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a summons shall go for the assignee, if he be known; and if it appear
that such assignee had knowledge of such injunction, at the time
of accepting the transfer, or possession of property, or choses in
action, he also shall be held in contempt, and no title shall be deemed
to have passed to him; and he may be required to surrender to the
court, on its order, the property, money or choses in action, of which
he has become possessed; but if the purchaser, taker or assignee,
be innocent of contempt, his title, if otherwise good, shall be pro-
tected; and the court shall take proof of the value of such property,
money, or choses in action, disposed of, or assigned]; and the fine
in all cases provided for in this section shall remain to the credit of
the cause in which the injunction issued, and in the event of final
judgment in favor of the party injured, so much thereof as the
court may adjudge shall go to him, and the remainder go as other
fines do; and the court may imprison for noncompliance with their
order to pay such fine, and may issue execution, in the name of the
State, for its collection.

100. Whenever lands lie partly in one county and partly in an-
other, or partly in a county and partly in the City of Baltimore, or
whenever persons proper to be made 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 Baltimore, that court shall have
jurisdiction in which proceedings shall have been first commenced;
provided, that all proceedings 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 lie;
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 such
proceedings may be commenced in either county or in the City of
Baltimore [; provided, that, in case of any sale of land under a
decree of a court in any county where part only of the lands lie, a
copy of the bill, decree, and trustee's report of sale, and in case of
partition of real estate, a copy of the bill and the final decree of
partition, certified under the official seal by the clerk of the court in
which the proceedings were commenced, shall be filed in the clerk's
office of the court of the county, or of the City of Baltimore, where
any other part of such lands shall lie; and on receipt of such copies
by the clerk of such court, it shall be his duty forthwith to docket
and index the said bill and other proceedings in his chancery docket,
and to record the same as though said cause had originated in his
court J. When the defendants, or any of them, reside in a different
county from that in which the land lies which is to be affected by a
suit, the circuit court for the county (or Baltimore City) where the
land or any part thereof lies shall alone have jurisdiction; and
process may be sent to the county or counties wherein the defendants
respectively reside, to be served by the sheriff of such county or
counties upon the defendants named therein, and returnable as
directed in the summons.

102. In case of the lands of any deceased person which may lie
in more than one county, or in the City of Baltimore, and one or
more counties, becoming liable to the payment of his debts, or where
lands have been or may be mortgaged which lie in more than one
county or in the City of Baltimore and one or more counties, then