Attachment, in relation to building, includes lamps, brackets, pipes, electric lines and apparatus required for street lighting purposes, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., Para 400, Note 3, p. 291.
Attachment means prohibition of transfer, conversion, disposition or movement of property by an order issued under Chapter III. [Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, (15 of 2003), s. 2(d)]
A process from a Court of Record, awarded by the judges at their discretion on a bare suggestion, or on their own knowledge, against a person guilty of a contempt, who is punishable in a summary manner. Contempts may be thus classed. (1) Disobedience to the King's writs; (2) Contempt in the face of a Court; (3) Contemptuous words or writings concerning a Court; (4) Refusing to comply with the rules and awards of a Court; (5) Abuse of the process of a Court, and (6) Forgery of writs, or any other deceit tending to impose on a Court, Leach's Hawk. P. Cr., c. 22, s. 33. The issue of writs of attachment in the High Court is now governed by the provisions of Ord. XLIV., R. S. C. As to the difference between attachment and committal, see Re Evans, (1893) 1 Ch 259 (n.); D. v. A. & Co., (1900) 1 Ch 484. As the liberty of the subject is involved the precise course pointed out by the rules must be strictly followed; 'every subject has a right to say that he ought not to be put in prison unless every iota of the rules has been satisfied'; per Bowen, LJ, Re Evans, (1892) 9 TLR 109.
Means the seizing of a person's property to secure a judgment or to be sold in satisfaction of a judgment, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 123.
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