mesne process
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 70 U.S. 334 - Buck v. Colbath · 1865Most cited · 377 citing opinions
Those in which the officer is directed to levy the process upon property of one of the parties to the litigation, sufficient to satisfy the demand against him, without describing any specific property to be thus taken. Of this class are the writ of attachment, or other mesne process, by which property is seized before judgment to answer to such judgment when rendered, and the final process of execution, elegit, or other writ, by which an ordinary judgment is carried into effect.
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