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occurring in their respective courts, or in connection with the business
thereof, to the circuit courts for the county in which such orphans' court
shall have jurisdiction, or to the supreme bench of Baltimore City, as the
case may be.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 13. 1912, sec. 12. 1904, sec. 12. 1888, sec. 12. 1721, ch. 14, see. 2.
1777, ch. 5, sec. 1. 1854, ch. 18, sec. 2. 1865, ch. 14. 1867, ch. 126.

24. Any attorney who, by his negligence in bringing a cause to a deci-
sion within the time limited by law shall suffer such cause to be discon-
tinued, shall forfeit the sum of one hundred dollars and all costs of suit
accrued on any action discontinued by his default; one-half to the party
grieved, and the other half to the State, for the use and benefit of the
county where such fines arise.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 14. 1912, sec. 13. 1904, sec. 13. 1900, ch. 13, sec. 12A.

25. Any attorney who shall habitually go to the several jails, station-
houses and other places of criminal punishment with the view of soliciting
the clientage of persons confined therein awaiting trial, without having
been first sent for by such persons or by their friends, or who shall solicit
such clientage through sheriffs, constables, jailors or professional law-
breakers, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon proper proof
before a court of which he shall be a member of the bar, shall be suspended
from practice in all the courts of this State for a period of not less than
one year; and the judge imposing the suspension shall have the same pub-
licly posted on the bulletin board of his said court, and shall direct the
clerk of his said court, under a penalty of five dollars for each default, to
send notice of such suspension to the clerk of every other court in the
State. Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, police officer, justice of the
peace or other official who shall act as such agent or broker for any lawyer
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be fined
not less than twenty-five dollars, or be imprisoned, in the discretion of the
court, for not less than thirty days.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 15. 1912, sec. 14. 1904, sec. 14. 1888, sec. 13. 1722, ch. 12, sec. 4.
1775, ch. 5, sec. 1. 1854, ch. 18, sec. 2. 1865, ch. 114. 1867, ch. 126.

26. The several courts of this State may, in their discretion, where
it shall appear to them that any plaintiff or defendant in any action
brought in said courts shall suffer by the negligence or omission of the
attorney, immediately adjudge such attorney to pay the lawful costs accru-
ing from such plaintiff or defendant through such neglect or omission,
not exceeding ten dollars; but if the costs exceed that sum, then the plain-
tiff or defendant shall be left to his remedy at common law; and every
attorney practising in the court of any county or city whereof he is not an
inhabitant may be sued in such county or city for any such omission or
neglect as if he resided therein.

Who May Not Practise Law.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 16. 1912, sec. 15. 1904, sec. 15. 1888, sec. 14. 1715, ch. 41, sec. 9.

27. No sheriff or deputy sheriff, warden or keeper of a jail, or any of
his deputies; no warden or keeper of the penitentiary, or deputy warden
or keeper thereof, shall be admitted to practise as attorney in any of the
courts of this State; and if any of said officers shall practise law in any
court of this State, he shall forfeit fifty dollars for each offense.