Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 10-5 - Attachment
Section 10-5-35. - Application to sell perishable property or property expensive to keep.

§ 10-5-35. Application to sell perishable property or property expensive to keep.
Whenever any officer shall attach, on any writ, any live animals or any goods or chattels which are liable to perish or waste, or to be greatly reduced in value by keeping, or which cannot be kept without great and disproportionate expense, any justice of the court out of which the writ shall have been issued may, on the written application of any person interested in the property, cause the defendant and the attaching creditor, or complainant, their attorneys or agents, to be notified to appear at a time and place appointed for that purpose, to show cause why the animals, goods, or chattels should not be sold.
History of Section.C.P.A. 1905, § 568; G.L. 1909, ch. 301, § 2; G.L. 1923, ch. 351, § 2; G.L. 1938, ch. 549, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 10-5-35.

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Rhode Island General Laws

Title 10 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure in Particular Actions

Chapter 10-5 - Attachment

Section 10-5-1. - “Trustee” defined.

Section 10-5-2. - Procedure.

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 - Repealed.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 10-5-8. - Garnishment of wages restricted to amounts not exempt — Child support to have priority.

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 10-5-31. - Defendant in one county and property in another — Summons of defendants from different counties.

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.