CHAPTER 181

OF ATTACHMENTS.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled, a supplement to chapter 104, of the Revised Statutes of the State of Delaware.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met,

SECTION 1. That the act entitled a supplement to chapter 104, of the Revised Statutes of the State of Delaware, passed at Dover, March 2, 1857, being chapter 424, of the eleventh volume of Delaware Laws, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out the whole of section 3, of said act, and inserting in lieu thereof, the following.

SECTION 3. In any attachments to be issued under this act, judgment shall be given for the plaintiff at the second term after the issuing of the writ, unless the defendant shall have caused an appearance by attorney to be entered, in which case the like proceedings shall be had as in suits commenced against a corporation by summons : Provided, however, if the defendant in the attachment, or any sufficient person for him, shall, at any time before judgment, give security for the payment of any judgment that may be recovered in said proceedings, with costs, then the garnishees and all the property attached shall be discharged, and the attachment dissolved, and like proceedings be had as in other cases of foreign attachment under the act to which this is a supplement, in which the attachment has been dissolved by special bail. Such security shall be approved, and the form and amount thereof determined by the court in term time, or by any Judge thereof, in vacation. But the court may prescribe the form of such security by general rule in that behalf."

SECTION 2. That in any future edition of the laws of this State, the said act shall be published as herein amended.

Passed at Dover, March 17, 1875.