Jackson v. Jackson

Under Article 5 of the Declaration of Rights of the Constitution of Maryland of 1867, the inhabitants of this State are entitled to the common law as it existed in England on July 4, 1776, assuming of course, Maryland has made no change in the intervening period of time. Fischer v. Ball, 212 Md. 517, 129 A. 2d 822, 825. See Latz v. Latz, a/k/a Schafer, 10 Md. App. 720, 730, 272 A. 2d 434; State v. Magliano, 7 Md. App. 286, 292, 255 A. 2d 470. One of the rights to which the inhabitants of Maryland are entitled is, in an appropriate case, to request a court of chancery to issue a writ of ne…