78 ATTACHMENTS. [ART. 9.

sufficient and pleadable in bar in any action brought against him
by the defendant in the attachment for or concerning the prop-
erty or credits so condemned, even though such judgment
of condemnation be afterwards reversed or set aside, unless at
the time of execution mode, or payment, such judgment or
execution thereon shall have been stayed according to law.

Brown v. Somerville, 8 Md. 458. Cole v. Flintcraft, 47 Md. 320. Savin v.
Bond, 57 Md. 228.

Attachments on Original Process for Fraud.

1864, ch. 306, sec. 1.

35 Every person and every body corporate that has the right
to become a plaintiff in any action or proceeding, before any
judicial tribunal in this State, shall have the right to proceed by
attachment, in the following coses, upon the conditions and in
the manner herein provided: Before any such writ of attach-
ment shall be issued, the plaintiff, or some person in his behalf,
shall make an affidavit before the clerk of the court from which
said attachment shall issue, stating that the defendant or defendants
named in the writ of attachment is or are bona fide indebted to
the plaintiff or plaintiffs in the sum of —— dollars, over and
above all discounts; and that the plaintiff knows, or has good
reason to believe either (first) that the debtor is about to abscond
from this State, or (second) that the defendant has assigned, dis-
posed of, or concealed, or is about to assign, dispose of, or
conceal his property, or some portion thereof, with intent to
defraud his creditors, or (third) that the defendant fraudulently
contracted the debt, or incurred the obligation respecting which
the action is brought, or (fourth) that the defendant has re-
moved, or is about to remove, his property, or some portion
thereof, out of this State, with intent to defraud his creditors.

Howard v. Oppenheimer, 25 Md 372. Dean v. Oppenheimer, 25 Md. 377.
Clarke v. Meixsel, 29 Md. 221. Stewart v. Katz, 30 Md. 334. Horwitz v.
Ellinger, 31 Md. 492. Dellone v. Hull, 47 Md. 114. Farrow v. Hayes, 51 Md.
507. Strauss v. Rose, 59 Md. 526.

Ibid. sec. 2.

36. At the time of making said affidavit the plaintiff shall
produce the bond, account or other evidence of the debt, by