ART. 9] NON-RESIDENT AND ABSCONDING DEBTORS. 267

39. Plaintiff to give bond. Condi- tion and penalty of bond 40. Attachment against one or more of joint debtors. 41. Sufficiency of bond. 42. Practice and pleadings. 43. When justices may issue. Attachments for Unliquidated Damages and Torts. 44. How to be issued. Several Attachments. 45. When plaintiff may have. Costs. 46. Service of writ. Setting up of short note.

Claimants of Property. 47. Claimant of property under at- tachment or execution. Peti- tion and proceedings. 48. Property attached to be dis- charged from levy and sur- rendered to claimant upon filing of approved bond. 49. Sufficiency of bond. Attachment Before Maturity of Plaintiff's Claim. 50. Attachment proceedings before maturity of the plaintiffs claim.

Attachments Against Non-Resident and Absconding Debtors.

1888, art 9, sec. 1 1860, art. 10, sec. 1. 1832, ch 280, sec. 1.
1854, ch. 153, sec. 1.

1. Every person and every body corporate that has the right
to become a plaintiff in any action or proceeding before any
judicial tribunal in this State shall have the right to become a
plaintiff in an attachment against a non-resident of this State,
or against a person absconding.
Hodgson v. Southern Bldg. Asso., 91 Md. 446.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1860, art. 10, sec. 2. 1817, ch. 138. 1832, ch. 280. sec. 1
1854, ch. 153, sec. 2.

2. Every person who doth not reside in this State, and every
person who absconds, may be made a defendant in an attach-
ment; and any corporation not chartered by this State, or any
corporation chartered by this State, but not having the president
or a majority of the directors or managers thereof residing in
this State, may be made a defendant, as other non-residents.

Campbell v Morris, 3 H. & McH. 566 Barney v. Patterson, 6 H. & J.
200. Hepburn's Case, 3 Bl. 120. McKim v. Odom, 3 Bl. 428. Barr v Perry,
3 Gill, 326. Lambden v. Bowie, 2 Md. 335. Field v. Adreon, 7 Md. 209.
Gover v. Barnes, 15 Md. 576. Risewick v. Davis, 19 Md. 82 Dorsey v.
Kyle, 30 Md. 518 Dorsey v. Dorsey, 30 Md. 530. Matthews v. Zollikoffer,
20 Md. 266. Chesapeake Bank v First Natl. Bank, 40 Md. 269. Schroeder
v. Herbert, 68 Md. 509. Hodgson v. Southern Bldg. Asso., 91 Md 446.

Ibid, sec 3. 1860, art. 10, sec. 3. 1795, ch. 56, sec 1 1854, ch 153, sec 3.

3. Every person who shall actually run away, abscond or fly
from justice, or secretly remove himself from his place of