The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-05-19
PUBLIC
GENERAL LAWS
PASSED by THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND
At the January Session, 1876.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
TCHAPTER 224. !
CHANGER Y.
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PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

AN ACT
TO repeal sections ffty-one, iifty-two and fifty
three Of article sixteen Of the Code Of Pub
lie General Laws, title "Chancery," subtitle
'Iniunction, " and to re-enact the same with
amendments.
Sec l. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, That Sections ffty-one. fifty
two and fifty-threc of Article sixteen of the Code
of Public General Laws, title Chancery, subtitle
Injunction be, and the same are hereby repealed
amended and re-enacted so MS to read as follows
81. If any person against whom an injunction
has been issued, shall violate the same after SER
vice thereof, OR shall permit or connive at the
violation thereof BY any other person, the court
on notice of such violation, may issue attach
ment of contempt against such person and if on
proof the party be adiudged guilty OF the con-
tempt, he may be fined or imprisoned, or both,
in the discretion Of the court.
50. If the violation complained Of be waste
after injunction TO stay waste, the court shall
ascertain the damage done by the waste by atli-
dayit or such other proof as the court may judge
necessary, and may fine the defendant to the ex-
tent of double the damage done and so ascel-
t.red and if the violation be the transfer Of
moneys, property or chooses in action after in
junction forbidding such transfer, in addition to
the attachment against the defendant summons
shall 60 for the assignee if he be known, and if
it appear that such assignee had knowledge of
snch Injunction at the time of accepting the
transfer, or possession of property, or chooses in
action, he also shall be held in contempt and no
title shall be deemed to have passed to him, and
he nay be required TO surrender TO the court, on
its order, the property, money or chooses in &C
ton of which he has become possessed, but if
the purchaser, t0ker or assignee he innocent of
contempt, his title, if otherwise good, shall be
protected and the court shall take proof Of the
value of such property, money, or chooses in ac-
ton 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 injunc-
ton issued, and in the event of final judgment
in favor of the party injured, so much thereof as
the court may adjudge shall 90 to him and the
remainder 60 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.
So If any person under attachment for violat-
inc an injunction shall establish his innocence
of the charge, he shall be discharged with his
costs which shall be paid by the party complain
ing.
Sec .. And be it enacted, That this Act
shall take effect from the date of its passage
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is true
and perfect copy of an Act passed the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, at the January
: ssion, 1876.
AUGUSTUS GASSAWAY,
Secretary of the Senate
MILTON y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk House oS Delegates.
Approved April 3, 1876.