882 JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. [ART. 52.

may then deliver the same to the plaintiff, and the clerk shall
have said judgments properly indexed; said judgments shall be
Hens from the date of such recording.
Hinkle v. Wilson, 53 Md 294.

1868, ch 443. 1888, ch. 235.

38. No sale of any real or leasehold property under any exe-
cution issued by any justice of th'e peace shall be valid; but when
the plaintiff desires execution against such property of the de-
fendant, the clerk of the court where the judgment is recorded
shall issue such execution to the sheriff, to be proceeded with by
him as in other executions directed to him.

Attachments.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 51, sec. 39. 1849, ch. 269, sec. 1. 1852, ch. 276, sec. 2.

39. Any person making the affidavit, and exhibiting the
proofs and vouchers necessary to authorize an attachment to be
issued from the circuit court against a non-resident or absconding
debtor, may have an attachment issued by a justice of the peace
against such debtor, if the cause of action does not exceed one
hundred dollars.

Ibid. sec. 40. 1849, ch. 269, sec 1.

40. Such attachment shall be returnable before the justice
who issued the same, upon a day certain to be named therein, not
less than twenty nor more than thirty days from the date of the
issuing thereof.

Ibid, sec 41. 1849, ch 269, sec. 1.

41. The plaintiff, at the time of issuing the attachment, shall
give notice by setting up at three or more of the most public
places in the election district or ward in which such attachment
may issue, at least ten days before the return day thereof, an
affidavit of the truth of his claim, together with a copy of such
claim, and also a copy of such attachment.
Rodemer v. Detmold, 9 Gill, 250. Campbell v. Webb, 11 Md. 471.

Ibid sec. 43, 1849, ch. 269, sec 1.

42. If the defendant, or the garnishee in whose hands
property may be attached, shall not show cause to the contrary,
the justice may condemn such property; provided, he is satisfied