Terms Used In 7 Guam Code Ann. § 20421

  • 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.
Before making such order, the court or judge must require an undertaking on behalf of such defendant by at least two sureties, residents and freeholders or householders in Guam, to the effect that in case the plaintiff recovers judgment in the action against the defendant, by whom or in whose behalf such undertaking shall be given, such defendant will on demand redeliver the attached property so released to the proper officer to be applied to the payment of any judgment in such action against said defendant, or in default thereof, that such defendant and sureties will on demand pay to the plaintiff the full value of the property released not exceeding the amount of such judgment against such defendant. The court or judge making such order may fix the sum for which the undertaking must be executed and, if necessary in fixing such sum to know the value of the property released, the same may be appraised by one or more disinterested persons to be appointed for that purpose. The sureties may be required to justify before the court or judge, and the property attached cannot be released from the attachment without their justification if the same is required.
SOURCE: CCP § 555.