PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY. 3773
CIRCUIT COURT.

P L L, 1888, Art 17, sec 81 1892, ch 260 1912 Code, sec 131

194. There shall be two regular terms of the Circuit Courts for the
several counties of Prince George's, Calvert, St Mary's and Charles, com-
posing the Seventh Judicial Circuit of this State, to which jurors shall be
summoned, and said terms shall be held at the following times; for Prince
George's county, at Upper Marlboro, on the first Monday of April and
October in each year, for Calvert county, at Prince Frederick, on the first
Monday of May and the Wednesday next after the first Monday in Novem-
ber in each year, for St Mary's county, at Leonardtown, on the third
Monday of March and September in each year, and for Charles county, at
La Plata on the third Monday of May and November in each year

P L L, 1888, Art 17, sec 82 1912 Code, sec 132

195. There shall be two other and intermediate terms of each of said
Courts, to which jurors shall not be summoned, to be held at the several
places mentioned, and at the following times, for Prince George's county,
on the third Monday of January and June, for Calvert county, on the
first Monday of July and February, for St Mary's county, on the first
Monday of June and December, and for Charles county, on the third
Monday of February and July of each year

1910, ch 513, sec 83 1912 Code, sec 133

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

Townshend v Chew, 31 Md 247, Down's case, 78 Md 128

SPEEDY JUDGMENT ACT
1904, ch 345, sec 1 1912 Code, sec 134 1916, ch 513

197. In any action hereafter brought in the Circuit Court of Prince
George's County arising ex contractu, if the plaintiff or his agent shall
file at the time of bringing his action an affidavit setting out distinctly his
cause of action and the sum he claims to be due, exclusive of all set-offs
and just grounds of defense, and shall seive the defendant with copies
of his declaration and of said affidavit, he shall be entitled to a judgment
for the amount so claimed, with interest and costs, forty days after such
service unless the defendant shall file a plea which if in bar is accom-
panied by an affidavit of defense denying the light of the plaintiff as to the
whole or some specified part of his claim specially stating also, in precise
and distinct terms, the ground of his defense, which must be such, as would,
if true, be sufficient to defeat the plaintiff's claim in whole or in part, and
where the defendant shall have acknowledged in his affidavit of defense
his liability for a part of the plaintiff's claim as aforesaid, the plaintiff,
if he so elect may have judgment entered in his favor for the amount so