Foreign Attachment
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In American law
<A process by which the property (lying within the jurisdiction of the court) of an absent or non-resident debtor is seized, in order to compel his appearance, or to satisfy the judgment that may be rendered, so far as the property goes.
In English law
A custom which pre vails in the city of London, whereby a debt owing to adefendant sued in the court of the