ELIHU E JACKSON", ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Chapter 421.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact section sixteen of
article twenty-nine of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws, title "Courts," sub-title "Judg-
ments," relating to executions, as repealed and
re-enacted by chapter two hundred and sixty-
two of the acts of eighteen hundred and sixty-
two, and chapter three hundred and twenty of
the acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-four,
and chapter one hundred and seventy-eight of
the acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-four,
with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

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bly of Maryland, That section sixteen of article
twenty-nine of the Code of Public General Laws,
title "Courts," sub-title "Judgments," relat-
ing to executions, as amended by chapter two
hundred and sixty-two of the acts of eighteen
hundred and sixty-two, and as repealed and re-
enacted by chapter three hundred and twenty
of the acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-
four, and as repealed and re-enacted by chapter
one hundred and seventy-eight of the acts of
eighteen hundred and eighty-four be and the
same are hereby repealed and re-enacted so as
to read as follows :
SEC. 2. 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

Repealed and
re-enacted.

office of any court of law, an execution or at-
tachment 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 pro-
ceeded within twelve years from its date ; and
in case of the death of any plaintiff in any such
judgment the executor, 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 be inserted in

Judgments
and execu-
tion.