Terms Used In Maryland Code, COURTS AND JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS 7-101

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • including: means includes or including by way of illustration and not by way of limitation. See
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Writ of certiorari: An order issued by the Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case for which it will hear on appeal.
In this subtitle, “costs” means any cost other than counsel fees necessary for prosecution of an appeal, application for leave to appeal, or filing a petition for writ of certiorari including but not limited to clerk’s fees, the cost of preparing a transcript of the testimony, the cost of preparing and transmitting the record, and the cost of the briefs, appendices, and printed record extract.