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The Maryland Code : Public General Laws and Public Local Laws, 1860
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ART. 10.] ATTACHMENTS. 51

dent or absconding debtor, but the court shall allow such writ
of attachment to be amended at any time before judgment
thereon.

29. "No attachment sued out for a debt due to any minor, feme
covert or lunatic, on the oath or affirmation of the guardian,
husband or committee of such minor, feme covert or lunatic,
shall be quashed or set aside for any defect in matter of form.

ATTACHMENTS ON JUDGMENTS, AND ATTACHMENTS ISSUED BY
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

30. Any plaintiff having a judgment or decree in any court of
law or equity in this State, may, instead of any other execution,
issue an attachment against the lands, tenements, goods, chattels
and credits of the defendant in the plaintiff's own hands, or in
the hands of any other person, which attachment shall contain
the clause of scire facias required in an attachment against a
non-resident or absconding debtor.

31. If neither the defendant nor the garnishee in whose hands
such property or credits were attached, appear at the return of
the attachment and show sufficient cause to the contrary, the
court shall condemn the said property and credits so attached
and award execution thereof.

32. If the sheriff of any county or city shall return "nulla
bona" to any execution or attachment issued on a judgment or
decree of any court of law or equity in this State, the plaintiff
may issue an attachment to the sheriff of any other county or
city.

33. Every attachment issued under the last preceding section
shall be made returnable to the court of the county or city to
which it may be sent, and shall be sent by the clerk issuing the
same, with a copy of the docket entries in the case, to the clerk
of the court, to which said writ shall be returnable, and the said
court shall proceed with such attachment as if the same had
originated therein, and may renew the same.

34. The several justices of the peace of this State may issue an
attachment by way of execution on any judgment obtained before
any justice of the peace in all cases where a writ of fieri facias
might issue.

 

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