ART. 26.] INSPECTION OF RECORDS—JUDGMENTS. 439

Inspection of Records.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 29, sec. 13. 1817, ch. 119, secs. 7-9. 1866, ch. 26.

13. It shall be the duty of the judges of the several courts of
law and equity, at every term, to inspect the records and papers
of the offices attached to their respective courts, relating to lands,
tenements or other real estate, and examine the condition thereof
and see whether the clerk of such court has performed the duties
required of him by law, relating to the recording of judgments,
decrees, executions and proceedings, and whether he has entered
and transcribed the docket entries as required by law. And if it
should appear on such examination that any of the records have
become so dilapidated and worn as to require them to be trans-
cribed, they shall order and direct the clerk to transcribe the
same into new record books, which the clerk shall procure for
that purpose; and such new records, when so transcribed, shall
be carefully examined and certified by said clerk, and when so
examined and certified shall be substituted for and become the
records of said court in lieu of the worn out records; and the
mayor and city council of the city of Baltimore, and the county
commissioners of the several counties, respectively, shall levy such
sum of money as they shall deem a fair compensation for the
labor of the clerk in making such new records.

Peter v. Prettyman, 62 Md. 573.

Judgments.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 29, sec. 14. 1768, ch. 23, sec. 2.

14. The court shall give judgment in all actions according as
the very right of the cause and matter in law shall appear to them,
without regarding any matters of mere form, so as sufficient mat-
ter shall appear in the proceedings, upon which the court shall
proceed to give judgment, and it shall appear that the action has
been commenced after the cause thereof did accrue.

Shafer v. Stonebraker, 4 G. & J. 345. State v. Mayhugh, 13 Md. 378. Gott
v. State, 44 Md. 319.

1888, ch. 317.

15. Upon all agreed statements of facts, all special cases stated,
and all special verdicts, the court shall be at liberty to draw all
inferences of facts or law that court or jury could have drawn