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and the contempt cleared; but where the decree only directs
the payment of money, no defendant shall be imprisoned, and
process of commission of rebellion and sergeant-at-arms ore
abolished.
Garrettson v Cole, 1 H. & J. 370. Richardson v. Jones, 3 G. & J. 163.
Chase's Cose, 1 Bl. 206. Williams' Case, 3 Bl. 486. McKim v. Odom, 3 Bl.
415. Cape Sable Co.'s Case, 3 Bl. 606. Keighler v. Ward, 4 Md. Ch. 87.
Keighler v. Ward, 8 Md. 254.
1888, art. 16, sec. 169. 1886, ch. 321.
182. All orders may be enforced by such process as might
be had upon a judgment or decree to the like effect; and the
payment of costs adjudged to any party, or to any officer of
any court, may be enforced in like manner, without special or
further order for their payment.
Ibid. sec. 170. 1886, ch. 321.
183. Upon decrees, orders and for costs adjudged, a party
shall have the right to order as many writs of different kinds,
for the enforcement of the same, and to one or as many counties
as he shall see fit; but when issued to a county other than
that in which the case shall be, the writ shall be sent by the
clerk, with a short copy of the decree or order and docket
entries, and a -statement of the costs, to the clerk of the court
of the county to which issued, (in Baltimore city, the Superior
Court,) and there docketed, and shall be a lien on lands only
from the time it is so docketed, and may be there from time to
time renewed, as now in common-law cases, by the issue of the
like or other writs; but the court in which such case shall
originally be may order that the party directing vexatiously
or unnecessarily any writ hereunder shall pay the cost of the
same.
Ibid. sec. 171. 1886, ch. 321.
184. An order of decree for the delivery of chattels may be
enforced by the same writs, and all of them, as are used in the
action of replevin at common law, as well as those which
would have been heretofore used for its enforcement in the
equity courts of this State.
1888, art. 16, sec. 172. 1860, art. 16, see: 119. 1820, ch. 161, see. 2.
186. In all cases where a bill for discovery merely is filed
against a defendant of full age, and the subpoena issued thereon
is returned summoned, and the defendant fails to answer
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