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P. G. L., (1860,) art. 16, sec. 123. 1815, ch. 168, sec. 7. 1817, ch. 139.
1819, ch. 144, sec. 8.

176. A court of equity may issue process of any sort inclu-
ding commissions to take testimony to any part of the State.

1886, ch. 441.

177. The court may at any stage of a cause or matter, on the
application of any party thereto, or party in interest, by motion

or petition, or of its own motion, order the issue of a mandate

(affirmative injunction) or injunction, directing and commanding
any party to such cause or matter, or any party properly
brought before it under the existing practice, to do, or abstain
from doing, any act or acts, whether conjointly or in the alterna-
tive, whether in the nature of specific performance or otherwise
named in such mandate or injunction, and may make such terms
and conditions (as to security, &c.,) as to it may seem fit, pre-
liminary to the granting of such mandate or injunction.

Ibid.

178. Any party to the cause or matter, party in interest or

party against whom such mandate or injunction may issue, may
move to have the same discharged or dissolved, and an appeal
may be taken by any of such parties from the order granting
such mandate or injunction, or the refusal to discharge or
dissolve the same in such cases, and in such manner and on such
terms as is now allowed in case of injunctions.

Ibid.

179. The court may, at any stage of any cause or matter

concerning property, real or personal, on application, or of its

own motion, pass such order as to it may seem fit, with regard to
the possession of the same, pendente lite, or the receipt of the
income thereof, on such terms preliminary thereto (as to security,

&c.,) as to it may seem just, subject to the same right to move
for its discharge, and the same right of appeal as is given in the
preceding section.

Ibid.

180. The court may, on such terms and conditions (as to

security, &c.,) preliminary thereto, as to it may seem fit, in any