80 ATTACHMENTS. [ART. 9.

the above obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full force
and effect; every attachment issued without a bond and affidavit
taken as aforesaid is hereby declared illegal and void, and shall
be dismissed.

Howard v. Oppenheimer, 25 Md. 350. Stewart v. Katz, 30 Md. 334. Wana-
maker v. Bowes, 36 Md. 42. Gable v. Brooks, 48 Md 113.

1864, ch. 306, sec. 5:

39. In all cases where two or more persons are jointly indebted,
either as partners or otherwise, and an affidavit shall be filed as
hereinbefore provided, so as to make one or more of such joint
debtors amenable to the process of attachment, then the writ of
attachment shall issue against the lands and tenements, goods,
chattels and credits of such as are so brought within the provi-
sions of this law; but the writ of summons shall issue against all
the joint defendants, as in other actions against joint defendants.

Ibid sec. 6. 1888, ch. 507.

40. In case the defendant, or any other person interested in
the proceedings, is not satisfied with the sufficiency of the surety
or sureties, or any one of them, or with the amount specified in
the bond aforesaid, he may, at any time before judgment, apply
to the judge of the court in which the said bond is filed, for an
order requiring the plaintiff to give additional security, notice of
which application shall be given to the plaintiff not less than four
days before the same is made; and the said judge, if satisfied
from evidence, of the insufficiency of the said bond, may order
or require the plaintiff to give an additional bond, with security
to be approved of by the court, in such sum and within such
time as he may deem proper; and in case the plaintiff shall fail
to comply with such order, the said writ of attachment shall be
quashed, and the property attached, or its proceeds, if the same
shall have been sold by order of the court, shall be returned to
the defendant, or be otherwise disposed of, as shall be ordered by
the court.

Ibid. sec. 7.

41. The practice and pleadings under the writ of attachment
issued in compliance with sections 35-40 of this article, shall, in