|
SECTION 1. B e it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That section twenty, of article
five of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled
appeals, be amended and re-enacted, so as to read
as follows:
20. An appeal shall be allowed from any final
decree or order in the nature of a final decree,
passed by a Court of Equity, by any one or more
of the persons parties to the suit, with or without
the assent of joinder of co-complainants or co-de-
fendants in such appeal; provided, that if the
Court of Appeals shall affirm the judgment of the
Court below, they shall not award costs of the ap-
peal against any one except the person or persons
that shall have appealed; provided, such appeal
be taken within nine months from the time of
making such decree or order, and not afterwards,
unless it shall be alleged on oath that such order
was obtained by fraud or mistake.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect, from the day of its passage, and shall
not apply to any now pending.
|
Amended and
re-enacted.
Appeal to be
allowed.
Provisos.
In force.
|
