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Attachment

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 attachm...


Foreign Attachment

Foreign Attachment, a custom which prevails in the city of London, whereby a debt owing to a defendant, sued in the Court of the Mayor or Sheriff, may be attached in the hands of the debtor. The custom was certified by the Recorder of London, in the reign o Edward IV., to be, that if a plaint be affirmed in London before, etc., against any person, and it be returned nihil, if the plaintiff will surmise that another person within the city is a debtor to the defendant in any sum, he shall have garnishment against him to warn him to come in and answer whether he be indebted in the manner alleged; and if he comes and does not deny the debt, it shall be attached in his habds, and after four defaults, recorded on the part of the defendant, such person shall find new surety to the plaintiff for the said debt, and judgment shall be that the plaintiff shall have judgment against him and that he shall be quit against the other after execution sued out by the plaintiff. Consult Brandon on Foreign...


Attachment, Foreign

Attachment, Foreign, a process under which the goods of foreigners found in some liberty are taken to satisfy creditors, Com. Dig., tit. 'Attachment, Foreign.' Also a judicial proceeding, by means of which a creditor may obtain the security of the moneys, goods, or other personal property of his debtor, in the hands of a third person, for the purpose, in the first instance, of enforcing the appearance of the debtor to answer an action; and afterwards, upon his continued default, of obtaining the goods or property in satisfaction of the demand. It is also called garnishment. As to the custom prevailing in the City of London, see FOREIGN ATTACHMENT and consult Brandon on For. Attach...


Attachment of the forest

Attachment of the forest, one of the three Courts formerly held in forests. The highest Court was called Justice in Eyre's seat; the middle, the Swainmote; and the lowest, the Attachment, Manwood, 90, 99....


Re-attachment

Re-attachment, a second attachment of him who was formerly attached and dismissed the court without day, by the not coming of the justices, or some such casualty, Jac. Law Dict....


attachment bond

attachment bond see bond ...


attachment lien

attachment lien see lien ...


Attachment of debts

Attachment of debts. By (English) R.S.C. 1883, Order XLV., as amended by (English) R.S. C. July, 1902, r. 12, and R. S.C. July, 1905, r. 8, a judgment creditor may apply ex parte to the Court or a judge (r. 1), either before or after any oral examination of the debtor, for an order nisi [see Norton v. Yates, 1906 (1) KB 112] attaching debts owing or accruing to the debtor in the hands of the parties owing the same who are called garnishees; and by the same or any subsequent order the garnishee maybe required to appear before the Court, or a judge, or an officer of the Court, to show cause why he should not pay to the judgment creditor the debt due from him (the garnishee) to the judgment debtor or so much thereof as may be sufficient to satisfy the judgment debt. See (English) County Court Rules, 1936, Ord. XXVII....


Attachment of privilege

Attachment of privilege, is where a man by virtue of his privilege, calls another to that Court, whereto he himself belongs, and in respect thereof is privileged, there to answer some action. It is also a power to apprehend a person in a privileged place, Jac. Law Dict.; 2 Wm. 4, c. 39 (commonly called the Uniformity of Process Act), virtually abolished this proceeding, and 1 & 2 Vict. c. 110, enacted that all personal actions in any of the Superior Courts of Common Law at Westminster should be commenced by writ of summons....


Attachment of risk

Attachment of risk, means the point when the risk of loss of purchased goods passes from the seller to the buyer, UCC 2-509....


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