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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:3879

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.

In all cases before any justice of the peace, where a writ or order of attachment, sequestration, or final seizure has been issued, under which any vessel, steamer, or other watercraft is being placed in the hands of any constable, the said vessel, steamer, or other watercraft shall not be subject to any other costs than those accrued on the first writs so issued.  Any other writ or order of attachment or final seizure shall be levied on the first writ or order in the hands of the constable without any other costs whatever.  

Amended by Acts 1960, No. 32, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.