186 CHANCERY—PLEADING, PRACTICE, PROCESS. [ART. 16.

and have immediate connection with the subject-matter of the
suit.

Belt v. Bowie, 65 Md. 350.

Rule 34.

162. If a defendant shall, at the hearing of the cause, object
that the suit is defective for want of parties, not having by plea
or answer taken the objection, and therein specified by name or
description the parties to whom the objection applies, the court
or judge thereof, if it be deemed proper, shall be at liberty to
make a decree, saving the rights of the absent parties, or may
require the plaintiff to bring in such absent party, upon such
terms as the court may prescribe as to costs.

Rule 35.

163. Where the defendant shall, by his answer, suggest that
the bill is defective for want of parties, the plaintiff shall be at
liberty, within fifteen days after answer filed, to set down the
cause for argument upon that objection only; and the clerk, at
the instance of the plaintiff, shall make entry thereof in his
docket in the following form: " Set down upon the defendant's
objection for want of parties." And if the plaintiff shall not set
down the cause, but shall proceed therewith to a hearing, not-
withstanding the objection for want of parties taken by the
answer, he shall not, at the hearing of the cause, if the defend-
ant's objection for want of parties be then allowed, be entitled, as
of course, to an order for liberty to amend his bill by adding par-
ties ; but the court or judge thereof may, if it be thought fit, dis-
miss the bill. If, however, the cause be set down upon the
objection taken, and, upon hearing, the objection be allowed, the
plaintiff shall have liberty to amend, upon paying the cost of"
amendment.

Bale 50.

164. All final decrees, and orders in the nature of final
decrees, shall be considered as enrolled from and after the expir-
ation of thirty days from the date of the same, the day of the
date inclusive.

Rule 51.

165. Clerical mistakes in decrees or decretal orders, or errors
arising from any accidental slip or omission, may, at any time