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costs, he shall have the same remedy against the defendant on the

plaintiffs judgment against such defendant as the plaintiff himself
might originally have had.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 23, sec. 10. 1825, ch 21.

10. Every constable shall serve and execute a warrant of dis-
tress when required within the limits of the district of the county

or ward of the city for which he is appointed, and his bond shall
be responsible for the due performance of this duty, and he is au-
thorized to execute such warrant in any part of his county or city,
but he shall not be obliged to execute the same beyond his district

or ward; if he execute or undertake to execute the same, his bond
shall be liable.

Ibid. sec. 11. 1809, ch. 177, Bee. 4.

11. Whenever any evidences of debt are put into the hands of
a constable for collection, he shall execute a receipt for the same
if demanded, and upon his neglect or refusal to do so, he shall

forfeit the sum of five dollars, to be recovered before a justice by
the party grieved.

Akin v. Denny, 37 Md 81.

Ibid. sec. 12. 1831, ch. 290, sec. 2

12. A constable may, by virtue of any execution from a jus-
tice of the peace, seize and sell the right, title, claim, interest and

estate at law and in equity of the party against whose property
said execution shall have issued, in and to any lands or tenements

within the county in which such execution shall issue.
Dorsey v. Dorsey 28 Md, 393.

Ibid. sec. 13. 1881, ch. 290, sec. 4.

13. A deed of bargain and sale, duly executed and acknowl-
edged by any constable for any lands and tenements, or interest
or estate in, or relating to or growing out of any lands or
tenements sold by virtue of any execution issued on any judg-
ment of a justice of the peace, shall be good and effectual to
transfer and convey to any purchaser, his heirs, executors,
administrators, or assigns, any right or estate to or in the
premises which by such grantees may be legally acquired, under