934 ARTICLE 26.
or city of Baltimore, to the same extent as in the county or city where the
said judgment or decree was originally obtained or justice's judgment
originally recorded.
When a copy of docket entries and judgment rendered in superior court of Balti-
more city has been certified to circuit court for Anne Arundel county, an attach-
ment may not issue out of the latter court to Howard county as if proceedings in
Anne Arundel had force and effect of an original judgment; attachment quashed.
Brunsman v. Crook, 130 Md. 663.
Where a joint judgment is recovered against a husband and wife, it becomes a
lien on leasehold property held by them as tenants by the entireties. -Frey v. Mc-
Gaw, 127 Md. 25.
This section places real estate and leasehold property upon the same footing.
Ahem v. White, 39 Md. 417.
A judgment is a lien upon an equitable interest in a chattel real or term of
years. Wright v. Ryland, 92 Md. 661 (dissenting opinion). See also Shryock v.
Morris, 75 Md. 78; Bish v. Williar, 59 Md. 387.
Where a mortgage is recorded within six months, it has precedence over a judg-
ment against the mortgagor, entered between date of mortgage and date of its
record, the judgment being a lien only on equity of redemption. Knell v. Green
St. Bldg. Assn., 34 Md. 70.
This section refers to final judgments alone. Davidson v. Myers, 24 Md. 556.
A judgment creditor who allows a term of years to expire before selling under an
execution, loses the benefit of his lien. Stockett v. Howard, 34 Md. 127.
See art. 5, sec. 77, and notes to art. 17, sec. 8.
An. Code, sec. 20. 1904, sec. 20. 1888, sec. 20. 1785, ch. 80. 1823, ch. 194. 1843, ch. 40.
1862, ch. 262. 1874, ch. 320. 1884, ch. 178. 1888, ch. 421. 1890, ch. 114.
20. On all judgments or decrees in any court of law or equity, and
on all judgments of justices of the peace recorded in the clerk's office of
any court of law, an execution or attachment may issue out of such court
or by the clerk thereof, at any time within twelve years from the date of the
judgment or decree, or the said judgment or decree may be otherwise pro-
ceeded with within twelve years from its date; and in case of the death
of any plaintiff in any such judgment, the executor, administrator or other
person entitled to the judgment or decree shall, on application to the clerk
of the court having control of the docket whereon such judgment or decree
is entered or recorded, be made a party to the same by suggesting the death
of the plaintiff in writing, and causing his name to be inserted in the place
of said plaintiff or his legal representatives, and have execution or attach-
ment as the plaintiff might have had if no such death had taken place; and
in the case of the marriage of a female plaintiff in any such judgment or
decree, she may suggest in writing her said marriage, and have execution
or attachment thereon, in her new name acquired by such marriage; and
in case of the death or marriage of any of the defendants in any judgment or
decree herein mentioned, the plaintiff in any such judgment or decree shall,
at any time within twelve years from the date of the judgment or decree,
upon a suggestion supported by affidavit of the death or marriage of any of
said defendants, be entitled to have an execution or attachment issued
against the defendant still alive, and such execution or attachment may be
laid on any goods, chattels, lands and tenements of any of said remaining
defendants; provided, that at any time before the expiration of twelve
years from the date of any such judgment or decree, or in case of the death
or marriage of any defendant in the judgment, the plaintiff shall have the
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