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ever, shall practise the law in any of the courts of this province,
without being admitted thereto by the justices of the several
courts, who are hereby empowered to admit and suspend them,
(salvo jure corona) until his majesty's pleasure shall be known
therein; but any attorney, or any other person practising the
law in this province, or, the plaintiff that shall sue in any county
court where he does not reside, shall be obliged to give security
for the payment of all the officers' fees that shall accrue upon
any suit by him to be commenced, either at the time of the
issuing of the writ in the action, or during the continuance of
the court to which such writ shall be returned, on pain of pay-
ing such fees himself, or suffering his client to be non-suited,
in default of such security to be given, or of such attorney sig-
nifying his intention to pay such fees, any law, statute, usage,
custom, rule of court, or order from any persons to the contrary
notwithstanding.
Their mode of admission is now regulated by 1831, ch. 268.
SEC. 13. Not in force under the present constitution of Maryland.
JULY, 1716.—CHAPTER 1.
AN ACT for repairing the damages already sustained in the records of the
land, secretary's, commissary's, and county court offices, and for the
security of the same records for the future.
This law is supplanted by 1742, ch. 10; 1800, ch. 82; 1823, ch. 195;
1826, ch. 57; 1838, ch. 124.
CHAPTER 11.
AN ACT directing the manner of electing and summoning delegates and
representatives to serve in succeeding assemblies, and for ascertaining
the expenses of the counsellors, delegates of assembly and commissioners
of the provincial and county courts of this province.
This law is abrogated under the constitution of this state.
CHAPTER 16.
An ACT to restrain the ill practices used by sheriffs in taking goods by fieri
facias, and selling them by venditioni exponas.
Repeated by 1803, ch. 36.
CHAPTER 30.
AN ACT permitting the inhabitants of this province to sue out writs when
plaintiffs, and appear and give judgment when defendants, in the several
courts thereof in their own proper persons. |
being ad-
mitted, he. |
FORASMUCH as it has been represented to this general assem-
bly as a great aggrievance, that the several inhabitants of this
province are not permitted to sue out writs when plaintiffs, or
to appear and confess judgment when defendants, in the seve-
ral courts thereof, but are in some courts obliged to employ
attorneys to do it for them, which creates an unnecessary
charge; |
Preamble. |
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