452 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 460

Section 45 of said Article, relating to the recording of judg-
ments by the People's Court of Baltimore City.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 44 of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Justices of the Peace", sub-
title "Judgments", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

44. All judgments rendered by justices of the peace in any
of the counties of this State, may be made liens on the real
estate or leasehold interest and terms for years of the de-
fendant in land in the county where the same have been so ren-
dered, except leases from year to year and leases for terms of
not more than five years, not renewable, to the same extent
and effect as liens are now created by judgment upon real
estate, whenever the plaintiff in any such judgment shall file
a copy of the judgments under the hand and seal of the justice
by whom the same was rendered with the clerk of the circuit
court for the county where said judgment was rendered,
to be by such clerk recorded in a book kept for that pur-
pose, and for which said clerk shall receive twenty-five
cents in each case, which sum shall be recovered by the plain-
tiffs as a part of the costs of the judgment; and if for any
cause such copy cannot be had from the justice rendering such
judgment, then the clerk, as aforesaid, shall record such judg-
ment from the docket of the justice when produced to him and
shall give to the plaintiff a certified copy thereof when so re-
corded.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That a new section be
and it is hereby added to said Article 52 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Justices of the Peace",
sub-title "Judgments", said new section to be known as Sec-
tion 45A, to follow immediately after Section 45 of said Ar-
ticle, and to read as follows:

4'5A. All judgments rendered by the Peopled Court of
Baltimore City may be made liens on the real estate or lease-
hold interest and terms for years of the defendant^ in land in
the City of Baltimore, or in the county where the same may
be located, except leases from year to year for and leases for
terms for not more than five years not renewable, to the same
extent and effect as liens are now created by judgment upon
real estate, whenever the plaintiff in any such judgment shall
file a certified copy of said judgment with the Clerk of the
Superior Court of Baltimore City or with the Clerk of the Cir-
cuit Court for the county, as the case may be, to be by such
clerk recorded in a book kept for that purpose and for which