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further time for answering, not exceeding eight days in the
whole, from and exclusive of the day of service.

856. The copies of said interrogatories may be served in
the same manner that notices to quit are directed to be served.

857. If in any proceeding by a landlord to dispossess a
tenant the judgment be in his favor, the Justice shall assess
against the tenant holding over the premises, damages not ex-
ceeding double the rate of the rent of said tenancy, and also
for the expenses of said landlord or reversioner in and about
said proceeding, over and above the legal costs thereof, and
shall render a judgment therefor in favor of the lessor or re-
versioner, to be enforced by execution.

858. If the Justice shall find against the landlord or rever-
sioner he shall assess such damages as he shall deem just to be
paid by him to the tenant, for which, and costs, judgment shall
be rendered and enforced as aforesaid.

859. In all cases the tenancy mentioned in this sub-division
of this Article, if the tenant, after notice, fail to quit at the end
of the term, or at a period when he shall begin as aforesaid to
be holding over, such tenant, his executors or administrators,
may, at the election of the lessor, his heirs, executors, admin-
istrators or assigns, be held as a tenant and bound to pay
double the rent to which the said tenancy was subject, and
payable and recoverable in all respects and to every effect as if,
by the original agreement or the understanding as to such ten-
ancy, said double rent were the reserved rent of the demised
premises, according to the terms and conditions of payment of
such originally reserved rent.

860. An appeal may be prosecuted from any judgment of
a Justice of the Peace rendered under the provisions of this sub-
division of this Article to the Baltimore City Court, in the
manner and under the rules prescribed in cases within the ordi-
nary jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace; the tenant, or his