156 CHANCERY—JURISDICTION. [ART. 16.

original papers in any case, or abstracts and transcripts to be
produced before him, wherever he may be in his circuit.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 16, sec. 58. 1852, ch. 16, sec 5 1870, ch. 450, sec. 1.

72. Whenever lands lie partly in one county and partly in
another, or partly in a county and partly in the city of Baltimore,
or whenever persons proper to be made defendants to proceed-
ings in chancery reside, some in one county and some in another,
or some in a county and some in the city of Baltimore, that

court shall have jurisdiction in which proceedings shall have
been first commenced; provided, that all proceedings for any
partition of real estate, to foreclose mortgages on land, or to sell
lands under a mortgage, or to enforce any charge or lien on the
same shall be instituted in the court of the county or the city of
Baltimore where such lands lie; or if the lands lie partly in one

county and partly in another, or partly in one county and partly
in the city of Baltimore, then such proceedings may be com-
menced in either county or in the city of Baltimore; provided,
that in case of any sale of lands under a decree of a court in any

county where part only of the lands lie, a copy of the bill, decree
and trustee's report of sale, and in case of partition of real estate,
a copy of the bill and the final decree of partition, certified under
the official seal by the clerk of the court in which the proceed-
ings were commenced, shall be filed in the clerk's office of the

court of the county, or of the city of Baltimore where any other
part of such lands shall lie; and on receipt of such copies by the
clerk of such court, it shall be his duty forthwith to docket and
index the said bill and other proceedings in his chancery docket,
and to record the same as though said cause had originated in
his court. When the defendants, or any of them, reside in a

different county from that in which the land lies which is to be
affected by a suit, the circuit court for the county (or Baltimore

city,) where the land or any part thereof lies, shall alone have
jurisdiction; and process may be sent to the county or counties
wherein the defendants respectively reside, to be served by the
sheriff of such county or counties upon the defendants named
therein, and returnable as directed in the summons.
Johnson v. Johnson, 52 Md. 668.