Sec. 52-280. Service of writ of attachment.
Sec. 52-280. Service of writ of attachment. A writ of attachment shall be served
by attaching the estate of the defendant, personal or real, or both. The officer serving
the process shall leave with the person whose estate was attached, or at his usual place of
abode, if within the state, a true and attested copy of the process and of the accompanying
complaint, and of his return thereon, describing any estate attached.
(1949 Rev., S. 8023; P.A. 81-410, S. 8.)
History: P.A. 81-410 eliminated provision re service of body attachment.
An attachment of personal property must be consummated by taking possession, if practicable. 3 C. 65, 431; 4 C. 361;
7 C. 273; 8 C. 324; 14 C. 225; 28 C. 512; 40 C. 213; 107 C. 302. See note to section 52-283. Interest of vendee under
conditional sale not attachable; 40 C. 148; but see now section 42a-9-301 et seq. Goods subject to a lien may be attached.
16 C. 85. Interest of joint tenant or partner may be attached; 10 C. 37, 44; 14 C. 404; 18 C. 294. Equitable interests. 17 C.
283; 33 C. 379. Property of any or all of several defendants may be taken. 20 C. 486. Successive attachments on different
writs. 9 C. 533; 11 C. 25; 20 C. 364; 36 C. 582; 107 C. 302. Body, if taken, may be released and property attached. 1 C.
259. If real estate of a nonresident is attached, his agent in charge of it must be served. 31 C. 396. An attachment of real
estate gives no title to it; 5 D. 80; but may grant an equitable right to an injunction. 11 C. 60. Mortgagor's right of redemption
is attachable. 43 C. 281. Service at place other than defendant's "usual abode" is nugatory. 44 C. 140. Harmless mistake
in copy no ground for equitable relief. 48 C. 25. An attachment of land creates a lien only for the amount directed by the
writ to be attached. 52 C. 17. Insufficient description of "estate attached." 62 C. 21. Law must be strictly followed. 75 C.
107; id., 656. Amendment of return. 65 C. 193; 84 C. 618; 85 C. 327. Failure to return makes attaching officer a trespasser.
72 C. 338. Liabilities for wrongful attachment. 68 C. 1; 70 C. 341; 75 C. 107; 77 C. 370; 90 C. 573. Validity determined
as of time when made. 76 C. 133. Attaching creditor stands in shoes of debtor. 79 C. 290; Id., 570; 80 C. 389; 91 C. 571.
Refusal to give officer property attached but gone from his possession not an obstruction of process. 74 C. 64. Right of
officer with writ to break door of dwelling-house. 92 C. 388. Steps necessary for a valid attachment of personal property.
99 C. 376; Id., 591. Officer's receipt does not constitute lien on property attached; property not removed is open to attachment
by another creditor even though he has notice of first attachment. 107 C. 302. Cited. 141 C. 407. See notes to sections 51-347, 52-54.
Cited. 6 CA 622.
Invalidity in the process of attachment does not make the entire action abatable. 11 CS 261. Cited. 16 CS 95; Id., 241.
See note to section 52-279.