ART. 47] ACTS OF INSOLVENCY. 1313

insolvent, his discharge and release shall be annulled and
rescinded; and in any case of objection to the release of an
insolvent, whether by interrogatories or otherwise, the party
against whom the decision is made shall pay costs, as in other
cases.

Jaeger v. Requardt, 25 Md. 231. Castelberg v. Wheeler, 68 Md 274
Godwin v. Selby, 75 Md. 444.

1888, art. 47, sec. 22 1860, art. 48, sec. 20. 1880, ch. 172, sec. 23. 1886,
ch. 298, sec. 23. 1896, ch. 446.

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 con-
ceals 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 credi-
tors; or who, when insolvent or in contemplation of insol-
vency, executes a deed or conveyance giving preferences, creates
a lien making any unlawful preferences as therein stated, or
otherwise gives such preference; or when insolvent or in con-
templation of insolvency, confesses any judgment or allows
any judgment to be entered against him by any contrivance,
or being a banker, broker, merchant, trader, builder, or manu-
facturer, stops payment of his negotiable paper fraudulently, or
suspends payment thereof and fails to resume the same 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 next suc-
ceeding section is filed within four months after the act of
insolvency is committed.

Castelberg v Wheeler, 68 Md. 276. Brown v. Smart, 69 Md. 320 Willi-
son v. Frostburg Bank, 80 Md. 211. Vogler v. Rosenthal, 85 Md. 46 Gard-
ner v. Gambrill, 86 Md 660. Jas. Clarke Co. v. Colton, 91 Md. 207. Old
Town Bank v. McCormick, 96 Md. 349, 357.

Ibid, sec 23. 1880, ch. 172, sec. 24. 1886, ch. 298, sec. 24.

23. A petition may be filed in any of said courts having the
right to take jurisdiction of the debtor so committing any act
of insolvency in the preceding section mentioned, by any one
or more creditors, the aggregate of whose debts against the
insolvent amounts to at least the sum of two hunched and fifty