CARROLL COUNTY. 1725

the names remaining in the box from which the jury for the preceding
November term is drawn twenty-five names, which shall constitute the
petit jurors for said February term, subject to the same provisions and
regulations applicable to the correction and completion of the jurors drawn
from other jury terms aforesaid.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 7, sec. 17. 1860, Art. 7, sec. 8.

17. The judges of the Circuit Court may, in their discretion, appoint
intermediate terms for the transaction of equity or other business, not
requiring a jury, to which process may also be returnable.

1890, ch. 136, sec. 16B.

18. In addition to the first day of each term of the Circuit Court for
said county the first Monday of January, April, July and October in
each year shall be return clays for the return of process in civil cases.

PEACTICE ACT.

1890, ch. 136, sec. 16C.

19. All original writs, writs of executions, attachments, replevin, eject-
ment, scire facias and habere facias, as well as all other writs and process
issued from or returnable to said court in civil cases, shall be made re-
turnable to the first return day or to the first day of the term, which ever
shall first occur after the issue of the same, unless otherwise ordered in
writing by the party directing the same, or his attorney, and on the return
of an original writ, not executed, the same may be renewed, returnable
to the next return day, or to the first day of the succeeding term which
ever shall first occur.

Girard Ins. Co. v. Bankard, 107 Md. 538.

1890, ch. 136, sec. 16D.

20. If a defendant be returned summoned and shall fail to appear, the
clerk of the court shall on the day following the return day to which the
writ or process served on him is returnable, enter the appearance of any

defendant so summoned and failing to appear, and the action shall proceed
in the same manner as if the party had appeared in person.

1890, ch. 136, sec. 16E.

21. In all cases when a party is returned summoned to a return day,
or to a term the same proceedings shall be had as are now had in said
court subject to such rules as the said court may prescribe, as to pleading
and practice, and the cases shall be entered in their order on the trial
docket for the succeeding term.

1890, ch. 136, sec. 16P.

22. Every suit in which any defendant shall be returned summoned

except suit on contract as hereinafter provided, shall stand for trial or