Terms Used In 7 Guam Code Ann. § 20419

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
If the defendant recovers judgment against the plaintiff, and no appeal is perfected and undertaking executed and filed any undertaking received in the action, all the proceeds of sales and money collected by the marshal, and all the property attached remaining in the commissioner’s hands, must be delivered to the defendant or his agent, the order of attachment be discharged, and the property released therefrom.
SOURCE: CCP § 553.

NOTE: The Compiler has removed the phrase as provided in § 946 of this Code from
§ 20419 because there was no § 946 in the Civil Procedure Code of Guam.