Wray v. Tammany

Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Date filed: 1850-05-15
Citations: 13 Pa. 394
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Lead Opinion
Per curiam.

An attachment under the act of 1836, is pro

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cess to enforce the judgment; and it is, in substance, if not in form, an execution. It differs from a fieri facias essentially only in this, that it reaches effects, from which the debt could otherwise not be levied. It is usually called an attachment execution; but whatever the name, it is within the spirit and purview of the statute.

Judgment affirmed.