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a result of such solicitation; or causes any case to be instituted without
authority; or whoever, being an attorney at law, directly or indirectly,
agrees to procure another to be employed as an expert witness, or other-
wise, or procures another to be so employed in consideration, of his so
soliciting litigious business or undertaking to solicit it, or in any other
way compensates or agrees to compensate another for so doing shall,
upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than $500
or by imprisonment in jail for not more than three months, or by both.
Any solicitation as aforesaid shall be prima facie evidence that the per-
son so soliciting is doing so for gain. The term attorney at law shall
include counsellor at law; provided that nothing herein contained shall
impair or affect the disciplinary powers of the courts of this State over
attorneys and counsellors at law appearing and practicing in the same,

Bawdy Houses and Houses of Ill-Fame.

1904, art. 27, sec. 18. 1892, ch. 522, sec. 16A.

19. Any person who shall be convicted of the crime of keeping a
bawdy house or house of ill-fame shall be fined a sum not exceeding five
hundred dollars or imprisoned in jail or the house of correction for a
period not exceeding one year, or both fined and imprisoned in the dis-
cretion of the court; and upon the trial of any person charged with
keeping a bawdy house or house of ill-fame, it shall be competent for
the prosecution to offer in evidence the general reputation of the house
kept by the person on trial in support of the charge.

This section referred to in upholding an indictment for perjury. Shaffer
v. State, 87 Md. 127.

Bigamy.

Ibid. sec. 19. 1S88, art. 27, sec. 17. 1860, art. 30, sec. 11. 1706, ch. 8.
1809, ch. 138, sec. 7.

20. Whosoever being married shall, the first husband or wife (as the
case may be) being alive, marry any person, shall undergo a confine-
ment in the penitentiary for a period not less than eighteen months nor
more than nine years; provided, that nothing herein contained shall
extend to any person whose husband or wife shall be continuously
remaining beyond the seas seven years together, or shall be absent him-
self or herself seven years together, in any part within the United States
or elsewhere, the one of them not knowing the other to be living at that
time; and if such offender be a man, his first wife shall, on his convic-
tion, be forthwith endowed of one-third part of his real estate, which
she shall hold as tenant in dower, the assignment of which shall be made
as prescribed by law in other cases of dower, and she shall have the like
remedy for the recovery thereof; and she shall also, on his conviction,
be forthwith entitled to one-third part of his personal estate, in the same
manner as if such husband had died intestate, and she had survived him.
which third part shall be divided and allotted to her in the same manner
as distribution is made of the personal estate of intestates; and if the
said offender be a man, he shall, on conviction, forfeit his claim or title