ART. 75] CONTINUANCE. 1667

1888, art. 75, sec. 65. 1860, art. 75, sec. 43. 1787, ch. 9, sec. 9.

67. On a special verdict, or case stated, the court shall not
continue any case on a curia advisari vult longer than two terms.

Ibid. sec. 66. 1860, art. 75, sec. 44. 1787, ch. 9, sec. 4.

68. If plots returned in any cause are defective and cannot
be amended at the bar, or if plots are not returned from the
neglect of the surveyor, his sickness or other accident, and the
court shall think a continuance necessary for a fair trial of the
cause, the same may be continued for such reasonable time as
the court may determine.

Clagett v. Easterday, 42 Md. 617.

Ibid. sec. 67. 1860, art. 75, sec. 45. 1787, ch. 9, sec. 2.

69. In all cases where a continuance is granted the party
applying for the same shall pay the costs of the term unless
the court shall otherwise direct.

Ibid. sec. 68. 1888, ch 271.

70. The court in which an action shall be after a new trial
has been ordered by the court of appeals, or by that court,
shall have power to stay all further proceedings in such action
until all or any of the costs adjudged by the court of appeals,
or by that court, shall have been paid by the party adjudged
to pay the same.

Knee v. City Pass. Ry. Co., 87 Md. 623.

Ejectment.

sec. 69. 1870, ch. 420. 1872, ch. 346, sec. 46, sub-sec. 1. 1888, ch. 547.

71. The action of ejectment shall be commenced by filing a
declaration in which the real claimant shall be named as plain-
tiff and the tenant in possession or the party claiming adversely
to the plaintiff shall be defendant; it shall be sufficient to
state in the declaration that the plaintiff was in possession of
the land or premises described in the declaration and that
the defendant ejected him therefrom and retains possession
thereof and the amount of damages claimed by the plaintiff; a
copy of the declaration, with a writ of summons, as in other
cases, addressed to the defendant, shall be served on each of
the defendants, or if they cannot be found, upon the person
or persons in actual possession of the land described in the
declaration, and if there be no person in possession of the