20 APPEALS. [ART. 5.

ARTICLE V.
Appeals.

1. An appeal may be taken from a court of law or equity by
application to the clerk; from the Orphans' Court by application
to the Register; from the Commissioner of the Land Office by
application to the Commissioner; from the County Commissioners
by application to their clerk, and from a Justice of the Peace by
an application to the Justice; or by filing a petition with the
clerk of the court to which the appeal is made; and upon such
application, if made within the time prescribed by law for taking
such appeal, the clerk, register, commissioner or justice to whom
the same is made shall enter a prayer of appeal upon his docket
or minutes of proceedings, and transmit the papers or a tran-
script of the record as hereinafter required.

2. When any instrument of writing has been once transcribed
into any record intended to be transmitted to the Court of Ap-
peals, it shall not be necessary to copy such instrument a second
time in such record, but it shall be sufficient to refer to the same
and the page of its first introduction into the record generally;
and if copied a second time, the parties concerned in the cause
shall not be charged for the second copy.

APPEALS FROM COURTS OF LAW.

3. Prom any judgment or determination of any court of law in
any civil suit or action, or in any prosecution for the recovery
of any penalty, fine or damages, any party may appeal to the
Court of Appeals.

4. Any party to a petition for freedom, and any party to a writ
of mandamus, may appeal; and writs of error may be sued out
in civil or criminal cases as heretofore practiced in this State.

5. In cases of issues sent from the Orphans' Court or a court
of equity, to a court of law to be tried, exceptions may be taken
to any opinion given by the court before whom such issues shall
be tried, and an appeal taken on such exceptions; and such