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General or prosecuting attorney for the State to cause a summons or notice
to be directed to the said corporation, joint stock company or association,
in its corporate name, to appear at the said court to answer to such indict-
ment or information, and such process may be served in the same manner
as provided for service of process in civil suits mentioned in sections num-
bered 411 and 412 of Article 23 of Poe's Code of Public General Laws of
1904, entitled "Corporations," sub-title "Process." ¹

This section recognizes the existence of unincorporated joint stock companies or
associations doing business in Maryland. The status of real estate held by trustees of
Adams Express Company. Riffon Realty Corporation v. Adams Land, etc., Co., 128
Md. 662.

Re. process against corporations in civil suits, see art. 23, secs. 109, 111 and 119.

Cited but not construed in Ex parte General News Bureau, 162 Md. 647.

An. Code, 1924, sec 728. 1912, sec. 729. 1906, ch. 403.

816. When the sheriff or other officer shall return such summons or
notice "summoned" or "served" the said corporation, joint stock company
or association shall be considered as in court and as appearing to said
indictment or information; and the court shall order the clerk to enter an
appearance for said corporation, joint stock company or association, and
indorse the plea of not guilty on said indictment or information, and further
proceedings may then be had thereon, in the same manner as if the said cor-
poration, joint stock company or association had appeared and pleaded not
guilty; and if the said corporation, joint stock company or association shall
be convicted on said indictment or information, the said court may proceed
to pass judgment thereon and cause process of execution to be issued to the
sheriff of the county against the goods and chattels, or land and tenements
of the said corporation, joint stock company or association for the amount
of the fine and costs which may be awarded against them, in the same
manner as on a judgment in a civil action; and the said sheriff shall proceed
to sell the goods and chattels or lands and tenements of the said corporation
joint stock company or association, on the said execution in the same man-
ner as on executions issued in a civil suit.

Cited but not construed in Ex parte General News Bureau, 162 Md. 647.

¹ See art. 23, secs. 119.