Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

ATTACHMENT

102

AT LAW

ATTACHE. A person attached to the suite of an ambassador or to a foreign lega tion. ATTACHIAMENTA BONORTJM. A distress formerly taken upon goods and chat tels, by the legal attachiators or bailiffs, as security to answer an action for personal es tate or debt. ATTACHIAMENTA DE SPINIS ET BOSCIS. A privilege granted to the offi cers of a forest to take to their own use thorns, brush, and windfalls, within their precincts. Kenn. Par. Antiq. 209. ATTACHMENT. The act or process of taking, apprehending, or seizing persons or property, by virtue of a writ, summons, or other judicial order, and bringing the same into the custody of the law; used either for the purpose of bringing a person before the court, of acquiring jurisdiction over the property seized, to compel an appearance, to furnish security for debt or costs, or to arrest a fund in the hands of a third person who may become liable to pay it over. Also the writ or other process for the ac complishment of the purposes above enu merated, this being the more common use of the word. Of persons. A writ issued by a court of record, commanding the sheriff to bring be fore it a person who has been guilty of con tempt of court, either in neglect or abuse of its process or of subordinate powers. 3 Bl. Comm. 280; 4 Bl. Comm, 283. Of property. A species of mesne pro cess, by which a writ is issued at the institu« tion or during the progress of an action, corn, manding the sheriff to seize the property, rights, credits, or effects of the defendant tc be held as security for the satisfaction of such judgment as the plaintiff may recover. It is principally used against absconding, con cealed, or fraudulent debtors. To give jurisdiction. Where the de fendant is a non-resident, or beyond the ter ritorial jurisdiction of the court, his goods or land within the territory may be seized upon process of attachment; whereby he will be compelled to enter an appearance, or the court acquires jurisdiction so far as to dis pose of the property attached. This is some times called "foreign attachment." Domestic and foreign. In some juris dictions it is common to give the name "do mestic attachment" to one issuing against a resident debtor, (upon the special ground of fraud, intention to abscond, etc.,) and to

corporal control; as a ferocious animal so free from restraint as to be liable to do mis chief. (3) Fully; in detail; in an extended form. AT LAW. According to law; by, for, or in law; particularly in distinction from that which is done in or according to equity; or in titles such as sergeant at law, barrister at law, attorney or counsellor at law. AT SEA. Out of the limits of any port or harbor on the sea-coast. 1 Story, 251. ATAMITA. In the civil law. A great great-great-grandfather's sister. ATAVIA. In the civil law. A great grandmother's grandmother. ATAVUNCULUS. The brother of a great-grandfather's grandmother. ATAVUS. The great-grandfather's or great-grandmother's grandfather; a fourth grandfather. The ascending line of lineal ancestry runs thus: Pater, Avus, Proavus, Abavus, Atamis, Tritavus. The seventh gen eration in the ascending scale will be Tritavir pater, and the next above it Proavi-atavus. ATHA. In Saxon law. An oath; the power or privilege of exacting and adminis tering an oath. Spelman. ATHEIST. One who does not believe in 3he existence of a God. ATIA. Hatred or ill-will. See DE ODIO BT ATIA. ATILIUM. The tackle or rigging of a ship; the harness or tackle of a plow. Spel man. ATMATERTERA. A great-grandfa ther's grandmother's sister, (atavia soror;) called by Bracton "atmatertera magna." Bract, fol. 686. ATPATRUUS. The brother of a great grandfather's grandfather. ATTACH. To take or apprehend by com mandment of a writ or precept. It differs from arrest, becausejit takes not only the body, but sometimes the goods, whereas an arrest is only against the person; besides, he who attaches keeps the party at tached in order to produce him in court on the day named, but he who arrests lodges the person arrested in the custody of a higher power, to be forthwith disposed of. Fleta, lib. 5, c. 24. See ATTACHMENT.

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