Terms Used In Maryland Code, COURTS AND JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS 13-204

  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • including: means includes or including by way of illustration and not by way of limitation. See
  • Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
  • state: means :

    (1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or

    (2) the District of Columbia. See
(a) The State Reporter, under the direction and supervision of the Court of Appeals, shall let the necessary contracts for publishing the Maryland Reports, containing opinions of the Court of Appeals, and the Maryland Appellate Reports, containing opinions of the Court of Special Appeals. The contracts may be awarded on the terms and conditions the State Reporter deems necessary.

(b) The publisher shall deliver to the State Reporter copies of the Maryland Reports and Maryland Appellate Reports, including advance reports, in the number and with the binding specified in the contracts.

(c) The State Reporter shall have the Maryland Reports and Maryland Appellate Reports distributed as appropriate and may deliver any excess copies to the Thurgood Marshall State Law Library.