or Attachment, in English law, the taking or apprehending of a person, by virtue of a writ or precept.

Attachment out of the Chancery, is obtained upon an affidavit made, that the defendant was served with a subpoena, and made no appearance; or it is inflicted upon not performing some order or decree.

Attachment out 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. This attachment is by three means, by goods and chattels, by body, pledges, and mainprize, or the body only. This court is held every forty days throughout the year, whence it is called the forty-days court.

Attachment of privilege, is by virtue of a man's privilege to call another to that court whereunto he himself belongs, and in respect whereof he is privileged to answer some action.

Attachment bonorum, in the old English statute books, imports a distress taken upon the goods or chattels of a person sued for a personal estate, or debt, by the legal attachators, or bailiffs, as a security to answer the action.