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893
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HARRY HUGHES, Governor
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SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings
3-302.
A court of law including the District Court, within the
limits of its jurisdiction, may issue an attachment [or original
process] AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF AN ACTION OR WHILE IT IS PENDING
against any property or credits, whether matured or unmatured,
belonging to the debtor upon the application of [a person who has
the right to become a] THE plaintiff in [an] THE action [in the
State].
3-303.
(a) An attachment [on original process] BEFORE JUDGMENT may
issue in any of the instances enumerated in this section.
(b) If the debtor is A NONRESIDENT INDIVIDUAL, OR A
CORPORATION WHICH HAS NO RESIDENT AGENT IN THIS STATE, AND:
(1) [A nonresident individual] THE DEBTOR IS A PERSON
OVER WHOM THE COURT COULD EXERCISE PERSONAL JURISDICTION PURSUANT
TO §§ 6-102, 6-103, AND 6-104 OF THIS ARTICLE; or
(2) [A corporation and has no resident agent] THE
ACTION INVOLVES CLAIMS TO PROPERTY IN THIS STATE WHICH PROPERTY
IS TO BE ATTACHED; OR
(3) THE ACTION IS ANY OTHER IN WHICH THE ATTACHMENT
IS CONSTITUTIONALLY PERMITTED.
(C) IF THE DEBTOR IS A CORPORATION AND HAS NO RESIDENT
AGENT.
[(c)] (D) If a resident individual defendant or an
agent authorized to accept process for a corporation has acted to
evade service.
[(d)] (E) If the debtor has absconded or is about to
abscond from the State; or if an individual has removed, or is
about to remove, from his place of abode in the State with intent
to defraud his creditors.
[(e)] (F) (1) If the debtor is about to assign, dispose
of, conceal, or remove his property or a portion of it from the
State with intent to defraud his creditors; or
(2) If the debtor has done any of these acts, OR
fraudulently contracted the debt[,] or incurred the obligation
which is THE subject of the pending action.
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