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Session Laws, 1929
Volume 572, Page 1019   View pdf image (33K)
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ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1019

barred the right to appeal to the Court of Appeals of Mary-
land, regulating such appeals and conferring certain powers
on the Court of Appeals in relation thereto, and imposing
certain duties on the Clerk of the Court of Appeals and on
the Clerks of the Courts of the several counties and on the
Clerk of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City in relation
to said proceedings, and to repeal and re-enact, with amend-
ments, Section 11 of said Article forbidding the practice
of law by any suspended or disbarred attorney during
the period of his suspension or disbarment, and to add a
new section to said Article 10, to follow immediately after
Section 11 of said Article, to be known as 11A, making it a
misdemeanor for a suspended or disbarred attorney to
practice law during the period of his suspension or disbar-
ment, and prescribing the penalties therefor.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland,
That Section 10 of Article 10 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland, title "Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact, "
sub-title "Misconduct of Attorneys at Law—Negligence—Dis-
barment—Suspension, " be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, so as to read as follows:

10. The judges of the several courts of this State shall ob-
serve the demeanor of all attorneys practising the law before
them, who shall use any indecent liberties to the lessening of
the grandeur and authority of their respective courts, and shall
discountenance and punish the same according to the nature of
the offense, either by suspending such attorney from his prac-
tise for a time, not exceeding thirty days, or by fine (at the
discretion of the court) not exceeding Fifty Dollars for any
one offense.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That eight new sections
be added to said Article 10 to be known as 10A, 10B, 100,
10D, 10E, 10F, 10G and 10H, to follow immediately after
said Section 10 of said Article and to read as follows:

10A. Whenever a judge of any of the several courts of this
State shall have reasonable ground to believe that any attorney
admitted to the practice of law in his court is guilty of profes-
sional misconduct, malpractice, fraud, deceit, crime involving
moral turpitude, or conduct prejudicial to the administration


 

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