188 CHANCERY—PLEADING, PRACTICE, PROCESS. [ART. 16.
injunction, the possession of the estate and effects whereof the
possession or a sale is decreed, to be delivered to the plaintiff, or
otherwise, according to the tenor and import of such decree, and
as the nature of the case may require; and in case of sequestration,
the court shall order payment and satisfaction to be made out of
the estate and effects so sequestrated, according to the true intent
and meaning of the decree; and in case any defendant shall be
arrested and brought into court upon any process of contempt
issued to compel the performance of any decree, the court may,
upon motion, order such defendant to stand committed, or may
order his estate and effects to be sequestrated, and payment made
as above directed, or possession of his estate and effects to be de-
livered by injunction as above directed, until such decree or order
shall be fully performed and executed, according to the tenor and
true meaning thereof, and the contempt cleared; but where the
decree only directs the payment of money, no defendant shall be
imprisoned, and process of commission of rebellion and sergeant
at-arms are abolished.
Garrettson v. Cole, 1 H. & J 370. Richardson v. Jones, 3 G. & J. 114.
Chase's Case, 1 Bl 206. William's Case, 3 Bl, 486. McKim v. Odom, 3 Bl, 415.
Cape Sable Co 's Case, 3 Bl. 606. Keighler v. Ward, 4 Md. Ch 87. Keighler v.
Ward, 8 Md. 254.
1888, ch. 321.
169. All orders may be enforced by such process as might be
had upon a judgment or decree to the like effect; and the pay-
ment of costs adjudged to any party, or to any officer of any
court, may be enforced in like manner, without special or further
order for their payment.
Ibid.
170. Upon decrees, orders and for costs adjudged, a party shall
have the right to order as many writs of different kinds, for the
enforcement of the same, and to one or as many counties as he
shall see fit; but when issued to a county other than that in which
the case shall be, the writ shall be sent by the clerk, with a short
copy of the decree or order and docket entries, and a statement of
the costs, to the clerk of the court of the county to which issued,
(in Baltimore city, the Superior Court,) and there docketed, and
shall be a lien on lands only from the time it is so docketed, and
may be there from time to time renewed, as now in common-law
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