attachment : Idioms & Phrases
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Eolian attachment , Eolian harp
- . See
Æolian .
Webster 1913
Foreign attachment
(Law) , a process by which the property of a foreign or absent debtor is attached for the satisfaction of a debt due from him to the plaintiff; an attachment of the goods, effects, or credits of a debtor in the hands of a third person; called in some States trustee, in others factorizing, and in others garnishee process. Kent. Tomlins. Cowell.
Webster 1913
Service of an attachment
(Law) , the seizing of the person or goods according to the direction.
Webster 1913
To serve an attachment ∨ a writ of attachment
(Law) , to levy it on the person or goods by seizure, or to seize.
Webster 1913
Æolian attachment
- a contrivance often attached to a pianoforte, which prolongs the vibrations, increases the volume of sound, etc., by forcing a stream of air upon the strings. Moore.
