Terms Used In Maryland Code, COURTS AND JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS 10-203

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • County: means a county of the State or Baltimore City. See
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • state: means :

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

    (2) the District of Columbia. See
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
(a) (1) The public laws, ordinances, regulations, and resolutions approved and enacted by a county or municipal corporation of the State, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, or the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, shall be judicially noticed or read in evidence from the printed volumes or from a true copy of an amendment published by the authority of the county or municipal corporation.

(2) The contents of the Maryland Register and the Code of Maryland Regulations shall be judicially noticed from the official text of those publications.

(b) The private laws and resolutions published by the authority of the State may be read in evidence from the printed statute book.