1700 PLEADINGS, PBACTICE AND PEOCESS AT LAW. [ART. 75

1904, art. 75, sec. 148. 1888, art. 75, sec. 136. 1860, art. 75, sec. 91.
1793, ch. 57, sec. 31.

154. If any person shall commit any crime or offense in any county
of which he is not an inhabitant, or if any person shall commit any
crime or offense in the county of which he is an inhabitant and shall
remove after the commission thereof and shall be presented or indicted
in the county where the crime or offense shall have been committed, the
court before which such presentment or indictment shall be found, may
issue process against such person, directed to the sheriff of the county
where such person may reside, and the sheriff shall serve and return
such process as if issued by a court of his county, and upon neglect or
delay, may be fined by the court issuing the same.

Cited but not construed in Montel v. Consolidation Coal Co., 39 Md. 170.

Ibid. sec. 149. 1888, art. 75, sec. 137. 1860, art. 75, sec. 92.
1815, ch. 149, sec. 4.

155. Where a testator devises lands and dies in debt, any of his
creditors may sue his devisees without making his heirs at law parties,
unless such heirs are known to the plaintiff and reside in this State.

Cited but not construed in Montel v. Consolidation Coal Co., 39 Md. 170.

See art, 16, sec. 218.

Ibid. sec. 150. 1888, art. 75, sec. 138. 1860, art. 75, sec. 93. 1854, ch. 75.

156. It shall not be necessary for an officer, in serving any writ of
scire facias, or attachment with clause of scire facias, to serve the same
in the presence of witnesses.

Cited but not construed in Montel v. Consolidation Coal Co., 39 Md. 170.

Ibid. sec. 151. 1888, art. 75, sec. 139. 1860, art. 75, sec. 94.
1812, ch! 145, sec. 1.

157. In case of writs of scire facias against heirs and terre-tenants,
where any of the heirs or terre-tenants reside in another county than
that in which the judgment on which such scire facias is issued was
obtained, duplicates of such writ may issue directed to the sheriff of
each county wherein any of the heirs or terre-tenants reside, and shall
be served by the sheriff and returned to the court from which they
issued, and the party so summoned by means of such duplicates shall
be proceeded against in the same manner as if they were residents of
the county in which the judgment was obtained.

Cited but not construed in Montel v. Consolidation Coal Co., 39 Md. 170.

Ibid. sec. 152. 1888, art. 75, sec. 140. 1860, art. 75, sec. 95.
1812, ch. 145, sec. 3.

158. In all cases where a joint action is instituted against heirs
and devisees, and any of such heirs or devisees shall be residents of
another county, a duplicate writ may issue to the county where any of
said heirs or devisees reside, directed to the sheriff thereof, who shall
serve and return the same to the court from which it issued, and the
same proceedings shall be had as if such heirs or d'evisees resided in
the county where the suit was brought; provided, all such actions shall