A Treatise on the Law of Attachment and Garnishment: With an Appendix Containing a Compilation of the Statutes of the Different States and Territories Now in Force Governing Suits by Attachment, Volume 1

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Sumner Whitney & Company, 1887 - Attachment and garnishment
 

Contents

Order of priority between attaching creditors
75
To what extent attachment satisfies the debt
81
Attaching creditors rights affected by legislation 36 Rights of defendants coowners in attached property
82
Rights of intervenors
84
CHAPTER IV
87
Avoiding process
88
Absence
89
How jurisdiction of the person of defendant is obtained 45 The statutory substitute for personal service considered as an element of jurisdiction
98
Collateral attack upon judgments for want of jurisdiction 47 How want of jurisdiction should appear to render the judgment void
106
CHAPTER V
109
THE AFFIDAVIT
111
Defendants
112
General requisites of the affidavit when prescribed by statute 56 Substantial and literal defects or omissions 57 Omissions that utterly nullify the affi...
118
The affiant
127
Certainty of statement required when affidavit made by plaintiff
128
By whom oath administered
131
Entitling affidavit Names of parties 62 Relative time when affidavit should be made
133
Filing the affidavit 64 The general contents of the affidavit
135
The nature of the demand
138
66 The amount sued
139
Whether the demand is due or to become
141
The justice of the demand
142
That the action is not to vex or harass the debtor nor to hinder delay or defraud his creditors
143
That defendant has attachable property
144
That plaintiff holds no valuable security by mortgage lien or pledge 72 Waiver of defects and amendment of affidavit
147
The effect upon the action of insufficient affidavit
151
CHAPTER VII
154
Departure from the State
192
Removal of property from the State
194
Disposing of transferring assigning or secreting property
195
The grounds should bo alleged distinctly 94 Positive statement of grounds
201
Evidence of disposal etc of effects
202
The intent to hinder delay or defraud
203
Evidence of fraudulent intent
207
Debts fraudulently contracted
210
Obligations criminally incurred 100 Failure to pay for an article on delivery according to contract
212

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