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LAW3 OF MARYLAND.

seventy-four, be and the same is hereby repealed and

re-enacted so as to read as follows:

SEC. 16. 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,

Execution — at-

an execution or attachment may issue out of such court,

tachment may
issue.

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 judg-

ment 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 plain-

tiff in writing, and causing his name to be inserted in

the place of said plaintiff as his legal representative,

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

Attachment in

thereon in her new name acquired by said marriage,

new name, ac-
quired.

provided that at any time within three years before

the expiration of twelve years from the date of any

such judgment, 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 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 effects than that taken

under the first, though the first be still outstanding ;

provided that but one satisfaction of the debt or de-

mand shall be made, and that it shall be in the dis-

cretion of the court in all such cases whether any

costs, and, if any, what amount of costs, shall be

allowed on the subsequent attachments or other execu-

tions. The provisions of this section shall apply also

to attachments or other executions directed to a county

different from that where the judgment or deeree was

rendered, or to or from the city cf Baltimore.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.