44 LAWS OF MARYLAND—1715.
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council, six hundred rounds of tobacco, and no more; and to
his majesty's attorney-general, for any action in the provincial
court, at the suit of his majesty, indictment, presentment or
information, the sum of four hundred pounds of tobacco, and
no more, any law, statute or custom to the contrary in any wise
notwithstanding.
The attorney's fee is fixed at $3 33 1/3 in the county courts, by 1810, ch.
126, in the court of appeals, by 1805, ch. 65. |
Penalty for
ashing
more, &c. |
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted by the authority, advice and
consent aforesaid, That if any attorney, or other person prac-
tising the law in any of the aforesaid courts, do presume to
ask, receive, take or demand, any greater or larger fee than
before by this act appointed, and be thereof legally convicted,
he shall be uncapable to practise the law in any court of this
province for the future. |
Specialties
to be
endorsed,
&c. |
SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, by the authority, advice and
consent aforesaid. That all bills, bonds, or other specialties,
taken by any attorney, or other person practising the law in any
of the aforesaid courts, or any bills, bonds or other specialties,
taken by any of the clerks of any county court of this province,
from and after the end of this session of assembly, shall be
endorsed on the back side thereof, for what matter, or how the
same did become due; and for default thereof, all such bills,
bonds and specialties, shall be void, any law, usage or custom
to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Attorneys'
fees to be
on execu-
tion, &c. |
SEC. 10. And be if further enacted, by the authority, advice
and consent aforesaid, That the fee and fees herein before
allowed to be taken by any attorney, or other person practising
the law in any of the aforesaid courts, shall be levied by way
of execution, in such manner and form as other officer's fees
are or have been levied; and all and every the sheriffs of the
several counties of this province are hereby obliged, authorized
and empowered, to levy and execute the same accordingly, any
law, statute or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. |
No clerk to
deliver
blank writs,
&c. |
SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, by the authority, advice
and consent aforesaid, That no clerks of any courts within this
province, shall after the end of this present session of assembly,
deliver to any attorney, sheriff or other person, any blank writ
or writs whatsoever, on penalty of six thousand pounds of
tobacco, one-half to his majesty, his heirs and successors,
toward the support of government in this province, the other
half to the informer, or him or them that shall sue for the same,
to be recovered by action of debt, wherein no essoin, protection
or wager of law to be allowed. |
No attorney
to practise
without |
SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, by the authority, advice
and consent aforesaid, That from and after the end of this
present session of assembly, no attorney, or other person whatso- |
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