104 ARTICLE 9.

ARTICLE 9.

ATTACHMENTS.

	Attachment Against Non-Resident and Absconding Debtors. 8. Clerk to issue attachment. 9. Writ of summons. Attachments by Justices. 32. Against non-resident or absconding debtors.	Attachments of Wages or Hire. 33. When and how far wages exempt. Priority of State's Lien. 51. Commencement of suit to give state a lien on lands of debtor to state.

Attachments Against Non-Resident and Absconding Debtors.

3.

Absence of debtor for three days from residence and place of work in place
unknown to those in charge of his property, with time of return unknown and
faced with demand for payment of note which he could not meet, sufficient to
justify proceeding under statute on assumption that debtor had absconded.
Attachment of goods validly sued out and duly levied is effective against re-
ceivers appointed same day but bond filed subsequent to attachment. Obrecht
v. Ensor, 162 Md. 391.

4.

This section referred to in discussing meaning of word "citizen". Fitzwater
v. Hydro-Elec. Corp., 149 Md. 465.

Cited but not construed in Lanasa v. Beggs, 159 Md. 313.
See notes to sec. 44.

7.

To the note on page 282, vol. 1, of Code, add Power v. Asphalt Products Corp,
162 Md. 185.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 8. 1912, sec. S. 1904, sec. 8. 1888, sec. 8. 1795, ch. 56, sec. 1.
1888, ch. 507. 1935, ch. 546, sec 8.

8. Upon making the affidavit and producing the proofs before the clerk
of the court from which such attachment is to issue, or upon presenting
to said clerk the affidavit and proofs when said affidavit is not made before
him, he shall issue an attachment against the lands, tenements, goods,
chattels and credits of said debtor, and other writs of attachment, founded
on the original affidavit and proofs set out aforesaid, may be issued by said
clerk from time to time either before the return day next succeeding said
original affidavit and proofs or any time thereafter.

All lands, tenements, goods, chattels, rights and credits are subject to attach-
ment by way of garnishment. Nature of garnishment: obligation of garnishee
Attachment covers all property or credits of debtor in hands of garnishee down
to trial. See notes to art. 14A, sec. 25. Int. Bedding Co. v. Terminal Ware-
house Co., 146 Md. 488.