The officer to whom application is made, shall, before granting the attachment, require the plaintiff, the plaintiff's agent or attorney, to execute a bond with sufficient security, payable to the defendant, and conditioned that the plaintiff will prosecute the attachment with effect, or, in case of failure, pay the defendant all costs that may be adjudged against defendant, and, also, all such damages as the defendant may sustain by the wrongful suing out of the attachment.
Code 1858, § 3471 (deriv. Acts 1794, ch. 1, § 19); Shan., § 5231; mod. Code 1932, § 9418; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-615.
Cross-References. Clerk's fees, §8-21-401.
Textbooks. Gibson's Suits in Chancery (7th ed., Inman), §§ 124, 331, 333.
Tennessee Jurisprudence, 3 Tenn. Juris., Attachment and Garnishment, §§ 5, 33, 177, 179.
Law Reviews.
Commencing an Action by Garnishment, 23 Tenn. L. Rev. 211.
Constitutional Law — Pinsky v. Duncan: Due Process and the Death of a Prejudgment Attachment Statute, 21 Mem. St. U.L. Rev. 413 (1991).
The Constitutionality of Prejudgment Seizure of Property Under Tennessee Law (Roger W. Dickson), 38 Tenn. L. Rev. 575.
Cited: Campbell v. Cresap, 166 Tenn. 75, 59 S.W.2d 523, 1932 Tenn. LEXIS 115 (1932); Citizens & S. Nat'l Bank v. Auer, 514 F. Supp. 631, 1977 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15593 (E.D. Tenn. 1977); A.G. Campbell & Co. v. Chemical Separations Corp., 29 B.R. 240, 1983 Bankr. LEXIS 6417 (Bankr. E.D. Tenn. 1983).