GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1831.

CHAPTER 203.

CHAP. 203.

An act relating to Appeals and Writs of Error, and to pro-
ceedings in County Court's.

Passed Mar. 5, 1832

WHEREAS, doubts have been entertained whether a
cause can be proceeded with in a county court, after a dis-
missal of an appeal or writ of error, prematurely and ir-
regularly taken or sued forth, from or upon an interlocutoi y
judgment, or any order or act of such court antecedent to
and not followed by a final judgment in said cause.

Preamble,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
in all cases where any appeal or wnt of error has been or
shall hereafter be dismissed by the court of appeals, when
taken or sued forth, from or upon any interlocutory judg-
ment of a county court, or any order or act of said court
antecedent to any final judgment of such court, and no final
judgment shall have been rendered by such county court, it
shall be the duty of said county court, on application of
any of the parties in such cases, and on such applicant filing
in said county court, a certificate from the clerk, and under
the seal of said court of appeals, of such dismissal, con-
taining a short copy of the judgment of dismissal, or the
docket entries of such cases of error or appeal, to order
continuances in said cases, to be entered from term to term,
from the term when such interlocutory judgment, order, or
act, shall have been rendered or passed up,to the term when
such application shall be made, and that thereupon it shall
be the duty of said county court, to cause said cases to be

Case or dismissal
of appeal.

proceeded in, and with, in the same manner and to every
effect, intent and purpose, as if no such appeal or writ of
error had intervened, and as if said cases had been actually
continued term after term at every successive term as afore-
said, and it shall be lawful for any of the parties after the
dismissal, and the continuances entered as aforesaid, to
make such suggestion and such consequent change of par-
ties, as by the circumstances and nature of the cases and
causes of action respectively, according to the existing law,
may be proper.

Proceedings di-
rected.