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tenant, his executors or administrators, may, at the election of the lessor,
his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, be held as a tenant and
bound to pay double the rent to which the said tenancy was subject, and
payable and recoverable in all respects and to every effect as if, by the
original agreement or the understanding as to such tenancy, said double
rent were the .reserved rent of the demised premises, according to the
terms and conditions of payment of such originally reserved rent.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 900. 1888. Art 4, sec. 873. 1888, ch. 123, sec. 860.

860. An appeal may be prosecuted from any judgment of a Justice
of the Peace rendered under the provisions of this sub-division of this
Article to the Baltimore City Court, 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 administrators, in order to stay any
executions 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 landlord, his executors and administrators, all costs and
damages, mentioned 111 the judgment, and such as shall be further in-
curred and sustained by reason of said appeal and the delay thence arising.

Miller v. Duvall, 26 Md. 47. Gelston v. Sigmund, 27 Md. 334. Mears v. Remare.
33 Md. 246. Same v. Same, 34 Md. 333.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 901. 1888, Art. 4, sec. 874. 1888, ch. 123, sec. 861.

861. Such cases shall not be removable to the Baltimore City Court,
at any stage thereof, save by and upon appeal as aforesaid.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 902, 1888,. Art. 4, sec. 875. 1888, ch. 123, sec. 862.

862. No proceeding to dispossess a tenant holding over, had before
any Justice of the Peace and removed by appeal to the Baltimore City
Court, shall by such Court be reversed or set aside for matter of form;
and any case thus removed by appeal, if the proceeding 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 there-
in as it was or might have been competent to said Justice of the Peace to
have proceeded therewith.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4,, sec. 903. 1888, Art. 4, sec. 876. 1888, ch. 123, sec. 863.

863. Every such appeal shall be tried and finally determined and pro-
ceeded 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.

Mears v. Remare, 33 Md. 251.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4. sec. 904. 1888, Art. 4, sec. 877. 1888, ch. 123, sec. 864.

864. The provisions of the preceding sections of this subdivision of
this Article, relating to tenants holding over, shall extend to the heirs,
executors and assigns of lessors and reversioners, and to the executors