ART. 52] SUPERSEDEAS AND EXECUTION. 1385

1888, art. 52, sec 51. 1860, art. 51, sec. 35. 1801, ch. 62, sec. 4.

53. Such scire facias may be issued by any justice of the
peace of the county or city where the judgment was rendered,
either on the original judgment or upon an authenticated copy
thereof and shall be returnable before the justice issuing the
same or before any other justice who may be named therein.

Supersedeas and Execution.

Ibid sec. 52. 1860, art. 51, sec. 45. 1791, ch. 67, sec. 4. 1826, ch. 194.
1860, ch. 132, sec. 3. 1896, ch/207.

54. No execution shall issue upon any judgment or decree
obtained in any circuit court for any county of this State, pro-
vided the defendant therein shall come before a justice of the.
peace of the county where such judgment or decree was ren-
dered within two months after the rendition of such judgment
or decree, and, together with two other persons such as the
said justice shall approve of, confess judgment for his debt
and costs of suit, adjudged or decreed, with stay of execution
for six months thereafter, which confession shall be made in
manner and form following—that is to say: "You, ————,
do confess judgment to ————, for the sum of ———— and
costs, which were recovered by the said ————, against ——,
on the ———— day of ————, in the ———— court; the said
———— to be levied of your goods and chattels, lands or tene-
ments, for the use of the said ————, in case the said ————
shall not pay and satisfy to the said ————, the said ———
so as aforesaid recovered against him, with the additional
costs thereon, on the ——— day of ———— next," which con-
fession shall be signed by the justice before whom the same is
made and forthwith returned to the clerk of the court in which
the judgment or decree was rendered, who shall record the
same; if the judgment was rendered in the court of appeals
the confession aforesaid may be made before a justice of the
peace in the county where the defendant resides; provided,
however, that no such confession of judgment shall operate as
a supersedeas of or delay the issuing of an execution upon
any judgment or decree rendered by any of the circuit courts
or the court of appeals of this State, unless the same be
approved, both as to form and the sufficiency of the security
by the clerk of the court where the judgment or decree
intended to be superseded was rendered. This section shall
not apply to the city of Baltimore; and it shall not be lawful
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