ATTACHMENT of the Forest, is one of the three courts held in the forest. The lowest court is called the court of attachment, or wood-mote court; the mean, swan-mote; and the highest, the justice in eyre's seat. The court of attachments has its name from the verdurers of the forest having no other authority in it, but to receive the attachments of offenders against vert and venison taken by the foresters, and to enroll them, that they may be presented or punished at the next justice in eyre's seat. This attachment is by three means: by goods and chattels; by body, pledges, or mainprize; or by the body only. This court is held every 40 days throughout the year; and is thence called forty days court.