ART. 52] ATTACHMENTS—REPLEVIN. 1383

1888, art. 52, sec. 45. 1868, ch. 447.

47. Every justice of the peace may issue an attachment in
any of the cases mentioned in section 36 of article 9, where the
sum claimed shall not exceed one hundred dollars, upon the
party applying for the same making before the justice the affi-
davit, and exhibiting the proofs and vouchers necessary to
authorize an attachment to be issued from the circuit court or
the superior court of Baltimore city, the court of common pleas
or the Baltimore city court in such cases, and giving bond with
security to be approved by said justice in double the sum
alleged to be due, and conditioned as provided in section 39 of
said article, except such changes of language as may be neces-
sary to make the same applicable to a proceeding before a
justice of the peace; and such attachment shall be returnable
before the justice who issued 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 justice, 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.

Weed v. Lewis, 80 Md. 128

Replevin.

Ibid sec 46. 1860, art. 51, sec. 15 1852, ch. 239, sec 2.

48. 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.

State v Carrick, 70 Md 591.

Ibid. sec. 47. 1860, art. 51, sec. 36. 1835, ch. 201, sec. 13. 1852, ch. 239,
sec 2 1856, ch 112, secs. 13-25. 1866, ch. 45. 1888, ch. 235.

49. 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 con-