§ 10-5-19. Attachment of corporate stock or trust estate.
Whenever a writ shall command the attachment of the shares of the defendant in any corporation, or of his or her personal estate in the hands of any person, co-partnership or corporation, as trustee, it shall be served by leaving an attested copy of the writ, having endorsed on the writ the date and time of day of the service, with the person or some member of the co-partnership named in the writ as trustee, or at the usual place of business of the person or co-partnership with some person there employed; or if the trustee, or the corporation whose shares shall be directed to be attached, shall be a bank, with the cashier, treasurer or secretary of the bank; if an insurance company, with the president or secretary of the company; and if any other corporation, it shall be served by leaving an attested copy of the writ, having endorsed on the writ the date and time of day of the service, with the treasurer of the corporation, or the person executing the duties of treasurer of the corporation, or with the attorney of the corporation appointed with authority to accept service of process against the corporation in this state, or with any other officer of the corporation, or with the agent or superintendent of the corporation, or at the office of the corporation with some person there employed, and shall tender to the person upon whom service is made the sum of two dollars ($2.00) and his or her traveling fee as witness in the superior court, and the sum of one dollar ($1.00) and like traveling fee if the writ is returnable in any other court; and the officer shall also serve the defendant in accordance with applicable procedural rules.
History of Section.C.P.A. 1905, § 544; G.L. 1909, ch. 300, § 22; G.L. 1923, ch. 350, § 22; G.L. 1938, ch. 547, § 11; G.L. 1956, § 10-5-19; P.L. 1966, ch. 1, § 11.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Title 10 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure in Particular Actions
Section 10-5-1. - “Trustee” defined.
Section 10-5-3, 10-5-4. - Repealed.
Section 10-5-5. - Writ of attachment after filing of equitable complaint.
Section 10-5-6. - Writ in tort action against nonresident.
Section 10-5-7. - Classes of property named in writ.
Section 10-5-9. - Method of attaching real estate.
Section 10-5-10. - Value of goods attached.
Section 10-5-11. - Service of writ on defendant.
Section 10-5-12. - Custody of attached goods.
Section 10-5-13. - Defendant’s bond.
Section 10-5-14. - Reduction of damages before bond.
Section 10-5-15. - Filing of bond and delivery of property to defendant.
Section 10-5-16. - Surrender of attached goods on defendant’s bond.
Section 10-5-17. - Release of real estate on bond.
Section 10-5-17.1. - Discharge of sheriff’s bond for want of action.
Section 10-5-18. - Reduction of damages or partial release of property.
Section 10-5-19. - Attachment of corporate stock or trust estate.
Section 10-5-20. - Account rendered by corporate officer.
Section 10-5-21. - Filing of officer’s account — Certification.
Section 10-5-22. - Defendant’s bond on corporate stock or trust estate.
Section 10-5-23. - Release of stock or trust estate on acceptance of bond by officer.
Section 10-5-24. - Release of stock or trust estate by plaintiff.
Section 10-5-25. - Liens and claims on stock preserved.
Section 10-5-26. - Attachment of mortgaged personal property.
Section 10-5-27. - Sale of mortgaged property.
Section 10-5-28. - Proceeds of sale of mortgaged property.
Section 10-5-29. - Redemption of mortgage by plaintiff in attachment.
Section 10-5-30. - Defeat of attachment by failure to sell or redeem from mortgage.
Section 10-5-32. - Surety on defendant’s bond — Lien on surety’s real estate.
Section 10-5-33. - Inventory included in return of writ.
Section 10-5-34. - Subsequent attachments of other property.
Section 10-5-35. - Application to sell perishable property or property expensive to keep.
Section 10-5-36. - Sale of perishable property or property expensive to keep.
Section 10-5-37, 10-5-38. - Repealed.
Section 10-5-39. - Charges for attested copies restricted to charge for one person.
Section 10-5-40. - Attested copies on demand — Fee.
Section 10-5-41. - Time of attachment shown in return.
Section 10-5-42. - Appointment of receiver — Effect on attachment.
Section 10-5-43. - Prerequisites to dismissal of receivership.
Section 10-5-44. - Dissolution of attachment of real property for want of action.
Section 10-5-45. - Dissolution of attachment for failure to file complaint.
Section 10-5-46. - Dissolution of attachment of real estate after 20 years.