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shall hereafter be made returnable to the first return day after the issue
of the same, or may be made returnable to the second return day there-
after, if the party by whose directions same was issued or his attorney
shall so request in writing.

1922, chs. 140 and 223, sec. 159C.

167. On the return of an original writ not executed in said Court, the
same may be renewed returnable to the next return day thereafter; and,
after two returns, any original writ not executed at two successive return
days for which the writ is issued shall be permitted to lie dormant, renew-
able only on the written order of the plaintiff or his attorney to such
future return day as the plaintiff or his attorney may elect; and, upon
a further return if not executed, said writ shall be again permitted to lie
dormant, renewable only as aforesaid, the said plaintiff or his attorney
having the right to renew said writ to as many subsequent return days,
under the same mode of procedure, as may be deemed proper, until the
same is executed.

1922, chs. 140 and 223, sec. 159D.

168. After the return of any writ or other process made returnable to a
return day, the same proceedings may be had thereupon as if the same
had been made returnable, and had been returned to a term of said Court
under the practice heretofore existing, except as hereinafter otherwise
provided.

1922, chs. 140 and 223, sec. 159E.

169. If the defendant be returned "summoned," and shall fail to ap-
pear, the clerk of the Court, on the day following the return day to which
the writ or process served on him is returnable, shall enter the appearance
of any defendant so summoned and failing to appear, and the action shall
proceed in the same manner as if the party had appeared in person.

1922, chs. 140 and 223, sec. 159F.

170. When a declaration in any action shall be filed in court, and a
copy thereof delivered to the defendant before the day of the return of
the writ, and the defendant shall be summoned before the said day of the-
return of the writ, he shall plead before the next succeeding return day,
or judgment by default for want of a plea shall be entered by the clerk
of court thereof, upon motion in writing made by the plaintiff or his attor-
ney, then, or at any time thereafter before the filing of a plea by the
defendant, unless the Court for good reason shall have granted said de-
fendant further time to plead; and, upon such entry of judgment, the
plaintiff may forthwith sue out his writ of inquiry, or otherwise enter
up final judgment according to the course of the Court.

1922, chs. 140 and 223, sec. 159G.

171. When any action shall be brought upon a titling and the de-
fendant shall have been summoned, the plaintiff shall file his declaration