Terms Used In Iowa Code 639.51

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
 The sheriff shall return upon every attachment what the sheriff has done under it, which must show the property attached, the time it was attached, and the disposition made of it, by a full and particular inventory; also the appraisement above contemplated when such has been made.