228 ATTORNEYS AT LAW AND ATTORNEYS IN FACT. [ART. 10
sion shall have the same publicly posted on the bulletin board of his
said court, and shall direct the clerk of his said court, under a penalty
of five dollars for each default, to send notice of such suspension to the
clerk of every other court in the State. Any sheriff, deputy sheriff,
constable, police officer, justice of the peace or other official who shall
act as such agent or broker for any lawyer shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than twenty-
five dollars, or be imprisoned, in the discretion of the court, for not
less than thirty days.
1904, art. 10, sec. 14. 18SS, art. 10. sec. 13. 1860. art. 11. sec. 13. 1722, ch. 12, sec. 4.
1775, ch. 5, sec. 1. 1854, ch. 18. sec. 2. 1865, ch. 114. 1867, ch. 126.
14. The several courts of this State may, in their discretion, where
it shall appear to them that any plaintiff or defendant in any action
brought in said courts shall suffer by the negligence or omission of the
attorney, immediately adjudge such attorney to pay the lawful costs
accruing from such plaintiff or defendant through such neglect or omis-
sion, not exceeding ten dollars; but if the costs exceed that sum, then
the plaintiff or defendant shall be left to his remedy at common law:
and every attorney practising in the court of any county or city whereof
he is not an inhabitant may be sued in such county or city for any-
such omission or neglect as if he resided therein.
Who May Not Practise Law.
Ibid. sec. 15. 1888. art. 10, sec. 14. 1860, art. 11, sec. 15. 1715. ch. 41. sec. 9
15. No sheriff or deputy sheriff, warden or keeper of a jail, or any
of his deputies; no warden or keeper of the penitentiary, or deputy
warden or keeper thereof, shall be admitted to practise as attorney in
any of the courts of this State; and if any of said officers shall practise
law in any court of this State, he shall forfeit fifty dollars for each
offense.
Ibid. sec. 16. 1888, art. 10, sec. 15. I860. art. 11. sec. 16. 1786, ch. 10.
1862. ch. 179. 1868, ch. 404. 1898. ch. 472.
16. No register of wills or clerk of any court shall practise as attor-
ney at law in any of the courts of this State of which he is such register
or clerk, nor shall any deputy clerk of any court practise as attorney
at law in any court of this State of which he is an.officer, or to which
he may be attached as a deputy or assistant officer.
Ibid. sec. 17. 18SS. art. 10. sec. 16. 1860. art. 11, sec. 17. 1715. ch. 41, sec. 9.
1791. ch. 76, sec. 3. 1796, ch. 43. sec. 8.
17. No judge of any court of this State, including the judges of
the orphans' courts, shall act as attorney or solicitor in any court of law
or equity in this State, during the time for which he shall act as such.
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