ART. 26.] EXECUTION ON JUDGMENTS AND DECREES. 751

1888, art. 26, sec. 20. 1860, art. 29, sec. 16. 1785, ch. 80. 1823, ch. 194.

1843, ch. 40. 1862, ch. 262. 1874, ch. 320. 1884, ch. 178

1888, ch. 421. 1890, ch. 114.

20. On all judgments or decrees in any court of law or
equity, and on all judgments of justices of the peace recorded
in the clerk's office of any court of law, on execution or
attachment may issue out of such court or by the clerk thereof,
at any time within twelve years from the date of the judgment
or decree, or the said judgment or decree may be otherwise
proceeded with within twelve years from its date; and in case
of the death of any plaintiff in any such judgment, the execu-
tor, administrator or other person entitled to the judgment or
decree shall, on application to the clerk of the court having
control of the docket whereon such judgment or decree is
entered or recorded, be made a party to the same by suggesting
the death of the plaintiff in writing, and causing his name to
Toe inserted in the place of said plaintiff or his legal represen-
tatives, and have execution or attachment as the plaintiff might
have had if no such death had taken place; and in the case of
the marriage of a female plaintiff in any such judgment or
decree, she may suggest in writing her said marriage, and
have execution or attachment thereon_; in her new name
acquired by such marriage; and in case of the death or
marriage of any of the defendants in any judgment or decree
herein mentioned, the plaintiff in any such judgment or decree
shall, at any time within twelve years from the date of the
judgment or decree, upon a suggestion supported by affidavit
of the death or marriage of any of said defendants, be entitled
to have an execution or attachment issued against the defend-
ant still alive, and such execution or attachment may be laid
on any goods, chattels, lands and tenements of any of said
remaining defendants; provided, that at any time before the
expiration of twelve years from the date of any such judgment
or decree, or in case of the death or marriage of any defendant
in the judgment, the plaintiff shall have the right to have a writ
of scire facias to renew or revive the same, and on judgments of
justices of the peace duly recorded in the clerk's office, such
writ of scire facias may be issued out of the superior court of
Baltimore city, or the circuit court for the county, as the case
may be, as if said judgment had been originally rendered by
said court, and on all such judgments or decrees the plaintiff
may have more than one attachment or execution to be laid in
the hands of different persons, or levied on other property or