attachment : Idioms & Phrases


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 attachmenta 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.
Webster 1913