A

COMPILATION

こ

OF THE

INSOLVENT LAWS

OF

MARYLAND:

Together with the

DECISIONS OF THE COURT OF APPEALS

OF MARYLAND,

And of the

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES,

ON THE SUBJECT OF INSOLVENCY:

WITH A

COPIOUS INDEX.

BY A MEMBER OF THE BALTIMORE BAR.

"Ego vero malo virum qui pecunia egeat, quam pecuniam quæ viro."
Cicero de Off. Liber. 2 § 20.

OBALTIMORE:

PUBLISHED BY JOHN J. HARROD.

WM. WOODDY, PRINTER.

DISTRICT OF MARYLAND, SS.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this thirteenth day December, in the fifty-fourth year of
O✔✔✔❖ the Independence of the United States of America, JOHN J. HARROD,
SEAL. of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the
right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:

"A Compilation of the Insolvent Laws of Maryland: together with the Decisions of the
Court of Appeals of Maryland, and of the Supreme Court of the United States, upon the
subject of Insolvency; with a copious index. By a member of the Baltimore Bar. "Ego vero
malo virum qui pecunia egeat, quam pecuniam quæ viro."-Ciccro de Off. Liber. 2. § 20.
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the encour
agement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and
proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned:" and also to the act entitled
An Act supplementary to the act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by
securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies,
during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of design-
ing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints."
PHILIP MOORE,
Clerk of the District of Maryland.

PREFACE.

THE Compiler, unlike many who have engaged in similar undertakings, cannot consider his production of sufficient consequence to authorize the insertion of a history of its rise and progress. The Laws of Maryland concerning Insolvency, and the Decisions pronounced upon the various cases embraced under that class, by the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Appellate Court of Maryland, are interspersed throughout twenty or thirty volumes, recourse to which is at all times inconvenient, and in many instances, impracticable at the moment it becomes requisite. A Compendium, embracing all those Laws and Decisions, it was thought, would, therefore, prove acceptable, not to the Profession only, but also to the rest of the community, a very great part of whom have not ready access to those volumes, even when disposed, to undergo the trouble necessarily attendant upon the investigation, or to incur the risk of misconstruing those Laws and Decisions, when found.

Besides, the mind is invariably more or less distracted by the fact of one's attention being directed to so many different books: whereas, by presenting the whole subject at one view, without any extraneous matter being permitted to intervene, a thorough acquaintance with that subject can be more speedily attainedwhich, upon the principle that "time is money," is no unimportant consideration.

So far, therefore, as this object shall be attained by means of the following compendium, the labour bestowed on it, will not be regretted; and so far will its claims upon public attention, be well founded.

Unusual as is the manner in which the Index to the Insolvent Laws of Maryland is arranged, it will be found more conducive