Note 127 — Book III.

Attachiabitur. Attachiare is said to be derived from the French attacher. It differed from arrestere in many respects. An Arrest, say the old Books, proceeds out of the inferior courts by precept; an attachment, out of the superior courts by precept, or writ. (Lamb. Eiren. L. 1. c. 16.) An Arrest lies only against the body of a Man; an Attachment, sometimes against the goods only. Thus Kitch. (fol. 279. b.) says, a man may attach a cow; and, in another case, that a man may be attached by a hundred sheep; and it is sometimes awarded against the body and goods together. An Attachment is said to differ from a capias, because the former is more general and extends to the taking of the goods, a capias extending to the body only. An Attachment is laid down as differing from a Distress, inasmuch as it is a Process enumerated to issue, previous to a distress. Thus far our old law Books, (vide Termes de la ley ad voc. attach. Cowell’s Interpreter and Spelman’s Glossary.)