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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="6-406.1" title_number="6" title_name="Personal Jurisdiction, Venue, Process and Practice" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Practice in General">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A creditor of a person engaged in a mercantile, trading, or manufacturing business as an agent or doing business or trading under any designation, title, or name other than the person’s own name who fails to file the certificate required under § 1-406 of the Corporations and Associations Article, may bring an action in a court of competent jurisdiction against the person or the name, title, or designation under which the business is conducted and service on the person shall be valid.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>All the assets used in or owned by the person’s business are subject to seizure and sale under execution in satisfaction of the judgment.</text>
  </level>
</section>
