Attachment
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Attachiamentum, I. 1.
A process of taking into custody a person or property; it issues from courts 'of i:ecord in cases of contempt. If issuing only against the person, it is called personal attachment.
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Attachment of goods, taken either as security or to give jurisdiction of an action against a foreigner, in which latter case it was called Foreign attachment. This existed in old English law, and is now common in some of the Eastern States.
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Foreign attachment: a process, arising out of a custom of London, by which the debtor's goods or debts were reached by the creditor in the hands of a third person. Called also Factorizing or Trustee Process, or Garnishment All these writs of attachment were issued at the institution or during the process of an action in a court of record. Attachment of privilege: a process whereby a man privileged to litigate in a certain court (as attorneys and officers in their own court) ca Us another into that court to answer to some action. Also, a writ issued to apprehend a person in a privileged place.
Attachments, Court of: v. Court, 75.