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direct the clerk to transcribe the same into new record books
which the clerk shall procure for that purpose; and such new
records, when so transcribed, shall be carefully examined and
certified by said clerk, and when so examined and certified
shall be substituted for and become the records of said court
in lieu of the worn out records; and the mayor and city
council of the city of Baltimore, and the county commissioners
of the several counties, respectively, shall levy such sum of
money as they shall deem a fair compensation for the labor of
the clerk in making such new records. This section not to
apply to Montgomery county, as to which a special law exists.
Peter v. Prettyman, 62 Md. 573.

Judgments.

1888, art. 26, sec. 14. 1860, art. 29, sec. 14. 1763, ch 23, sec. 2.

14. The court shall give judgment in all actions according
as the very right of the cause and matter in law shall appear
to them, without regarding any matters of mere form, so as
sufficient matter shall appear in the proceedings, upon which
the court shall proceed to give judgment, and it shall appear
that the action has been commenced after the cause thereof did
accrue.

Shafer v Stonebraker, 4 G. & J. 345. State v. Mayhugh, 13 Md. 378.
Gott v. State, 44 Md. 319.

Ibid. sec. 15. 1888, ch. 317.

15. Upon all agreed statements of facts, all special cases
stated, and all special verdicts, the court shall be at liberty to
draw all inferences of facts or law that court or jury could
have drawn from the facts so agreed or stated as if the same
had been offered in evidence upon a trial before the court or
before the court and a jury.

Ibid. sec. 16. 1809, ch. 153, sec. 4 1811, ch. 161, sec. 5.

16. All judgments by confession, on verdict, or by default,
shall be so entered as to carry interest from the time they are
rendered.

Preston's Adm'x v. West, 4 H. & McH. 70. Gwinn v. Whitaker, 1 H. & J.
754 Boehme v. Aisquith, 4 H & J. 207 Anders v. Devries, 26 Md. 222.
Rayner v. Bryson, 29 Md 473. Balto. City P. R. W. Co v. Sewell, 37 Md 443.

Ibid, sec 17 1888, ch. 366.

17. Wherever, by reason of the verdict of a jury being below
the jurisdiction of the court in which the same is rendered, a