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CORPORATIONS. [ART. 26.

turned, or by the second day of the succeeding term or
rule day for the return of process, judgment by default
shall be entered against such corporation, and the
amount of the claim of the plaintiff shall be ascer-

Jury of inquiry,
&c.

tained by a jury of inquiry or otherwise, as in other
cases of judgment by default.

Bill against
debtors of
corporations.

214. When a judgment has been recovered against
a corporation, and an execution on such judgment
returned nulla bona, the person or body corporate
entitled to such judgment may file a bill in equity
against all or any persons who may be, in any man-
ner, indebted to said .corporation, either for the stock
thereof or on any other account; and if the court shall
find such person or persons to be indebted to said cor-

Decree.

poration a decree shall pass directing such person so
found to be indebted to bring the money into court, to
be distributed rateably among the creditors of such
corporation, in the same manner that distribution is
made on a creditor's bill; and any of the defendants to

Trial at law.

said bill may pray a trial at law of any issue of fact in
said case, which issue shall be sent to a court of law

Bill of dis-
covery.

for trial, and the complainant may require, by said bill
or by another bill, the officers of such corporation to
discover, under oath, who are indebted to said corpora-
tion, and the amount and consideration of such indebt-
edness, and for the purpose of such discovery, all or
any of the officers of said corporation may be made
defendants and any of the parties in said causes shall

Appeal

be entitled to an appeal, as allowed in cases of equity ;

Bill, where
filed.

and the said bill may be filed in the circuit court of
any county in which any of the directors of such cor-
poration reside, or in the county in which said cor-
poration last had its principal office or place of busi-
ness, or in the circuit court of Baltimore city, if any
of said directors there reside, or if said corporation
last had in said city its principal office or place of
business.

Sufficient
description

215. It shall be sufficient in any suit, pleading or
process, either at law or in equity, or before any justice
of the peace, by or against any joint stock company or