282 ATTACHMENTS. [ART. 9

Attachments in Actions Ex Contractu for Unliquidated Dam-
ages, and in Actions for Wrongs Independent of Contract.

1888, art. 9, sec. 43. 1888, ch. 507.

44. Attachments may also be issued against non-resident or
absconding debtors in cases arising ex contractu, where the
damages are unliquidated, and in actions for wrongs independ-
ent of contract; but in such cases no attachments shall issue
until a declaration shall have been filed, setting out specially
and in detail the breach of contract complained of, or the tort
actually committed, verified by the affidavit of the plaintiff or
some one on his behalf, and until a bond shall be filed, similar
in all respects to the bond required to be given in cases of
attachments on original process for fraud, as prescribed by sec-
tion 39 of this article. In cases arising under this section, the
practice and pleadings shall in all other particulars conform to
the practice and proceedings against non-resident and abscond-
ing debtors in actions ex contractu for liquidated damages.

Dirickson v. Showell, 79 Md. 52.

Several Attachments.

Ibid. sec. 44. 1867, ch. 418.

45. The plaintiff may have more than one attachment or
writ of attachment, to be laid in the hands of different persons
or levied on other property or effects than that taken under the
first, though the first be still outstanding; provided, that but
one satisfaction of the debt or demand shall be made, and that
it shall be in the discretion of the court in all such cases,
whether any costs, or if any, what amount of costs shall be-
allowed on the subsequent attachment or attachments.

1890, ch. 549, sec. 44 A.

48. A writ of attachment may be served upon any person,
by way of garnishment wherever he may be found, either by
the sheriff of the jurisdiction where said person may be, or by.
the sheriff of the jurisdiction where the writ issues; when a
writ of attachment is served upon anyone outside of the locality
of his place of business or residence, the short note shall be
set up at the court house door of the county or city where the
writ is served by the officer serving the same, and upon the
return of the writ, a duplicate short note shall be sent by the
clerk of the court where the writ issues to the sheriff of that
city or county to be set up by him at the court house door of