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Attachment and Garnishment Generally

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Section
16–501

Attachment before judgment; affidavit and bond

Section
16–502

Service of notice; publication

Section
16–503

Attachment for debts not due

Section
16–504

Additional attachments

Section
16–505

Sufficiency of plaintiff’s bond

Section
16–506

Traversing affidavits; quashing writ of attachment; trial of issues

Section
16–507

Property subject to attachment; liens; priorities

Section
16–508

Attachment of real property

Section
16–509

Attachment of personal property; undertaking by defendant or person in possession

Section
16–510

Release of property or credits from attachment; sufficiency of undertaking

Section
16–511

Attachment of credits or partnership interest; retention of property or credits by garnishee

Section
16–512

Attachment and levy upon wages of nonresident

Section
16–513

Advance payment of wages to avoid attachment or garnishment

Section
16–514

Credits or property held for two or more persons or in representative capacity

Section
16–515

Attachment of judgments and money or property in hands of marshal

Section
16–516

Attachment of money or property in hands of executor or administrator

Section
16–517

Attachment of other property in replevin action

Section
16–518

Preservation of property; sale; receiver

Section
16–519

Defenses by garnishee

Section
16–520

Defending against the attachment; trial of issues

Section
16–521

Interrogatories to garnishee; oral examination

Section
16–522

Traverse of garnishee’s answers; trial of issue; costs and attorney’s fee

Section
16–523

Claims to attached property

Section
16–524

Judgment generally; condemnation of attached property

Section
16–525

Condemnation and sale of property; proceeds of sale under interlocutory order

Section
16–526

Judgment against garnishee

Section
16–527

Judgment in case of undertaking for retention of property or credits

Section
16–528

Judgment protects garnishee

Section
16–529

Attachment in actions for fraudulent conveyances

Section
16–530

Time for trial of issues

Section
16–531

Attachment dockets; index of attachments

Section
16–532

Other remedies of judgment creditor

Section
16–533

Attachment proceedings in Superior Court