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on any judgment or decree to which the stay of execution pro-
vided for by this act is applicable.

5. Where any execution has been levied upon personal pro-
perty at the time of the passage of this act, the officer serving
said execution shall not be held responsible for said property
unless he shall have taken and held said property in his actual
possession.

6. Nothing in this act shall apply to judgments or decrees
rendered in favor of the State, or in any way effect, limit or re-
strain attachments on warrant or judgment against the lands,
goods and chatties, rights and credits of non-residents or ab-
sconding debtors as practiced under existing laws.

7. Nothing contained in this act, shall be construed to pre-
vent the sale of any real or personal estate under any decree or
order heretofore passed, or that may be hereafter passed upon a
creditor's bill, where all the parties to the cause wherein such
decree or order has been or may be passed, shall agree to such
sale by consent in writing to be signed by said parties or their
attorney, or attorneys; and in case any of the said parties may
be infants, by the guardian or guardians of such infants, and to
be filed in such cause.

8. And this act shall apply only to St. Mary's, Charles, Cal-
vert, Prince George's and Anne Arundel counties.

In force from March 10, 1864. —See ch. 49, Public Local Laws, Art. IV.

JUDGMENTS.

Chapter 311 adds the following section to this Article, to follow section 15:

9. All judgments confessed on terms to be filed, and all judg-
ments confessed without fixing the amount of the same, and
where no cause of action is filed by which said amount may be
ascertained, shall be considered interlocutory judgments, and
the court shall on motion of the plaintiff or his attorney at any
term subsequent to the entry of any such confession of judg-