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Courts, or from decisions of county courts on
issues sent for trial from the Orphans Courts, and
appeals from the granting or refusal'of injunctions
in equity courts, or from dissolving or refusing
to dissolve injunctions. Appeals from orders dis-
solving or refusing to dissolve injunctions were
taken up at sessions being held when the appeals
reached the court.³ In the court on the Eastern
Shore, from 1806 to 1812, cases likewise stood
ordinarily for argument at the third term, but un-
der a rule of 1812 cases appealed to the June and
November terms of any year stood for argument
at the June Term following. Frequently during
the first half of the century the Legislature in-
terfered to direct specified cases to be heard at
the first term after arrival of the cases, and, in at
least one instance, such a provision was made by
legislative enactment for a case not yet disposed
of in the trial jurisdiction.⁴ And legislation was
passed ordering proceedings to be taken in par-
ticular cases, for instance, ordering dismissed cases
to be reinstated.⁵ By an act of 1849, chapter 453,
it was ordered, finally, that all appeals taken after
the June term, 1850, on either shore, should regu-
larly stand for hearing at the term next succeed-
ing that to which the appeals had been taken, or
writs of error prosecuted, and this reduced the
regular period of waiting to about six months.
But with great frequency cases were continued
by consent, and appear repeated on the docket for
several terms. By an act of 1802, chapter 1, and

3. Evans, Maryland Practice, 1839, 436.

4. See acts 1837, ch. 108; 1841, chs. 44, 222, 240. This practice
continued until more recent times: acts 1867, ch. 15; 1876, ch. 2;
1880, ch. 297.5. Acts 1841, ch. 61, 1842, chs. 168, 284.