ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

six of the same article, as repealed and re-en-
acted by the act of eighteen hundred and eighty-

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six, chapter forty-five, entitled an act to repeal
section thirty-six of article fif ty-one of the Code
of Public General Laws, title "Justices of the
Peace," sub-title "Civil Jurisdiction," and sec-
tion sixty-eight of the same article as added by
the act of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,
chapter four hundred and forty-three, entitled
"An act to add new sections to article fifty-one
of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled
'Justices of the Peace,' " relating to the liens of
executions issued by justices of the peace, be and
the same are hereby severally repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, so as to read re-
spectively as follows :
(71). All civil actions and civil proceedings,
including the writ, summons, docket entries,

Repealed and
re-enacted.

and the names of the parties on appeal from a
justice of the peace, before a circuit court for
any county or Baltimore city court, may be
amended so as to bring said action to trial on
its merits, in the same manner and to the same
extent as now allowed in cases originating in
courts of law, and amendments in any of the
said courts shall be allowed and made, in the
discretion of said court, as if said actions,
writs and proceedings had originated therein.
Amendment may, in like manner, be made be-
fore justices of the peace.
(34). Judgments rendered by justices of the

Civil actions
amended.

peace may be revived at any time within twelve
years from their date by scire facias, returnable
on a certain day not less than twenty nor more
than thirty days from the issuing thereof. And
whenever any plaintiff shall die, his personal
representatives shall have the right, upon appli-
cation to the justice, to appear and be made a
party to said judgment ; and whenever any de-
fendant shall die within twelve years from the
date of any judgment, a scire facias may be
sued out upon the application of the plaintiff to
revive said judgment against the personal rep-
resentatives of said defendant.
(36). Before issuing a writ of replevin the
justice shall require and take from the party
demanding such writ, or some one in his behalf,

Judgments —
how revived.