ATTORNEYS AT LAW AND ATTORNEYS IN FACT 389

An. Code 1924, sec 17. 1912, sec. 16. 1904, sec. 16. 1888, sec. 15. 1786, ch. 10. 1862, ch. 179.
1868, ch. 404. 1898, ch. 472. 1914, ch. 236.

28. Any Register of Wills or Clerk of any Court, or Deputy Register
or Clerk or assistant Clerk, appointee or employee of said Register of
Wills or Clerk of any Court, or bailiff of any Court, or officer or employee
of any Juvenile Court, who shall pursue the practice as attorney at law
in this State during the term of their office or appointment, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be fined not less than
Twenty-five Dollars nor more than One Hundred Dollars, and be suspended
from the practice of law before any of the Courts of Maryland for one year.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 18. 1912, sec. 17. 1904, sec. 17. 1888, sec. 16. 1715, ch. 41, sec. 9,
1791, ch. 76, sec. 3. 1796, ch. 43, sec. 8.

29. No judge of any court of this State, including the judges of the
orphans' courts, shall act as attorney or solicitor in any court of law or
equity in this State, during the time for which he shall act as such.

1939, ch. 474.

30. It shall be unlawful for any Sheriff or Deputy Sheriff, Warden or
keeper of any Jail or any of his deputies, or any Register of Wills or
Clerk of any Court or Deputy Register or Clerk, or Assistant Clerk, ap-
pointee or employee of any Register of Wills or Clerk of any Court or
Judge of the Orphans' Court of Washington County, during the term of
his office or employment, and whether duly admitted to the practice of law
or not, directly or indirectly, to provide, prepare or assist in the prepara-
tion of any paper, form, instrument or document to be filed in or affect-
ing or pertaining to any cause, cause of action, proceeding or matter
pending or which may thereafter come before any Court of Record of said
Washington County, or to give any advice with reference thereto, whether
for any fee, gratuity, gift or reward or not, except in any such cause, cause
of action, proceeding or matter in which he is a party or in the result of
which he has a property interest; the doing of any of the acts made unlaw-
ful by this section shall be deemed to be practicing law; provided, however,
that the performance of any positive duty imposed by law upon any of
the persons hereinabove named shall not constitute a violation of the terms
of this section.

Practicing Without Being Admitted to the Bar.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 19. 1912, sec. 18. 1904, sec. 18. 1900, ch. 699, sec. 16A.

31. Any person who shall exact, demand, take or receive from any per-
son whatsoever any fee, gratuity, gift or reward for his advice or service
as an attorney at law without having been admitted to the bar agreeably
to the provisions of this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof shall be liable to a fine of not more than one hundred
dollars, or confinement in jail for not more than thirty days, or both fine
and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

Person participating in trial of cause before a justice of the peace does not thereby
act as attorney at law so as to be subject to the penalties provided in Secs. 31 and 32
Rehm v. Coal Co., 169 Md. 365.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 20. 1912, sec. 19: 1908, ch. 595.

32. Any person who has not been duly admitted to the bar in this State,
or elsewhere, or who, after having been so admitted, shall have been dis-