440 COURTS. [ART. 26.

from the facts so agreed or stated as if the same had been offered
in evidence upon a trial before the court or before the court and
a jury.

P. G L , (1860,) art. 29, sec. 15. 1809, ch 153, sec. 4. 1811, ch. 161, sec. 5.

16. All judgments by confession, on verdict, or by default,
shall be so entered as to carry interest from the time they are
rendered.

Preston's Adm'x v. Weat, 4 H. & McH. 70. Gwinn v. Whitaker, 1 H. & J.
754. Boehme v. Aisquith, 4 H & J 207. Anders v. Devries, 26 Md. 222.
Rayner v. Bryson, 29 Md. 473 Balto City P. R.W. Co. v. Sewell, 37 Md. 443.

1888, ch. 366.

17. Wherever, by reason of the verdict of a jury being below
the jurisdiction of the court in which the same is rendered, a judg-
ment of nonpros, is entered, the record of such judgment shall
be a bar to any action founded upon the same cause of action in
that or any court, the limit of whose jurisdiction shall be greater
than the amount of such verdict; but the amount of such verdict,
less such costs as may be adjudged against the plaintiff, shall be a
debt from the defendant to the plaintiff, recoverable in any court
that may have jurisdiction to that amount, or before a justice of
the peace, as the case may be; and a short copy of the verdict
and judgment, with the legally taxed bill of costs, shall be conclu-
sive evidence of the balance so recoverable.

1864, ch. 311.

18. 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 ascer-
tained, shall be considered interlocutory judgments, and the court
shall, on motion of the plaintiff or his attorney at any term subse-
quent to the entry of any such confession of judgment, order an
inquisition or cause the judgment to be extended as in other cases
of interlocutory judgments, or as upon a judgment by default.

Stansbury v. Keady, 29 Md. 367.

1861, ch. 70.

19. Every judgment rendered by any of the courts of law
of this State, shall be and constitute a lien to the amount and