire thereafter from any person other than their husband, in good faith, as their own, free from the husband's control, and free from liability for his debts. They may bargain, sell and convey personal property as if they were sole ; may make a will, be sued and sue as if they were sole; may carry on any trade or business on their own account. The husband is not liable for the debts of the wife contracted before marriage. When judgment is rendered against both for the tort of the wife, the judgment must be satisfied first out of the property of the wife, if she have any.

CHAPTER XIX.

CHATTEL MORTGAGES.

Chattel mortgages must be executed in the presence of two witnesses, and acknowledged before some one authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds, and filed in the office of the County Recorder of the county where the property is; and it then becomes a lien on the property described therein, and the lien is good until the debt secured by the mortgage is due, and for two months thereafter, unless before expiration of the two months foreclosure proceedings be commenced, in which case lien continues until termina

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