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tion of justice against any attorney at law may be filed in any court where
such attorney is admitted to practice by any bar association acting through
its appropriate committee or by any group of five or more members of the
bar and thereupon such proceedings shall be had as if said charges had
been filed by the court and specified in the order directing the prosecution
thereof, referred to in the preceding section.

1929, ch. 370, sec. 10C.

10C. Every charge filed against any attorney shall be in writing and
shall be of such particularity as to give him sufficient notice of the evidence
to be offered in support of it.

1929, ch. 370, sec. 10D.

10D. Said charges shall be heard before two or more judges of the
judicial circuit in which said court, wherein such charges have been filed,
is located, and the accused attorney shall be afforded full opportunity to
be heard and, unless the accused attorney shall in writing elect otherwise,
all the testimony taken at said hearing shall be taken down by a stenog-
rapher and transcribed as in civil cases. Said hearing shall be governed
by the rules of law, evidence and procedure of civil cases, so far as the
same may be applicable thereto.

1929, ch. 370, sec. 10E.

10E. Every attorney who shall, after having an opportunity to be
heard, as provided in the preceding sections, be found guilty of professional
misconduct, malpractice, fraud, deceit, crime involving moral turpitude,
or conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice, shall, by order of
the judges finding him guilty, be suspended or disbarred from the practice
of his profession in this State.

1929, ch. 370, sec. 10P.

10F. Every attorney who shall, after a hearing held as hereinbefore
prescribed, be found guilty of professional misconduct, malpractice, fraud,
deceit, crime involving moral turpitude or conduct prejudicial to the
administration of justice, shall have the right of appeal to the Court of
Appeals of Maryland, as in civil cases, except the Court of Appeals shall
have the right to review the entire proceedings and affirm, modify, alter
or reverse the order from which said appeal is taken as the substantial
merits of the cause and the ends of justice may require.

1929, ch. 370, sec. 10G.

10G. That upon the order of the judges disbarring such accused attor-
ney from the practice of his profession in this State and no appeal being
entered therefrom within the time prescribed for appeals to be taken in
civil cases, the Clerk of the Court which has conducted such disbarment
proceedings shall send over the seal of said Court, a certified copy of such
order with the docket entries in the proceeding to the Clerk of the Court
of Appeals of Maryland, and upon receipt thereof the said Clerk of the