888 JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. [ART. 52.

the aforesaid judgment and cost, with any additional costs thereon,
at the expiration of six months from the date of said judgment."
The stay on any judgment rendered by a justice of the peace shall
be six months from the date of the judgment, ond the said super-
sedeas shall be signed by the defendant or defendants, and one or
more sureties, who shall make oath before some justice of the peace
that he or they are worth each double the amount of debt, interest
and costs over and above all debts and exemptions; which super-
sedeas, when produced before the justice who rendered the judg-
ment, and accepted by him as sufficient to answer the debt, interest
and costs, shall be entered upon his docket as a judgment con-
fessed by the superseder or superseders therein.

West's Lessee v. Hughes, 1 H. & J. 6. Dilley v. Shipley, 4 Gill, 48. Coombs
v. Jordan, 3 Bl. 284. Brumbaugh v. Schnebly, 2 Md. 320.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 51, sec. 51. 1809, ch. 76, sec. 3.

58. If the justice who rendered the judgment be dead, or out
of office, the defendant may supersede the same before any other
justice of the same county upon a short copy of the judgment.

Ibid. sec. 52. 1834, ch 257, sec. 2.

59. A justice of the peace may take one person as security on
a supersedeas of a judgment of a justice of the peace.

Ibid. sec. 53. 1825, ch. 223. 1835, ch. 224, sec. 2.

60. If a justice, in taking a supersedeas, reads over the form
hereinbefore prescribed to the party and his security, he may enter
the same short on his docket or on the judgment, in this form or
to this effect: " Superseded by A. B. and C. D. (as the cose may
be,) this ———— day of ———— for ———— months," which shall
be as valid as if the confession had been written out at length in
the form hereinbefore given.

Ibid sec. 54. 1843, ch. 321.

61. Every security in a supersedeas of a judgment rendered
by a justice of the peace shall sign the same; or, if he cannot
write, make his mark; and no such supersedeas shall be valid
against any security unless his signature or mark shall have been
affixed thereto and attested by the justice.