ART. 23.] CORPORATIONS—ABUSE OF POWER. 387

exercise of his own discretion, to direct the attorney general, or
State's attorney for any county in this State, or for the city of
Baltimore, to file a bill in the circuit court of Baltimore city, or
in the circuit court for any county, in the name of the State,
against any corporation incorporated under the laws of this State,
for the purpose of restraining, by injunction, any such corporation

from assuming or exercising any franchise, liberty or privilege,

or transacting any business not allowed by the charter, certificate

or amended certificate of incorporation of said corporation, or not
by law allowed to be assumed or exercised by said corporation;
and in the same manner, and by like authority, a bill may be

filed to restrain any individuals from exercising any corporate
rights, privileges or franchises not granted to them by any law of
this State; and such bill, when filed against a corporation, shall
be filed in the circuit court of Baltimore city, if the principal
office or place of the business operations of said corporation shall
be located therein, or in the circuit court for the county in which
the principal office or place of the business operations of said cor-
poration shall be located; and if the said bill is filed against any
individuals, it shall be filed in the city or county in which some
one of the individuals sought to be restrained may reside; and
upon the filing of any such bill, the court in which it shall be
filed shall have power to issue the injunction either before or
after hearing, and under and on such terras as it may prescribe,
and generally shall have and exercise all the powers of a court of
equity over the subject-matter of said bill; and all provisions of
the laws of this State, relating to the granting, continuing or
dissolving of injunctions in other cases, and providing for appeals
to the court of appeals, which may be applicable, shall apply to
proceedings under this section.

Dissolution of Corporations.

1868, ch. 471, sec 185.

264. Whenever any corporation in this State shall have been

determined by legal proceedings to be insolvent, it shall be
deemed to have surrendered its corporate rights, privileges and
franchises, and may be adjudged to be dissolved, after a hearing
according to the practice of courts of equity in this State, upon a
bill filed for that purpose in the circuit court of Baltimore city,