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purpose, and for which said clerk shall receive twenty-five cents
in each case, which sum shall be recovered by the plaintiffs as
a port of the costs of the judgment; and if for any cause such
copy cannot be had from the justice rendering such judgment,
then the clerk, as aforesaid, shall record such judgment from
the docket of the justice when produced to him and shall give
to the plaintiff a certified copy thereof when so recorded.

1888, art. 52, sec. 37. 1868, ch. 443. 1880, ch. 400. 1890, ch. 402.

39. The said clerk shall record the said judgment forthwith,
and shall endorse thereon the time and place of its record and
may then deliver the same to the plaintiff, and the clerk shall
have said judgments properly indexed; said judgments shall
be liens from the date of such recording; the said clerk shall
enter any of said judgments satisfied upon the order in writing
of the plaintiff or his attorney and shall file such order in his
office.

Hinkle v. Wilson, 53 Md. 294.

Ibid. sec. 38. 1668, ch. 443. 1888, ch. 235.

40. No sale of any real or leasehold property under any
execution issued by any justice of the peace shall be valid;
but when the plaintiff desires execution against such property
of the defendant, the clerk of the court where the judgment
is recorded shall issue such execution to the sheriff, to be pro-
ceeded with by him as in other executions directed to him.

Attachments.

Ibid. sec. 39. 1860, art. 51, sec. 39. 1849, ch. 269, sec. 1. 1852, ch. 276, sec. 2.

41. Any person making the affidavit and exhibiting the
proofs and vouchers necessary to authorize on 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.

Weed v. Lewis, 80 Md. 128.

Ibid. sec. 40. 1860, art. 51, sec. 40. 1849, ch. 269, sec. 1.

42. 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.