Arrestment

Scottish Law: Arrestment in the Past

By this term is sometimes meant the securing of a criminal’s person till trial or that of a debtor till he give security judicio sisti. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. 1, 2, 12. It is also the order of a judge, by which The person who is debtor in a movable obligation to the arrester’s debtor, is probibited to make payment or delivery till the debt due to the arrester be paid or secured. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. 3, 6, 1. See Attachment, foreign. where arrestment proceeds on a depending action, it may be loosed by the common debtor’s giving security to the arrester for his debt, in the event it must be found due. Id. 3, 6, 7. [1][rtbs name=”scottish-law”]

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1. Partialy, this information about arrestment is based on the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, 1848 edition. There is a list of terms of the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, including arrestment.

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