804 COURTS. [ART. 26

1904, art. 26, sec. 30. 1888, art. 26, sec. 29. 1870, ch. 371.

30. In all cases of proceedings to condemn lands, for any purpose
whatever, under any law or charter, upon the return and ratification of
the inquisition by the proper court, and in all cases in which inquisitions
may have been heretofore returned and ratified, the said court shall
render a judgment against the person or corporation for whose use the
condemnation may be so made in favor of the owners named in the
inquisition for the amount of the damages awarded by the jury, and
unless, within ninety days after condemnation ratified, the same shall be
abandoned by written notification to said owners, execution may imme-
diately thereafter issue on said judgment, as in other cases of judgment
rendered in courts of law.

This section has no application to proceedings by the commissioners for

opening streets of Baltimore city. Norris v. Baltimore, 44 Md. 605; Merrlck

v. Baltimore, 43 Md. 245.

Court of Appeals.

Ibid. sec. 31. 1888, art. 26, sec. 30. 1860, art. 29, sec. 24. 1852, ch. 263.

1892, ch. 521.

31. Any judge of the court of appeals, or any judge of a circuit
court, or any judge of the supreme bench of Baltimore city, who shall
be connected by consanguinity or affinity with any party to a cause
within the third degree, counting down from a common ancestor to the
more remote, shall be disqualified from sitting in such cause.

Ibid. sec. 32. 1888, art. 26, sec. 31. 1860, art. 29, sec. 25. 1852, ch. 82.

32. No judge of the court of appeals shall be deemed to have aban-
doned his residence in the judicial circuit for which he shall have been
elected by reason of his residence in Annapolis during the term for
which he may have been elected, unless he shall signify his intention so
to abandon his residence in his said district by voting in the city of
Annapolis.

Ibid. sec. 33. 1888, art. 26, sec. 32. 1860, art 29, sec. 26. 1780, ch. 11, sec. 4.

1795, ch. 55.

33. Any one of the judges of the court of appeals, in the absence
of the others, may adjourn the court until the attendance of the other
judges can be had; and in the absence of all the judges, the clerk may
adjourn the court from day to day until a judge is present.

Ibid. sec. 34. 1888, art. 26, sec. 33. 1860, art. 29, sec. 27.
1780, ch. 11, sec. 4.

34. Any one of the judges may take the return of process, and may
order the issuing of the same, and may enter continuances by consent of
the parties.

Ibid. sec. 35. 1888, art. 26, sec. 34. 1860, art. 29, sec. 28.
1886, ch. 185.

35. The court of appeals shall hold its sessions on the second Monday
in January, the first Monday in April, and the first Monday in October