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IN RE KEMMO N.

No. 64, September Term, 1988.

315 Md. 193 (1989)

553 A.2d 1273

IN RE KEMMO N.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

March 2, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judson P. Garrett, Jr., Deputy Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Cathleen C. Brockmeyer, Asst. Atty. Gen., all on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

John L. Kopolow, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, both on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS, BLACKWELL and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr. (retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.

CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge, Specially Assigned.

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For over two hundred years in Maryland, statutory construction has been an integral part of the appellate function. As early as 1755, in Hammond v. Denton, 1 H. & McH. 135, the "Court of Appeals of Maryland" was concerned with the intent of a legislative enactment. Since 1965 some thousand Maryland appellate opinions have quested legislative intent. The reason for the plethora of opinions is that...

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