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for or in aid of the erection of any building, nor shall they apply to any
levy on property for non-payment of taxes.

As to vendors' liens, see art. 66, sec. 32, et seq.

See notes to art. 81, sec. 72.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 13. 1912, sec. 13. 1904, sec. 13. 1888, sec. 13. 1861, ch. 7, sec. 6.

1870, ch. 195.

13. Said exemption shall not apply to any persons except actual bona

fide residents of the State of Maryland.

Act of 1870, ch. 195, held not to apply to a sale made on February 1, 1870. The
legislature may repeal at will laws exempting property from execution, unless they
are in nature of a contract. Bramble v. State, 41 Md. 442.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 14. 1912, sec. 14. 1904, sec. 14. 1888, sec. 14. 1886, ch. 279.

14. Whenever any defendant in an original contract or cause of action
or by a subsequent contract in writing shall waive his claim to said exemp-
tion, the court or the justice of the peace entering a judgment upon any
such contract or cause of action shall enter or cause to be entered among
the docket entries of the same " right to exemption waived," or words to
that effect, and a like entry shall be made on the back of any execution
issued on said judgment; provided, however, that if such waiver shall be
made as above stated and said entry shall be omitted, such defendant shall
be estopped from demanding such exemption unless said court or justice
of the peace, for sufficient reasons, shall enter among the docket entries
of the case that said waiver was and is void.
See notes to sec. 8.

Assignment of Claims to Non-Residents.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 15. 1912, sec. 15. 1904, sec. 15. 1888, sec. 15. 1888, ch. 174, sec. 1.

15. It shall be unlawful for any person, being a citizen of this State,
to assign or transfer any claim for debt against a resident of this State
for the purpose of having the same collected by proceedings in attach-
ment in courts or before justices of the peace outside of this State, or to
send out of this State by assignment, transfer or other manner whatsoever,
either for or without value, any claim or debt against any resident thereof
for the purpose or with the intent to deprive such person of the right to
have his personal earnings or property exempt from application to the
payment of his debts, according to the provisions of this code, where the
creditor and debtor and the person or corporation owing the money in-
tended to be reached by such proceedings are within the jurisdiction of
the courts or justices of the peace of this State; and the person sending,
assigning or transferring any such claim for the purpose or with the in-
tent aforesaid shall be liable in an action of debt to the person from whom
any such debt or claim shall have been collected by attachment or other-
wise outside of the courts of this State for the full amount of the debt,
interest and costs so collected, and the defendant therein shall not be en-
titled to the benefit of the exemption laws of this State upon any process
of execution issued upon any judgment recovered in any such action.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 16. 1912, sec. 16. 1904, sec. 16. 1888, sec. 16. 1888, ch. 174, sec. 2.

16. In any such action proof of the fact of such sending, assigning or
transferring any such claim by the defendant shall be prima facie evi-