District of Columbia Code
Subchapter I - Attachment and Garnishment Generally
§ 16–507. Property subject to attachment; liens; priorities

(a) An attachment may be levied on the lands and tenements, and personal chattels of the defendant not exempt by law, whether in the defendant’s or a third person’s possession, and whether the defendant’s title to the property is legal or equitable, and upon his credits in the hands of a third person, whether due and payable or not, and upon his undivided interest in a partnership business.
(b) An attachment shall be a lien on the property attached from the date of its delivery to the marshal. When different persons obtain attachments against the same defendant the priorities of the liens of the attachments shall be according to the dates when they were so delivered to the marshal.
(Dec. 23, 1963, 77 Stat. 545, Pub. L. 88-241, § 1.)
1981 Ed., § 16-507.
1973 Ed., § 16-507.
This section is referenced in § 16-572.

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District of Columbia Code

Title 16 - Particular Actions, Proceedings and Matters. [Enacted title]

Chapter 5 - Attachment and Garnishment

Subchapter I - Attachment and Garnishment Generally

§ 16–501. Attachment before judgment; affidavit and bond

§ 16–502. Service of notice; publication

§ 16–503. Attachment for debts not due

§ 16–504. Additional attachments

§ 16–505. Sufficiency of plaintiff’s bond

§ 16–506. Traversing affidavits; quashing writ of attachment; trial of issues

§ 16–507. Property subject to attachment; liens; priorities

§ 16–508. Attachment of real property

§ 16–509. Attachment of personal property; undertaking by defendant or person in possession

§ 16–510. Release of property or credits from attachment; sufficiency of undertaking

§ 16–511. Attachment of credits or partnership interest; retention of property or credits by garnishee

§ 16–512. Attachment and levy upon wages of nonresident

§ 16–513. Advance payment of wages to avoid attachment or garnishment

§ 16–514. Credits or property held for two or more persons or in representative capacity

§ 16–515. Attachment of judgments and money or property in hands of marshal

§ 16–516. Attachment of money or property in hands of executor or administrator

§ 16–517. Attachment of other property in replevin action

§ 16–518. Preservation of property; sale; receiver

§ 16–519. Defenses by garnishee

§ 16–520. Defending against the attachment; trial of issues

§ 16–521. Interrogatories to garnishee; oral examination

§ 16–522. Traverse of garnishee’s answers; trial of issue; costs and attorney’s fee

§ 16–523. Claims to attached property

§ 16–524. Judgment generally; condemnation of attached property

§ 16–525. Condemnation and sale of property; proceeds of sale under interlocutory order

§ 16–526. Judgment against garnishee

§ 16–527. Judgment in case of undertaking for retention of property or credits

§ 16–528. Judgment protects garnishee

§ 16–529. Attachment in actions for fraudulent conveyances

§ 16–530. Time for trial of issues

§ 16–531. Attachment dockets; index of attachments

§ 16–532. Other remedies of judgment creditor

§ 16–533. Attachment proceedings in Superior Court