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being held; and it shall also be the duty of the said
Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, in case of the sick-
ness, absence or disability of any Judge or Judges as-
signed as aforesaid, to provide for the hearing of the
cases, or transaction of the business assigned to said
Judge or Judges, as aforesaid, before some one or more
of the Judges of said Court.
Jackson v. State, 87 Md. 192. |
Supreme
Bench. |
Sec. 33- The said Supreme Bench of Baltimore City
shall have power, and it shall be its duty, to provide for
the holding of as many general Terms as the perform-
ance of its duties may require, such general Terms to be
held by not less than three Judges; to make all needful |
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Rules. |
rules and regulations for the conduct of business in each
of the said Courts, during the session thereof, and in va-
cation, or in Chambers, before any of said Judges; and
shall also have jurisdiction to hear and determine all |
Jurisdiction
on motions. |
motions for a new trial in cases tried in any of said
Courts, where such motions arise either, on questions of
fact, or for misdirection upon any matters of Law, and
all motions in arrest of judgment, or upon any matters
of Law determined by the said Judge, or Judges, while
holding said several Courts; and the said Supreme Bench
of Baltimore City shall make all needful rules and regu-
lations for the hearing before it of all said matters; and
the same right of appeal to the Court of Appeals shall be
allowed from the determination of the said Court on such
matters, as would have been the right of the parties if
said matters had been decided by the Court in which
said cases were tried.
[The Judge, before whom any case may hereafter be
tried, in either the Baltimore City Court, the Superior
Court of Baltimore City, or the Court of Common Pleas,
shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine,
and the said Judge shall hear and determine all motions
for a new trial where such motions arise, either on ques-
tions of fact or for misdirection upon any matters of
law, and all motions in arrest of judgment, or upon any
matters of law, determined by the said Judge, and all
such motions shall be heard and determined within thirty
days after they are made.]*
Dykes v. Banks, 31 Md. 239. Roth v. House of Refuge, 31
Md. 329. Merrick V.B.&O.R. R.Co., 33 Md. 481. Gibbons
v. Cherry, 53 Md. 144-
*Thus amended by the Act of 1870, ch. 177, as provided by Section 39, of
Article 4, of the Constitution. |
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