LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1826.

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November session one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one,
and the supplements thereto, and such confession of judgment,
by way of supersedeas, is not in the precise form and language
required by said act, and its supplements, nor for the amount
for which the judgment may have been rendered, but only for
the sum actually due, and costs, the same shall be as valid and
binding as if the said supersedeas had been taken in the words
and form required by said law ; provided that the form of the
confession of judgment, by way of supersedeas in said law,
has been or shall be substantially complied with.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the time mentioned in any
such confession of judgment, although not so expressed, or if
otherwise expressed, shall be computed, if entered into within
two months from the time of the rendition of the judgment or
decree, six months from the time of such confession, and not
six months from the date of the judgment ; and any such con-
fession of judgment shall be as binding upon the principal, and
the sureties therein, as if any such confession of judgment, by
way of supersedeas, had been in the manner directed by law.

Confession
of judgment
to bo bind-
ing,
although
time not
expressed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That any confession of judgment
entered into in the manner prescribed by law, shall be a lien on
the real estate of the persons therein named, in the same man-
ner as judgments rendered in any court of law, from the time
when the confession of judgment shall be received by the clerk,
and endorsed by him when filed.

Such con-
fession to
be a lien on
real estate.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That a lien created by any judg-
ment, rendered against any such principal, shall not be defeated
or impaired, by his entering into any such confession of judg-
ment by way of supersedeas.

CHAPTER 197.
AN ACT relating to Lunatic and Insane Persons.
Another act is 1834, ch. 194, which professes in its title to repeal a part
of this act, without a repealing clause in the law.

Lien not
impaired,
&c.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That where any person shall be indicted for a crime or misde-
meanor, and such person sets up, or alleges insanity or lunacy
in his defence, it shall be the duty of the jury empannelled to
try such person, by their verdict to find whether such person
was, at the time of the commission of such offence, or still is,
insane, lunatic or otherwise 5 and if such jury find by their
verdict that such person was, at the time of committing the
offence, and then is, insane or lunatic, that then it shall be the
duty of the court, before whom such trial was had, to cause
such person to be sent to the alms-house of the county to which
such person belonged, at the time of the commission of such
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Person in-
dicted for a
crime, and
alleging in-
sanity, jury
to deter-
mine.