Attachment; form of writ.

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Writs of attachment in civil actions in the magistrate court shall be in substantially the following form:

"STATE OF NEW MEXICO

____________ MAGISTRATE DISTRICT, DIVISION _______

(Name), Plaintiff

)
)

v.

)

CIVIL DOCKET NO. ________


(Name), Defendant

)
)

WRIT OF ATTACHMENT

THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO
TO: The sheriff or a full-time, salaried deputy sheriff:

You are ordered to attach personal property of the defendant in this action having a value sufficient to satisfy the sum of _______ ($ _____), with interest and costs, wherever the same may be found in the county, safely to keep the property to satisfy any judgment that might be recovered by the plaintiff in this action, and to make return of this writ to me on ________, 19 ___, presenting with your return a copy of your inventory of property attached.

Dated _________, 19 ___

________________________________
Magistrate"

History: 1953 Comp., § 36-11-8, enacted by Laws 1968, ch. 62, § 121.


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