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1783.

CHAP.
 XVII.

No subject to
be hereafter
admitted before
study,
&c.

                                LAWS of MARYLAND.

    V.  And be it enacted, That hereafter, no subject of this state, who is not already
admitted as an attorney or solicitor of some one of the courts in this state, shall
be admitted to act as an attorney, or to sue out any writ or process, or to commence,
carry on or defend, any action or suit, or any proceedings, either before
or after judgment obtained, in the name or names of any other person or persons,
in any court of law or equity, or in the court of admiralty, or any orphans court
in this state, unless such person shall have served as a clerk to, or studied under,
some attorney or solicitor or this, or some one of the United States, duly and
legally sworn and admitted, and that such person shall, for and during the term
of three years, have continued in such service, and also unless such person, after
the expiration of the said term of three years, shall be examined, sworn, admitted
and enrolled, in the same manner as above directed with respect to persons
hereafter to be admitted.

Court may
suspend attornies,
&c.
    VI.  And be it enacted, That the several and respective courts shall have full
power and authority, upon any application to such court by any person or persons
grieved, that any attorney or solicitor of such court, for business hereafter to be
done, hath exacted and taken a larger and greater reward than the service performed
was reasonably worth, to summon such attorney or solicitor complained
of, and, on appearance or refusal to appear, to hear and determine such complaint,
and if it shall appear to such court, upon examination, that any attorney or solicitor
has exacted more from the party complaining, for any service rendered,
than such service was reasonably worth, such court shall and may order such
attorney or solicitor to return, within six weeks, to the party grieved, whatever
sum of money, tobacco, or other commodity, has been, by such attorney or
solicitor, received more than the service shall be adjudged reasonably to be worth;
and if such attorney or solicitor shall refuse to comply with such order, it shall
and may be lawful for such court to suspend such attorney or solicitor from practising
in such court until such order is complied with, or to strike such attorney
or solicitor from the roll of attornies or solicitors; provided that such complaint
be made within six months after the service performed, by the cause being tried,
or otherwise out of court, and not otherwise.
Persons aggrieved
may
appeal, &c.
    VII.  And be it enacted, That any person apprehending himself aggrieved, by
the judgment or determination of any court upon the subjects and matters contained
in this act, shall have a right to appeal to the superior courts, according
to their respective jurisdictions, as the course of appeal is settled by law in other
cases; and if the superior court shall be of opinion, that any attorney or solicitor
has been unjustly denies admission, or suspended or struck out of the rolls of
attornies or solicitors against law, such superior court shall, by mandamus, order
such attorney or solicitor, unjustly denied admission or illegally suspended, to be
admitted as an attorney or solicitor, or reinstated, as the case may be.
Continuance.     VIII.  This act to continue for three years, and until the end of the next
session of assembly which shall happen thereafter.
                                            CHAP. XVIII.
An ACT to authorise and empower Charles Greenbury Ridgely, son and heir at
    law of Charles Greenbury Ridgely, late of Anne-Arundel county, deceased,
    jointly with Sarah Ridgely and Henry Ridgely, administrators of the said
    Charles Greenbury Ridgely, deceased, to sell and dispose of a part of the real
    estate of the deceased, for the payment of his debts.  PR.
                                            CHAP. XIX.
        An ACT for the relief of Charles Dunkin, of Worcester county.  PR.
                                            CHAP. XX.
An ACT to explain and amend an act for the sale of certain confiscated British
                                                property.
                                            CHAP. XXI.
A Supplement to the act to authorise the commissioners for the preservation and
    sale of confiscated British property, to convey certain lands in Wiccomico manor
    to several of the tenants thereof.


 
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