ART. 52] SUPERSEDEAS AND EXECUTION. 1387

1888, art. 52, sec. 57. 1860, art. 51, sec. 60. 1791, ch. 67, sec. 3. 1809, ch.

76, secs. 2, 3. 1834, ch. 257. 1870, ch. 80, secs. 1-3.

1886, ch. 358. 1888, ch. 282.

59. No execution shall issue on any judgment rendered by
any justice of the peace of this State, if the defendant in said
judgment shall within two months after the rendition of such
judgment produce before the justice who rendered the same a
supersedeas, which shall be substantially in the following form :
State of Maryland, (city or county,) to wit. "We, ————, do
confess judgment to ———— for the sum of ———— and costs,
which were recovered by the said ———— against the said

———— on the ———— day of ————, before ————, justice of
the peace for the State of Maryland, for the county or city
aforesaid; the said debt and costs to be levied of our goods
and chattels, lands and tenements, for the use of tha said

————; in case the said ———— shall not pay and satisfy to
the said ———— 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 ren-
dered by a justice of the peace shall be six months from the
date of the judgment, and the said supersedeas 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 is
or they are worth each double the amount of debt, interest and
costs over and above all debts and exemptions; which superse-
deas 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 judg-
ment confessed 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. Sohnebly, 2 Md 320.

Ibid. sec. 58. 1860, art. 51, sec. 51. 1809, ch. 76, sec. 3.

60. 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. 59. 1860, art. 51, sec. 52. 1834, ch. 257, sec. 2.

61. 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. 60. 1860, art. 51, sec 53. 1825, ch 223 1835, ch. 224, sec 2

62. If a justice, in taking a supersedeas, reads over the form
hereinbefore prescribed to the party and his security, he may