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

Actions for unliquidated damages arising on contract
58
At what stage of the proceeding the impropriety of the demand may be taken advantage of Incurable defects
60
CHAPTER III
62
Right of possession to what extent affected by attachment
66
Extent and duration of the lien secured by attachment
67
Extent to which the lien binds property seized 31 Extent to which the lien binds real estate levied upon
73
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
Defendants
112
Omissions that utterly nullify the affidavit
123
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
Disposing of transferring assigning or secreting property
195
The grounds should bo alleged distinctly 94 Positive statement of grounds
201
95 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
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
Amendment of defective and insufficient bonds
234
116 Objections to bond When waived
235
Discharge of attachment bonds
236
Insufficient returns do not always vitiate the levy
283
Amendments to the return How made 151 When the return may be amended
284
152 Conditions upon which amendments may be made
286
What errors may be corrected by amendment after return
287
Effect of amendment 155 Intervening rights not lost by amendment 156 Return as evidence of facts therein recited
289
CHAPTER XI
292
CHAPTER XII
296
CHAPTER XIII
299
Means of devesting officers special title prior to judgment
320
Rights of keeper of attached chattels
322
Custody of attached property after judgment
323
The demand
326
The demand made of the bailee 181 The expenses of custody
330
CHAPTER XIV
332
CHAPTER XV
366
CHAPTER XVI
428
Measure of damages and relief
459
Available defenses to the action by third parties
460
Officers liability for the sale on execution 247 Officers liability for acts of deputy
464
The officers indemnity
465
CHAPTER XVII
469
CHAPTER XVIII
490
CHAPTER XIX
506
269 The order of publication
514
270 Contents of notice
515
271 The period of publication
519
272 Levy essential to give effect to publication
520
273 Proof of publication
522
274 Other substitutes for personal service 275 How failure to publish taken advantage
524
CHAPTER XX
527
CHAPTER XXI
544
CHAPTER XXII
565
CHAPTER XXIII
587
When liable to defendant for seizure of exempt property
589
Malicious attachments What constitutes malice
590
Malice essential to the action
591
313 The question of probable cause
595
The grounds of belief Advice of counsel 315 Effect of subsequent rightful attachment on same property
597
Malicious attachment by agent
598
Measure of damages
599
318 Facts considered in mitigation of damages 319 The form of action
601
At what time the action may be brought
602
321 The pleadings
603
322 Evidence
605
Waiver of right of action for malicious attachment
607
Reconvention
609
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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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