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confession of the party or after hearing and trying the case,
such judgment shall be valid although the summons may be
made returnable before any or some justice of the peace with-
out naming specifically which justice.

1888, art. 52, sec. 33. 1860, art. 51, sec. 29. 1843, ch. 362, sec. 3.

35. A justice of the peace may enter a confession of judg-
ment by a defendant without any summons having been issued
and such judgment shall be valid.

Ibid. sec. 34. 1860, art. 51, sec. 30. 1825, ch. 158.

36. In all cases of debt tried before a justice of the peace
he may enter judgment against either plaintiff or defendant for
such sum as to him may appear just and right, with such costs
as may have accrued in the case; which judgment, if in favor
of the defendant, shall be of equal effect as a judgment in
favor of the plaintiff and may be enforced in the same manner.

Wagner v. Shank, 59 Md. 321.

Ibid. sec. 35. 1864, ch. 327.

37. The costs attending the issue of warrants of the peace
and of the execution thereof and taking of recognizance there-
under shall be charged to and collected from the person at
whose instance such warrant is issued; and no justice of the
peace or constable shall charge any costs of such proceeding
against the county nor collect the same from the county com-
missioners thereof.

Ibid. sec. 36. 1868, ch. 443. 1880, ch. 400.

38. All judgments rendered by justices of the peace within
the city of Baltimore or in any of the counties of this State,
may be made liens on the real estate or leasehold interest and
terms for years of the defendant in land in the city of Balti-
more, or in the county where the same have been so rendered,
except leases from year to year and leases for terms of not
more than five years, not renewable, to the same extent and
effect as liens ore now created by judgment upon real estate,
whenever the plaintiff in any such judgment shall file a copy
of the judgments under the hand and seal of the justice by
whom the same was rendered with the clerk of the superior
court of Baltimore city, or with the clerk of the circuit court
for the county, as the case may be, where said judgment was
rendered, to be by such clerk recorded in a book kept for that