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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1835.

justices shall make entries on the minutes of the court accord
ingly.

Judgments
to be a lien.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That all judgments rendered by
the said district courts shall be a lien on all lands and real
estate of the defendant, lying within the county wherein the
same judgment was rendered, to all intents and purposes, as
much as if said judgment had been rendered in the county court
from the time when a short copy of any such judgment shall

When
recorded.

have been filed and recorded in the office of the clerk of the
same county wherein the same judgment is rendered, and not

Separate
record.

before ; from which record the said clerk shall keep a separate
record book with an index stating doubly the names of the

Compensa-
tion to
clerk, &c.

plaintiff and defendant, and the said clerk shall receive for
filing, recording and indexing every such copy of a judgment,
the sum of twenty-five cents and no more, and it shall be lawful

Execution
thereon.

for the said clerk, on the application of the plaintiff to issue exe-
cution thereon, directed to the sheriff, and returnable before
the county court, in the same manner as if the said judgment
had been obtained in the said county court, and shall receive
his usual fees for such service.

Stay of
execution.
Superseded

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That all judgments rendered by
the said district court, may be stayed and superseded before any
one district justice of the court, wherein the said judgments
were rendered, and within the same period, in the same manner,
form, and for the same length of time as judgments now rendered

Proviso.

by a single justice of the peace ; Provided, a fair and exact copy
of the said supersedeas, to be rendered by the justices by or
before whom the same shall have been taken and confessed,

Copies of,
&c. return-
ed to de-
fendant.

shall be returned by the defendants or parties to the said super-
sedeas, his, her, or their agent or attorney, to the chief justice
of the district court, wherein the original judgment shall have
been rendered, within ten days after the taking and confessing
of the same, and it shall be the duty of the said chief justice,
immediately upon receiving any such supersedeas, to make a

Entries
directed.

fair entry of the same, in the docket of the judgments of the
said district court, in the same manner and form as he is herein
before required to make entry of the original judgments, and
from such original supersedeas or the docket entry thereof, an

Execution
may issue
thereon.
Returnable

execution may at any time be issued by any district justice,
directed to the sheriff or some constable residing within the dis-
trict wherein the original judgment was rendered, and returna-
ble before the said district court wherein the said original judg-
ment shall have been rendered.

Limitation
4 years a
bar.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That no plaintiff in any superse-
deas taken by any justice of the peace in this state, shall be
entitled to have execution on said supersedeas, so far forth as
the security or securities are concerned, after the expiration of