ART. 9.] DISSOLVING AND QUASHING ATTACHMENTS. 73

or decree, be issued for enforcing the payment thereof, notwith-
standing the attachment; provided, the money payable on such
judgment or decree be, in the said writ of execution, required
to be brought into the said court, to be by such court preserved
or deposited, or invested in stocks, to abide the event of the
proceedings in such attachment.

P. G L., (1860,) art. 10, sec. 19. 1882. ch. 807, sec. 1.

18. An attachment may be laid on any interest which the

defendant has or may be entitled to in the stock of any corpora-
tion, or in the debt of any corporation, transferable upon the
books of such corporation; and it shall be the duty of the
sheriff or other officer, in laying said attachment, to comply

with the requirements contained in article 23, title "Corpora-
tions," of this code, in relation thereto.

Gordon v. Mayor &c. Balto . 5 Gill. 241. Boyd v. Ches. & O. Canal Co., 17
Md. 195.

Ibid, sec 20 1832, ch 280, sec 5 1834, ch. 79, sec. 2. 1854, ch. 153, sec. 4.

19. No attachment shall be dissolved unless every defendant
appears to the action, and unless a bond be given by or on behalf
of the defendant or defendants, in a sum of money equal to the

value of the property attached, with security to be approved by
the court, or the judge thereof, if in recess, to satisfy any judg-
ment that shall be recovered in such case against the defendants.
Barr e Perry, 3 Gill, 326. Lambden e Bowie. 2 Md. 340 Clark v. Bryan,
16 Md. 178. Walters v. Munroe, 17 Md 501. Randle v. Mellen, 67 Md. 188.

Ibid. sec. 21. 1852, ch. 155, sec. 1.

20. Any absent defendant, or any one in his behalf, may file

a petition to the judge of a court from which an attachment has
issued, before the return day of such attachment, praying that
the said writ be quashed and set aside; and thereupon the judge
shall order the sheriff to return said writ and the proceedings
thereunder immediately before him; and upon such return and
after such notice as he shall prescribe to be given to the adverse
party or his attorney, the said judge shall proceed to hear said
petition and receive evidence and adjudicate thereon, in the same
manner and to the same extent as he would be empowered to do