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Home » US Law » 2020 Mississippi Code » Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure » Chapter 33 - Attachment at Law Against Debtors

§ 11-33-39. When publication unnecessary

Such publication of notice shall not be necessary if it shall be served on the nonresident defendant, and proof of such service be made as provided for in case of nonresident defendants in chancery; but such proof of service of notice shall be as effectual as if such defendant had been served with a summons.

§ 11-33-41. Form of notice required

The notice of the attachment which the clerk is required to cause to be published may be in the following form, to wit: “The State of Mississippi to : An attachment at the suit of against your estate, for dollars, returnable before the circuit court of County, at , Mississippi, has been executed, and is […]

§ 11-33-43. In absence of newspaper

If there should be no newspaper published within the county in which the attachment is pending, or in a convenient county, such notice shall be posted at the door of the courthouse of the county, and that shall be instead of publication in a newspaper.

§ 11-33-45. Property may be replevied

The defendant, at any time before final judgment, may replevy the personal property seized and taken into possession by the officer serving an attachment, by giving to such officer a bond, with sufficient sureties, to be approved by him, payable to the plaintiff, in double the value of such property, conditioned to have said property […]

§ 11-33-47. Form of bond for replevin of goods

The defendant’s replevin bond may be in the following form, viz.: “We, , principal, and and sureties, bind ourselves to pay dollars, unless the said shall have forthcoming to abide the judgment of the circuit court of County, in the suit by attachment therein pending in which said is plaintiff and said is defendant, returnable […]

§ 11-33-49. But one bond required

If personal property be seized under an attachment writ, and the defendant, or a claimant, replevy the same, giving bond therefor, he shall not be deprived of the property under a subsequent attachment against the same defendant returnable to the same court to which the first writ is returnable; nor shall but one replevy bond […]

§ 11-33-5. Attachment against partners

In case one or more partners shall be liable to attachment on any of the enumerated grounds therefor, save the first, an attachment may be maintained against said partner, or all of the partners, by the partnership creditors. The property of the partnership, in either case, may be levied on and dealt with in all […]

§ 11-33-51. Execution against sureties

Where the amount demanded in an untried prior attachment, or the judgment, if the same be tried, shall equal or exceed the value of the property replevied, an execution or other process shall not be issued against the sureties on the replevin bond on a judgment in a subsequent attachment, unless the prior attachment fails, […]

§ 11-33-53. Loss of priority

If the plaintiff in a prior attachment fail to enforce his judgment, after ten days written notice to do so by the plaintiff in a subsequent attachment, he shall lose his priority; but where the amount of the prior attachment shall be less than the value of the property, process may issue on the subsequent […]

§ 11-33-55. One satisfaction releases sureties

If the value of the property be paid by the sureties, or the property surrendered as provided in the bond, the judgment in the subsequent attachment shall, as to the sureties on the replevin bond, be satisfied.

§ 11-33-57. Prior attachment from another court

Execution or other process shall not issue against the sureties on the replevin bond where the property replevied hath been levied upon and replevied in a prior attachment against the same defendant, returnable to another court, unless the amount of the prior attachment and probable costs thereof be first deducted from the value of the […]

§ 11-33-59. Bond to discharge attachment for a debt due

If any defendant in attachment for a debt due shall, at any time before the return thereof, execute and deliver to the officer serving the same, a bond, with two or more sufficient sureties, to be approved by said officer, payable to the plaintiff in attachment, in a penalty double the amount claimed by the […]

§ 11-33-61. Form of bond to discharge attachment for debt due

The bond to discharge the attachment for a debt due may be in the following form, viz.: “We, principal, and and , as sureties, are held and bound to pay the sum of dollars, unless the said shall satisfy any judgment which may be recovered against him by the said in his attachment suit against […]

§ 11-33-63. Bond to discharge attachment for a debt not due

If a defendant in attachment for a debt not due, shall on or before the return-day thereof, execute and deliver to the officer serving the same, a bond, with two or more sufficient sureties, to be approved by said officers, payable to the plaintiff in attachment, in a penalty double the amount claimed by the […]

§ 11-33-65. Form of bond to discharge attachment for debt not due

The bond to discharge attachment for a debt not due may be in the following form, viz.: “We, principal, and and , sureties, are held and bound to pay the sum of dollars, unless shall well and truly pay the sum demanded by him as plaintiff is his attachment suit for a debt not due, […]

§ 11-33-67. Officer bound if bond insufficient

If the bond or sureties given by the defendant, or any claimant of the property, or garnishee or other person, be insufficient, then the sheriff or other officer shall be subject to the same judgment with the surety in such bond as if he were cosurety thereon. And the court or judge, being satisfied that […]

§ 11-33-69. Claim of third person to attached property

All the provisions of law in relation to third persons claiming property levied on by virtue of fieri facias shall extend and apply to claimants of property levied on by virtue of writs of attachment. The trial of the right of property shall not be had until after judgment in favor of the plaintiff in […]

§ 11-33-7. Attachments against nonresidents jointly indebted

When two or more persons, not residing in this state, are jointly indebted, the writ of attachment may be issued against such debtors, or any of them, by their proper names or by the name of the partnership, or by whatever other names such debtors may be called or known in this state, or against […]

§ 11-33-71. Property in danger of waste to be sold pending suit

When goods and chattels levied upon under an attachment are in danger of immediate waste and decay, or when live stock, or a stock of goods of any kind, is so levied upon, and the same is not replevied by the defendant or claimant, the officer holding them may sell them as like property is […]

§ 11-33-73. How certain other property may be sold pending suit

When personal property levied upon under an attachment shall not be subject to sale under the provisions of Section 11-33-71, and the same shall not be replevied by the defendant or claimant within ten days after the levy, the judge or the justice of the peace in whose court the suit may be pending, on […]