Foreign attachment Meaning, Definition & Usage

Definitions
  1. (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