N.Y. Civil Practice Law and Rules 6203 – Attaching creditor's rights in personal property
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§ 6203. Attaching creditor's rights in personal property. Where a plaintiff has delivered an order of attachment to a sheriff, the plaintiff's rights in a debt owed to the defendant or in an interest of the defendant in personal property against which debt or property a judgment may be enforced, are superior to the extent of the amount of the attachment to the rights of any transferee of the debt or property, except:
Terms Used In N.Y. Civil Practice Law and Rules 6203
- 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.
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
1. a transferee who acquired the debt or property before it was levied upon for fair consideration or without knowledge of the order of attachment; or
2. a transferee who acquired the debt or property for fair consideration after it was levied upon without knowledge of the levy while it was not in the possession of the sheriff.