1-440.1. Nature of attachment.
(a) Attachment is a proceeding ancillary to a pending principal action, is in the nature of a preliminary execution against property, and is intended to bring property of a defendant within the legal custody of the court in order that it may subsequently be applied to the satisfaction of any judgment for money which may be rendered against the defendant in the principal action.
(b) No personal judgment, even for costs, may be rendered against a defendant unless personal jurisdiction has been acquired as provided in G.S. 1-75.3.
(c) Although there is no personal service on the defendant, or on an agent for him, and although he does not make a general appearance, judgment may be rendered in an action in which property of the defendant has been attached which judgment shall provide for the application of the attached property, by the method set out in G.S. 1-440.46, to the satisfaction of the plaintiff's claim as established in the principal action. If plaintiff's claim is not thereby satisfied in full, subsequent actions for the unsatisfied balance are not barred. (1947, c. 693, s. 1; 1967, c. 954, s. 3.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
§ 1-440 - Superseded by Session Laws 1947, c693, codified as § 1- 440.1 et seq.
§ 1-440.1 - Nature of attachment.
§ 1-440.2 - Actions in which attachment may be had.
§ 1-440.3 - Grounds for attachment.
§ 1-440.4 - Property subject to attachment.
§ 1-440.5 - By whom order issued; when and where; filing of bond and affidavit.
§ 1-440.6 - Time of issuance with reference to summons or service by publication.
§ 1-440.7 - Time within which service of summons or service by publication must be had.
§ 1-440.8 - General provisions relative to bonds.
§ 1-440.9 - Authority of court to fix procedural details.
§ 1-440.10 - Bond for attachment.
§ 1-440.11 - Affidavit for attachment; amendment.
§ 1-440.12 - Order of attachment; form and contents.
§ 1-440.13 - Additional orders of attachment at time of original order; alias and pluries orders.
§ 1-440.14 - Notice of issuance of order of attachment when no personal service.
§ 1-440.15 - Method of execution.
§ 1-440.16 - Sheriff's return.
§ 1-440.17 - Levy on real property.
§ 1-440.18 - Levy on tangible personal property in defendant's possession.
§ 1-440.19 - Levy on stock in corporation.
§ 1-440.20 - Levy on goods in warehouses.
§ 1-440.21 - Nature of garnishment.
§ 1-440.22 - Issuance of summons to garnishee.
§ 1-440.23 - Form of summons to garnishee.
§ 1-440.24 - Form of notice of levy in garnishment proceeding.
§ 1-440.25 - Levy upon debt owed by, or property in possession of, the garnishee.
§ 1-440.26 - To whom garnishment process may be delivered when garnishee is corporation.
§ 1-440.27 - Failure of garnishee to appear.
§ 1-440.28 - Admission by garnishee; setoff; lien.
§ 1-440.29 - Denial of claim by garnishee; issues of fact.
§ 1-440.30 - Time of jury trial.
§ 1-440.31 - Payment to defendant by garnishee.
§ 1-440.32 - Execution against garnishee.
§ 1-440.33 - When lien of attachment begins; priority of liens.
§ 1-440.34 - Effect of defendant's death after levy.
§ 1-440.35 - Sheriff's liability for care of attached property; expense of care.
§ 1-440.36 - Dissolution of the order of attachment.
§ 1-440.37 - Modification of the order of attachment.
§ 1-440.38 - Stay of order dissolving or modifying an order of attachment.
§ 1-440.39 - Discharge of attachment upon giving bond.
§ 1-440.40 - Defendant's objection to bond or surety.
§ 1-440.41 - Defendant's remedies not exclusive.
§ 1-440.43 - Remedies of third person claiming attached property or interest therein.
§ 1-440.44 - When attached property to be sold before judgment.
§ 1-440.45 - When defendant prevails in principal action.