(4) Appointed Chief Justice July 26, 1911. Appointed July 26, 1911, to succeed Wm. Penn 17 COURT RULES COURT OF APPEALS OF MARYLAND Rules and Regulations Respecting Appeals (Numbers in brackets refer to sections of article 5 of Code of 1904.) APPEALS FROM COURTS OF LAW. 1. [Section 4.] Formal writs of error shall, in all cases, be dispensed with, and the party applying to have the record removed, as upon writ of error, in cases where by law writs of error are allowable, shall, by brief petition, addressed to the court in which the case was tried, plainly designate the points or questions of law by the decision of which he feels aggrieved; which application so to remove the record, shall be allowed as of right; and no point or question not thus plainly designated in such application shall be heard or determined by the Court of Appeals. 2. [Section 6.] no instruction actually given, shall be deemed to be defective by reason of any assumption therein of any fact by the said court, or because of a question of law having been thereby submitted to the jury, unless it appear, from the record, that an objection thereto for such defect was taken at the trial; nor shall any question arise in the Court of Appeals as to the insufficiency of evidence to support any instruction actually granted, unless it appear that such question was distinctly made to and decided by the court be low. 5. [Section 10.] Bills of exception shall be so prepared as only to present to the Court of Appeals the rulings of the court below upon some matter All appeals, or writs of error, allowed from of law, and shall contain only such statement any judgment or determination of a court of of facts as may be necessary to explain the law, to the Court of Appeals of this state, bearing of the rulings upon the issues or other than from decisions on questions aris-questions involved; and if the facts are uning under the insolvent law, shall be taken disputed, they shall be stated as facts, and within two months from the date of such the evidence from which they are deduced judgment or determination, and not after-shall not be set out; and if disputed, it shall wards; and the transcript of the record shall be sufficient to state that evidence was adbe transmitted to the Court of Appeals with- duced tending to prove them, instead of setin three months from the time of the appeal ting out the evidence in detail; but if a defect of proof be the ground of the ruling or taken, or writ of error allowed. exception, then the particulars in which the proof is supposed to be defective shall be briefly stated, and all the evidence offered in anywise connected with such supposed defect, shall be set out in the bill of exception. And it shall be the duty of the judges in the courts below to require exceptions to be prepared in accordance with this rule. 8. [Section 7.] All appeals allowed from decisions of questions arising under the insolvent law shall be taken within thirty days from the time of the decision made, and a transcript of the record shall be transmitted to the clerk of this court within sixty days from the date of the decision appealed from; but the execution or effect of any judgment, decree, decision or order so appealed from shall not be suspended or stayed, unless a bond shall be given in such penalty and condition, and with such security as the lower court may prescribe and approve. 6. [Section 12.] In no bill of exception shall any patent, deed, will, or other documentary evidence be inserted at length, but shall only be stated briefly, according to its import and effect, unless the nature of the question raised and decided render it necessary that it should be In no case shall the Court of Appeals de- inserted in extenso; nor shall any document cide any point or question which does not be more than once inserted at large in any plainly appear by the record to have been transcript to be sent to the Court of Aptried and decided by the court below; and peals. And it shall be the duty of the judges 4. [Section 9.] |