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Maine Revised Statutes, Title 14, § 5514: Where writ returnable; entry of judgment

A writ awarded by specified Maine justices may issue statewide and be returnable in court or before a justice, and the clerk must docket it and record the judgment in the county where it is returnable.

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“A writ awarded by specified Maine justices may issue statewide and be returnable in court or before a justice, and the clerk must docket it and record the judgment in the county where it is returnable.”

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Where writ returnable; entry of judgment

A writ awarded by specified Maine justices may issue statewide and be returnable in court or before a justice, and the clerk must docket it and record the judgment in the county where it is returnable.

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§ 5514Where writ returnable; entry of judgmentProvision

A writ awarded by specified Maine justices may issue statewide and be returnable in court or before a justice, and the clerk must docket it and record the judgment in the county where it is returnable.

When awarded by a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court or of the Superior Court, such writ may issue, under his hand and seal or upon his order from any clerk's office in vacation as if issued by the court, and run throughout the State, and may be returnable before the court or before himself or any other justice thereof, and shall be entered upon the docket of the court in the county where returnable, and the judgment shall there be recorded by the clerk.
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