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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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13 ELIZ. CAP. 5, FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCES. 543
personalty cannot be seized and sold at law under a fi. fa.62 But the
creditor, by issuing a fi. fa., may acquire a priority in equity from the
time his execution is placed in the Sheriff's hands, Harris v. Alcock supra.
The creditor may clearly therefore pursue equitable interests "in 404
lands conveyed by a fraudulent grantor, and under the Code, Art. 16, sec.
35,63 it would seem also equitable interests in personalty.®4
Who are creditor* within the Statute.— With regard to the creditors "or
others"65 who may impeach such conveyances, the Statute has been liber-
ally construed in giving persons, who are or might be injured by a fraud-
ulent conveyance, the character of creditors under the Statute; a surety
is a creditor of the co-obligor or co-sureties from the time the obligation
is entered into; those interested in an official bond are creditors of the
surety from the time the bond is executed by him; the guarantee of an
assigned judgment is a creditor of the guarantor from the time the guar-
anty is given, and an accommodation note imposes on the maker a con-
tingent liability to an indorsee for value, which becomes absolute on dis-
counting the note; and claimants on such notes dated before a voluntary
deed, though discounted subsequently, even after maturity, are considered
prior creditors, Williams v. Banks supra. And so a person on whose
behalf a covenant is entered into, which is contingent at the time the dispo-
sition impeached is entered into, as a wife claiming under a covenant to
make a provision in case of her surviving, is sufficiently a creditor within
the Statute, Rider v. Kidder, 10 Ves. Jun. 360; indeed it was broadly
affirmed in argument by Sir S. Romilly in that case, that the Statute of
Elizabeth reaches a debt depending on a contingency as much as a debt
certain. So it has been held that a creditor under a voluntary post-obit
bond, made to secure an annuity to a daughter-in-law, is as much entitled
to the benefit of the Statute as any other creditor, Adames v. Hallett,
« L. R. Eq. 468.
Husband and wife.—In Feigley v. Feigley, 7 Md. 537, <'° it was laid down
that a wife was a creditor under the Statute, if made the victim of her
husband's fraud, though his right to alienate his property at will is undis-
puted, even if he strips himself of all means of supporting her—if he do
62
This statement is applicable now only to equitable interests in chat-
tels personal. See note 61 supra.
63
Code 1911, Art. 16, sec. 47.
et
See Morton v. Grafflin, 68 Md. 563.
65
The Statute embraces not only creditors technically such, but all others
•who have cause of action or suit, or any penalty or forfeiture, and em-
braces actions of slander, trespass and other torts. Cooke v. Cooke, 43
Md. 531; Gebhart v. Merfeld, 51 Md. 325; Welde v. Scotten, 59 Md. 72;
Spuck v. Logan, 97 Md. 158. Cf. Ex parte Mercer, 17 Q. B. D. 290. As
to who are subsisting creditors, see Spuck v. Logan supra.
ee
This case was affirmed in all respects in Sanborn v. Lang, 41 Md.
107 and Duttera v. Babylon, 83 Md. 544. But quaere, whether in such
cases it is necessary to prove that the grantee participated in or had
knowledge of the fraudulent intent of the grantor? Rabbitt v. Gaither, 67
Md. 112.

 
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