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, 1886 - Attachment and garnishment
 

Contents

Order of priority between attaching creditors
75
Right of attaching creditor to attack fraudulent conveyances or assign ment
78
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
60 By whom oath administered
131
61 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
65 The nature of the demand
138
The amount sued
139
Whether the demand is due or to become
141
The justice of the demand
142
69 That the action is not to vex or harass the debtor nor to hinder delay or defraud his creditors
143
70 That defendant has attachable property
144
71 That plaintiff holds no valuable security by mortgage lien or pledge 72 Waiver of defects and amendment of affidavit
147
73 The effect upon the action of insufficient affidavit
151
CHAPTER VII
154
Obligations criminally incurred 100 Failure to pay for an article on delivery according to contract
212
About
213
CHAPTER VIII
215
The penalty of the bond
230
Approval of the bond
231
Failure to give bond How taken advantage of 114 Insufficient and defective bonds
232

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Page 146 - State, and that the payment of the same has not been secured by any mortgage or lien upon real or personal property, or any pledge of personal property...
Page 146 - That the defendant is indebted to the plaintiff (specifying the amount of such indebtedness over and above all legal set-offs...
Page 32 - ... may be established against the defendant by the final judgment of the court. But if there is no appearance of the defendant, and no service of process on him, the case becomes in its essential nature a proceeding in rem, the only effect of which is to subject the property attached to the payment of the demand which the court may find to be due to the plaintiff.
Page 356 - State, to the effect that in case the plaintiff recover judgment in the action, defendant will, on demand, redeliver the attached property so released to the proper officer, to be applied to the payment of the judgment...
Page 164 - ... has departed therefrom, with intent to defraud his creditors, or to avoid the service of a summons, or keeps himself concealed therein with the like intent...
Page 559 - The defendant may also at any time, either before or after the release of the attached property, or before any attachment shall have been actually levied, apply, on motion, upon reasonable notice to the plaintiff, to the court in which the action is brought, or to a judge thereof, that the writ of attachment be discharged on the ground that the same was improperly or irregularly issued.
Page 164 - In an action upon a contract, express or implied, for the direct payment of money...
Page 30 - In summary proceedings, where a court exercises an extraordinary power under a special statute prescribing its course, we think that course ought to be exactly observed, and those facts especially which give jurisdiction, ought to appear, in order to show that its proceedings are coram judice.
Page 32 - That such is the nature of this proceeding in this latter class of cases is clearly evinced by two well established propositions: first, the judgment of the court, though in form a personal judgment against the defendant, has no effect beyond the property attached in that suit. No general execution can be issued for any balance unpaid after the attached property is exhausted.
Page 356 - ... will, on demand, pay to the plaintiff the amount of any judgment which may be recovered in the action against him, not exceeding a sum specified in the undertaking, with interest. The sum so specified must be at least equal to the amount of the...

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