ART. 16] JURISDICTION. 401

give a bond in a penalty to be fixed by the court, and with a
surety or sureties approved by the court, to answer all damages
and costs that he may be adjudged by any court of competent
jurisdiction to pay to the party asking such mandamus or
injunction by reason of his not doing the act or acts sought to
be commanded, or by reason of his doing the act or acts sought
to be enjoined, as the case may be.
Frederick Co. Bank v. Shafer, 87 Md. 58. Conner v. Groh, 90 Md. 684.

Jurisdiction.

1888, art. 16, sec. 70. 1860, art. 16, sec. 56. 1852, ch. 16, sec. 1.
1853, ch. 122, sec. 2.

81. The judges of the several judicial circuits and the judges
of the circuit courts of Baltimore city shall each, in his respec-
tive circuit, have and exercise all the power, and authority and
jurisdiction which the court of chancery formerly held and
exercised, except in so far as the same may be modified by
this code.

Carroll v. Lee, 3 G. & J. 504. Brown v. Wallace, 4 G. & J. 493. White v.
White, 7 G. & J. 208. Amelung v Seekamp, 9 G. & J. 468. Manly v. State,
7 Md. 146. Earle v. Turton, 26 Md. 23.

Ibid. sec. 71. 1860, art. 16, sec 57. 1852, ch. 16, secs. 2-4.

82. Each of the circuit judges may grant injunctions, or
pass orders or decrees in equity, at any place in his circuit,
to take effect in any part of his circuit, and may require in
writing the original papers in any case, or abstracts and trans-
scripts to be produced before him, wherever he may be in his
circuit.

Graham v. Harford Co., 87 Md. 327.

Ibid. sec. 72. 1860, art. 16, sec 58. 1852, ch. 16, sec. 5. 1870, ch. 450, sec. 1.

83. Whenever lands lie partly in one county and partly in
another, or partly in a county and partly in the city of Balti-
more, or whenever persons proper to be mode defendants to
proceedings in chancery reside, some in one county and some
in another, or some in a county and some in the city of Balti-
more, that court shall have jurisdiction in which proceedings
shall have been first commenced; provided, that all proceed-
ings for any partition of real estate, to foreclose mortgages on
land, or to sell lands under a mortgage, or to enforce any
charge or lien on the same shall be instituted in the court of
the county or the city of Baltimore where such lands lift; or if
the lands lie partly in one county and partly in another, or
partly in one county and partly in the city of Baltimore, then

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