agency of the State does not change the sanction imposed from a fine to a debt. A debt and a fine are very different from each other. Kerr v. Kerr, 287 Md. 363, 370, 412 A.2d 1001, 1005, (1980) (“ ‘fines’ ... whether in the nature of civil or criminal penalties, are not debts within the meaning of section 38 [constitutional prohibition on imprisonment for debt]”); Brown v. Brown, 287 Md. 273, 279-280, 412 A.2d 396, 400, (1980) (“the term debt does not include fines or penalties levied against one who has been adjudged in violation of the public law”); Ruggles v. State, 120 Md. 553, 564, 87 A. 1080, 1084 (1913) (recognizing that the monetary penalty authorized by statute for “operating a motor vehicle without a license” is a fine and not a debt); State v. Mace, 5 Md. 337, 350-351 (1854) (<HOLDING>). See also Middleton v. Middleton, 329 Md. 627,
holding that effect of discharge of debt under bankruptcy code is the same as it was under the 1898 bankruptcy act it is not an extinguishment of the debt but only a bar to enforcement of the debt as a personal obligation of the debt or holding that state may not imprison indigent defendant solely for inability to pay fine holding that while it is unconstitutional to imprison someone for failure to pay a debt it is constitutional to imprison someone for failure to pay a fine the term debt is to be understood as an obligation arising otherwise than from the sentence of a court for the breach of the public peace or commission of a crime holding failure to pay a debt due under a promissory note is a breach of contract claim under florida law holding in a case where the maximum time of imprisonment was extended because an indigent defendant was unable to pay a fine and court costs that a state may not constitutionally imprison beyond the maximum duration fixed by statute a defendant who is financially unable to pay a fine