ATTORNEYS AT LAW AND ATTORNEYS IN FACT. 307

Admission to the Bar.

An. Code, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1715, ch. 48. 1783, ch. 17. 1831, ch. 268.
1908, ch. 638. 1910, ch. 608 (p. 6).

1. No person shall practice the profession or perform the services of an
attorney at law within this State without being admitted to the bar as
hereinafter directed; and any person who shall give legal advice, represent-
any person in the trial of any case at law or in equity or prepare any writ-
ten instrument affecting the title to real estate, for pay or reward, shall be
deemed an attorney at law for purposes of this Article; provided, however,
that this Section shall not apply to Carroll County and Worcester County,
Garrett County, so far as it relates to the preparation of written instru-
ments affecting the title to real estate for pay or reward.
Cited but not construed In Re Taylor, 48 Md. 30.

An. Code, sec. 2. 1904, sec. 2. 1888, sec. 2. 1898, ch. 139.

2. All applications for admission to the bar in this State shall be made
by petition to the court of appeals. A State board of law examiners is
hereby created, to consist of three members of the bar of at least ten years''
standing, who shall be appointed by the court of appeals, and shall hold
office for the term of three years. Said examiners shall hold office for one,
two and three years, respectively, to be designated by the judges of the
court of appeals. After the first appointment the court of appeals shall
annually appoint a member of said board in the place of the examiner
whose term shall expire. Members of said board shall be eligible to re-
appointment. In case of any vacancy in said board by reason of death,
resignation or otherwise, the court of appeals shall fill 'said vacancy by the
appointment of a member of said board to serve until the expiration of the
term for which the person so dying or resigning had been appointed.

For cases now apparently inapplicable to this section by reason of changes in the
law, see In Re Taylor, 48 Md. 31; State v. Johnston, 2 H. & McH. 163.

An. Code, sec. 3. 1904, sec. 3. 1892, ch. 37. 1898, ch. 139. 1902, ch. 399.
1916, ch. 509, sec. 3. 1918, ch. 426, sec. 3.

3.1 Any person in this State desiring to begin the study of law for the
purpose of admission to the Bar shall first file with the Clerk of the Court
of Appeals an application for registration as a law student, and at the same
time shall file therewith a certificate showing that he has completed a
course of study at some university, college, high school or other school sub-
stantially equivalent to a high school education in Maryland; said univer-
sity, college, high or other school to be approved by the State Board of Law
Examiners; and if he has not completed such course of study, he shall sub-
mit to an examination, to be held under the supervision of the State Board
of Law Examiners, in such subjects as may be prescribed by the rules of
the Court of Appeals, in order to show that his education is substantially
equivalent to a high school education in Maryland; if the said Board shall

1 Both the act of 1918, ch. 426, and the act of 1918, ch. 270, repealed and re-enacted
art. 10, sec. 3. Although the former was approved on April 18, 1918, and the latter on
April 10, 1918, in view of the decision of the Court of Appeals of Maryland in Balti-
more v. German-American Fire Insurance Company, 132 Md. 380, both acts are codified.