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confessed to be due. Any Judge of the Circuit Court is hereby authorized
either in vacation or term time to enter judgment under this Act where
no affidavit of defense is filed and to hear motion for judgment and to
enter judgment thereon where insufficient affidavits are filed.

Notice shall be given at the bottom of the declaration and in the sum-
mons in such cases where the plaintiff intends to claim the benefits of this
Section.

1904, ch. 345, sec. 2. 1912 Code, sec. 135.

198. The provisions of this rule shall not apply to defendants who are
representatives of a decedent's estate, except when the affidavit filed with
the declaration sets forth that the contract sued on was made directly
with such representative, or that a promise to pay was made by him.

1904, ch. 345, sec. 3. 1912 Code, sec. 136.

199. When the defendant is a corporation, the affidavit of defense may
be made by an officer, agent or attorney of such corporation.

1927, ch. 695.

199A. Any action taken or passed in any civil case by the Circuit
Court for Prince George's County in relation to any judgment rendered
by it, if taken or passed within forty days after the entry of such judgment,
or upon a motion or application made to it within said forty days, shall
have the same effect and force as it would have had under the practice
heretofore existing in said court if taken or passed during the term, or
upon a motion or application made during the term at which said judg-
ment was entered, and no more; but any such action taken or order passed
after the expiration of forty days from the entry of any judgment, (unless
upon a motion or application made within that time), shall have the same
effect and force as it would have had under such previous practice, if
taken or passed after the expiration of said term, and no more; and the
said courts shall respectively have, for a period of forty days after the
doing of any act or thing in any cause before them, the same revisory
power and control over such act or thing which, under the practice hereto-
fore existing, they would have had over the same during the term at which
it was done, and no more; and after forty days from the doing of any
such act or thing, the said courts shall have the same revisory power and
control thereover, which, under such previous practice they would have
had after the expiration of the term at which said act or thing was done,
and no more, provided, however, that executions may issue upon all judg-
ments except judgments of condemnation in attachment suits at any time
after judgment is entered, provided that no sale thereunder shall be had
within the forty (40) days provided for above.

COURT STENOGRAPHER.

1908, ch. 204, sec. 1. 1912 Code, sec. 137. 1916, ch. 427. 1922, ch. 538, sec. I.
200. The judges of the Circuit Court for Prince George's County be
and they are hereby authorized and directed to appoint an official court