52 MARYLAND MANUAL. [ART. IV.
Rules iIn
Equity.
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ticable, to devise and promulgate by rules or orders, forms'
and modes of framing and filing bills, answers and other pro-
ceedings and pleadings in equity; and also forms and modes'
of taking and obtaining evidence, to be used in equity cases;
and to revise and regulate, generally, the practice in the
Courts of Equity of this State, so as to prevent delays, and
to promote brevity and conciseness in all pleadings and pro-
ceedings therein, and to abolish all unnecessary costs and ex-
penses attending the same. And all rules and regulations
hereby directed to be made shall, when made, have the force
of law until rescinded, changed or modified by the said judges,
or the General Assembly.
B. & O. R. R. Co. vs. State, 29 Md., 252. Gabelein vs. Plaenker, 36
Md., 61. Meloy vs. Squires, 42 Md., 378.
Part III—Circuit Courts. |
Judicial Cir-
cuits. |
SEC. 19. The State shall be divided into eight judicial cir-
cuits, in manner following, viz.: The counties of Worcester,
Somerset, Dorchester and Wicomico,* shall constitute the
First Circuit; the counties of Caroline, Talbot, Queen Anne's,
Kent and Cecil, the Second; the counties of Baltimore and
Harford, the Third; the counties of Allegany, Washington
and Garrett,+ the Fourth; the counties of Carroll, Howard
and Anne Arundel, the Fifth; the counties of Montgomery
and Frederick, the Sixth; the counties of Prince George's,
Charles, Calvert and St. Mary's, the Seventh, and Baltimore
city, the Eighth. |
County
courts. |
SEC. 20. A court shall be held in each county of the State,
to be styled the Circuit Court for the county in which it may
be held. The said Circuit Courts shall have and exercise, in
the respective counties, all the power, authority and jurisdic-
tion, original and appellate, which the present Circuit Courts |
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Jurisdiction. |
of this State now have and exercise, or which may hereafter
be prescribed by law.
Truett vs. Legg, 32 Md., 147. |
Chief Judge
and two
Associates. |
SEC. 21. For each of the said circuits (excepting the
eighth and third) there shall be a chief judge and two asso-
ciate judges, to be styled Judges of the Circuit Court to be
elected or appointed as herein provided, and for the third cir-
cuit there shall be a Chief Judge and three associate judges
to be styled Judges of the Circuit Court to be elected or ap-
pointed as herein provided.
*Wicomico formed since the adoption of this Constitution.
+Garrett formed since the adoption of this Constitution. |
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