88 ATTORNEYS. [ART. 10.

or omission of the attorney, immediately adjudge such attorney
to pay the lawful costs accruing from such plaintiff or defendant
through such neglect or omission, not exceeding ten dollars; but
if the costs exceed that sum, then the plaintiff or defendant shall
be left to his remedy at common law; and every attorney
practising in the court of any county or city whereof he is not
an inhabitant, may be sued in such county or city for any such
Omission or neglect as if he resided therein.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 11, sec. 15. 1715, ch. 41, sec. 9.

14. No sheriff or deputy sheriff, warden or keeper of a jail,
or any of his deputies; no warden or keeper of the penitentiary,
or deputy warden or keeper thereof, shall be admitted to practise
as attorney in any of the courts of this State; and if any of said
officers shall practise law in any court of this State, he shall for-
feit fifty dollars for each offense.

Ibid, sec 16. 1788, ch 10. 1862, ch. 179. 1868, ch. 404.

15. No register of wills or clerk of any court shall practise as
attorney at law in any of the courts of this State, whatsoever;
nor shall any deputy register of wills, or any deputy clerk of any
court, practise as attorney at law in any court of this State of
which he is an officer, or to which he may be attached as a dep-
uty or assistant officer.

Ibid. sec. 17. 1715, ch. 41, sec. 9. 1791, ch. 76, sec. 3. 1796, ch 43, sec. 8.

16. No judge of any court of this State, including the judges
of the orphans' courts, shall act as attorney or solicitor in any
court of law or equity in this State, during the time for which he
shall act as such.

State's Attorney.
P. G. L., (1860,) art. 11, sec. 18. 1821, ch. 126. 1862, ch. 177.

17. The State's attorney for each county shall, in such county,
prosecute and defend, on the part of the State, all cases in which
the State may be interested.

McCauley v. State, 21 Md. 568.

Ibid. sec. 19. 1795, ch. 74, sec. 2.

18. He shall, ex officio, on the application of the sheriff of
his county, order execution to be issued for the recovery of all