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

cause or matter, upon application by any party thereto, or party
in interest, or of its own motion, pass an order charging the
income, or the interest or dividends on any property, real or
personal, or chose in action, for any purpose, and the same shall
take effect from the time when it shall be by copy served on, or
otherwise come to the knowledge of, the person or persons, or
corporation (through its proper officer,) whose duty it might be
to pay the same to the person, persons or corporation otherwise
entitled to the same; but such person or persons, or corporation,
or any of them, or the person or persons, or corporation, whose
duty it is to pay the same, or any party to the cause or matter, or
in interest, shall be entitled to apply by petition or motion for the
discharge of such order; and such order, or the refusal to dis-
charge the same, shall be subject to the same right of appeal as
that given in sections 177 and 178.

1886, ch. 441

181. All orders or writs issued under the four foregoing
sections, shall bind any person or persons, or corporation, against
whom the same may be passed or issued, from the time when the
passing or issuing of the same shall come to the knowledge of
such person or persons, or corporation, by service or otherwise.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 16, sec 124. 1785, ch. 72. 1790, ch. 60. 1816, ch. 154.
1818, chs. 133,193. 1828, ch. 184. 1831, ch. 311. 1833, ch 150.

182. No decree pro confesso shall be passed against an infant
or insane defendant under the preceding sections relating to pro-
cess; but such infant or insane defendant shall be proceeded
against according to the provisions of this article relating specially
to infants and persons non compotes mentis.

1886, ch. 334.

183. If it appear to the court, either from the pleadings or
otherwise, that there is a question of law in any case, which it
would be convenient to have decided before any evidence is
given, or any question or issue of fact is tried, the court may
make an order accordingly, and may direct such question of law
to be raised for the opinion of the court, either by special case or
in such other manner as the court may deem expedient; and all