The order of docket entries and the indorsement on the bond indicate that they were all made by the direction of the court, and it must be presumed that the court, having knowledge of the requirement of the statute, approved the bond and the security of the bond before ordering the supersedeas to issue. Parke v. Mabee, 176 Mass. 236. It follows that a verdict for the defendant on the second count should not have been directed. Upon the count for trespass quare clausum fregit the defendant justified under an execution for possession. The plaintiff introduced no evidence of assault or of physical violence imposed on himself or upon his child.