The remedy by attachment shall apply to all actions or demands founded upon any indebtedness, or for the recovery of damages for the breach of any contract, express or implied, and to actions founded upon any penal statutes.Codes, 1857, ch. 52, art. 1; 1871, § 1419; 1880, § 2414; 1892, § 125; 1906, § 129; Hemingway's 1917, § 121; 1930, § 119; 1942, § 2675.
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