164 court of appeals of maryland

In all equity cases in which records may not be furnished the
court, the clerk will cause to be printed for their use a copy of
the opinion of the court below.

In December, 1855, the court had to warn counsel
to comply with the rules adopted in March, 1848,
and December, 1851, for the convenience of the
court as well as of counsel, and to furnish full
statements of facts, points and authorities, "the
latter with the names of the parties, under the
points to which they severally apply." For years
yet there was ground for complaint that briefs
were too scant. On February 18, 1858, it was or-
dered that,

In all equity cases and cases of appeal from any Orphans
Court, the clerk is directed to furnish the court with one copy
of the record—and also copies of the opinion (if any) for each
of the judges.

At this time, then, single copies of records were
ordinarily printed; briefs, or "statements and
points," were under the rules required to be
printed only in single copies, but extra copies for
all the judges were being furnished to a consider-
able extent.

The court was still behind in its work during
this period. It did not hesitate to suspend argu-
ments when it had a large number of argued cases
held under advisement. On May 11, 1864, it an-
nounced that the call of the docket of causes for
argument would not be resumed during the cur-
rent term, the court being engaged in considering
the cases already argued and submitted. And at
the opening of the June term, 1864, there were
two hundred and forty cases on the docket, some
of them dating from 1850.