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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 54 B. In addition to the first day of
each term of the Circuit Court for said county,

Return days.

the first Monday of January, April, July and
October, in each year, shall be return days for
the return of process in civil cases.

SEC. 54 C. All original writs, writs of execu-
tion, attachments, replevin, ejectment, seire
facias and habere facias, as well as all other
writs and process issued from or returnable to
said Court in civil cases, shall be made return-
able to the first return day or to the first day

When return-
able.

of the term , whichever shall first occur after
the issue of the same, unless otherwise ordered
in writing by the party directing the same, or
his attorney, and on the return of an original
writ, not executed, the same may be renewed,
returnable to the next return day, or to the
first day of the succeeding term, whichever
shall first occur.

SEC. 54 D. If a defendant be returned sum-

Appearance.

moned and shall fail to appear, the Clerk of
the Court shall, on the day following the re-
turn day to which the writ or process served
on him is returnable, enter the appearance of
any defendant so summoned and failing to
appear, and the action shall proceed in the
same manner as if the party had appeared in
person.

SEC. 54 E. In all cases when a party is re-
turned summoned to a return day or to a term,
the same proceedings shall be had as are

Court to pre-
scribe rules.

now had in said Court, subject to such rules
as the said Court may prescribe as to pleading
and practice, and the cases shall be entered
in their order on the trial docket for the suc-
ceeding term.

Trial term.

SEC. 54 F. Every suit in which any defend-
ant shall be returned summoned, except suit
on contract, as hereinafter provided, shall stand
for trial or judgment at the term next succeed-
ing the rule day or term to which said def en-