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 1208 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. Il. Ch. 851. 1901. d,,§;},f,Q’°°”‘°“° of Sec. 113. ENroaonMnNr or nnonnrzs.-—’1`he said court may, for the -—¤=mchm<~¤¤. purpose of executing a decree, or to com el obedience to the same, issue an attachment against the person of the defendant, and may order an immediate sequestration of his real and personal estate, or such part thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the decree, or may issue a iieri facias and attachment by way of execution against his lands, tenements, chattels, and credits, or other incorporeal proper ty, to satisfy the decree; ·i¤i“¤C¤*>¤· or the court may, by order and injunction, cause the possession of the estate and eifects whereof the possession or a sale is decreed to be delivered to the complainant, or otherwise, according to the tenor and import of the decree and as the nature of the case may require; and in case of sequestration may order payment and satisfaction to be made out of the estate and effects so sequestrated, according to the true intent "~°mm“m°“*· and meaning of the decree; and in case any defendant shall be arrested and brought into court upon any process of contempt issued to com el the performance of any decree, the court may, upon motion, ord)er such defendant to stand committed, or may order his estate and effects to be sequestrated and payment made, as above directed, or possession ,—_of his estate and effects to be delivered by order and injunction as above directed, until such decree or order shall be fully performed and executed, according to the tenor and true meaning thereof, and the contempt cleared; but where the decree only directs the payment of money no defendant shall be imprisoned except in those cases especially provided for. d€Qgf€”l°°‘“°'Y "'· Sec. 11-1. All interlocutory O1`d€1'S may be enforced by such process as might be had upon a final judgment or decree to the like effect, and the payment of costs adjudged to any party may be enforced in like manner. 0,1g$,‘j$‘;,§" d"“‘*""Y Sec. 115. An order or decree for the delivery of chattels may be enforced by the same writs as are used in the action of replevin at common law, as well as those heretofore used for its enforcement in equity practice. Probate i·<>¤r¤- Sec. 116. Pnonxrm ooUnT.—The special term of said supreme court, heretofore known as the orphans’ court, shall be designated the pro- -—iuri¤dicti0¤- bate court, and the justice holding said court shall have and exercise all the powers and jurisdiction by law held and exercised by the orphans’ court of Washington County, District of Columbia, prior to the twenty-first day of June, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy. -p1e¤ary as no wills Sec. 117. That in addition to the jurisdiction conferred in the pre- °t°‘ ceding section, plenary jurisdiction is hereby given to the said court holding the said special term to hear and determine all questions relating to the ’execution and to the validity of any and all wills devising any real estate within the District of Columbia, and of any and all wills and testaments properly presented for probate therein, and to admit the same to plrobate and record in said special term; and neither the execution nor thevalidity of any such will or testament so admitted 1 to probate and record shall be impeached or examined collaterally, but the same shall be in all respects and as to all persons res judicata, subject, nevertheless, to the provisions hereinafter contained. Ssssisss of sssft- Sec. 118. The said court shall hold weekly sessions on such days as it may appoint and on as many days as may be necessary for the dispatch of its business. Powsfs dssssd- Sec. 119. Pownns.——It shall have full power and authority to take the proof of wills of either personal or real estate and admit the same to probate and record, and for cause to revoke the probate thereof; to grant and, for any of the causes hereinafter mentioned, to revoke letters testamentary, letters of administration, letters ad colligendum, and letters of guardianship, and to appoint a successor in the lace of anyone whose letters have been revoked; to hear, examine, and) decree