LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1806.

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either shore, the clerks of the court of appeals for the respective
shores shall, upon application of the party, his agent or attorney,
issue the said writ of attachment, directed to the sheriff of the
proper county, and shall transmit therewith a short copy of the
said judgment or proceeding under seal; and if the said judg-
ment shall be for attachment, then the said clerks respectively
shall transmit to the county court the original papers upon
which such judgment was entered, together with a statement
of the docket entries, and costs which may have accrued thereon
in the late general court, and such writ shall be made returna-
ble at the place and on the day prescribed for holding the court
for said county, and shall be of the same effect, and be valid in
law, to every legal intent, and may be proceeded upon in like
manner, as writs of attachment which have or may issue from
the county courts, on judgments obtained therein, in similar

rendered in
the late
general
court re-
tamable to
the county
court

cases ; and if any writ of scire facias or attachment, which have
been or may be issued upon any judgment or proceeding in the
late general court, shall not be executed by the sheriff to whom
the same has been or may be directed and delivered, it shall be
lawful for the clerk of the county court to whom such writ shall
be returned, to renew any such writ upon application of the
party, his agent or attorney, in the same manner as if such writ
had originally issued upon a judgment or proceeding in such
county court.

Any writ of
scire facias
or attach-
ment, so
issued, and
not execut-
ed, may be
renewed by
cierk of
county
court.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That in all cases where a scire
facias, or attachment with clause of scire facias, may be re-
quired to be issued upon any judgment which has been, or
which may be, rendered in the court of appeals of either shore,
the clerks of the court of appeals for the respective shores shall
in like manner issue the said writ of scire facias, or attachment
with clause of scire facias, directed to the sheriff of the proper
county, and shall transmit therewith a short copy of the said
judgment under seal, and such writs shall be made returnable
at the place, and on the day, prescribed for holding the court for
such county, and shall be of the same effect, and be valid in
law, to every legal intent, and may be proceeded upon in like
manner, as writs of scire facias and attachment which have or
may issue from the county courts, on judgments obtained
therein in similar cases; and if any such writ shall not be exe-
cuted by the sheriff to whom the same may be directed and
delivered, it shall be lawful for the clerk of the county court to
which such writs shall be returned, to renew the same upon
application of the party, his agent or attorney, in the same
manner as if such writs had originally issued upon judgments
in such county court.
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Scire fa-
cias and
attachments
may be
issued on
judgments
rendered in
the court of
appeals,
returnable
to the coun-
ty courts,
and if not
executed,
may be
renewed by
clerks of
the county
courts.