884 JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. [ART. 52.

due, and conditioned as is provided in section 38 of said article, ex-
cept such changes of language as may be necessary to make the
same applicable to a proceeding before a justice of the peace;
and such attachment shall be returnable before the justice who is-
sued it on a day certain to be named therein, not less than twenty
nor more than thirty days from the date of issuing it; and the
plaintiff shall give notice of the issuing of such attachment in the
same manner as in case of attachment before a justice against non-
resident or absconding debtors; and a writ of summons shall also be
issued with such attachment as is usual in cases of debt before a jus-
tice, and the proceedings on such attachment shall conform as near
as practicable to the practice and proceedings under writs of
attachment against non-resident or absconding debtors, issued by
a justice of the peace.

Replevin.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 51, sec. 15. 1852, ch. 239, sec. 2.

46t In all actions of replevin, the proceedings before justices
of the peace shall be similar to those in the several circuit courts
of this State, or the three common law courts of civil jurisdiction,
in Baltimore city.

Ibid. sec. 36. 1835, ch 201, sec. 13. 1853, ch. 239, sec. 2. 1856, ch. 112,
secs. 13-25 1886, ch. 45. 1888, ch. 235

47 Before issuing a writ of replevin, the justice shall require
and take from the party demanding such writ, a bond to the
party holding such property, with one or more securities, who
shall make oath before the said justice, that he is or they are
worth each double the value of the specific article or articles of
property intended to be replevied, over and above all debts and
exemptions, and whom the said justice shall in his conscience
believe to be so worth, with condition that if the above bound
————do and shall well and truly prosecute the said writ of
replevin with effect, and also shall and will return the goods and
chattels aforesaid, if the same be adjudged, and in all things
abide by and perform the judgment of the said justice, or of
such other justice of the peace, in and for said county, as shall
decide in the premises, or of the circuit court for the county, or
Baltimore city court, as the case may be, then the said obligation
to be void, else to be and remain in full force and virtue in law.