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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Dec. Sess.
1814.

son or persons against whom any judgment or decree is
or may be obtained, shall come before any one of the
judges of the judicial districts within which such person
or persons respectively reside, or before any two of the
justices of the peace of the county, or before one justice
of the peace, on a judgement rendered by a justice of the
peace in which sueh| person or persons shall respective-
ly reside, and together with not less than two other per
sons, such as the said judge, justices or justice (as the case
may be) shall approve of, confess judgment for the debt
or damages, and costs of suit adjudged or decreed;
which confession shall be in manner and form follow-
ing: "You, A B, C D, and E F, do jointly and se-
verally confess judgment to G H, for the sum of
and costs, which were recovered
by the said G H, against the said A B, on the
day of in the year one thousand
in court, or (as the case may be,) before
Esquire, one of the justices of the peace
in and for county; the said sum of money
and costs, to be levied of your bodies, goods and chattels,
lands and tenements, for the use of the said G H, in
case the said A B shall not pay and satisfy to the said G
H the said sum of money and costs, so as aforesaid re-
covered, with additional costs thereon" which confession
shall be signed by the judge, justices or justice before whom
the same shall be made, and he or they, (as the case may
be,) shall immediately on taking the same, grant a cer-
tificate thereof under his or their hand and seal, to the
party confessing the judgment; and such certificate shall
be sufficient authority to the sheriff, coroner, or consta-
ble, (as the case may be) to forbear serving the executi-
on on the body, goods or chattels, lands or tenements of
the person so obtaining such certificate.

Persons in ex-
ecution.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person
now in execution, or who hereafter shall be taken in exe-
cution, or whose goods or chattels, lands or tenements,
are now, or hereafter shall be taken in execution, before
the thirty first day of January eighteen hundred and six-
teen, shall confess judgment in manner and form above
directed, and shall obtain a certificate in manner afore-
said, such certificate so obtained and delivered to the
sheriff, coroner or constable, (as the case may be,) shall
be a sufficient authority to the sheriff, coroner err constable,
(as the case may be) to release such person or persons
from confinement upon that execution, or restore and de-
liver the goods or chattels, lands or tenements so taken
in execution, to the person or persons against whom such
execution may have issued, such person or persons giving
to the sheriff, coroner or constable, (as the case may be)
sufficient security for the poundage or other fees due
upon any such execution; and provided, the goods