836 INSOLVENTS—INVOLUNTARY. [ART. 47.

P. G. L , (1860,) art 48, sec. 19. 1854, ch. 193, sec. 19.

21. Any creditor may examine oraily any insolvent, or any one
to whom he has conveyed property, or may have an issue made
and tried by a jury; and any creditor may file allegations of fraud
at any time within two years after the time of the final discharge
of an insolvent, and have issues made thereon and tried by a
jury, and if such issues be found against the insolvent, his dis-
charge and release shall be annulled and rescinded; and in any
case of objection to the release of an insolvent, whether by inter-
rogatories or otherwise, the party against whom the decision is
made shall pay costs, as in other cases.

Jaeger v. Requardt, 26 Md. 231.

1880, ch. 172, sec. 23. 1886, ch. 298, sec. 23.

22. Any person who shall depart from or remain absent from
this State with intent to hinder, delay or defraud his creditors, or
conceal himself to avoid service upon him in any action for the
recovery of a debt, and any person who conceals or removes any
of his property to prevent the same from being taken under legal
process, or makes an assignment, gift, sale, conveyance or transfer
of all or part of his estate or property, with the intent to delay,
hinder or defraud his creditors, or belonging to any of the classes,
mentioned in section 14 of this article, when insolvent or in con-
templation of insolvency, executes a deed or conveyance giving
preferences, creates a lien making any unlawful preferences as
therein stated, or otherwise gives such preferences, or belonging
to said last-mentioned classes, when insolvent or in contemplation,
of insolvency, confesses any judgment or allows any judgment to
be entered against him by any connivance, or belonging to any
of said classes, when insolvent or in contemplation of insolvency,
fraudulently stops payment or suspends payment of his negoti-
able paper and fails to resume payment thereof within twenty
days, or being a banker or broker, shall fail for twenty days to
pay any depositor on demand lawfully made, shall be deemed to
have committed an act or acts of insolvency, as the case may be;
provided, the petition mentioned in the succeeding section is filed
within four months after the act of insolvency is committed.