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terms and conditions of payment of such originally reserved
rent.

900. An appeal may be prosecuted from any judgment of a
justice of the peace rendered under the provisions of this law,
to the Court of Common Pleas, in the manner and under the
rules prescribed in cases within the ordinary jurisdiction of
justices of the peace, the tenant or his executors or adminis-
trators, in order to stay any execution of the judgment against
them, giving on such appeals bond with security, with condition
to prosecute the appeal with effect, and to answer to the land-
lord, his executors and administrators, all costs and damages
mentioned in the judgment, and such as shall be further incurred
and sustained by reason of said appeal and the delay thence
arising.

901. Such cases shall not be removable to the Court of Com-
mon Pleas or Superior Court of Baltimore city at any stage
thereof, save by and upon appeal as aforesaid.

902. No proceedings to dispossess a tenant holding over had
before any justice of the peace and removed by appeal to the
Court of Common Pleas, shall by such court be reversed or set
aside, for matter of form, and any case thus removed by appeal,
if the proceedings thereunder shall be set aside or appear to be
substantially defective, shall be proceeded with in said court in
the same manner and to the same effect, upon the claim and
complaint and merits, and upon evidence to be adduced therein,
as it was or might have been competent to said justice of the
peace to have proceeded therewith.

903. Every such appeal shall be tried and finally determined
and proceeded with at the first term to which such case shall be
removed to the said court, unless for cause shown upon affidavit
the court shall otherwise order.

904. The provisions of the preceding sections of this article
relating to tenants holding over shall extend to the heirs, exe-
cutors and assigns of lessors and reversioners, and to the exe-
cutors and all persons holding under tenants, and to all cases
where there are two or more tenants, in which case each tenant
shall be entitled to the notices and the benefit of each condition
contained in the preceding sections.

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