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relieving accumulation of business or because of the
indisposition or disqualification of any judge. And any
judge so assigned by the Court of Appeals shall have all
the power and authority pertaining to the judge of the
court to which he is assigned. ]
14.
The Court of Appeals shall b€ composed of seven
judges, one from the First Appellate Judicial Circuit
consisting of Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Caroline,
Talbot, Dorchester, Wicomico, Worcester and Somerset
counties; one from the Second Appellate Judicial Circuit
consisting of Baltimore and Harfcrd counties; one from
the Third Appellate Judicial Circuit, consisting of
Allegany, Frederick, Garrett, Montgomery and Washington
counties; one from the Fourth Appellate Judicial Circuit,
consisting of Prince George's, Calvert, Charles and St.
Mary's counties; one from the Fifth Appellate Judicial
Circuit, consisting of Anne Arundel, Carroll and Hovard
counties; and two from the Sixth Appellate Judicial
Circuit, consisting of Baltimore City. The Judges of the
Court of Appeals shall be residents of their respective
Appellate Judicial Circuits. The term of each Judge of
the Court of Appeals shall begin en the date of his
qualification [except that each of the Judges of the
Court of Appeals in office at the time this amendment to
the Constitution takes effect shall continue to hold
office for the balance of the term for which he was
elected or appointed or until he shall have attained the
age of seventy years, whichever may first happen]. One
of the Judges of the Court of Appeals shall be designated
by the Governor as the Chief Judge. The jurisdiction of
the Court of Appeals shall be co-extensive with the
limits of the State and such as new is or may hereafter
be prescribed by lav. It shall held its sessions in the
City of Annapolis at such tine or times as it shall from
time to time by rule prescribe. Its session or sessions
shall continue not less than ten months in each year, if
the business before it shall so require, and it shall be
competent for the judges temporarily to transfer their
sittings elsewhere upon sufficient cause. The salary of
each Judge of the Court of Appeals shall be that now or
hereafter prescribed by the General Assembly and shall
not be diminished during his continuance in office. Five
of the judges shall constitute a quorum, and five judges
shall sit in each case unless the Court shall direct that
an additional judge or judges sit for any case. The
concurrence of a majority of those sitting shall be
sufficient for the decision of any cause, and an equal
division of those sitting in a case has the effect of
affirming the decision appealed from if there is no
application for reargument as hereinafter provided. In
any case where there is an equal division or a three to
two division of the Court a reargument before the full
Court of seven judges shall be granted to the losing
party upon application as a matter of right.
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