ART. 17] EXECUTIONS. 451

1904, art. 17. sec. 6. 1888, art. 17, sec. 5. 1860. art. 18, sec. 4. 1790, ch. 51.

1816, ch. 241.

6. Every clerk shall receive all books, documents, public letters and
packages sent to him pursuant to law, and shall carefully dispose of
them as the law requires

Ibid. sec. 7. 1888. art. 17, sec. 6. 1860, art. 18. sec. 5. 1777. ch. 12. sec. 3.
1794. ch. 54, sec. 9. 1865. ch. 5. 1878, ch. 475. 1888, ch. 475.

7. The clerks of the courts of this State may issue an execution on
judgment or decree at any time after the rendition thereof, directed to
the sheriff of another county, whether the return of nulla bona to a writ
of execution issued to the sheriff of the county or city wherein the said
judgment or decree was rendered has been, made or not, which writ
of execution, issued and directed to the sheriff of another county, shall
be made returnable to the circuit court for the county to which it may
be sent, and if sent to the city of Baltimore returnable to the superior
court of said city; and there shall be sent therewith by the clerk issuing
the same to the clerk of the court to which said writ shall be returnable
a copy of the docket entries in the case, upon which the court may
proceed on said execution by renewal or otherwise, in the same manner
as if said execution had issued on a judgment or decree rendered in said
court; and an attachment on judgment or decree shall be regarded as
an execution within the meaning of this section; provided, that no
judgment or decree shall be a lien upon real estate situated in another
county from that wherein the said judgment or decree was obtained,
or in the city of Baltimore, except from the date of the entry of the
copy of the docker entries by the clerk of the court to which the said
writ shall be returnable.

The object of requiring a copy of the docket entries to be sent, is to inform
the court whether a Judgment has been rendered, and execution prop-
erly issued. Though the clerk fails to make a proper copy, the execution
will not be quashed if the court can see that there was a valid subsisting
judgment, and that the execution properly issued. Copy of docket entries held
sufficient under this section. Mitchell v. Chestnut. 31 Md. 526.

After the issue of the first fi. fa., a writ of attachment may be issued
instead of a second fl. fa. Copy of docket entries held Insufficient. Griffith v.
Lynch, 21 Md. 577.

When the forfeiture of a recognizance is entered by the court, it becomes a
judgment, and is embraced within the terms of this section. Schultze v. State
43 Md. 306.

A Judgment in one county is not a lien upon lands situated in a different
county, unless the judgment hns been transferred to the latter county under
this section. Farmers' Bank v. Heighe, 3 Md. 357. See also, Hayden v.
Stewart, 1 Md. Ch. 462.

For a case dealing with this section as it stood prior to the act of 1888.
ch. 475. in connection with article 75, sections 111 and 112, see Browning v.
Loraw, 58 Md. 525.

For a case construing the acts of 1777, ch. 12, and 1794. ch. 54, see Harden
v. Moores, 7 H. & J. 11. See also, Cape Sable Co.'s Case, 3 Bl. 666.
See sec. 27, et seq.
See art. 52, sec. 56. et seq.

Ibid. sec. 8. 1888, art. 17, sec. 7. 1860, art. 18, sec. 6. 1777. ch. 13. sec. 4.

1795, ch. 74. sec. 5.

8. Every clerk shall, on or before the first Monday of June and first
Monday of December in each year, transmit to the comptroller a list