PLEADINGS, PRACTICE AND PROCESS AT LAW. 2421

An. Code, sec. 154. 1904, sec. 148. 1888, sec. 136. 1793, ch. 57, sec. 31.

164. 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.

An. Code, sec. 155. 1904, sec. 149. 1888, sec. 137. 1815, ch. 149, sec. 4.

165. 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. 233.

An. Code, sec. 156. 1904, sec. 150. 1888, sec. 138. 1854, ch. 75.

166. 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.

An. Code, sec. 157. 1904, sec. 151. 1888, sec. 139. 1812, ch. 145, sec. 1.

167. 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.

An. Code, sec. 158. 1904, sec. 152. 1888, sec. 140. 1812, ch. 145, sec. 3.

168. 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 devisees resided in the county where the suit
was brought; provided, all such actions shall be instituted in the county
in which the deceased died, if any of his heirs reside there, and if not, in
the county in which his real estate or some part thereof is situated.
Cited but not construed in Montel v. Consolidation Coal Co., 39 Md. 170.