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CORPORATIONS. [ART. 26.,
next preceding section; and nothing herein contained
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Road on pri-
vate property.
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shall authorize the location of any road on private pro-
property without consent of the owners or the decision
of the connty commissioners upon due hearing as now
prescribed by law for opening or altering public roads.
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PROCEEDINGS FOR PREVENTING, AND CORRECTING ABUSES OF THE
POWER OF CORPORATIONS, AND FOR THE FORFEITURE OF THEIR
CHARTERS.
Legal proceed-
ings against
corporations.
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176. Whenever the attorney general of the state, or
the state's attorney for the city of Baltimore, or for any
county in this state, shall be authorized by the gov-
ernor to institute proceedings against any corporation
incorporated under the laws of this state to ascertain
whether such corporation has been guilty of such mis-
use, abuse or nonuser of its corporate powers and
franchises as by law would authorize and make proper
the forfeiture of its charter, corporate powers and
franchises, the attorney general or state's attorney, so
authorized, shall -file in the court hereafter designated,
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Petition.
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a petition in the name of the state, setting forth fully
and in detail, the alleged abuse, misuse or nonuser, by
reason whereof the said forfeiture is sought, and upon
the filing of such petition, the court in which it is filed,
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Rule to show
cause.
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or any judge thereof, shall lay a rule requiring the said
corporation to show cause, within such time as the
judge may deem proper, why a decree of forfeiture
should not issue as grayed in said petition, a copy of
which rule and of the petition shall be served on the
said corporation by a day to be therein limited, which
shall be served as other process against such corpora-
tions is directed to be served.
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Answer by cor-
poration.
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177. The said corporation, by the day named in said
order, unless further time be granted by the court, shall
file an answer to such petition, fully setting forth all
the defenses upon which it intends to rely on resisting
such application, which shall be verified by the affir-
mation or affidavit of some officer of the said corpora-
tion.
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