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executors or administrators, in order to stay any execution of
the judgment against them, giving, on such appeals, bond with
security, with condition to prosecute the appeal with effect,
and to answer to the landlord, his executors and administrators,
all costs and damages mentioned in the judgment, and such as
shall be further incurred and sustained by reason of said appeal
and the delay thence arising.

861 Such cases shall not be removable to the Baltimore
City Court, at any stage thereof, save by and upon appeal as
aforesaid.

862. No proceeding to dispossess a tenant holding over,
had before any Justice of the Peace and removed by appeal to
the Baltimore City Court, shall by such court be reversed or
set aside for matter of form; and any case thus removed by
appeal, if the proceeding thereunder shall be set aside or ap-
pear to be substantially defective, shall be proceeded with in
said court in the same manner and to the same effect, upon the
claim and complaint and merits, and upon evidence to be ad-
duced therein as it was or might have been competent to said
Justice of the Peace to have proceeded therewith.

863. Every such appeal shall be tried and finally deter-

mined and proceeded with at the first term to which such case

shall be removed to the said court, unless for cause shown upon

affidavit the court shall otherwise order.

864. The provisions of the preceding sections of this sub-
division of this Article, relating to tenants holding over, shall
extend to the heirs, executors and assigns of lessors and rever-
sioners, and to the executors and all persons holding under
tenants, and to all cases where there are two or more tenants,
in which case each tenant shall be entitled to the notices and
the benefit of each condition contained in the preceding sec-
tions of this sub-division of this Article.