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31 Stat 1265. j62_stat;_953,'

PUBLIC LAW 88-241-DEC. 23, 1963

[77 STAT.

of which shall be determined. The damages shall be assessed and execution shall issue for such damages only, with costs. (c) Payment into court, after entry of judgment and prior to the issuance of execution, of the amount of the damages and costs assessed, for the use of the plaintiff or his representatives, stays execution, and the stay shall be entered on the record. Payment to the plaintiff or his representatives, after execution, of the amount of the damages and costs assessed, together with all fees and other reasonable costs of execution, forthwith discharges the defendant's real and personal property from execution, and the discharge shall be entered on the record. However, the judgment shall remain as a security to the plaintiff or his representatives for any other breaches which he or they afterwards prove. From time to time, the plaintiff may, by motion and hearing, with reasonable notice to the defendant, assign other breaches, and damages shall be assessed for such breaches as he proves, with costs. Payment into court, before execution, or to the plaintiff or his representative, after execution, as herein described, has the same effect as hereinbefore directed. (d) I n proceedings under this section, the right of trial by jury, as to issues of fact and the amount of damages to be assessed, is preserved. ^®^ This section is subject to section 28-2405 of this Code and to section 1874 of Title 28, Ignited States Code. § 15-107. Setting off judgments Where reciprocal claims between different parties have passed into judgments the court, on motion, may order that the judgments be set off against each other and satisfaction of both be entered to the amount of the smaller claim. Subchapter II—Court of General Sessions § 15-131. Judgments and executions generally; interest I n civil cases within its jurisdiction, the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions may try, hear, and determine the matter in controversy between the parties upon their allegations and proofs, and give judgment according to law; and judgments for money rendered by it bear interest from their date until paid or satisfied, unless by the terms of the judgment interest runs from an earlier date. The court may issue writs of execution in cases in which it may render judgment. § 15-132. Enforceable period of judgments; effect of docketing in District C o u r t; Domestic Relations B r a n c h (a) A judgment entered by the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions shall remain in force for only six years, unless it is docketed in the office of the clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Upon being so docketed, the judgment has the same force and effect for all purposes as if it were a judgment of the District Court, and, until it is so docketed, it does not become a lien upon any real property in the District. The clerk of the District Court shall charge a fee of 50 cents for docketing the judgment. (b) A judgment of the Domestic Relations Branch of the Court of General Sessions has the same legal sttitus as a lien upon real property as a judgment of the District Court. (c) Upon the payment of a fee of 50 cents, the clerk of the Court of General Sessions shall prepare a copy of any judgment of the civil division of the Court, that is in force.

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