District of Columbia Code
Chapter 5 - Attachment and Garnishment
Subchapter I - Attachment and Garnishment Generally

§ 16–501. Attachment before judgment; affidavit and bond - (a) This section applies to any civil action in the...

§ 16–502. Service of notice; publication - (a) A writ issued pursuant to section 16-501 shall require...

§ 16–503. Attachment for debts not due - A creditor may maintain an action and have an attachment...

§ 16–504. Additional attachments - Upon the application of the plaintiff, his agent, or attorney,...

§ 16–505. Sufficiency of plaintiff’s bond - The defendant or any other person interested in the proceedings...

§ 16–506. Traversing affidavits; quashing writ of attachment; trial of issues - If the defendant files affidavits traversing the affidavits filed by...

§ 16–507. Property subject to attachment; liens; priorities - (a) An attachment may be levied on the lands and...

§ 16–508. Attachment of real property - An attachment is sufficiently levied on the lands and tenements...

§ 16–509. Attachment of personal property; undertaking by defendant or person in possession - (a) An attachment shall be levied upon personal chattels by...

§ 16–510. Release of property or credits from attachment; sufficiency of undertaking - (a) Either the defendant or the person in whose possession...

§ 16–511. Attachment of credits or partnership interest; retention of property or credits by garnishee - (a) An attachment shall be levied upon credits of the...

§ 16–512. Attachment and levy upon wages of nonresident - An attachment issued under section 16-501 solely on the ground...

§ 16–513. Advance payment of wages to avoid attachment or garnishment - It is unlawful for an employer to pay salary or...

§ 16–514. Credits or property held for two or more persons or in representative capacity - When a writ of attachment is served on a garnishee,...

§ 16–515. Attachment of judgments and money or property in hands of marshal - (a) An attachment may be levied upon debts due to...

§ 16–516. Attachment of money or property in hands of executor or administrator - An attachment may be levied upon money or property of...

§ 16–517. Attachment of other property in replevin action - Where the action is to replevy specific personal property and...

§ 16–518. Preservation of property; sale; receiver - The court may make all orders necessary for the preservation...

§ 16–519. Defenses by garnishee - A garnishee in an attachment proceeding may make any defense...

§ 16–520. Defending against the attachment; trial of issues - A defendant, any garnishee, party to a forthcoming undertaking, or...

§ 16–521. Interrogatories to garnishee; oral examination - (a) In any case in which a writ of attachment...

§ 16–522. Traverse of garnishee’s answers; trial of issue; costs and attorney’s fee - If any garnishee answers to interrogatories that he does not...

§ 16–523. Claims to attached property - Any person may file his motion and affidavit in the...

§ 16–524. Judgment generally; condemnation of attached property - (a) If the defendant in the action has been served...

§ 16–525. Condemnation and sale of property; proceeds of sale under interlocutory order - In any form of action, where specific property has been...

§ 16–526. Judgment against garnishee - (a) When a garnishee has admitted credits in his hands,...

§ 16–527. Judgment in case of undertaking for retention of property or credits - (a) When property or credits attached are released upon an...

§ 16–528. Judgment protects garnishee - A judgment of condemnation against a garnishee, and execution thereon,...

§ 16–529. Attachment in actions for fraudulent conveyances - (a) Where the ground upon which an attachment is applied...

§ 16–530. Time for trial of issues - All issues raised by answers to the attachment, in any...

§ 16–531. Attachment dockets; index of attachments - The clerk of the court shall keep an attachment docket,...

§ 16–532. Other remedies of judgment creditor - Nothing herein contained deprives a judgment creditor of the right...

§ 16–533. Attachment proceedings in Superior Court - The provisions of this Code relating to attachments apply to...