PLEADINGS, PRACTICE AND PROCESS AT LAW 2859

An. Code, 1924, sec. 151. 1912, sec. 142. 1904, sec, 140. 1890, ch. 558, sec. 87E.

151. Any person who refuses or without sufficient excuse neglects to
obey any order of the court made pursuant to any of the four preceding
sections and duly served upon him or an oral direction given directly to
him in open court in the course of the proceedings therein provided, or
to attend before the court or before a commissioner or examiner according
to the command of an order or summons duly served upon him or to
answer any lawful question propounded to him by such court, commissioner
or examiner, may be punished by the court by which such order or summons
was issued for a contempt.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 152. 1912, sec. 143. 1906, ch. 396.

152. The provisions of the foregoing sections of this sub-title (desig-
nated as sections 147, 148, 149, 150 and 151) shall be held to apply to
judgments rendered before the justices of the peace of the State of Mary-
land, provided the said judgments shall have been recorded in the superior
court of Baltimore (if the same have been rendered in Baltimore City)
or in the circuit court of the counties where the same have been rendered,
and said superior court of Baltimore City and the circuit court of the
several counties shall have jurisdiction to carry out the provisions of the
said sections of this sub-title and of this section.

Supplementary proceedings under Secs. 147-152; testimony failed to show concealment
of assets. Little v. Keithley (Judge Lawrence, Circuit Court for Harford Co.), Daily
Record, Sept. 27, 1939.

See notes to sec. 147.

III.
PROCESS.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 153. 1912, sec. 144. 1904, sec. 141. 1888, sec. 129. 1796, ch. 43, sec. 9.
1801, ch. 74, sec. 11. 1852, ch. 76, sec. 1. 1884, ch. 128.

153. In all civil suits or actions in the circuit courts where capias ad
respondendum formerly issued, a writ of summons shall be issued for the
defendant, in which shall be stated the purpose for which he is summoned;
and the said summons shall be returnable on the first day of the term next
after issuing the same; and the sheriff of any county from which the writ
of summons for any defendant or defendants may be issued by the circuit
court for any such county, or the sheriff of the city of Baltimore, in case
the writ of summons is issued from any of the courts of the city of
Baltimore, may serve any such writ of summons on the defendant or
defendants named in the writ, wherever he may find such defendant or
defendants, whether in or out of the county or city from a court of which
such process may have issued; or the writs of summons may be directed to
and served by the sheriff of any county or city where the defendant may
chance to be, returnable to the court where the process issued; and any
writ or summons, when so served and returned, shall have the same effect
as if it had been served on the defendant or defendants by the sheriff of
the county in said county from a court of which the said writ of summons
may issue.

Cited but not construed in Sanitary Grocery Co. v. Soper, 146 Md. 136 (see notes to
art. 9, sec. 46).

As to powers of Court of Appeals re forms of process, writs, pleadings, etc., see art. 26
sec. 35.

This section does not apply to attachments. Thompson v. Central Metal & Sup Co
158 Md. 188.