'62 ASSIGNMENT OF CHOSES IN ACTION. [ART. 8.

ARTICLE VIII.

ASSIGNMENT OF CHOSES IN ACTION.

1. Assignee of money claims may sue in his own name. 2. Sci. fa. by assignee. 3. Defendant's defences against as- signee. 4. Death of legal plaintiff before judgment. 5. Surety, upon paying the debt, may sue in his own name.

6. When surety may have execution. 7 Payment by one of several sure- ties. 8. Assignment by State's attorney to surety, when authorized. 9. When assignee of bond may sue obligee 10 Oath to be made by obligee at time of assignment.

P. G. L., (1800,) art. 9, sec. 1. 1829, ch. 51. 1830, ch. 165, sec. 1.

1. The assignee of any judgment, bond specialty, or other
chose in action for the payment of money, or any legacy or
distributive share of the estate of a deceased person bona fide
entitled thereto by assignment in writing signed by the person
authorized to make the same, may, by virtue of such assignment,
maintain an action or issue an execution in his own name against
the debtor therein named, in the same manner as the assignor
might have done before the assignment.

McNulty v. Cooper, 3 G. & J. 214. Schnebly v. Hagan, 7 G. & J. 120. Kent

v. Somervell, 7 G. & J. 265. Lamar v. Manro, 10 G. & J. 50. Jones v. Har-
desty, 10 G. & J. 419. Gordon v. Downey, 1 Gill 41. Chesley v. Taylor, 3

Gill, 251. Crawford B. Brooke, 4 Gill, 222. Dakin v. Pomeroy, 9 Gill, 6.
N. Y. Life Ins. Co. v. Flack, 3 Md. 354. Cox v. Sprigg, 6 Md. 286. McDowell
v. Goldsmith, 6 Md 343. Watson v. Bane, 7 Md. 126. Robinson v. Marshall,
11 Md. 251. Shriner v. Lamborn, 12 Md. 174. Augusta Ins. Co. v. Abbott, 12
Md. 348 Reynolds v. Manning, 15 Md 521. National Fire Ins. Co. v. Crane,
16 Md. 260. Hooper v. Logan, 23 Md. 209. Banks v.. McClellan, 24 Md. 80.
Stine 9. Young, 26 Md. 238. Union Bank v. Tillord, 26 Md. 446. Schoferman
B. O'Brien, 28 Md. 574. Spiker v. Nydegger, 30 Md. 321. Confield v. McIl-
waine, 32 Md. 98. Emerick v. Coakley, 35 Md. 188. Balto City Pass. R. W.

Co. v. Sewell, 35 Md 254. Lucas B. Bryne, 35 Md. 492. Ahern B. White, 39
Md. 418. McAleer B Young, 40 Md. 445. Whitndge v. Barry, 42 Md. 140.
Jackson B. Myers, 43 Md. 462. Hewell v. Coulbourn, 54 Md. 64. Schaffer v.
Union Mining Co , 55 Md. 82 Crisfield B. State, 65 Md. 196. Hampson v.
Owens, 55 Md 586. Gable v. Scarlett, 56 Md. 174. Tradesmen's Nat. Bank
v. Green, 57 Md. 605. Handy v. Collins, 60 Md. 245.