ART. 4.] TENANTS FOR TEARS OR LESS OR AT WILL. 563

P. L. L, (1860,) art. 4, sec. 895.

870. If in any proceeding by a landlord to dispossess a tenant
the judgment be in his favor, the justice shall assess against the
tenant holding over the premises, damages not exceeding double
the rate of the rent of said tenancy, and also for the expenses of
said landlord or reversioner in and about said proceeding, over
and above the legal costs thereof, and shall render a judgment
therefor in favor of the lessor or reversioner, to be enforced by
execution.

Ibid. sec. 896.

871. If the justice shall find against the landlord or reversioner
he shall assess such damages as he shall deem just to be paid by
him to the tenant, for which, and costs, judgment shall be
rendered and enforced as aforesaid.

Ibid. sec. 899.

872. In all cases of tenancy mentioned in this sub-title of this
article, if the tenant, after notice, fail to quit at the end of the
term, or at the period when he shall begin as aforesaid to be hold-
ing over, such tenant, his executors or administrators, may, at the
election of the lessor, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns,
be held as a tenant and bound to pay double the rent to which the
said tenancy was subject, and payable and recoverable in all re-
spects and to every effect as if, by the original agreement or the
understanding as to such tenancy, said double rent were the
reserved rent of the demised premises, according to the terms and
conditions of payment of such originally reserved rent

Ibid. sec. 900.

873. An appeal may be prosecuted from any judgment of a
justice of the peace rendered under the provisions of this sub-title
of this article, to the Baltimore city court, in the manner and
under the rules prescribed in cases within the ordinary jurisdic-
tion of justices of the peace; the tenant, or his executors or
administrators, in order to stay any execution of the judgment
against them, giving, on such appeals, bond with security, with
condition to prosecute the appeal with effect, and to answer to
the landlord, his executors and administrators, all costs and