466 ARTICLE 16.

1920, ch. 573, sec. 77A.

80. The several equity courts of this State shall have original jurisdic-
tion in all cases relating to the custody or guardianship of children .and
may on bill or petition filed by the father or mother or relative or next of
kin or next friend of any child or children to direct who shall have the
custody or guardianship of such child or children, and who shall be charged
with his, her or their support and maintenance, and may from time to time
thereafter annul, vary or modify its decree or order in relating to such
child or children, provided that nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued to take away or impair the jurisdiction of the several Juvenile
Courts in this State and of the Juvenile Court of Baltimore City in cases
relating to dependent or delinquent children, or be taken or construed to
repeal or modify the provisions of Section 21 of Article 42 of the Code of
Public General Laws.

Where a wife has ample means of her own alimony pendente lite will not be
awarded, although there are infant children; this section inapplicable. Hood v
Hood, 138 Md. 362.

Injunction.

An. Code, sec. 78. 1904, sec. 74. 1888, sec. ,63. 1875, ch. 72, sec. 28. 1876, ch; 224.

81. If any person against whom an injunction has been issued shall
violate the same after service thereof, or shall permit or connive at the
violation thereof by any other person, the court, on notice of such violation,
may issue attachment for contempt against such person; and if on proof
the party be adjudged guilty of the contempt, he may be fined or impris-
oned, or both, in the discretion of the court.

This section referred to in upholding the power of an equity court to punish the
violation of injunctions; distinction between criminal and civil contempt. Kelly v.
Montebello Park Co., 141 Md. 205.

For a full note on injunctions, see Salmon v. Clagett, 3 Bl. 125.

As to mandatory injunctions, see sec. 214, et seq.

As to injunctions in case of the appointment of a trustee to complete the collec-
tions of sheriffs or tax collectors, see sec...106.

As to injunctions to stay mortgage sales, see art. 66, sec. 16, et seq.

As to when an attaching creditor is entitled 'to an injunction to enable him to
reach corporate stock, see art. 23, sec. 64.

As to summons with claim for injunction at law, see art. 75, sec. 134, et seq.

As to injunction for the protection of sureties, see art. 90, sec. 10.

As to appeals in injunction cases, see art. 5, secs. 31 and 35.

An. Code, sec. 79. 1904, sec. 75. 1888, sec: 64. 1785, ch. 72, sec. 28. 1876, ch. 224.

82. If the violation complained of be waste after injunction to stay
waste, the court shall ascertain the damage done by the' waste, by aifidavit,
or such other proof, as the court may judge necessary, and may fine the
defendant to the extent of double the damage done and so ascertained; and
if the violation be the transfer of monies, property, or choses in action, after
injunction forbidding such transfer, in addition to the attachment against
the defendant, a summons shall go for the assignee; if he be known; and
if it appear that such assignee had knowledge of such injunction, at the
time of accepting the transfer, or possession of property, or choses in action,
he also shall be held in contempt, and no title shall be deemed to have