Attachment (law)

[1] A wide variety of legal mechanisms are employed by debtors to prevent the attachment of their assets.

A writ of attachment is filed to secure debt or claim of the creditor in the event that a judgment is rendered.

[3] Prejudgment attachment in Chinese litigation proceeding can be obtained by the plaintiff before filing the case with court or arbitration commission in the case of emergency where failure to take immediate action will result in irreparable damage to relevant party.

The plaintiff having started the action, and made a satisfactory affidavit of his debt, was entitled to issue attachment, which thereupon affected all the money or property of the defendant in the hands of the third party, the garnishee.

This custom, and all proceedings relating to it, were expressly exempted from the operation of the Debtor's Act 1869.