Missouri Laws 521.240 – Property subject to attachment
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 521.240
- 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.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
- Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
Under an attachment, the officer shall be authorized to seize, as attachable property, the defendant‘s account books, accounts, notes, bills of exchange, bonds, certificates of deposit, and other evidences of debt, as well as his other property, real, personal and mixed, and any and all judgment debts of the defendant, as well where the judgment or judgments may exist in the court out of which such writ may issue, as where the same may exist in any other court within the jurisdiction of the court out of which such writ may issue; but no property or wages declared by statute to be exempt from execution shall be attached, except in the case of a nonresident defendant, or of a defendant who is about to move out of the state with intent to change his domicile.