(a) If the defendant in the action has been served with process, final judgment may not be rendered against the garnishee until the action against the defendant is determined.
(b) If in such an action judgment is rendered for the defendant, the garnishee shall be discharged and shall recover his costs, and the property attached or its proceeds shall be restored to the garnishee or to the defendant, as the case may require.
(c) If in such an action judgment is rendered in favor of the plaintiff against the defendant, and it appears that the plaintiff is entitled to a judgment of condemnation of the property attached, the court shall proceed to enter such judgment in the attachment as is directed by sections 16-525 to 16-527.
(Dec. 23, 1963, 77 Stat. 550, Pub. L. 88-241, § 1.)
1981 Ed., § 16-524.
1973 Ed., § 16-524.
This section is referenced in § 16-529.
Structure 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
§ 16–512. 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