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abode, with intention to evade the payment of his just debts,
or to injure or defraud his creditors, shall be considered as
having absconded; and an averment in the oath of the plaintiff
against a person as having absconded shall, without other
words, be a sufficient averment of any such conduct.

Field v. Adreon, 7 Md. 209. Risewick v. Davis, 19 Md. 94. DeBebian v.
Gola, 64 Md. 262.

1888, art. 9. sec. 4. 1860, art. 10, sec. 4. 1795, ch. 56, sec. 1.

4. No attachment shall issue (except as hereinafter men-
tioned), unless there be an affidavit that the debtor is bona fide
indebted-to the creditor in the sum of——, over and above all
discounts; and at the time of making the affidavit, the creditor
shall produce the bond, account or other evidences of debt, by
which the said debtor is so indebted; and shall also make
affidavit that he knows, or is credibly informed and verily
believes, that the said debtor is not a citizen of this State, and
that he doth not reside therein; or if the said debtor resides in
this State, that he doth know, or is credibly informed and verily
believes, that the said debtor hath absconded.

State v. Beall, 3 H. & McH. 347. Thompson v. Towson, 4 H. & McH. 285.
Prentiss v. Gray, 4 H. & J. 192 Barney v. Patterson, 6 H. & J. 60. Wood
v. Pulton, 2 H. & G. 78. Dawson v. Brown, 12 G. & J. 60. Boarman v.
Israel, 1 Gill, 379. Wilson v. Wilson, 8 Gill, 192. Lee v. Tinges, 7 Md. 230.
C. C & I. Co. v. Hoffman S C. Co., 22 Md. 495. Warwick v. Chase, 23 Md.
115. Smithson v. U S. Tel. Co., 29 Md. 162. Jones v. Freeman, 29 Md. 276.
White v. Solomonsky, 30 Md. 585. State v. Stiebel, 31 Md. 37. Mears v.
Adreon, 31 Md. 229. Knickerbocker Ins. Co. v. Hoeske, 32 Md. 318.
McAllister v. Eichengreen, 34 Md. 57. Cox v. Waters, 34 Md. 460. Norris
v. Wrenschall, 34 Md. 499. Jean v. Spurrier, 35 Md. 116. Hough v. Kugler,
36 Md 194. Williams v. Jones, 38 Md. 565 Keen v. Worthington, 40 Md.
497. Halley v. Jackson, 48 Md. 254. Bartlett v. Wilbur, 53 Md. 501.
Hoffman v. Reed, 57 Md. 374. Foran v. Johnson, 58 Md. 145. DeBebian v.
Gola, 64 Md. 263. Gunby v. Porter, 80 Md. 402. Haddon v. Lmville, 86 Md.
235. Stockbridge v. Fahnestock, 87 Md 133.

Ibid. sec. 5. 1860, art. 10, sec. 5. 1795, ch. 56, sec. 1. 1876, ch. 112.

1888, ch., 507.

5. The affidavit required by the preceding section may be
made before any justice of the peace or any judge of a court of
law of this State, or before any judge of a court of record of
the United States, or of any State, district or territory of the
United States, or before a commissioner appointed by the State
to take acknowledgments of deeds, or before a notary public,
or if out of the United States, before a consul or vice-consul