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third degree, counting down from a common ancestor to the more remote,
shall be disqualified from sitting in such cause.
Cited but not construed in Ex parte Bowles, 164 Md. 325.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 32. 1912, sec. 32. 1904, sec. 32. 1888, sec. 31. 1852, ch. 82.

31. No judge of the court of appeals shall be deemed to have aban-
doned his residence in the judicial circuit for which he shall have been
elected by reason of his residence in Annapolis during the term for which
he may have been elected, unless he shall signify his intention so to aban-
don his residence in his said district by voting in the city of Annapolis.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 33. 1912, sec. 33. 1904, sec. 33. 1888, sec. 32. 1780, ch. 11,

sec. 4. 1795, ch. 55.

32. Any one of the judges of the court of appeals, in the absence of
the others, may adjourn the court until the attendance of the other judges
can be had; and in the absence of all the judges, the clerk may adjourn
the court from day to day until a judge is present.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 34. 1912, sec. 34. 1904, sec. 34. 1888, sec. 33. 1780, ch. 11, sec. 4.

33. Any one of the judges may take the return of process, and may
order the issuing of the same, and may enter continuances by consent of
the parties.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 35. 1912, sec. 35. 1904, sec. 35. 1888, sec. 34. 1886, ch. 185.

34. The court of appeals shall hold its sessions on the second Monday
in January, the first Monday in April, and the first Monday in October
of each and every year; no action in the court of appeals shall continue
longer than the end of the fourth term after the same shall have been in-
stituted, unless by consent of the parties.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 35A. 1927, ch. 684. 1939, ch. 719, sec. 35A.

35. The Court of Appeals is authorized and requested to prescribe by
general rules, the practice and procedure in all civil actions both at law and
in equity in all Courts of Record throughout the State. Such general
rules may, if the Judges of the Court of Appeals deem it advisable, unite
the practice and procedure in actions at law and suits in equity so as to
secure one form of civil action and procedure for both. Such general rules
may regulate all appeals in civil actions and may likewise regulate the
form and method of taking and the admissibility of evidence in all civil
actions. Such rules shall neither abridge, enlarge, nor modify the sub-
stantive rights of any litigant, nor shall any such rules apply to practice
and procedure in criminal cases, but as used in this Act, the terms "prac-
tice and procedure" shall be liberally construed, and without intending
hereby to limit their comprehensive application, shall be deemed to in-
clude the forms of process, writs, pleadings and motions, and the subjects
of parties, depositions, discovery, trials, judgments, new trials and provi-
sional and final remedies. Such general rules shall be reported to the
General Assembly of Maryland within thirty days after the beginning
of its next regular session and except as modified or repealed by Act of the
General Assembly shall take effect on the 1st day of September, 1941.
Upon taking effect, such rules and any subsequent amendments or addi-
tions thereto, shall supersede any prior inconsistent public general law,