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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 442.

AN ACT to add an additional section to article
twenty-nine of the Code of Public General
Laws, title "Courts," to be numbered twenty-
three A.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-

Additional
section.

sembly of Maryland, That the following be and
the same hereby is added as an additional sec-
tion to article twenty-nine of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland, to be numbered
twenty-three A.
23A. Any party to an action or suit at law, or
in equity, may at any stage thereof apply to the

May give
relief.

court for such order or judgment as he may,
upon any admissions of fact in the pleadings or
other written admissions in the case, be entitled
to without waiting for the determination of any
other question between the parties. Such appli-
cation may be made by motion or petition so
soon as the right of the party applying to the
relief claimed has appealed from the pleadings
or other written admissions in such action or
suit, and the court may upon such application
give such relief, subject to such terms, if any,
as such court may think fit ; and such order or
judgment shall, with the proceedings relating
thereto, form part of the record and be review-
able on appeal from the final judgment or decree
in such action or suit.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1888.