THOMAS W. VEAZEY, E8QtI»», GOVERNOR

1835.

dants or parties to the said supersedeas, his, her, or

CHAP. 201

their agent or attorney, to the chief justice of the dis-

Copies of &c. re-

trict court, wherein the original judgment shall have

turned to defendant

been rendered, within ten days after the takiii% 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 fair entry of the same, in

Entries directed

the docket of the judgments of the said district court,

in the same manner and form as he is hereinbefore re-

quired to make entry of the original judgments, and

from such original supersedeas or the docket entry

thereof, an execution may at any time be issued by any

Execution may issue thereon

district justice, directed to the sheriff or some consta-

ble residing within the district wherein the original

judgment was rendered, and returnable before the said

Returnable

district court wherein the said original judgment shall

have been rendered.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That no plaintiff in any

Limitation; 4 years, a bar

supersedeas taken by any justice of the peace in this

State, shall be entitled to have execution on said su-

persedeas, so far forth as the security or securities are

concerned, after the expiration of four years from the

date of said supersedeas, and the said defendant or de-

fendants, being security or securities as aforesaid, shall

be and they are hereby declared to be entitled to plead

limitations to the plaintiffs claim, should the said plain-

Scire facie s barred

tiff cause a scire facias to issue on said supersedeas af-

ter the expiration of the period aforesaid.

SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That whenever a writ

Writ ef replevin

of replevin shall be demanded from any one of the said

district justices, according to the jurisdiction herein :

Proceeding in.

given to the said district court, it shall be the duty of

such justice before he issues the same, to require and :

Bond required

take from the party demanding such writ of replevin,

a bond to the party holding the property, with one or

more securities whom the said justice shall in his con-

science believe to be worth double the value of the spe-

cific articles of property intended to be replevied, with

Condition

condition that the party so replevying, his executor

or administrator, shall well and truly return the same

property to the party out of whose hands, the property

shall be so replevied, his executors, administrators or